A North Minneapolis nonprofit on Wednesday announced the largest donation in the organization’s 11-year history. Appetite For Change co-founder and President Tasha Powell said the $1.5-million-dollar gift is a dream come true for the organization. “We have spent the last year really focusing on building infrastructure throughout the organization so the timing is perfect,” Powell […]
Phoenix — An American Airlines flight recently made history when, for the first time in the carrier’s 96-year existence, everyone involved from the ramp to the gate to the cockpit and cabin were all Black women. The recent flight from Phoenix to Dallas celebrated the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to […]
John W. Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, has criticized a change to the eligibility criteria for USDA loan relief under the Inflation Reduction Act as “a huge loss for us and other Black farmers.” Lester Bonner, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, opened his mailbox one morning last June to find a […]
David and Deborah Hajda were audited after spending money to rebuild a tractor Cattle ranchers recount grueling IRS audits, issue warning to Americans: ‘They want to get you’ Raising Five Cattle Company ranchers Deborah and David Hajda recount their grueling experience with an IRS audit. Texas cattle ranchers David and Deborah Hajda issued a dire […]
Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters accused of circulating photographs of Kobe Bryant’s body at the scene of his death have begun testifying in court. Jean-baptiste Lacroix / AFP via Getty Images The NBA legend’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in September 2020 over allegations that employees took and shared cellphone images […]
A voter cast a ballot in Brooklyn for the June 28th primary. SCOTT HEINS Today marks the first of nine days of early voting for the August 23rd primary, the second election this summer thanks to a fractious redistricting process early this year. This time, state Senate and congressional primaries will be on the ballot. […]
Friends, family, and fellow drivers mourn the death of a Bronx cabbie killed Saturday morning. The family of the yellow cab driver found dead after a fatal blow to the head were flanked by cabbies Sunday morning as taxi union leaders pleaded for someone to come forward with information that would lead to an arrest in the […]
Over 100 parents of children who attend Manhattan School for Children have signed a letter calling for principal Claire Lowenstein to be replaced. A group of Upper West Side families are renewing a years-long campaign to oust the principal of their children’s public school, saying her administration has driven out dozens of teachers and students. […]
A 27-year-old Texas student came to fatherhood in an astonishing way. In 2017, Jimmy Amisial discovered a screaming four-month-old infant lying in a trash bin in his home country of Haiti, where he was visiting. According to Mirror, Emilio Angel Jeremiah‘s body was overwhelmed. Other people stood around and refused to take immediate action. “Everyone was just staring at him — […]
A woman reported she was raped in a Stanford University bathroom, police said Wednesday in an alert to the prestigious Northern California campus. The attack unfolded at about 5 p.m. PT Tuesday by a “parking lot near Wilbur Hall,” the Stanford Department of Public Safely said in its schoolwide alert. The victim “stated she was physically restrained (grabbed) and […]