More single Black women are packing pistols. “There is a high uptick of African-Americans buying guns across the country,” said Philip Smith, president of the 14,000-member National African-American Gun Association. “We are enrolling members in gun clubs in record numbers and Black women are driving gun sales,” Smith said. “More women are buying guns and […]
President Obama called for a thorough probe into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election hacking scandal that unveiled classified emails from top Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff.
Hate is intensifying across America three weeks after Donald Trump was elected president. And William Sims, 28, a promising and successful African-American musician from Richmond, California, was the victim of a fatal hate crime on Nov. 12 just days after the contentious presidential election. Sims was found beaten and shot on a roadway outside a […]
President-elect Donald Trump received minimal support from minority voters, according to a new study conducted by Reuters.
In the wake of the surprising results of the 2016 Election, Bob Johnson wrote an open letter to Black America. In it, he suggested that Black folks think differently about their votes and their political affiliations. Here’s the entire letter. How should Black American voters respond to the tectonic political rift and the stress of […]
Understandably many Americans are still highly emotional over the presidential election of Donald Trump and that means that statements from public figures regarding the election are even more highly scrutinized than usual. Oprah Winfrey found this out the hard way when she recently gave her thoughts on President Obama and Trump sitting down together for […]
Honestly, at this point all we can do is laugh to stop from crying.
Since the shocking win over Hillary Clinton on November 8th, many question what will happen now that Donald Trump will be our President? With the talks of this “big beautiful wall” he has mentioned, will he begin mass deportations of immigrants? Sign Up For Our Newsletter! We revisited Donald Trump’s 100 day action plan he unveiled […]
We tend to underestimate the power and symbolism of fashion within major historical moments; however, we can't ignore what we saw this morning.
This morning, the call to prayer, the Adhan, woke me just after 4 am as it came from the three crackly loudspeakers at the mosques that surround my house. I have been on an extended stay on the African and 99% Muslim island of Zanzibar for the past couple of months, working with the Zanzibar […]
With Donald Trump’s “lewd comments” coming in less than 48 hours before the debate, one would have thought that the so-called populist Republican candidate would have been more contrite. But that’s not Donald Trump’s style. In fact, he brought no less than three of Bill Clinton sexual assault accusers to the debate with him to […]
The First Lady is valuable to the Clinton campaign; in juxtaposition to Clinton, Obama continuously soars in popularity and reliability.
