By TOM FOREMAN Jr. Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The president of Wake Forest University issued a public apology Thursday for the institution’s past involvement in slavery. President Nathan Hatch’s apology, delivered in a speech during the school’s Founders’ Day ceremonies, comes after a […]
Democratic Party megadonors feel helpless to stop Bernie Sanders’ rise. Many think Sanders would make a poor general election candidate — but there is no big, burgeoning “stop Sanders” movement building in the wings, more than a dozen major Democratic donors and operatives said […]
By Victor Trammell The typical pomp and circumstance that went on during Wednesday’s (February 19) televised Democratic debate continues to be sensationalized. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (pictured right) went on an all-out rampage against Mike Bloomberg (pictured left), the checkered former NYC mayor who is […]
Rep. Rosita Youngblood, D-Philadelphia, will not run for reelection and retire at the end of her current term, her 15th in Harrisburg. Youngblood, the House Democratic Caucus Secretary, was the first Black woman to ever hold a leadership position in the history of the […]
Two people have died and several more are injured after a train traveling from Sydney to Melbourne derailed in Victoria, Australia on Thursday evening. Paramedics were assessing several passengers and have airlifted one person to a hospital in Melbourne, after being called to the […]
More than half the women killed by men in the UK in 2018 were killed by a current or former partner, many after they had taken steps to leave, according to a report on femicide. The fourth Femicide Census, conducted by the campaigner Karen Ingala […]
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