(BPRW) Senate Confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court in Historic Vote (Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) applauds the Senate on confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in a historic vote today. Judge Jackson is the first African American woman confirmed to the highest court […]
Gary Chambers is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana and he has recently released his first campaign ad on Tuesday with a video showing him smoking a cannabis blunt. Chambers has decided to run on a pro-marijuana legalization platform. The ad, entitled ‘37 Seconds,’ features a voice-over of him talking about the statistics for […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who insisted on an open casket funeral to demonstrate the brutality of his killing. Till was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said […]
–Former Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory, who has entered the race for US Congress in LA-4, joins David to discuss switching back to the Republican party, and his understanding of perceived racially tinged Republican policies On the Bonus Show: Faroe Islands’ sheep “street view,” synthetic pot overdoses in NYC, captive journalist in ISIS video, more… […]
In July of last year after 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Scripps Spelling Bee champion from Louisiana and the second Black Scripps champion in the competition’s history. Jody-Anne Maxwell, 12, girl from Jamaica, was the first in 1998. Although believe another Black logophile might have had the opportunity to win the prestigious honor, but […]
A Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag is scheduled to become the first Jan. 6 rioter sentenced for a felony, in a hearing that will help set a benchmark for punishment in similar cases. Prosecutors want Paul Allard Hodgkins to serve 18 months behind bars, saying in a […]
According to her bio Demings fundamental sense of right and wrong was guided by both her parents’ lessons and the police shows she watched as a child. Later, she served as the “school patrol” at Dupont Junior High School. This is where she first got a taste for law enforcement — and she stuck with […]
Democratic Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager, a member of Zeta Phi Beta, will be sworn in to the California State Senate this month after winning two-thirds of the vote in a special election to fill the state’s vacant 30th Senate District seat. Kamlager received 67.67% of the vote in last Tuesday’s election, giving her the majority needed […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act late on Wednesday with 220 votes. It will now head to the Senate where it faces an uncertain future due to the slim margin of control Democrats hold in the chamber. If passed, the act would make sweeping changes to policing in the […]
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has called for the firing of Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough after MacDonough blocked the Democratic Party’s attempts to raise the federal minimum wage at a hearing on Thursday, The Guardian reported. MacDonough, who’s held her bipartisan role as Senate parliamentarian since 2012, ruled that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour should […]