Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson skeptics echo criticisms former Justice Thurgood Marshall faced during his confirmation process in the 1960s The first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court is likely to face questioning at her Senate hearing that would have been familiar to Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man who served on the high court….
Steve Harvey had folks on social media baffled this week when the entertainment business’s hardest working employee revealed that he owed the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars at one point in his illustrious career. During a recent appearance on Tuesday, March 15, episode of the “Earn Your Leisure Podcast” with co-hosts Rashad Bilal and…
EXCLUSIVE: A.J. Kramer, who assigned Brown Jackson’s appeals court cases as a public defense attorney, joins chorus defending her record in an exclusive interview with theGrio. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and her judicial record will be front and center this week in Washington, D.C. as she sits through a days-long U.S. Senate confirmation hearing process…
College athletes can monetize their name, image and likeness during March Madness for the first time since the NCAA lifted a ban on the practice This March Madness, basketball players can monetize their shining moments. The NCAA lifted its ban last summer on athletes earning money off their name, image and likeness. Since then, all…
Some assertions made against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record don’t stand up to scrutiny In the court of public opinion — like the Supreme Court nomination hearings coming this week — politicians ask questions of witnesses to score points for their side. In the court of law, judges ask questions to get answers. That difference…
Source: iOne Creative Services / iOne Creative Services After the 2020 election, Black women were celebrated for “saving democracy.” But Black women are more than a political saving grace and deserve to be recognized as leaders worth supporting. While there are notable exceptions, Black candidates often do not get the same funding, infrastructure and institutional…
An Afterschool Alliance survey found an all-time high of 24.6 million children were unable to access a program at the end of 2021. The return to classrooms for the nation’s schoolchildren has not meant a return to work for many of their parents who, with workdays that outlast school days, are finding crucial after-school programs…
Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau condemned the mosque attack, calling it “incredibly disturbing” in a tweet. Worshippers at dawn prayer in a suburb of Toronto tackled and subdued a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered their mosque and attacked people with bear spray on Saturday, according to local police. Peel Regional Police said the man walked…
The Kenosha Unified School District initially placed Shawn Guetschow on paid leave. School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, released surveillance footage that shows an off-duty police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl’s neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight. The Kenosha Unified School District released redacted footage of the March 4 fight on…
One hundred years after his body was discovered hanging from a tree, a Black man’s death certificate has been changed to show he died by homicide instead of suicide. George Tompkins, 19, was found tied to a tree in Riverside Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 16, 1922. Tompkins reportedly had left for work in…
