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LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. Rep. Katie Porter became a social media celebrity by brandishing a white board at congressional hearings to dissect CEOs and break down complex figures into assaults on corporate greed, a signature image that propelled the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidacy in California. This time, her numbers didn’t add up. The progressive […]
The Richmond Standard Richmond City Councilmember Doria Robinson is planning to hold a community meeting in the next few weeks to discuss possible plans for the fire-ravaged International Hotel property. The historic hotel at 396 Ethel Dotson St., which once housed Black porters who had been barred from staying at a nearby, since-demolished white-only hotel, […]
They got their name from George Pullman, who started a train company in the 1860s providing sleeping cars and luxury travel in America. His Pullman Palace Car Company founded in Chicago hired thousands of African-American men (many being former slaves) some years after the Civil War to serve White passengers traveling across the country on […]
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