By CLIFF BRUNT and GARY FIELDS, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Black police officers find themselves torn between two worlds: They feel the pain of seeing yet another Black […]
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Protests Shift to Memorializing Floyd Amid Push for Change
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and BRIAN MAHONEY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has […]
Oversight Launches Investigation into Administration’s Surveillance of Protesters
June 5, 2020 The Honorable Chad F. Wolf Acting Secretary of Homeland Security 245 Murray Lane, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20528 Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: We write with grave concern about […]
Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Presidential Nomination
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald […]
Protests Force Some Stores To Close
By Dee-ann Durbin U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing […]
Black Lives Matter Plaza Leads Road to The White House
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com When George Clinton collaborated with Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Yo-Yo, KAM, MC Breed and Pupa Curley for the 1993 song, “Paint […]
TBE#23 – Transformational Change Needed to Cure the Virus of Racism Infecting Local Police
To Be Equal #23 June 5, 2020 Transformational Change Needed to Cure the Virus of Racism Infecting Local Police National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) […]
Olympia, Washington Activists At George Floyd Protest Chant ‘All Cops Are Bastards!’
OLYMPIA, Washington—Protesters who marched Tuesday in Olympia, Washington remained peaceful but made their feelings about law enforcement plain, chanting on the steps of the state capitol that Americans who wear […]
Black Woman Doctor Makes History in Las Vegas
BLACK WOMAN DOCTOR MAKES HISTORY, BECOMES NEW LEADER OF THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICIAN ENTREPRENEURS’ LAS VEGAS CHAPTER Las Vegas, NV (BlackNews.com) — The current pandemic is showing us the passion […]
Norton Condemns Senator Lee’s Attack on D.C. Mayor, Frequent Home-Rule Violator
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) statements that District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is “ungrateful” and “must be stopped” from allegedly […]
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
By Emmanuel Acho on YouTube Emmanuel Acho sits down to have an “uncomfortable conversation” with white America, in order to educate and inform on racism, system racism, social injustice, rioting […]
A United Stance in a Divided Country
Protestors took to downtown Washington, D.C. to protest police brutality and injustices against Black people. (Photo by Mike Van Wood)