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It’s OK to Discuss Trump’s Mental Health
Some in the news media didn’t need President Donald Trump’s amazing news conference on Thursday to ask health professionals whether they thought Trump was mentally sound. News Conference Only Heightened Questions The news conference simply reinforced what many were already thinking. David Brooks wrote Friday in the New York Times, “President Trump’s mental state is…
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UPenn Paper Exposes Trump’s Lies About Graduating at Top of His Class
And the president is seemingly caught in another whopper. And by that doggone “fake press” at that. As far back as the 1980s, the New York Times reports, Donald Trump has been claiming that he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. Yet despite these claims of…
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Are These Bastards Going After the Arts Again? White House Budget Cuts Target NEA, CPB, AmeriCorps
Editor’s note: The original post for this story made mention of Sesame Street in relation to the pending White House budget cuts. HBO now funds Sesame Street. The White House budget office has reportedly drafted a list of American programs that President Donald Trump could cut to put a dent in domestic spending, including the…
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Jet Magazine Could Return to Newsstands
A rejuvenated Ebony magazine is considering reviving its Jet sibling as a newsstand product for millennials. It plans to publish more special single-themed issues for newsstand consumption and is branching out to stage special events as it seeks ways to extend the brand. Linda Johnson Rice, chairman of Johnson Publishing Co. and daughter of founder…
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Black Reporter Says Omarosa Bullied Her
“Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault, who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump,” Paul Farhi reported Monday for the Washington Post. “Manigault, who is now a communications official in the Trump administration, got into a heated argument with a White House reporter just…
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Yale Renames Building of Slavery Defender John C. Calhoun to Honor ‘Amazing Grace’
As is the case with many institutions of higher learning confronting their slave-tinged pasts and renaming their buildings, Yale University announced Saturday that it would change the name of the residential college of white supremacist John C. Calhoun to honor computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The New York Times reports that the decision to rename…
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Chicago Cop Who Killed College Student and Innocent Bystander Will Face No Charges
A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a college student and his downstairs neighbor by mistake will face no charges in the two deaths. The Cook County District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the officer on Friday, saying that there was insufficient evidence that he was not acting in self-defense. On the day after…
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‘FinTech’: A Way to Make Money From Mobile?
When entrepreneurs and policymakers interested in diversity gathered in Washington on Tuesday, they talked about computer technology — and about how people of color should be using it not just to send tweets and watch videos, but also to make money. They discussed “FinTech,” shorthand for “financial technology,” and it was presented as a way…
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In ‘It’s About Damn Time’ News, the Army Approves Locks as a Hairstyle for Black Women
Black women serving in the United States Army will now, finally, be able to wear their hair in locks (also known as dreadlocks) and twists, after an exhausting and what many believe, unfair fight over many years. Couched in new regulations focused on grooming policy changes related to religious accommodations, the largest branch of the…
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Black Army General Loses 2 Stars Over Lies, Stripper Sex Scandal
An African-American three-star general was demoted in retirement for using a government credit card to patronize strip clubs and other “conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman on multiple occasions,” the Army announced Thursday. An Army spokesperson said that Maj. Gen. Ronald Lewis, then-senior military aide to former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, was bumped down to…
