First on CNN: Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court – CNN

Biden will deliver remarks on Friday afternoon announcing the selection, the White House said. CNN first reported Biden’s decision. She received and accepted Biden’s offer in a call Thursday night, a source familiar with the decision told CNN, but was

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Black Hawk helicopters crash in Utah, no injuries; skiers frightened

Two Black Hawk helicopters crashed near a Utah ski resort Tuesday morning, scaring nearby skiers but miraculously leaving no one injured. The crash involving Utah National Guard UH-60 helicopters was reported southeast of the Snowbird ski resort just outside of Salt Lake

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Black Transgender Woman Awarded $1.5 Million After ‘Bogus’ Arrest

Inside the purse, the officers found a stress ball, which they cut open, inspected for drugs and claimed to have found cocaine inside, the lawsuit states. Ms. Goldring believed that “they were joking,” the lawsuit states, but they were not.

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Opinion: Black voters are being written out of US democracy

Earlier this month, just hours after the US Supreme Court restored a congressional map that a lower federal court had ordered redrawn because it diluted Black voting power, I set out to drive many of these district lines that surgically

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UK teachers warned not to push Black Lives Matter or other ‘partisan’ groups

British teachers have been barred from promoting Black Lives Matter as part of a crackdown on biased “partisan politics” in the classroom. The activist group was singled out in official government guidance Thursday on “schools’ legal duties on political impartiality.”

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Black WV Lawmaker Sues Anti-Abortion Group Over Racist KKK Image Targeting Her

West Virginia delegate Danielle Walker is suing a local anti-abortion group after it targeted her with a racist KKK graphic over her pro-choice stance. Walker, who is the only Black woman serving in the state Legislature, filed the civil suit

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This Black Gay Priest In New York Is Working To Change Catholicism From Within

Conversely, Catholic schools were among the first to desegregate and some government officials who opposed racial integration were excommunicated. In 2018, U.S. bishops issued a pastoral letter decrying “the persistence of the evil of racism,” but Massingale was disappointed. “The

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A Black School Principal Changed My Life. Here’s Why We Need Black People In Positions Of Power.

I arrived in my striped OshKosh overalls for my first day of my new Cambridge, Massachusetts, school holding my mother’s hand. Earlier that morning, she had brushed Alberta V05 into my shoulder-length hair until it shone and then fashioned it

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Purdue University probes white cop’s actions during violent arrest of black student

Purdue University police are reviewing a white cop’s actions after video emerged of him repeatedly punching a black student and pushing his head in the snow during an arrest. Adonis Tuggle, 24, posted the footage captured Feb. 4 by a

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The rise of the Black Angel Group inside of Alphabet

A year ago, inside of the corporate leviathan Alphabet, Black Googlers and other Black Alphabet employees were invited to some informal programming around angel investing during Black History Month. It was organized by employees so that anyone interested could learn

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An Alabama Building Honors a Klan Leader. Officials Are Adding a Black Student’s Name.

His name has been stripped from structures at other schools in the state, including Troy University, Alabama State University and Jacksonville State University, according to The Montgomery Advertiser, which has re-examined his legacy as governor. “The argument has been made

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