Source: Jonathan Bachman / Getty It’s a brand new day in New Orleans. Despite a reported rise in crime in “The Big Easy,” voters chose a new path forward by electing reformer Susan Hutson as sheriff. While runoff elections can be a mixed bag, community members in New Orleans showed up to have their voices heard….
Visit to mark Biden’s first time in South Carolina since primary win President is returning to South Carolina, the state that played a pivotal role in his march to the Democratic presidential nomination and the White House, as the featured speaker at the graduation ceremonies this coming week at a historically Black university. Biden on Friday will…
Two Georgia election workers revealed supporters of former President Donald Trump have threatened to lynch them and accused them of election fraud following the 2020 presidential election. A year later, local and state police have not investigated the threats, according to a review of Georgia records by Reuters. Federal authorities looked into the threats but…
“It was absolutely the most terrifying thing I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Kyanna Parsons-Perez told the TODAY show on Saturday Kyanna Parsons-Perez somehow kept her composure early Saturday morning after a tornado flattened the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky where she worked, leaving her and her coworkers cloaked in darkness and…
Charles Sherman Neal says he was retaliated against and fired in 2016 A jury has found that school officials in Boston retaliated against a teacher for exercising his legal right to raise concerns about workplace discrimination without fear of retribution, awarding him $1.7 million. The Boston Globe reports that Charles Sherman Neal was the only Black…
Bryce Young’s wins Heisman award after passing for 4,322 yards and 43 touchdowns to lead Alabama football to an SEC championship Bryce Young didn’t just meet the standard set by the star quarterbacks who preceded him at Alabama, he exceeded it and gave the Crimson Tide a rare Heisman back-to-back. Young became the first Tide…
Lack of answers to decades-old, nagging questions has created a void for Emmett Till’s family The investigation into the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago ended as it began, with a mystery that might never be solved. All these decades later, it’s still not even clear whether the gruesome homicide was…
T.I. and Killer Mike are continuing their mission to give back to Atlanta communities by moving ahead with their previously announced plans to revitalize local restaurant Buckhead Seafood. After purchasing the business in 2018 shortly after its original owner closed the doors, the duo announced plans to reopen in January 2020, just a couple of…
“I am so proud and humbled to call myself your next Sheriff,” Susan Hutson says in Facebook post after being elected Orleans Parish sheriff There’s a new sheriff in town in New Orleans and her name is Susan Hutson. Voters in Orleans Parish made Hutson the first Black woman sheriff to be elected in Louisiana’s…
Several Amazon workers are currently unaccounted for At least two Amazon workers have died and others were confirmed injured on Friday night following the collapse of an Amazon warehouse near East St. Louis, Illinois. The facility collapsed after tornadoes and strong storms hit the area. According to police, the two bodies were found after rescuers…
