Therese Patricia Okoumou got a slow clap around the world when she scaled the Statue of Liberty on July 4. In a now famous photo, she sat with her legs crossed at the base of Lady Liberty while a police rescuer was just a few […]
S By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The Supreme Court this week is considering limiting the practice of civil forfeiture, which law enforcement has used since the War on Drugs mostly against African-Americans, Hispanics and those in poor communities. At the heart […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent On November 29, the U.S. Senate’s only African American Republican Senator, Tim Scott, announced he would oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr to a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. Scott’s blockbuster decision ended the chance of Farr’s […]
G By Richard Prince The death of almost any president is an occasion for glowing tributes, the challenge being to tell the truth without offending sensibilities. And including the sensibilities of readers and viewers of color, whose recollections might not match those of the […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is promising to put her money where her mouth is when she settles in her new role as representative to New York’s 14th district next month. On Pearl Harbor anniversary, Black Sailor’s heroism featured in new biographical book Using her […]
By J. Zamgba Browne Chief Correspondent Former President Obama and his wife, Michelle tweeted the followingstatement in tribute to former George W.P. Bush who died last weekend in the State of Texas “America has lost a patriot and humble servant in George Herbert Walker Bush. […]
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