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Lori Lightfoot Begins Dismantling Chicago’s Corrupt Aldermanic System Her First Day in Office
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, and Lori Lightfoot did not come here to play. On day one of her new position as mayor of Chicago—making her the first black woman to lead the city—Lightfoot is working to overhaul Chicago’s tradition of “aldermanic privilege” that grants the 50 members of the City Council,…
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The Marathon Continues: Puma x Nipsey Hussle Collaborations Are Coming Soon
The death of rapper Nipsey Hussle continues to be mourned by communities around the world, but now there’s another way to support his vision and help out his family in the process. This week, Puma Brand and Marketing Global Director Adam Petrick announced that the company’s collaborations with Hussle (real name: Ermias Joseph Asghedom) that…
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Remy Ma Faces New Charges in Assault Case
Reminisce “Remy Ma” Mackie is facing four misdemeanor charges for allegedly assaulting her Love & Hip Hop: New York co-star Brittney Taylor back in April. According to official records reviewed by TMZ, on Friday she was charged with two counts of assault in the third degree, one count of aggravated harassment in the second degree,…
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Mary Winston Becomes the Next Lone Black Woman to Lead a Fortune 500 Company
Mary Winston has earned every right to be celebrated as Bed, Bath & Beyond’s new interim CEO; but we’ve also got to talk about a few things. When Ursula Burns, the first black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, stepped down as CEO of Xerox as of January 2017 after the company was split…
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Councilwoman Challenges Shreveport’s ‘Saggy Pants Law’
In February, 31-year-old Anthony Childs was fatally shot in Shreveport, La., by police during a chase that began after Childs was stopped because he was wearing sagging pants. Since that tragedy, councilwoman LeVette Fuller has wanted to end a law passed in 2007 that prohibits wearing pants below the waist in the majority-black community.…
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Last Known U.S. Slave Ship, the Clotilda, Said to Have Been Discovered in Alabama
Researchers at the Alabama Historical Commission recently announced that they’ve located the remains of the last known ship known to bring enslaved Africans to what we now call the United States. As National Geographic notes, slave importing was officially banned in 1808, though an illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade continued for many years. In 1860, some…
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A Federal Judge in California Temporarily Blocked Trump’s Border Wall Funds
On Friday, a federal judge in California temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s invalid administration, preventing the transfer of $1 billion in Defense Department funds to build a border fencing wall. As reported by NPR, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam “did not rule on an additional $3.6 billion in funds from military construction projects that have…
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Developmentally Disabled Man Awarded $8 Million After Found Living Alone With Hundreds of Rats
After his caretaker mother died about 20 years ago, Vernon Gray, a disabled man, was left living in an increasingly dilapidated home overrun by as many as 500 rats. Now the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services has agreed to pay the 64-year-old man $8 million for failing to check on him.…
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Missouri Governor Signs Legislation Banning Abortions at 8 Weeks
On Friday, Missouri Gov. Michael L. Parson signed controversial legislation banning nearly all abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. The only exceptions are made for medical emergencies—women or girls who are victims of rape or incest will not be able to get a legal abortion in the state. With this new law, doctors who perform…
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Free Your Mind: 10 Missouri Eastern Prison Inmates Graduate College
If you didn’t know the ceremony was taking place in a state prison, you might think it was just another joyful celebration of newly credentialed scholars. But the 10 members of this graduating class are all convicted felons—and inmates at the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center. And on Wednesday they became the first graduates of Washington…
