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Weston Gobar, 21, a fourth year student and president of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Virginia, poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va., a week after a white nationalist rally took place on campus. Weston Gobar, 21, a fourth year student and president of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Virginia, poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va., a week after a white nationalist rally took place on campus.
When Pantsuit Nation became a viral phenomenon days before the election last November, the private Facebook group was focused on electing the first female president. What it got instead was something uniquely American: a devastating reminder that this country's long, unresolved history of white supremacy continues to haunt us.
Many women's organizations commemorate Equal Pay Day, which this year was April 5. It meant that women, in general, would have had to work all of 2016, and until April 5, 2017, to earn the same amount of money that a White man earned in 2016. Few will recognize July 31, 2017, the day that the pay for African American women catch up to the 2016 earnings of White men-seven extra months.
North Carolina voters got less than half a loaf from three federal judges last week. The decision was just one more step in tweaking an election system that is hopelessly broken.
Harvard College's admitted freshmen last year became the first class in the school's multi-century history comprised of mostly nonwhite students. And again, for the second year in a row, the majority of students invited to attend the prestigious college this year identify as ethnic minorities.
Harvard College's admitted freshmen last year became the first class in the school's multi-century history comprised of mostly nonwhite students. And again, for the second year in a row, the majority of students invited to attend the prestigious college this year identify as ethnic minorities.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump announced that transgender troops won't be allowed to serve in the military on July 26, reversing the Pentagon's 2016 decision to lift the ban. President Trump's tweets announcing his new policy to ban transgender people from service in the U.S. military came with a justification that will sound familiar to several other groups: that allowing transgender people to serve would disrupt unit cohesion, a fundamental building block of combat effectiveness.
NAACP: The NAACP issued a "travel advisory" last week to people of color, women, LGBT, and disabled that driving thru Missouri may not be safe for them. Smoking: Missouri Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler has filed legislation to ban smoking in all developments that receive low-income housing tax credits.
Last week, I took to the Senate Floor to shine a light on the president's nominee to join the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, John K. Bush. This man has a clear record of promoting bigotry and discrimination that has no place in our courts, and we cannot let this nomination slip through the cracks.
Today's political climate is pushing more and more African-American women to run for office which is why Higher Heights, a national organization that focuses on harnessing black women's political power and leadership potential, has organized a five-part series of online political training tailored specifically for African-American women. The first one-hour training, “Building Blocks to Starting Your Run for Office,” will commence Tuesday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. EST followed by weekly or bi-weekly sessions concluding Sept.
The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention next week in Baltimore, leading the nation's oldest civil rights organization to question the president's commitment to his African American constituents. "During his campaign, President Trump asked us 'what do you have to lose?'" NAACP Board Chairman Leon Russell said.
These are dark times in Washington. It's no secret that President Trump and his team are working overtime to turn back the clock on our rights and divest from our communities.
On Monday, the CBC sent a letter to the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company that noted several senior-level vacancies, including CEO and COO, that "would benefit from African-American leadership." They also noted that the company has no Black members on its board of directors.
A black Trump supporter went absolutely nuclear on Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters outside of her town hall meeting on Saturday. The woman called Maxine Waters a 'black racist' and said she 'destroyed the black community by giving the jobs to illegal immigrants'.
Trump supporters booed Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters as she left a town hall meeting. They also surrounded her vehicle calling her a racist and a hateful person.
Voters are already heading to the polls for Georgia's closely watched special election on Tuesday, the culmination of a months-long battle that set a record for the most expensive House race. The Democratic effort to win the seat, long held by Republicans, aims to make the race an early win against President Trump ahead of the 2018 midterms.
In this June 1989 file photo, Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks holds a portrait of herself painted by Anne-Cressey McGraw-Beuchamp at a ceremony in Chicago. Brooks would have turned 100 on June 7, 2017, something places around the country are commemorating all year with new books, poetry readings, writing contests and even a bus tour through her hometown of Chicago, all inspired by her.
In 1958, three years before an interracial union produced Barack Obama, 4 percent of Americans told Gallup that they approved of interracial marriage. Like Obama, the U.S. has traveled a long, long way since then.
Seattle lawmakers are expected to vote early next week on a citywide soda tax that would add more than $2.50 to the cost of a twelve-pack of soda. The tax would undoubtedly drive consumers-at least those Seattle residents with cars and Costco memberships, including me-to buy more groceries in the city's suburbs.