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The United States added just 12,000 jobs last month, a figure economists say was impacted by two hurricanes and a strike. Yet, even with those caveats, the report pointed to a cooling labor market. The latest payrolls figure marked the fewest monthly job gains since December 2020, during the depths of the Covid pandemic, with […]
Angela Rye moderates a Sept. 13 panel, “Black Women Belong…In the Senate,” at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s conference. Others, from left, are Angela Alsobrooks and Lisa Blunt Rochester, Senate candidates from Maryland and Delaware, respectively, and Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.). Photo by William J. Ford Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) said she understood the significance […]
Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) said she understood the significance of math when she walked into the U.S. Senate chamber last year as just the third Black woman and 12th Black person ever to serve in the chamber. Butler, who will step down when her term expires in January, said the number of elected Black women […]
Why are Black voters backing Donald Trump in record numbers? Al Jazeera English Source link
He was famously called the “former white supremacist in chief” by Democrat Congresswoman Cori Bush in 2021. Back in 2018, Hillary Clinton called former US President Donald Trump “ignorant” and “racist” after he reportedly made highly derogatory comments about Haiti and African countries. Even Republican Nikki Haley, who recently dropped out of the race for […]
Compared with 2023, the percentage of Hispanic and Latino students dropped to 11 per cent from 16 per cent, while white students remained at a similar level – 37 per cent compared with 38 per cent in 2023. Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, said the 2024 class “does not bring, as a consequence of last […]
Shakur Stevenson returns to the ring on Saturday to defend his WBC lightweight title against Artem Harutyunyan. The fight at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey (ESPN/ESPN+, 8:30 p.m. ET, with prelims on ESPN+ at 6:10 p.m. ET), will be the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card that includes a junior lightweight […]
People story | June 2024 | Read time: 2min 12sec Childhood of numbers to a career full of connections On most days, you’ll find me working remotely in a converted schoolhouse in Kansas—with a working gymnasium, an old Home Economics room that serves as a kitchen, and bedrooms that were once classrooms. My name is […]
He was famously called the “former white supremacist in chief” by Democrat Congresswoman Cori Bush in 2021. Back in 2018, Hillary Clinton called former US President Donald Trump “ignorant” and “racist” after he reportedly made highly derogatory comments about Haiti and African countries. Even Republican Nikki Haley, who recently dropped out of the race for […]
Pranay Karkale is spending years of savings and $60,000 in student loans to pursue a master’s degree in the United States, yet he considers himself lucky. At home in India, it’s common to hear about families selling off their land to send children to universities overseas. Karkale was willing to do whatever it took once […]