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An Illinois county has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman who was fatally shot by a white sheriff’s deputy last year after she called 911 because she thought a prowler was outside her home. The Sangamon County Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the settlement […]
Ciara Brascom, 39, of Skillman, is charged with one count of bank robbery. She had her first appearance on Feb. 11, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tonianne J. Bongiovanni in Trenton federal court. On July 28, 2024, Brascom entered a TD Bank at 883 State Road in Princeton and demanded cash from a bank teller, while […]
Washington: The family of a Black woman shot dead in her home by a police officer in the US state of Illinois has reached a $10 million settlement with the local sheriff’s department and county board. Sonya Massey, 36, a mother of two, was killed by a sheriff’s deputy last July in a case that […]
“My friends see me now,” lawyer, business strategist and entrepreneur Kendell Renee Kelly says when people comment on how she looks since her move to Costa Rica, “and they’re like, ‘Oh, your skin looks so nice!’ Well, there is 80 percent humidity where I live, so of course it does. But at the same time, […]
by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman February 2, 2025 The 31-year-old woman refused multiple efforts to return her home. A U.S. woman is currently stranded in Pakistan after her marriage plans to 19-year-old she met online fell through. The 33-year-old Onijah Andrew Robinson, who is African American, traveled to Karachi, Pakistan, in October to marry Nidal Ahmed Memon. […]
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during […]
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during […]
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during […]
The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegrated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during […]
<!– –> An undated photo of Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s. She died Jan. 8, 2025, at the age of 104. (CAF RISE ABOVE) Retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after […]