Category: National News

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 […]

By The Associated Press A father arrested at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where 11 hungry children were found living in filth was training youngsters to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained August 8. The allegations against Siraj Ibn Wahhaj came to light as authorities awaited word on whether human remains discovered […]

By Matthew Ritchie, AFRO Intern St. Louis voters took a step towards more effective social justice reform August 7. In the Democratic primary for the office of prosecuting attorney for St. Louis, Councilman Wesley Bell defeated Robert McCulloch in an upset victory, ousting the 27-year veteran prosecutor. McCulloch was the prosecutor who oversaw the grand jury […]

By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Despite their inherent ability to balance businesses and babies, hair and homes, optimism and oppressors and maintain their magic, Black women are working harder and making less than their White counterparts in the workforce. In 2018, the year of “Beychella” and America’s call for #Oprah2020, Black women must work […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who zealously pushed the heinous lie that the Sandy Hook massacre of elementary school students in Newtown, Connecticut was a staged hoax, has been banned from several social media platforms. What about the myriad of other purveyors of alleged hate speech who use social […]

By The Associated Press The statue of the unnamed Confederate soldier has stood since 1909 in front of the courthouse in Louisiana’s East Feliciana Parish, hands resting on his rifle looking down on the flow of lawyers, jurors and defendants going into the white columned building. Ronnie Anderson, an African-American man charged with possession of […]

By The Associated Press Michelle Obama is marking the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by urging Americans to participate in a week of action to get people signed up to vote. The former first lady, a co-chairwoman of a nonpartisan organization to encourage voting, announced Monday that the When We All Vote Week […]

By The Associated Press LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered a central Nebraska landlord to stop discriminating against Black tenants of his apartment complex. Dawson County District Court records say Judge Donald Rowlands said in a state lawsuit ruling filed Tuesday that Gerald Rich had discriminated against the tenants based on race, national […]