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Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Peter Hasson has been in something of a running sparring match with Illinois Congressman Danny Davis. Rather than picking apart the gun control debate or the Me Too moment, Davis can't seem to stop talking about Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
An Illinois school official sparked outrage online in February over his unapologetic endorsement of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. The Waukegan Public School District appointed Chris Blanks to a seat on the district's discipline committee and allows him to take students on field trips, according to Waukegan Teachers and Parents United , a district advocacy group that contacted The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Matt Schlapp and Ian Walters together haven't helped the Republican Party's image with their treatment of Michael Steele. The 2018 annual Conservative Political Action Conference might be over, but the bitter taste over racially insensitive remarks made by one of the organizers about Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, still lingers.
Career and Technical Education is in the news. Years ago when I attended a National Urban League conference in Washington, D.C., a man in attendance gave me quite a bit of literature about CTE and how certain industries were looking for black students.
Mamie Hansberry, the sibling of "A Raisin in the Sun" playwright Lorraine Hansberry, talks about her late sister, Wednesday afternoon at Olsons Scandinavian Cafe and Delicatessen, February 21, 2018. Photo for The Daily Breeze/SCNG by Axel Koester.
Apart from the bizarre notion that educators should set aside one month to salute the historical achievements of one race apart from and above the historical achievements of other races, Black History Month appears to omit a lot of black history. About slavery, do our mostly left-wing educators teach that slavery was not unique to America and is as old as humankind? As economist and author Thomas Sowell says: "More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed.
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention where the hate group's leader, Louis Farrakhan, defended Palestinian suicide bombers. The convention, which took place in California in 2002, is just the latest tie to emerge between Democrats and the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist group known for being viciously anti-Semitic.
Martin Luther King speaks at a Charter Day ceremony at Howard University in Washington. King discussed his civil rights movement theme, "We shall overcome."
In between Barack Obama saying the portrait of him was "pretty sharp" and Michelle Obama praising the artist who painted her as "so fly", there was a flash of platinum blonde hair and the sound of a warm Australian accent on the stage of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. in Washington this week was not only a momentous milestone for artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, who couldn't hold back tears as they spoke of their difficult roads to becoming the first African-American artists to paint the official portraits.
MRCTV's Brittany M. Hughes reported Monday that Kehinde Wiley, Barack Obama's official portrait artist, previously created two paintings of black women holding white women's severed heads, making him the art world's equivalent of Donald Trump severed-head comedienne Kathy Griffin. Additionally, Wiley, described in New York Magazine as "possibly the wealthiest painter of his generation," outsources much of "his" painting to China to "cut costs."
Barack and Michelle Obama's official portraits were unveiled this week at the Smithsonian National Portrait Museum in Washington DC, where they will hang along with portraits of every past US president. Former US President Obama described his portrait by Kehinde Wiley - "known for his Old Master-style depiction of African-Americans," says the BBC - as "pretty sharp" The former first lady chose Amy Sherald, an artist from Baltimore known for painting life-size portraits of black Americans, to paint her portrait.
Speaking at the painting's unveiling ceremony Monday at the National Portrait Gallery, Obama said he normally hates posing, saying he gets impatient and starts "looking at my watch." The former president, who personally chose Wiley, said the artist listened carefully to his suggestions and then ignored most of them.
As President Donald Trump lays out and implements his vision for American success - via his campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" - there remain defiant naysayers. Unfortunately, talking about race is a great diversion from the discussion about the ideas and policies we need as a nation to move forward.
CNN host Van Jones on Sunday thanked Donald Trump for the public relations boost after the president attacked Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's appearance on Jones' show. Trump lashed out at Jay-Z in a tweet on Sunday after the hip-hop legend said that the president's remarks about "shithole" African nations was "hurtful."
It was simply surreal to watch President Trump perfunctorily read a statement praising Martin Luther King on Friday and then leave the podium without answering the shouted questions of reporters about whether or not he is a racist--legitimate questions generated by the president's own words in a meeting about immigration the day before.
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to bring black and white America together, the New York Times has chosen to stoke arguments over race by amassing a collection of allegedly racist quotes by Donald Trump. The piece is titled: Donald Trump's Racism:The Definitive List .
Haiti, El Salvador and the nations of Africa, are not the "S-Hole" countries President Trump describe them as. But with his comment, Trump proved once again that real S-Hole nations do exist --Trumpland, Bannonnation, StephenMillerstan, Ayran Nation... What was repugnant about Trump's remark was not his use of a vulgarity in a White House meeting.
The first Martin Luther King Jr. holiday of Donald Trump's presidency is taking place amid a racial firestorm of Trump's own making. In the same week that he honored King by making a national park out of the ground where King was born and preached until his death, Trump denigrated practically the entire African diaspora, and left many Americans headed into the civil rights icon's birthday convinced that the leader of their country is a racist.