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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the closest thing Russian President Vladimir Putin has to a friend in the club of European Union leaders, won a fifth term in power Sunday in an election that became a referendum on his promise to block support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. With 90% of the vote […]
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (March 30, 2022) – Business mogul, Earvin “Magic” Johnson spoke to a capacity-filled audience, sharing his personal story of business development and practical knowledge, at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Harrison Auditorium, March 29. Johnson delivered a keynote presentation for the Chancellor’s Speaker Series, “Building Black Businesses.” Nearly as soon […]
by: NOAH TRISTER, Associated Press Posted: Feb 27, 2022 / 12:05 PM PST Updated: Feb 27, 2022 / 12:05 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Langston Galloway scored 16 points and seven-time NBA All-Star Joe Johnson added 14 to lift the United States to an 89-67 win over Mexico in World Cup qualifying Sunday. The Americans […]
Getty Images The U.S. Ryder Cup team has its successor. Zach Johnson will take over for Steve Stricker as team captain for the 2023 matches in Italy, according to the Associated Press, Johnson was an assistant captain on the last two Ryder Cup teams and played on five other U.S. sides before that. He has been […]
Nathan Johnson, a forward-thinking modernist Black architect who designed some of Detroit’s most iconic structures — 1960s-era churches — with sculptural brio and futuristic lines, died on Nov. 5 at his home in Detroit. He was 96. His granddaughter Asia Johnson confirmed the death but did not specify a cause. When . . .
Longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, announced Saturday that she is not running for re-election after serving nearly three decades in Congress. “I have gone back and forth … the whole time because of the pleading and the asking, but as of January … the year after next, I will step down,” Johnson said […]
DALLAS – U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a trailblazing Black Democrat in Texas who has served in Congress for nearly 30 years, announced Saturday that she will not seek reelection next year. Johnson, 85, is a political fixture in her hometown of Dallas, where early in her career she became the first Black woman to […]
After my appointment to oversee police plans for race equality in England and Wales was announced, a friend messaged me, warning that I may find myself “hard-blocked at every turn, worn down by frustration or have no real power – if not all three”. Another called me to check I had a good support network […]
The US has urged Britain to follow its example and try to repair its relations with Paris in the wake of the row over France’s loss of its submarine contract with Australia. Australia pulled out of the $66bn (£48bn) contract for 12 diesel electric-powered submarines, signed in 2016, to opt instead for nuclear-powered submarines to […]
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine turns out not to be quite as effective as the Pfizer and Moderna. And people who got (the J&J vaccine) way back at the beginning of this year therefore have been somewhat less protected, although they’re still awfully well protected,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of […]