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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Home Depot violated U.S. labor law by barring a retail worker from wearing an apron that said “BLM” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, a federal labor board ruled on Wednesday. The National Labor Relations Board in a 3-1 decision said the worker’s refusal to remove the writing […]
The FBI coordinated with other foreign partners to disrupt the GRU-led campaign. February 15, 2024, 12:49 PM ET • 4 min read The FBI announced Thursday it successfully disrupted a Russian GRU-led hacking campaign that infiltrated more than a thousand home and small business routers that were used to carry out cyber operations against countries […]
The origins of Black History Month can be traced back nearly a hundred years to an unassuming, three-story brick rowhouse in Washington. In 1922, Carter G. Woodson, known as “the father of Black history,” bought the home at 1538 Ninth Street NW for $8,000. The home served as the headquarters for the Association for the […]
The main house at Gordon Pointe spans 11,500 sq ft. The mega-listing includes a main house that spans about 11,500 square feet, with six bedrooms. Two guest houses, each over 5,000 square feet, bring the estate’s total interior living space to 22,800 square feet. All three homes are on a peninsula that delivers 1,650 feet […]
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – His name was Odessa St. Strickland, and in the early 1900s he invented a device that traced and defined the boundaries of oil and gas deposits. In 1940 alone, 139/140 of the locations discovered by Strictland’s invention produced oil and gas. But Strickland’s big claim to fame came about because of […]
Artistic contributions open window to historical experience This is the first of four African American history and culture articles during February, Black History Month. Angelita D. Reyes is the founder and executive director of Literacy InterActives, Inc., a 501(c)(3) and sponsor of the Parker Sydnor historic preservation project located in Mecklenburg County. For more on […]
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. For more than a century after the Civil War, historians rarely made room for the wartime history of Black women. Even in the wake of the rise of women’s history, as scholars began to pay more attention to white women North and South and […]
By Dan Williams, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian enclave along with intense bombardment. Israel says the war in Gaza, which […]
For Black and Caribbean Americans, so much of the meaning of home has been ruptured because of slavery and what happens when people are forcibly uprooted from their homes. Descendants from enslaved Africans
Washington, DC CNN — US home prices continued to rise in October, hitting a new record high and marking the ninth-consecutive month of increases, according to data released Tuesday. Even as mortgage rates lingered above 7% in October, reaching the highest levels in 23 years . . .