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Countless Black workers may be at risk following reports of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS), per The Guardian. According to the Washington Post, Trump is expected to take control of the USPS, signing an executive order to privatize the agency under the Commerce Department. The USPS employs roughly 640,000 […]
Larry Buendorf, the Secret Service agent who, by wresting a handgun away from Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, was credited with saving the life of President Gerald R. Ford in an assassination attempt in 1975 in California, died on Sunday at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 87. His death was announced by his wife, Linda. […]
Countless Black workers may be at risk following reports of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS), per The Guardian. According to the Washington Post, Trump is expected to take control of the USPS, signing an executive order to privatize the agency under the Commerce Department. The USPS employs roughly 640,000 […]
Photo: Getty Images Countless Black workers may be at risk following reports of President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States Postal Service (USPS), per The Guardian . According to the Washington Post , Trump is expected to take control of the USPS, signing an executive order to privatize the agency under the Commerce Department. […]
Image/Still from the film, The Green Book Project/Candace Taylor The “Green Book”, also known as the Negro Motorist Green Book and the Negro Travelers’ Green Book, was an annual travel guide published from 1936 to 1964 by Victor H. Green. It was intended to provide Black travelers with lodging, dining, and other information necessary to […]
In recent weeks, the fate of the United States Postal Service (USPS), a revered and vital public institution, has been uncertain. Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has launched major changes to the federal government. Along with billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the president has carried out widespread […]
The US Secret Service shot a man outside the White House early on Sunday after an “armed confrontation”, the service said in a statement. It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a “suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana”, it said. Its officers approached a man matching that […]
The Secret Service shot an armed man near the White House, the agency has said. The incident happened shortly after midnight on Sunday following an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement, according to the agency. The incident happened near the intersection of 17th Street and F Street NW – less than a five-minute walk from the […]
The White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2008. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption toggle caption Ron Edmonds/AP A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. The man, who is thought to have been traveling from Indiana, had […]
Portrait of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ca. 1915 Scurlock Studio RecordsArchives CenterNMAH, Smithsonian Institution His Early Life and Quest for Knowledge Born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Carter Godwin Woodson was the fourth of nine children born to parents who had been enslaved. As an African American boy growing up in central […]