On the night of his reelection, Sen. Warnock addressed all of this with his usual dignity. He gave the credit to Georgians for electing the state’s first Black and first Jewish senators at a time when the Far Right was trying to divide the country. He took on the conservative pundits claiming his victory was proof that there was no voter suppression in Georgia. Just because Georgia voters endured long lines in the rain doesn’t mean there is no suppression, he said. It means Georgians refused to have their voices silenced.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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The Eisenhower administration created the Interstate Highway System in 1956. The planners, through intention or indifference, segregated the Black from the White communities. The trend of Redlining minority neighborhoods devalued Black properties. This made this land cheapest for the Interstate Freeway project to purchase. The legal doctrine of Eminent Domain prohibited any challenges to Federal purchase of the land.
Under the shadows of oaks draped in Spanish moss, about 40 people gathered at a graveyard Saturday afternoon near Titusville for an annual service that honors the memory of two slain Black activists.
In May 2022, Florida A&M’s star football player Isaiah Land considered leaving the HBCU for a school in a Power Five Conference. Land, an NFL prospect heading into his senior year, had the talent to play at any school in the nation and wanted to test the waters in the transfer portal. His top choices were Texas, UCF, Auburn, LSU, Memphis, and UGA, who won the College Football National Championship last season and are currently the No.1 team in 2022.
After 294 days in Russian custody, including the past several weeks in a dreaded and dangerous penal colony, WNBA star Brittney Griner is free.
The Committee’s report, titled “Conduct Detrimental: How the NFL and the Washington Commanders Covered Up Decades of Sexual Misconduct,” determined that Snyder and the National Football League worked to suppress evidence in the investigation into the team.
The FAMU NAA Broward County Chapter Christmas Celebration is happening this Sunday, December 18, 2022, and you are invited. Please join us as we celebrate and welcome our Special Guest and Mistress of Ceremony, Social Media Sensation Ms. Kitty Lundan from West Palm Beach Florida.
SAN ANTONIO – For 12 days in 2018, Juan David Ortiz, U.S. Border Patrol supervisory agent, picked up women on Laredo’s streets, drove them to remote corners of the county and ended their lives with close-range gunshots to the head.
The horse has been dead for about six months now, yet Vickie Cartwright has remained sitting upright, shoulders back, feet firmly secured in the straps and hips and legs pressed firmly against the beast’s body.
According to internal VA data obtained by the Washington Post, Black applicants seeking disability benefits were denied 30 percent of the time from 2002 to 2020. White applicants were denied 24 percent of the time.