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JD Vance is an Iraq war veteran and the US vice-president. On Friday, he declared the doctrine that underpinned Washington’s approach to international relations for a generation is now dead. “We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defence and the maintenance of our alliances for nation building and meddling in […]
A Democrat, John Ewing Jr., appeared on track to win Omaha’s mayoral race on Tuesday, unofficial county results showed, a victory that would end a long period of Republican leadership in a politically divided city that has outsize importance in presidential elections. Mr. Ewing, the longtime Douglas County treasurer, was leading Mayor Jean Stothert, a […]
Last spring, Asya (Hollins) Peña shared on LinkedIn how much she appreciated the way Google cares about its employees. During the 2024 BEYA STEM Conference, Asya expressed pleasure in being a speaker and panelist at the event thanks to Google, who covered the registration of her husband so he could be there as support . . .
Written by Erica Marshall-Lee, Ph.D., ABPP, on behalf of the Atlanta Behavioral Health Advocates Why are there such monumental barriers for a Black woman to become president of the United States? The short answer is that Black women have been consistently overlooked, shut out, and ignored for centuries. In the U.S., African-descended women are significantly […]
The Trump administration is considering scrapping the longstanding role of the U.S. in leading NATO’s military operations in Europe, NBC News reported on March 18, citing unnamed defense officials. For nearly 75 years, a four-star U.S. general has held the position of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), overseeing NATO’s military strategy and operations. According to […]
Donald Trump is reportedly considering disbanding the leadership of the US Postal Service (USPS) and folding it into his administration in a move that would end the 250-year-old agency’s independence and potentially threaten the mail delivery system’s impartiality. The Washington Post reported that an executive order was being prepared to . . .
(Bloomberg) — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek rocked global technology stocks Monday, raising questions over America’s technological dominance. Most Read from Bloomberg Buzz grew over the weekend about DeepSeek’s latest AI model being cost-effective while running on less-advanced chips, casting doubt on the validity of the sky-high valuations for companies like Nvidia Corp. Nvidia has […]
This week, the American Institute for Boys and Men released the findings of a landmark study, “HBCUs at a Crossroads: Addressing the Decline in Black Male Enrollment,” by DJ Windsor, Richard Reeves. The researchers used data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to conduct the study on the enrollment of . . .
Secretary Todman with Howard University researchers. Howard University research fellows and doctoral candidates in economics led a deep dive on the issues facing America’s neighborhoods as Adrianne Todman, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) visited the university’s Center of . . .
Wes Moore is the 63rd Governor of the state of Maryland. He is Maryland’s first Black Governor in the state’s 246-year history, and is just the third African American elected Governor in the history of the United States. Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, on October 15, 1978, to Joy and Westley Moore, Moore’s […]