Source: aaregistry / aaregistry.org On December 4, 1969, Defense Captain Mark Clark, leader of the Peoria, Illinois, Branch of the Black Panther Party, and Chairman Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago, Illinois Chapter, were assassinated in cold blood. The Chicago police, under the authority of the FBI, entered the apartment at 4 am and sprayed…
President Joe Biden watches a traditional dance after arriving at Catumbela airport in Angola on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) The project aims to advance the U.S. presence in a region rich in cobalt, copper and other critical minerals used in batteries for electric vehicles, electronic devices and clean energy technologies. Even in the waning days…
Five months after naming Samuel Pierce secretary of Housing and Urban Development, President Ronald Reagan shook the hand of his lone Black cabinet member and said, “Hello, Mr. Mayor.” Forty-three years later, another Republican president has filled his Cabinet with only one Black nominee, former NFL cornerback and pastor Scott Turner, who would be the…
Lauren Sánchez, the fiancée of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has once again ignited online conversation about one of her outfits. The 54-year-old Bezos Earth Fund vice chair recently shared old pictures on her Instagram page. She captioned the carousel, “Fall photo dump. Grateful for all the memories this season brought.” Sánchez’s first image in…
Jeweller Moussa Diop presents a bronze hippopotamus in his workshop, as part of the rebondir exhibition at the Dakar 2024 biennial Off in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui) For the artistic and cultural elites of Senegal, the monthlong Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Arts is a celebratory moment. DAKAR, Senegal (AP)…
Shannon Stillwell, right, sits with his attorney, Max Schardt left, as he looks at the prosecutors during the Young Thug trial at Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) Grammy-winning artist Young Thug, real name Jeffery Williams, was set free on probation after he pleaded guilty in October to…
FILE – President Bill Clinton’s cat Socks peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in Washington on March 19, 1994. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File) Dog owners were much more likely to support President-elect Donald Trump over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. The lead-up to the 2024 election was all about cat owners. But…
Cover image released by Assouline shows “The Book of HOV: A Tribute to Jay-Z.” (Assouline via AP); Jay-Z appears during a news conference announcing the launch of Dream Chasers record label in joint venture with Roc Nation in New York on July 23, 2019. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File) Following the success of Jay-Z’s free immersive…
A white Wisconsin woman who served jail time for spitting in a teenage Black Lives Matter protestor’s face has won a $760,000 settlement after police broke into her home and arrested her without a warrant. Stephanie Rapkin was caught on video spitting in the face of a BLM protestor on June 6, 2020, for which…
President Joe Biden speaks at a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House commemorating World AIDS Day on December 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anadolu / Getty Of all the eye-roll-inducing reactions to Joe Biden’s announcement that he would be issuing a full pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, the absolute…
