Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO: Vaughan Gething poses for a photo in a lecture hall at Cardiff University after being elected as the next Welsh Labour leader and First Minister of Wales, in Cardiff, Saturday, March 16, 2024. Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This photo provided by Deborah Menkart shows Dorie Ladner at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum, May 16, 2015, in Washington. (Deborah Menkart via AP)By Chevel Johnson RodrigueASSOCIATED PRESS Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Residents flee their homes during clashes between police and gang member at the Portail neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. Worsening the situation is this week’s closure of Port-au-Prince’s main seaport. The move…

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ABOVE PHOTO: People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) By Kevin Freking, Haleluya Hadero and Mary Clare JalonickASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner…

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By Anthony IzaguirreASSOCIATED PRESS New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to send the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons, following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains. Hochul, a Democrat, said she will deploy 750 members of the National Guard to…

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By Terry Tang and Michael CaseyASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Chassity Coston, left, and Charity Wallace pose outside Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass.With attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives raging on, Black women looking to climb the work ladder are seeing a landscape that looks more hostile than…

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By Matt BrownASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: National Urban League president and CEO Marc Morial speaks at the National Urban League Annual Conference, July 22, 2022, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON — Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history. But their social, economic, and political advances in the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine shows the college in New York. (Jason Torres/Albert Einstein College of Medicine via AP) BRONX, N.Y. — Dr. Philip Ozuah, president and CEO of Montefiore Einstein, the umbrella organization for Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, has announced that…

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By Cheyanne MumphreyASSOCIATED PRESS (AP Illustration/Cheyanne Mumphrey) For as long as schools have policed hairstyles as part of their dress codes, some students have seen the rules as attempts to deny their cultural and religious identities. Nowhere have school rules on hair been a bigger flashpoint than in Texas, where a trial this week is…

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By Rio Yamat and Terry TangASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Hydeia L. Broadbent, 14, speaks after receiving an Essence Award during the taping of the 1999 Essence Awards in New York on Friday, April 30, 1999. Broadbent, who was born with HIV and has been living with full-blown AIDS since age 5, has become a powerful…

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