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The Pentagon’s top acquisition official today underscored the importance of the defense industry’s ability to produce new capabilities amid a rapidly changing technology landscape. William A. LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said that while anticipating future requirements remains essential, the ability to prepare for rapidly emerging threats is critical. “You can predict […]
By Tamara Shiloh Robert A. Pelham Jr. was a prominent African American figure with a diverse career. Born in 1859 in Virginia, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he excelled in public education and began working for the Daily Post newspaper. In the 1880s, he co-founded and edited The Detroit Plaindealer, a newspaper that […]
Here’s one statistic about racial disparity that you most likely haven’t heard too much about: Only about 5 percent of Americans who study abroad are black, according to the Institute of International Education. This is a gap that’s especially dizzying considering the fact that more blacks are in higher education than
New data shows communities have dedicated nearly $63 billion of program funds on housing projects across three American Rescue Plan programs; the largest State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund recipients have budgeted 85% of total resources, and total projects are up 18% over first quarter of 2023 WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of […]
From a community harvest day on July 4, 2022 • Courtesy of BLMG Seattle Parks & Recreation (SPR) plans to remove the Black Lives Memorial Garden (BLMG) as early as this Friday, October 13th, to complete a “turf renovation” project and return the space to “natural grass.” Black Star Farmers was notified on October 4th […]
CHICAGO — Hidden behind a heavy black curtain in one of the nation’s busiest airports is Chicago’s unsettling response to a growing population of asylum-seekers arriving by plane. Hundreds of migrants, from babies to the elderly, live inside a shuttle bus center at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 1. They sleep on cardboard pads on the […]
Join your Nightmare on Film Street horror hosts Kim and Jon as they sit down to discuss everything that’s been Keeping Them Creepy in between regularly scheduled episodes of the Nightmare on Film Street Podcast and answer some of your Discord questions! On The Docket:
New York CNN — In a dance studio nestled inside a building next to New York City Hall, Tamara Bejar Hernandez counts to the beat of a traditional Tahitian dance song as a group of ladies shake their hips from left to right and gracefully glide their hands up in the air and down their […]
May 1, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT A Kajang couple after attending Andingingi, an annual ritual to ask the forest for forgiveness for humanity’s sins. (Peter Yeung for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyComment BULUKUMBA REGENCY, Indonesia — By midmorning, beams of tropical sun cut through the rainforest canopy, illuminating a bamboo hut in a […]
Late last month, American and European Union officials traded information on millions of dollars worth of banned technology that was slipping through the cracks of their defenses and into Russian territory. Senior tax and trade officials noted a surge in chips and other electronic components being sold to Russia through Armenia, Kazakhstan and other countries, […]