by Toter - 5 months ago
(CNN) – Donald Trump will be America’s 47th president, CNN projected Wednesday, after mounting the most momentous comeback in political history that will hand him massive, disruptive power at home and will send shockwaves around the world.Four years after leaving Washington as a pariah, following hi...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(CNN) – Musical titan Quincy Jones, the composer and producer who added his tasteful polish to recordings by everyone from Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, has died, according to his representatives. He was 91.Jones died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air, California, surrounded by...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – The U.S. Department of Labor and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have entered into a conciliation agreement in which the federal contractor will pay $900,000 in back wages and interest to resolve alleged systemic racial hiring affecting 6,123 Bl...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Most things in politics are intentional, rarely occurring arbitrarily. What may appear to be a coincidence sometimes is not a coincidence. Political activities can be like a chess match with moves against your opponent and counter moves. Politics is strategic. It involves acti...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson said, “A challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country.” Johnson made this important statement when he signed t...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(Sierra Club) –Now in its final months, the Biden-Harris administration has a chance to cement its powerful legacy on the environment. Congress returns for its so-called lame duck session on Nov. 12. The administration should pull out all the stops to work with Congress and use the powers of the pre...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(Children’s Defense Fund) – “On March 7, 1965, a group of us attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to dramatize to the nation that people wanted to register to vote. One young African American man had been shot and killed a few days earlier, in an adjoining county called Perry...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(New Initiative for Civic Engagement) – As an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, I know firsthand the challenges many face in seeking a voice in our society. My journey has led me to dedicate my efforts to supporting those without legal status through my work with the New Initiative fo...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – My article won’t tell you today how political races across the country will turn out on Nov. 5 because I am required to turn it in the Friday before the big day. As I write, we are still waiting for the victory, but I will tell you how it should come out at the top of the tick...
by Toter - 5 months ago
J.P. Morgan Wealth Management’s third annual Diverse Investor Study found that 46% of Black women respondents started investing outside of an employer-sponsored retirement plan less than five years ago, compared to 24 percent of all groups surveyed. The 2024 survey aims to uncover investing trends w...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – Close to 40% of Black children in Dallas live in poverty, almost three times the number of White children in the city. As the city continues to grow and advance in technology in the last 15 years, the poverty rate has increased by 42%, according to the city of Dall...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(The Texas Tribune) – Texas is clawing back more than $607 million per year in federal funding for special education services, a move local school district officials said will likely worsen already strained budgets for students with disabilities.The School Health and Related Services program provide...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(CNN) – WASHINGTON – Rinse and repeat.As Election Day approaches, former president Donald Trump keeps telling the same lies at event after event – many about immigration, but many others about a variety of additional topics.Here is a fact check of 18 false claims in his Tuesday remarks at his Mar-a-...
by Toter - 5 months ago
(CNN) – Michelle Obama issued a scathing indictment of Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Michigan for Kamala Harris, calling the former president an existential threat to women’s rights and telling men that a vote for Trump “is a vote against us.”The former first lady, in a reprise of her passi...
by Toter - 5 months ago
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Real Estate Brokers released Home Appraisals in Black and White: Disparities in the Estimated Valuation of Homes by Neighborhood Racial Composition, a comprehensive study of appraisal bias Oct. 24. The study found some narrowing of contract price underv...
