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Tens of millions of Americans braced Sunday for a massive winter storm, expected to bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade to parts of the country. Kansas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia have declared states of emergency as the storm, driven by a polar vortex, moved east after striking the central United […]
Tens of millions of Americans are bracing for a huge winter storm that could bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade. The storm, which started in the middle of the US, will move east in the next couple of days, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. Parts of the US not […]
ACCRA, Ghana — Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture. “He joined the ancestors when I was 10 years old. I was supposed to come to Ghana […]
June 2024, Paper: “Paying reparations to Black Americans has long been contentiously debated. This article addresses an unexamined pillar of this debate: the United States has a long- standing social norm that if an individual or community has suffered a harm, it is considered right for the federal government to provide some measure of what […]
As NASA marks the journey that landed a man on the Moon in July 1969, US Black Engineer takes a look back at the history of African American astronauts in space. Last month, we remembered the first black engineers employed at NASA. Richard Paul, a documentary producer who wrote the program Race and the Space […]
The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core. American oligarchs bestow millions in gifts and largesse on rightwing justices. The court’s conservative supermajority
President Biden said on Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes in a sweeping act of clemency during his final weeks in office. The White House said it was the largest number of commutations by an American president in a single day. The […]
President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people, the largest grant of clemency by an American president in a single day, the White House announced in a statement on Thursday. A large number of those being pardoned had been placed in home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic, while 39 were serving sentences for […]
While many appearing on stage during president-elect Donald Trump’s victory speech in the early hours of 6 November were familiar faces, one man, standing next to Tiffany Trump, was not. Michael Boulos, the son of Lebanese billionaire and Trump’s new senior adviser on Middle Eastern affairs, Massad Boulos, and the husband of Trump’s youngest daughter, […]
Beijing’s top envoy to the United States has called for “objective and rational” views on China through more people-to-people exchanges, especially among youth.A total of 14,000 young Americans have visited China since November last year, when President Xi Jinping