The Allstate HBCU Legacy Bowl is much more than a football game. It is also a chance for alumni and friends of HBCUs to get together and swap stories about the good ole days. In addition, it is one last chance for the players to be introduced and to hear their names called in front of admiring fans.
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Coincident with the moon landings, American manufacturing began to move offshore. Good paying jobs were lost. Swayed by business leaders and economists who argued that the public would benefit from lower prices and that affected workers could be trained for other work, government officials happily approved.
War on Iran
Most analysts note Iran has little negotiating room and most of Trump’s demands are nonstarters. Once the bombs fly, all bets are off. Iran has a substantial missile arsenal and 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has indicated any US attack would spark a regional war.
There is a line, Not drawn in sand, and Not whispered in fear. But it’s written in the U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 8, that expressly states, “The power to tax and set tariffs is vested with Congress, not the executive branch.” SAY IT LOUD. IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION!
As Black History Month comes to a close, the question before us is not what we celebrated — but what we are willing to continue.
It’s probably wrong to call the President a MF but it’s crazy to call this MF President!
Unprofessionalism Displayed By Administration Officials Isn’t A Good Look.
Donald Trump has turned the presidency into a vanity project, putting his name and image all over Washington (most recently, a banner of him atop the department of justice), campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize, pimping for cybercurrency. He’s every bit the rival of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin when it comes to a cult of personality. His latest venture is the Board of Peace, which is not really about promoting peace in Gaza or anywhere else—certainly not in Iran, Ukraine, or Latin America. It’s another self-promoting venture in Trump’s desperate quest to be honored as a peacemaker while operating like a warmonger and investment banker.
California politics is currently being shaken up thanks to a drive, led by the Service Employees International Union, to enact a one-time wealth tax on the state’s billionaires to offset federal cuts to healthcare and support public education and food assistance programs. Campaigning for the measure, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd that “never before have so few people had so much wealth and so much power.” In a democratic society, he thundered, “the billionaire class cannot have it all.”