By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com A Wake Forest basketball coach was arrested on assault charges after landing a knockout punch on a man who would later die at the hospital. According to the New York Post, 35-year-old Jamill Jones, an assistant basketball coach for the Wake Forest men’s basketball team, punched a drunken man in […]
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She’s Still Not Invited to the Cookout. Omarosa’s Tapes Continue to Rain on Trump’s Parade
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C., mgreen@afro.com Omarosa Manigault Newman went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” August 12 and spilled a lot of tea on the President and his current administration, sharing recordings and even telling host Chuck Todd that, “This is a White House where everybody lies.” Somehow after being fired three times on “The Apprentice,” […]
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Sad White Civil Rights Rally Dwarfed By Counter Protesters
By Brelaun Douglas, Special to the AFRO August 12 marked the one-year anniversary of last year’s violent, White supremacist “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left three dead and further elevated racial tensions in the country. Despite last year’s tragedy, Jason Kessler, who organized the first Unite the Right, decided to host another on […]
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Rep. Ellison Denies Abuse Allegations from Ex-girlfriend
By Kyle Potter, The Associated Press Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison on Aug. 12 denied an allegation from an ex-girlfriend that he had once dragged her off a bed while screaming obscenities at her — an allegation that came just days before a Tuesday primary in which the congressman is among several Democrats running for state attorney […]
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Man Charged with Threatening to Lynch Local NAACP President
The Associated Press A 75-year-old Florida man has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly threatening to lynch the president of a local NAACP. Ronald Wadford was arrested Aug. 9 on two counts of aggravated stalking as a hate crime. Gainesville Police say he threatened to hang Evelyn Foxx who is the president of […]
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Analysis: One Year On, Trump Still Fuels Racial Divide
By Julie Pace, Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller, The Associated Press There has been no reset, no moment of national healing. One year after blaming “both sides” for violent clashes between White supremacists and counter protesters, President Donald Trump still flirts with racially tinged rhetoric — and feels little blowback from Republican leaders or GOP voters when […]
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Body Found at New Mexico Compound Believed to be Missing Black Boy
By Stephen Groves and Morgan Lee, The Associated Press A severely disabled Georgia boy who authorities say was kidnapped by his father and marked for an exorcism was found buried at the ramshackle compound in the New Mexico desert that has been the focus of investigators for the past week, the toddler’s grandfather said Aug. 9. New […]
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Omarosa Says She Secretly Taped Her Firing, Plays Audio
The Associated Press Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman says she secretly taped her firing by White House chief of staff John Kelly in the Situation Room. And NBC’s “Meet the Press” is airing part of the conversation. In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, Omarosa Manigault-Newman, then an aide to President Donald Trump, watches […]
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What to Expect for ‘Unite the Right 2’ Rally and Counter Demonstrations
By Brelaun Douglas, Special to the AFRO Aug. 12 will mark the one-year anniversary of “Unite the Right,” a White supremacist and White nationalist rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Va., and resulted in the death of a counter-protester. This year, the gathering comes to Washington, D.C. “Unite the Right 2” is scheduled to be held Sunday […]
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GAO Report Finds Federal Agencies Spend Very Little of their Advertising Budgets with Black-owned Firms
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor Over the past five fiscal years from 2013 to 2017, federal government agencies have spent approximately $5 billion in advertising, but a minute share—$327 million—went to minority-owned businesses, according to a long-awaited report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The federal government serves as the largest advertiser in the […]
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Does Omarosa Have Receipts?
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com While Omorosa Manigualt-Newman might have been fired from “The Apprentice,” the White House and most of Black Twitter, the former Donald Trump crony always finds a way to stay relevant . Since announcing her new tell-all, “UNHINGED”, the reality-star-turned-political-advisor has reportedly been using secretly recorded conversations with the President […]
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Books Lays Out History of Police Violence in Black and Blue
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO “Everybody knows how hard policing is, they just don’t understand why the police are never wrong,” Matthew Horace told the AFRO. Horace, a veteran police officer and federal agent, and now security and policing expert contributor to news organizations such as CNN and MSNBC has co-authored a book […]