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Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District Georgia Congratulations are in order for Shanelle Booker, who was named the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia on Jan. 12, according to a press release issued by the United States Attorney’s Office. Booker’s historic appointment marks the first time a Black person and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind the New Deal, according to the White House. Biden is expected to visit the Labor Department on […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind the New Deal, according to the White House. Biden is expected to visit the Labor Department on […]
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 11, 2024 The event is part of the Young Women’s Financial Wellness Forum before the coin program ends on Dec. 31, 2024 The Young Women’s Financial Wellness Forum event at the New York Stock Exchange’s Freedom Hall on Dec. 11 will celebrate Harriet Tubman, well-timed with the holiday season and […]
Earlier this year, as Republicans sought to ban books with Black history and LGBTQ+ themes from schools across the country, the nation’s first openly gay Black senator stepped onto the Senate floor and read aloud from some of them. “Perhaps for some of you here today, I am the face of one of your fears,” […]
Outgoing U.S. Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) speaks at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Earlier this year, as Republicans sought to ban books with Black history and LGBTQ+ themes from schools across the country, the nation’s first openly gay Black senator stepped onto the Senate floor and read […]
A federal court in Washington, D.C., upheld a law requiring the sale or ban of TikTok today after the social media company filed a lawsuit against the federal government. In the lawsuit, TikTok argued that a bill Congress passed in April, which included a potential ban on the popular app, was a violation of First […]
The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never […]
The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time in history. Shomari Figures, elected Tuesday night to represent the 2nd Congressional District, will join U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Bimingham, who has served in the U.S. House of […]
Two and a half decades after GM Maurice Ashley became the first African American grandmaster, GM-elect Brewington Hardaway has climbed to the top of the mountain. Born in the Bronx, New York, 15-year-old Hardaway has completed the requirements to become the first African-American GM to be born on U.S. soil. Ashley was born in Jamaica […]