U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has called for the firing of Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after MacDonough blocked the Democratic Party’s attempts to raise the federal minimum wage at a hearing on Thursday, The Guardian reported. MacDonough, who’s held her bipartisan role as Senate parliamentarian since 2012, ruled that raising […]
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday he’s lifting the mask mandate in Texas, even as health officials warn not to ease safety restrictions.Abbott made the announcement during a Lubbock Chamber of Commerce event where he issued an executive order✎ EditSign rescinding most of his earlier executive orders like the mask […]
London/Berlin (CNN Business)Reporters Without Borders has filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other Saudi officials of committing crimes against humanity in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the detention of 34 other journalists.The Paris-based media advocacy group said in a statement that […]
Open Edition By Ron Mulvihill “Sheroes” abound in independent films. As an international independent filmmaker of diverse and indigenous communities over the last 4 decades, I have worked with some amazing women whose stories were amplified on the screen; stories that celebrate their unique and […]
By Yasin Muhammad When I was a young boy, eating with my father, in my mind the first to finish their food was considered “the big man”. Who could eat the most, and maybe get another serving? I had learned this from living with my […]
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is reigniting calls to make Kobe Bryant the new NBA logo. Irving declared in an Instagram post on Wednesday that the new logo should honor the late Los Angeles Lakers legend, who was killed along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna “Gigi” Bryant, and seven other people, in a […]
*Atlanta, GA – With the single, “Black is Beautiful,” singer J. Morris is helping elevate black history education within this country. The song is part of a greater project titled ‘Black History: 365’, which was launched on February 5th and hit #7 on Amazon Music and #8 on […]
An independent investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of 23-year-old Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colo., has found that police used force on the young man with no justification and that paramedics who later came to the scene dosed him with ketamine based on an “inflated […]
‘So, what we’re trying to do is talk about restorative justice as lawyers — try to pursue relentless justice,’ Attorney Ray Hamlin says Lawyers representing Malcolm X‘s estate are requesting his case be reopened in light of new evidence that may reveal that the New York […]
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is one of the nation’s hidden figures. She made history as one of the first Black women to work as a NASA scientist. In 1961, Johnson calculations put the first U.S. astronaut in space, Alan B. Shepard. For over 30 years, […]
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