Showing posts with label black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black. Show all posts
Friday, September 4, 2026
Billionaire Leon Black skips Epstein deposition and sues House committee over subpoenas | PBS News
"The Committee is on a fishing expedition that oversteps its authority and completely ignores its responsibility," Black's attorney, Susan Estrich, said in a statement. "This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr. Black."…
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Trump faces backlash over reports US navy carrier could be named after him instead of Black war hero
“This is a slap in the face to every war hero and every service member who has worn the uniform,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP civil rights group. “Doris Miller earned his place in American history through courage, sacrifice, and service,” added Johnson. “Donald Trump only wants to serve himself.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/navy-carrier-black-war-hero-trump-report
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
A midwife crosses 'maternity deserts' to make a difference for Black moms and babies
"This goes beyond a mere inconvenience," said Dr. Michael Warren, chief medical and health officer for the March of Dimes. "We know that those women who live in maternity care deserts are more likely to have bad outcomes when it comes to their pregnancies."
More than 20,000 babies die before their first birthday every year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And about 600 women a year don't survive pregnancy-related complications.
The risks are heightened for women of color, according to the most recent maternal mortality data from the March of Dimes and the CDC. Rates of maternal death are significantly higher for Indigenous and Black women than for white women…
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/11/nx-s1-5678523/maternity-desert-birth-midwife-black-moms-babies
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Urban League report says Trump administration is harming Black Americans' chances at American Dream | PBS News
The report contends that the challenges it highlights for Black communities are warning signs for the prosperity of all Americans...
Friday, July 31, 2026
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
A new analysis of Black voters in the south indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left.
After the supreme court effectively gutted section 2 of the Voting Rights Act protections in late April, Republican legislatures across the south rapidly pushed to disenfranchise Black voters by redrawing congressional maps. Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama all immediately worked to pass new maps, while the Mississippi governor has said that he wants legislators to redraw maps before the upcoming midterm elections...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/black-voters-south-republican-maps
Monday, July 27, 2026
Bystander video shows moment Madison police fatally shoot man
Warning: some viewers may find the following footage distressing. A fatal police shooting that killed 38-year-old Corey Ruiz has sparked massive protests in Madison, Wisconsin. Bystander video shared with the Guardian shows how the shooting unfolded on 22 July...
Sunday, July 26, 2026
The Fear of Black Greeks - The Atlantic
But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.
Black people were not as uncommon in the ancient Mediterranean world as Nolan’s critics seem to imagine. But even if they had been, color-blind casting makes sense as an artistic choice for portraying the classics precisely because race as it exists today did not exist when The Odyssey was written. And no contemporary actor can actually claim the same descent as Helen, who hatched from a swan’s egg…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/odyssey-race/688058/
Saturday, July 11, 2026
This program gives Black single moms $1,000 a month for a year. The results are undeniable
The Magnolia Mother’s Trust is the first to target low-income families led by Black mothers in Jackson, Mississippi…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/guaranteed-income-black-single-moms-mississippi .
NAACP demands end of Trump’s anticrime taskforce in Memphis after deaths of Black men
“The Department of Justice cannot continue to stand by while Black lives are taken. The DoJ has a fundamental responsibility to support, protect, and defend the US Constitution, and that Constitution includes the rights, the safety, and the futures of Black Americans.
“When officers fail to deliver equal protection under the law, the federal government must step in with its investigative authority. We will not allow the names of Darius Chappell and Tyrin Johnson to be overlooked.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/naacp-memphis-safe-taskforce
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund celebrates "creating new farmers" this Juneteenth
“Essentially right now we are an engine for creating new farmers,” Knox said. “A lot of folks who've never been a part of the urban ag scene are able to come through us and buy land for the first time and begin this process, and also become a part of a larger community.”…
Thursday, June 11, 2026
RFK’s Answer to the Maternal Health Crisis: Hide the Data – Mother Jones
“How are we going to solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we cannot say ‘Black’?” 
Friday, June 5, 2026
Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show
Black has a limited track record in emerging markets, according to public records. His New York-based private equity firm, Fortinbras Enterprises, opened an outpost in the United Arab Emirates in 2024, where Black helped open a branch of his family’s office the same year. (His father, Leon, was the subject of a Senate investigation into his dealings with Epstein at the time.)
“He is not qualified to do this, for sure,” a former DFC director said of Black. “It does make you wonder, you know – why is he in that role?”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/ben-black-investment-trump-epstein
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for Republicans...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map
Thursday, May 21, 2026
‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights
Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/mississippi-voting-rights-rally
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights | PBS News
Launched on Tuesday, the "Out of Bounds" campaign urges prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to "withhold athletic and financial support" from major public universities in states that "have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation."…
Monday, May 18, 2026
‘They may draw racist maps, but we are the south’: thousands rally in Alabama for Black voting rights
People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/alabama-black-voting-rights-protest
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
As Republicans carve up Black districts, Democrats pivot to a new midterm message - POLITICO
“Democrats are gonna be able to go into African American communities and say, ‘Republicans are doing everything they can to take away your political power,’” said Democratic strategist Ian Russell, who served as the DCCC political director in 2014 and 2016 and still works on House races across the country. “That’s a really salient message.”…
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