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March 13, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: FILE – A customer walks past mostly empty shelves that normally hold toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco store in Teterboro, N.J. Legions of nervous hoarders are stocking up on canned goods, frozen dinners, toilet paper, and cleaning products. Such hoarding that’s expected to last for weeks has created big challenges…
March 13, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: In this March 4, 2020 photo, Roslyn Pope shows her Spelman College yearbook at her home in Atlanta. As a 21-year-old Spelman senior in March 1960, Pope wrote “An Appeal for Human Rights,” a document that made the case for the Atlanta Student Movement, a nonviolent campaign of boycotts and sit-ins by Black…
March 6, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: An ambulance worker adjusts her protective mask as she wheels a stretcher into a nursing facility where more than 50 people are sick and being tested for the COVID-19 virus, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Kirkland, Wash. Health officials reported two cases of COVID-19 virus connected to the Life Care Center of Kirkland….
March 6, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) By Zeke Miller ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Flush with cash, President Donald Trump’s campaign is stepping up its outreach to Black Americans as it tries to claw away support from the traditionally Democratic voting bloc ahead of November’s general election. Trump’s campaign announced recently that it…
February 28, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Katherine Johnson (AP photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS HAMPTON, Va. — NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering Black female aerospace workers, has died. In a Monday morning tweet, the space agency said it celebrates her 101 years of…
February 28, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: From left, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, hold a news conference to discuss the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” which would designate lynching as a hate crime under federal law, on…
February 28, 2020
In this Jan. 14, 2012 file photo, former model and restaurateur B. Smith arrives at the BET Honors red carpet in the Warner Theatre in Washington. Smith died Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, at her Long Island, New York, home, after battling early onset Alzheimer’s disease, according to a family statement on social media. She was…
February 24, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, photo, Black News Channel Chairman J.C. Watts discusses the launch of the nations only 24-hour news network during an interview in Tallahassee, Fla. The launch followed years of planning for former U.S. Rep. Watts, who likened it too giving birth to a child. It is also made…
February 14, 2020
By Emily Wagster ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered a thorough review of spending in the state Department of Corrections, questioning whether money has been wasted in a prison system that has been plagued by violence and shoddy living conditions for some inmates. “I am, if nothing else, a…
February 14, 2020
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A performing arts center at Michigan State University removed a gift shop display featuring dolls depicting prominent Black figures that were hanging from a tree-like rack, said school officials, who added that they will provide racial bias training for workers and volunteers. University spokeswoman Emily Gerkin Guerrant apologized in a…
May 29, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: In this image provided by the New York Stock Exchange, New York State Gov. Andrew...
May 29, 2020
A group of business, professional, academic, civic and public-sector leaders from Northern and Southern Ghana, and across...
May 29, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Meghan The Stallion (Photo: lev radin / Shutterstock) By Florence Anthony Word on the curb...
May 29, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: This photo provided by Attorney Justin T. Bamberg shows Skhylur Davis. A white woman is...
May 29, 2020
The tradition of Memorial Day began on May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina. In the midst...
May 29, 2020
The two-time Super Bowl champion will share words of wisdom during special event designed to celebrate the...
