Tag: United States
President Biden Taps Meharry Medical College President for COVID Task Force
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Meharry Medical College President and CEO Dr. James Hildreth has been named by President Joe Biden...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee knows that there has never been another time in which she has...
Plans to Unveil a Bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia Revealed
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called Marcus Garvey the first “man on a mass scale...
Georgia Prosecutors Open Investigation into Trump’s Call to Secretary of State
Ironically, the transcript of the phone calls played a prominent role in the House of Representatives’ second impeachment of the 45th president and is expected to play a central role in the Senate trial. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis promises to look into Trump’s actions following the infamous Jan. 2 telephone call.
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY: The Wilmington Ten, Fifty Years Later
On Feb. 6, during an uncharacteristically frigid night for a southern city like Wilmington, a bomb was set off in the popular neighborhood grocery. As police and firefighters arrived on the scene, gun fire could be heard above the siren squeals and activity. Sniper fire, which was intended for the Wilmington Ten’s members, struck a police officer. Police eventually arrested the ten activists.
