Reprieve, a non-profit organization, analyzed the more than 1,400 lethal injections carried out in the United States since 1977, and in their analysis discovered that botched executions are racially biased. According to the study, the research shows that the disparities present in the criminal justice […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) daughter was one of three students suspended on Apr. 18 after participating in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University in New York. Isra Hirsi, a junior at Barnard College, took to X to talk about her experience and announce her suspension. […]
OPINION: The Grammy-winning pianist/producer’s ‘Black Radio’ series and his work with rappers blurred the lines of Black genres over the past decade “The reality is that my people have given the world so many styles of music; we have so many different styles. So should I […]
Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought on by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday. He was 85. […]
October 23, 2019 Edit Edit with WPBakery Page Builder Dizzy Gillespie, with his signature puffed cheeks, horned-rim glasses, beret and bent-bell trumpet, used this musical talent to become a world-renowned figure in the world of jazz. The late trumpeter was born October 21, […]
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