The good news? A $100 million grant in federal funding is on its way to approval to help the residents of Flint, Mich. The bad news? Thousands of residents could lose their homes because they haven’t been paying for the toxic water that’s running through their pipes.Â
While addressing employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday, Ben Carson continued to show why he’s far from the best choice to be the head of it. The highly-esteemed former neurosurgeon was attempting to give immigrants credit for the hard work that they do before his train of thought took a drastic […]
Elizabeth Warren has had a major turnaround in regards to her public perception among liberals. Just weeks ago, she was part of a senate committee that unanimously approved Ben Carson to become the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Now, she’s become a symbol for Anti-Trump sentiment after she was silenced by Republic senators during a […]
We are about to learn the reach and limits of Trump’s executive power, as the judicial system challenges his constitutionally questionable executive orders.
Michael Slager’s case after murdering Walter Scott was deemed a mistrial on Monday when a jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision. This left a lot of questions in the air, the most prominent being what exactly has to happen for a police officer to be found guilty of killing a person of color? Because […]
Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot by Charlotte police in late September. Officer Brentley Vinson reportedly shot Scott after he allegedly left an SUV in front of his home with a gun in hand and denied orders to drop it. District Attorney Andrew Murray has announced that Vinson would not face any charges in Scott’s death, […]
Dejuan Yourse was sitting on his mother’s porch as he waited for her to come home and let him in. However, a neighbor’s call-in of a possible robbery resulted in Officer Travis Cole arriving on the scene to harass, arrest and punch Yourse. After reviewing body camera footage that has been released to the public, city […]
Last Sunday, President Barack Obama was the commencement speaker at Rutgers University’s 250th Commencement. During his speech, he offered the graduates encouraging words of wisdom as they moved to the future, and he also talked about politics, of course.
This presidential election season has consistently brought up the conversation of race, as it should, and right now, the conversation has turned into a debate, thanks to the award-winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou.
The following piece is from EBONY. It was written by Charles F. Coleman Jr. By: Charles F. Coleman Jr. As many of us continue to grapple with the gut-wrenching news out of Ferguson, there is the prevailing sense of confusion surrounding what might have happened in the grand jury. For as much as Ferguson prosecutor Bob […]
G.K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina) will be the Congressional Black Caucus’ next leader. The U.S. Representative was unanimously elected on Wednesday by the 45 member group.
A California city has passed two ordinances aimed at clearing out the homeless population. Last week, Manteca city council members unanimously voted in favor of the legislation.Â
