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A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power lays out Jackson’s memorable presidential runs of the 1980s, his roots in Chicago and how his push for a “Rainbow Coalition” changed American politics. In the Loop checks in with first-time author Abby Phillip to discuss her new book. GUEST: Abby Phillip, CNN […]
A new Game File report claims that Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game that would have been set in the US Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed. According to Game File’s sources, the decision to cancel the game was made in 2024 in part because of the backlash against the reveal of the […]
Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game featuring a Black Assassin during the post-Civil War period due to the political state of the US and backlash following Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ Yasuke The game would have primarily been set during the Reconstruction period and featured a Black man and former slave taking on the Ku Klux […]
This is WESA Arts, a weekly newsletter by Bill O’Driscoll providing in-depth reporting about the Pittsburgh area art scene. Sign up here to get it every Wednesday afternoon. As you’ve likely heard, live theater faces some challenges these days, in Pittsburgh and around the country. But small, scrappy stage troupes are among those pressing on. Some […]
Immediately upon taking power, President Donald Trump and his team set about pulling the United States away from its longtime stance as a supporter of democracy globally. They dismantled U.S. pro-democracy assistance programs, dissolved most of the State Department’s institutional capacity on democracy issues, and disabled most of U.S. global broadcasting, a traditional linchpin of […]
Articles “There is no magical fix for our political divides,” said Prof Sean Westwood, a Hoover Institution fellow and the co-author of the research from Dartmouth College in the US. Monday, September 22, 2025 0 min read quoting Source link
Black pastors say Charlie Kirk is not a martyr, while decrying racism and political violence WV News Source link
By AARON MORRISON and JAYLEN GREENAssociated Press How Charlie Kirk is being memorialized — with many conservatives and white Christians, particularly evangelicals, emphasizing his faith and labeling him a martyr — has sparked debate among Black clergy, who are trying to square a heroic view of the 31-year-old with insulting statements about people of color […]
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British political commentator Sami Hamdi detained by ICE while on U.S. speaking tour
Black Hot Fire Network
October 27, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sami Hamdi, a British political commentator, was being held Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he was detained by ICE officers at San Francisco International Airport, according to federal officials. One senior U.S. official said the detention was related to comments he has made about the Middle East. Hamdi, […]