Survivor’s guilt led Sekou Siby on a path to fight for better working conditions for restaurant workers Twenty years after 9/11, Sekou Siby still feels the pangs of survivor’s guilt. A cook and dishwasher at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World restaurant, Siby had swapped shifts that day with a co-worker who ended…
“So much of our politics have become a naked appeal to anger, fear and resentment,” Biden says in Pennsylvania speech From an urban memorial to a remote field to the heart of the nation’s military might, President Joe Biden on Saturday paid tribute at three hallowed places of grief and remembrance to honor the lives…
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani makes an appearance in support of fellow Republican Curtis Sliwa who is running for NYC mayor on June 21, 2021, in New York City. | Source: Spencer Platt / Getty As if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani‘s reputation post-Sept. 11 wasn’t already shaky enough, a speech…
“I had a big night last night,” Trina says revealing her engagement to Raymond Taylor, a Miami-rapper Trina is officially off the market. The Miami rapper announced that she is now engaged to rapper Raymond Taylor after he proposed Wednesday night. Trina, real name Katrina Taylor, showed off the proposal ring during a FaceTime call…
Former President George Bush shapes message as an implicit criticism of fellow Republican Trump’s brand of politics Warning that the nation was falling into division and extremism, former President George W. Bush appealed Saturday for a return to the spirit of cooperation that emerged — almost instantaneously — after the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago….
This 1977 photo shows Black Consciousness Movement founder Steve Biko. | Source: – / Getty UPDATED: 8:30 a.m. ET, Sept. 12, 2021 Originally published: Jan. 28, 2013 Legendary anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko died on Sept. 12, 1977, as a political prisoner who was murdered by the police in South Africa because he was against the…
Source: The Washington Post / Getty A large fentanyl shipment headed from Memphis, Tennessee to Houston was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday (September 7). According to the CBP, there were 2.85 kilos of fentanyl hidden in wooden boxes, enough to kill hundreds of thousands of people potentially. The drug has grown…
Brooks’ widow claims officers were intentional about using excessively deadly force and failed to administer medical aid after shooting her husband in June 2020 The widow of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, the man who was fatally shot after an interaction with two Atlanta police officers, is suing the City of Atlanta and the officers for his…
The lawsuit, which stated that a vaccine mandate infringes on workers’ personal autonomy, has been dropped in light of President Biden’s new sweeping vaccination mandate The lawsuit filed against the Henry Ford Health System after their vaccination mandate, which required all employees to get vaccinated, has been dropped. In late June, the southeastern Michigan health…
The Louisiana-born actor confirmed the news via Instagram on Friday The legacy of an iconic Black film character has a new torchbearer. Actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II confirmed the rumors he will play the role of Morpheus in the upcoming movie The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth installment in the popular science-fiction series. Following the highly-anticipated release…
