Month: February 2019

Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump will move forward with a federal lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences, Inc., following a California judge’s ruling upholding pleadings against the company in separate litigation. Crump has announced plans to sue the company over its deliberate actions to put profits ahead of the well-being of patients affected by HIV/AIDS, many of whom are minorities.

     Let us teach our Black daughters and our white daughters about civil rights and activists for freedom during Black History Month. Let us care about women of color. Could the civil rights movement have happened without black women? No, indeed.

Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings (7th Dist./Baltimore), the first African American to be named Speaker Pro Tem in the Maryland House of Delegates, today endorsed the Maryland medical aid-in-dying legislation during a bill before the Joint Committee on Health and Government Operations and House of Delegates Judiciary Committee. 

Tamairo has recently been appointed the new President of the NAREB for the Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chapter, which has been defunct for the last 10 years. She’s completing all of the paperwork and adding members to the group. NAREB is an African American organization which seeks to help educate and empower the Black community about home ownership opportunities and programs. Tamairo says that these programs will help the people in the Black communities to start and complete the home buying process.