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"Hidden Figures" and Taraji P. Henson had a big night at the NAACP Image Awards, where Hollywood glamour shared the stage with sombre remarks from the director of Washington's new African-American museum. "Hidden Figures," the fact-based drama about the contributions of black female mathematicians to the U.S. space program, won the award for best movie Saturday, while star Henson was honoured as best actress.
"Hidden Figures" and Taraji P. Henson had a big night at the NAACP Image Awards, where Hollywood glamour shared the stage with sombre remarks from the director of Washington's new African-American museum. "Hidden Figures," the fact-based drama about the contributions of black female mathematicians to the U.S. space program, won the award for best movie Saturday, while star Henson was honoured as best actress.
Netflix announced the release of a new series titled "Dear White People," that's scheduled to launch on April 28, 2017. As you could imagine, the internet is on fire.
Recently-retired Congressman Charles Rangel led the honorees Friday at a Black History Month event where the Harlem politician urged America to remember its immigrant past. "The one problem we do have ... is how quickly people forget where they used to be," Rangel told the crowd - including ex-Mayor Dinkins - at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
Warren surprised the crowd at The Daily Show Wednesday night by appearing to discuss the unfolding circumstances surrounding the appointment of Jeff Sessions as our nation's top prosecutor, a move that she aimed to fight against by reading a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King . Host Trevor Noah had a slightly different take on the situation, however, asking Warren, "Do you think you realized in that moment and do you think Mitch McConnell realizes what a solid he's done you?" Warren laughed off the suggestion that the situation is actually working in her favor, but Noah continued.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke out Tuesday night during a debate of the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to Attorney General and was met not with respect, but with a disturbing slap across the face to women everywhere. Warren read an excerpt from a letter Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., wrote to Sen. Strom Thurmond.
This photo provided by Armstrong Williams shows Senate Judiciary Chairman Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., posing for a photo with Coretta Scott King, widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and then Thurmond staffer Armstrong Williams, right, in this undated photo. A letter sent by Coretta Scott King saying Jeff Sessions would be a bad choice for a lifetime federal judgeship is receiving new attention after Sen. Elizabeth Warren was rebuked Feb. 7, 2017, for quoting King's letter on the Senate floor.
Skin color doesn't confer upon anyone omniscience or protection from criticism. So, I'm an equal opportunity scrutinizer, especially when it comes to some of our civil rights icons.
The 52-47 vote broke largely along party lines and capped weeks of divisive battles over Sessions, an early supporter of Donald Trump and one of the Senate's most conservative Republicans. Democrats laced into Sessions over his ties to Trump and his record on civil rights and immigration.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. reacts to being rebuked by the Senate leadership and accused of impugning a fellow senator, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington Warren was barred from saying anything more on the Senate floor about Sessions after she quoted from an old letter from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow about Sessions.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to members of the media Wednesday in the Russell Senate Office Building rotunda in Washington. By a vote of 49 to 43, Senate Republicans on Tuesday night formally silenced Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the debate over the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general.
Senator Elizabeth Warren voiced her opinion on Facebook late on Tuesday to end her speech that was formally silenced by Republicans on the Senate floor after she quoted Coretta Scott King while criticizing President Trump's attorney general nominee Senator Jeff Sessions. The drama unfolded when the Democrat from Massachusetts overstepped the arcane rules of the chamber by reading a letter dated three decades ago from the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King that dated to the failed judicial nomination of Senator Sessions nearly thirty years ago.
In this image from Senate Television, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, Feb. 6, 2017, about the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education Secretary. Warren was given a rare Senate rebuke Tuesday night for impugning a fellow senator, and she was barred from saying anything more on the Senate floor about attorney general nominee and current Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren had to cut short her speech during the debate over Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for U.S. attorney general. Here's that Coretta Scott King letter that got Elizabeth Warren in trouble Sen. Elizabeth Warren had to cut short her speech during the debate over Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination for U.S. attorney general.
Silenced on the Senate floor, Democrat Elizabeth Warren took her criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee out to the hallway - and found much larger platform. Republican senators voted on Tuesday evening to end Warren's reading of a letter written 30 years ago by Martin Luther King Jr's widow that criticized Senator Jeff Sessions, the nominee to lead the Justice Department, for his civil rights record.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber's arcane rules by reading a three-decade-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King's widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions' failed judicial nomination three decades ago.
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A move to shrink the UNC system's Board of Governors cleared a state House committee Tuesday, despite concerns that a smaller board could mean less diversity. The legislation, House Bill 39, passed 10-3 in the House Education Committee on Universities and could go to the full House today.
Ronald Evans, an astronaut, was command module pilot for the Apollo 17 voyage that made the last manned flight to the moon in 1972. Evans was born in 1933 in northwest Kansas.