At the heart of the story that President Biden preserved last week by creating our newest national monument are a mother and son, Mamie Till-Mobley, and Emmett Till.
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If head counting is any indication, Russian diplomacy in Africa is slipping. A Russia-Africa summit meeting held in St. Petersburg drew only 21 African heads of state, far fewer than in 2019 when the summit attracted 45 heads of state. (By contrast, 50 attended Pres. Biden’s Africa summit last December.)
When I go on social media I will frequently shake my head, glance at the clock, and say to myself, “Well, there goes four minutes I’ll never get back.”
The wicked and deceitful Florida Governor and candidate for President of the United States has spoken against you, your family, your ancestors, and your community with a lying tongue!
Here again, DeSantis lack of readiness for grandstand campaigning outside of Florida is apparent. He’s opening a seis pool like sinkholes filled with his vehement anti-isms attack against American African History, Immigrants, women reproductive rights, and the LGBTQ community. Educated voters find it difficult to fantom his level of outrageous stupid campaign blunders.
It feels as though Black leaders have stood by in almost stunned silence as DeSantis has strategically and boldly dismantled the decades of progress made for racial progress. We are literally at war for our survival in the state of Florida. Organizations have begun publishing travel advisories telling people not to travel to the state. Organizations are cancelling conferences which is negatively impacting the economics of travel and tourism. Yet, DeSantis is full steam ahead. He doesn’t care.
As Governor DeSantis and the State Board of Education try to whitewash the history of slavery in America and Florida, banning books cannot stop the truth of American history. After slavery there was the Reconstruction era, and violence raised its ugly head, and Black men were lynched for trying to vote.
When it comes to climate change, one two-letter word has me totally perplexed: “we.” There’s an implication of global unity — a transcendent “we,” marching as to war (so to speak) — facing humanity’s greatest crisis, undoing the exploitative, Earth-destroying aspects of our social structure and grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature. We need to do everything we can!
Like millions of other Black Americans, Jordan enjoys the occasional simple pleasure of smoking a celebratory cigar – a pleasure that the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) wants to eliminate in the name of “equity” and protecting the Black community.
The Supreme Court at the behest of former President Trump and Senator McConnell rules with Six Despotic Justices . These Justices have demonstrated their commitment to use their power in an extremely cruel manner to roll back the rights of Black people, immigrants, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. They’re ruling now with the same vengeance and retribution against affirmative action programs in colleges once used during the Jim Crow era.