Denis McDonough is former President Barack Obama’s chief of staff who Biden announced on Thursday would be nominated as the secretary of veterans affairs President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a distinctly Obama…
As the suspicion around the coronavirus vaccine harbored among Black community members steadies, health officials are working overtime to establish a sense of trust, broken by centuries of medical racism. Dr. Anthony Fauci, our nation’s leading infectious disease expert is attempting to promote security by advocating that Black scientists, medical experts and researchers have led…
Weinstein appeared via video from prison before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case, who, because of the worsening pandemic, agreed to postpone Weinstein’s extradition hearing until April 9 Convicted former movie producer Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York prison for now after his lawyers and prosecutors agreed Friday to postpone efforts to send…
Trump was expected to quickly appeal the ruling from Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court A Wisconsin judge on Friday ruled against President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state, another in a string of defeats in the president’s extraordinary attempts to undo his loss….
Keisha Lance Bottoms has reportedly declined an ambassadorship from Joe Biden in what some saw as a snub to the Atlanta mayor who has been one of the president-elect’s most loyal supporters over the course of his election campaign. Charles Bethea, a reporter with the New Yorker, on Friday tweeted the report he attributed to…
The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election is demonstrating President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and…
Of over 495 sister voters polled, more than 87 percent said they’re likely to vote Jan. 5, a runoff that’ll decide Senate control. Almost 90 percent of Black women polled in a new survey say they are planning to vote in the Senate runoff race in Georgia less than a month away. The monumental Jan….
Actor Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, best known for his roles in the “Friday” franchise, has passed away, multiple news outlets reported. He was 62 years old. Lister’s manager, Cindy Cowan, told PEOPLE that although the “Fifth Element” star did not test positive for the novel coronavirus before his death, he died on Thursday, Dec. 10, after showing…
Dr. Anthony Fauci is attempting to assuage the discomfort of Black people who are averse to taking the COVID-19 vaccine by noting a Black woman scientist was involved in its development. “The very vaccine that’s one of the two that has absolutely exquisite levels — 94 to 95 percent efficacy against clinical disease and almost…
Erica Dixon has hit a stride when it comes to balancing her time between her 17-month-old twin daughters Embrii and Eryss and 15-year-old daughter Emani, but the “Love & Hip-Hop” star admits that the sisterly bonding on Emani’s part took a little time. Being an only child for the majority of her life had grown…
