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Kwame Alexander: Because it’s a memoir about these challenges that I have had dealing with the fact that, in 2017, my mother passed, my marriage started sort of breaking down, and my oldest daughter and I had an argument that just blew up into an estrangement. And so all these things happened. And so writing […]
The 2023 Alexander Hamilton Medal will go to financial services executive George Van Amson CC’74, managing director of institutional equity sales and trading at Morgan Stanley. Van Amson is currently the head of The Americas Analyst and Associate Advising and Development Programs in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division. The Hamilton Medal is the highest honor […]
Happy birthday, Dr. Augusta! The story of Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta is quite remarkable. During a time where we have only been taught that Black people across the U.S. were enslaved, Augusta was building worlds and moving mountains through sheer intellect, resistance and skill. We wonder what knowing about stories like Augusta’s may do for […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement on the passing of Honey Alexander, the wife of former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (Tenn.):  “Honey Alexander was a great person who brought […]
Comment on this story Comment An American military veteran captured by Russian forces in Ukraine is being held in solitary confinement but appears hopeful the U.S. government is pursuing his release, according to a phone call with his mother recorded last week and provided to The Washington Post by his family. Friday’s call . . […]
Clifford Alexander Jr., 1st Black Secretary of U.S. Army, Dies at 88Â | PEOPLE.com Skip to content Top Navigation Close this dialog window Explore PEOPLE.com Close this dialog window Share & More Close this dialog window View image Clifford Alexander Jr., First Black Secretary of the U.S. Army, Dies at 88Â this link is to […]
An Army trailblazer has passed away. Clifford Leopold Alexander Jr., the first Black Army Secretary of the United States, died at 88, Fox 5 News reports. During the 1960s and 70s, the Harlem-raised and Ivy-league-educated pioneer made a significant mark on the civil rights movement. His dedication to addressing issues with the treatment of minorities […]
Placeholder while article actions load Clifford L. Alexander Jr., a Harlem-raised, Ivy League-educated lawyer who was a crusading chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the late 1960s and later served as the first Black secretary of the Army, died July 3 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. His wife, Adele Logan […]
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. With a cowboy hat atop her head and fresh flowers in hand, Rosalind Alexander-Kasparik walked from her family farm on a Tuesday afternoon this spring to the adjacent private cemetery . . .
Alexander doesn’t dwell on the details of Trayvon’s death or the founding of B.L.M., letting their rough sketches call to the reader’s mind a slew of other associated images: Trayvon’s hoodie, a fraught skirmish line in Ferguson, Mo., a multitude lying on a bridge in Portland, Ore. The title chapter, which constitutes Part II, first […]