Jefferson was hailed as a ”true hero” by contemporaries and Detroit leaders. Alexander Jefferson, a revered former colonel for the Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first all-Black squadron of military pilots, has died at 100. Jefferson, a Detroit native, joined the fleet in 1944 after graduating from pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field, the Detroit Free…
Source: Emily Elconin / Getty Michigan Legislative Black Caucus kept it a buck in its response to the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturning the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women Health Organization. “This is some bullshit,” read the statement’s first line. Denying women the right to control their own body and to…
Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman says the museum is complying with law enforcement The FBI raided a Florida art museum on Friday and seized more than two dozen paintings attributed to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat following questions about their authenticity. Orlando Museum of Art spokeswoman Emilia Bourmas-Fry said in a statement that they were complying with…
“Take the polling results with a grain of salt,” Nsé Ufot, CEO of New Georgia Project, told theGrio. As the Senate race in Georgia heats up, a recent poll shows that U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Republican football legend Herschel Walker are deadlocked. According to a poll conducted by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey…
Baseball remains one of the least racially diverse college sports Anthony Holman is the highest-ranking NCAA official at the College World Series and the man in charge of the Division I baseball championship. Holman is Black, and when he watches the games, he doesn’t see many people who look like him on the field or…
Pfizer says changes to its COVID-19 vaccine recipe can better target the variant Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection…
President Joe Biden says gun law tightening background checks for young buyers “a historic achievement” President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “Time is…
A U.S. Army veteran was found dead in a suburban Philadelphia park last week in an apparent strangulation incident. Now the man’s relatives are saying local law enforcement is prematurely declaring the death a suicide. Based on their understanding of the police’s position on the man’s death, relatives are demanding the case be considered a…
Rules allowing all students to receive meals for free at school, regardless of family income level, are still set to expire before the next academic year Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer. Final passage of the Keep Kids Fed…
The overturning of Roe v. Wade rolled back 50 years of protections for those who can get pregnant. In Georgia, it could be the crux of the midterm elections. ATLANTA — Jerisha Morton didn’t realize she was pregnant until about six weeks into her pregnancy. She soon started feeling waves of intense nausea. “I can’t…
