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6 former Mississippi law officers to be sentenced for torture of 2 Black men

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday.U.S. District Judge Tom Lee will se...

Opinion | Voters of color are shifting right. Are Democrats doomed?

Are so many voters of color becoming Republicans that U.S. politics is on the verge of a dramatic change? Maybe. The Financial Times’s John Burn-Murdoch wrote a thread on X last week that went viral, with charts showing increased Republican suppo...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce hosts panel on Advance with Africa

The second panel, “Making a Dream a Reality – How Diaspora can build business linkages to African Markets”, included (left to right) Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Outreach from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Rick Wade, Founder of She...

Biden becoming more mentally unhinged

The following article, Biden becoming more mentally unhinged, was first published on The Black Sphere.If Joe Biden weren’t a Democrat, Congress would have rightly invoked the 25th Amendment and he would be gone. America is in danger as long as Biden...

America Can’t Survive 4 More Years of Biden

Almost a decade ago I wrote an article, “America Needs a White Republican President”, and it sparked all kinds of controversy.First, my friend Joe the Plumber referenced the article, and Leftist media thought he wrote it. Here’s what the Daily Mail w...

Alabama Daycare Hit With Lawsuit For Discrimination Against 2-Year-Old Black Toddler

Photo: Getty Images An Alabama family claims their two-year-old Black toddler was disciplined far more frequently than other non-Black students at a daycare and was later expelled in retaliation to their complaints. According to AL.com, Lee and...

Inside Haiti: A lucky few escape, while millions face gang rule, hunger and chaos

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — In a city silenced by gangs, everyone notices the thrum of a helicopter beating overhead in the night – a brief sign that someone very lucky has been able to leave Port-au-Prince.CNN was able to land in the Haitian capit...

Dr. Touré Reed, history professor, to deliver Spring College Lecture, March 27

Dr. Touré Reed, professor of history, will deliver the Spring College Lecture on Wednesday, March 27, at 5 p.m. in the Circus Room in the Bone Student Center. His talk, “Is it Race or Racism?: Why Binary Explanations for Inequality Have Failed Black...

The United States Government’s Relationship with Native Americans

The history of relations between Native Americans and the federal government of the United States has been fraught. To many Native Americans, the history of European settlement has been a history of wary welcoming, followed by opposition, defeat, ne...

U.S. Foreign Policy Should Pay More Attention to Black Americans

In the days following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) stood alone in Congress to oppose the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which permitted the president to wage war in Afghanistan or against a...

Fulton County Judge dismisses six charges in Trump’s racketeering case, leaving him with ten charges

Fulton County Superior Court Judge McAfee ruled that six of the charges in the 41-count indictment related to former President Trump and some co-defendants allegedly soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer lacked the required detail abou...

Houses Passes Bill That Could Put A Dagger In TikTok With Potential Ban

Axios: The House on Wednesday passed a bipartisan bill that would force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S.Why it matters: Lawmakers passed the bill in a 352-65-1 vote, raising the stakes in a battle that imperils the app f...

Black Woman Claims Her Boss Said She Was Too 'Articulate And Sharp' For Higher Paying Position

A Black woman in North Carolina said she was turned down for a promotion because her boss told her she was too “articulate and sharp,” per theGrio. Chantel Adams, a senior marketing executive who earned an MBA from the University of North Car...

NAACP urges black student-athletes to reconsider Florida colleges

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentNAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson has called on Black student-athletes to reconsider their decisions to attend public colleges and universities in Florida. The call comes in response t...