WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Eric Scott Turner testifies during his Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Scott Turner has announced the…
Last November, Jennifer Piggott pulled the lever for Donald Trump a third time. But the church-going conservative, the heart of the president’s base, says she will never do it again. Piggott was one of 125 people recently fired from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Services in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Reuters reports. Nearly 4 percent…
Shamea Morton attends the 2023 BET Soul Train Awards on November 19, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) “Quadruple threat” Shamea Morton makes her lavish debut as an official housewife on the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” season 16 premiere. In this new era of “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Shamea Morton isn’t just…
Source: Aaron M. Sprecher / Getty Of all the recent headlines chronicling the American political system going up in flames under a cloud of corruption and idiocy, few have depressed me more than this recent one from The Guardian: “Democrats are reeling. Is Stephen A Smith the way back to the White House?” As depressingly…
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference Nov, 6, 2021, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke, File) Turner, 70, died on March 5, hours after attending President Donald Trump’s address to Congress in Washington. U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas, who died this month just weeks into first term in Congress, was scheduled to lie in…
The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File) Trump’s unparalleled flex of presidential power seems destined for several dates at a Supreme Court that he helped shape. In fewer than 500 carefully chosen and somewhat opaque words, the Supreme Court has now weighed in twice on President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire efforts to remake the federal…
Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads “DOGE” to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The billionaire entrepreneur, who is advising President Donald Trump, suggested that $500 billion to $700 billion in waste needed to be cut. Elon Musk pushed debunked…
A Southern California sheriff’s deputy responding to a call about a white man trespassing in a private residential community ended up arresting and abusing a Black resident of that property after the white man accused him of harassing him. Earlier this month, the Black man, Gregory Whaling, received a $498,000 settlement over the unlawful arrest…
In a jarring development that has stunned fans and industry insiders alike, media maven Wendy Williams was rushed to New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital Monday following what appears to be a cry for help from her Big Apple assisted living facility. The 60-year-old reportedly tossed a handwritten note reading “Help! Wendy!!” from her fifth-floor window,…
DEARBORN, MI – SEPTEMBER 08: Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist speaks before Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave a speech on the economy at Fords Rouge Electric Vehicle Center on September 8, 2022 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images) EXCLUSIVE: The 42-year-old lieutenant governor tells theGrio why he’s the right candidate to take on…
