While many Republican candidates for president have danced around the reason for the horrific shootings at Emanuel AME, Ben Carson to his credit called racism when he saw it in a statement he released on June 18th. Read his statement below.
Last night evil walked the streets of Charleston. My heart aches for the families of the victims. I pray for the...
Posted by Dr. Ben Carson on Thursday, June 18, 2015
I really don't give a damn about the piece of human trash that killed nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston SC. The focus should be on the nine innocent victims of the senseless shooting who were killed for no other reason than they were black. Read their names below. George L. Cook III AfricanAmericanReports.com
State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor.
Cynthia Hurd, 54, St. Andrews regional branch manager for the Charleston County Public Library system.
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, a church pastor, speech therapist and coach of the girls’ track and field team at Goose Creek High School.
Tywanza Sanders, 26, who had a degree in business administration from Allen University.
Ethel Lance, 70, a retired Gilliard Center employee who worked recently as a church janitor.
Susie Jackson, 87, Lance’s cousin who was named by a relative and was a longtime church member.
Depayne Middleton Doctor, 49, who retired in 2005 as Charleston County director of the Community Development Block Grant Program.
Mira Thompson, 59, a pastor at the church.
Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, who died in a hospital operating room.
While the world is worried about Rachel Dolezal or how much money Jurassic World is making, a plot to deport darker skinned people of Haitian descent from the Dominican Republic has been unfolding. Those in danger of being deported include those born in the Dominican Republic but stripped of their citizenship by a 2013 ruling from the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court ruled.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent faced the risk of deportation from the Dominican Republic on Wednesday as a deadline for enforcement of a new immigration law approached.
Dominican officials say anyone lacking identity documents or who has not registered for a so-called "regularization" program before the Wednesday night deadline could face deportation.
The Dominican government says the changes to its nationality and immigration laws aim to tackle illegal migration from neighboring Haiti. Human rights groups say the move is rooted in longstanding racism and xenophobia in the Dominican Republic towards darker-skinned Haitians.
Read more: Haitians In Dominican Republic Fear Deportation As Deadline Looms
San Antonio, the seventh-largest U.S. city and the only one of the 10 largest cities with a Hispanic majority, elected its first African-American mayor on Saturday in a closely watched runoff election.
Ivy Taylor, a Yale-educated urban planning professor, won with an unlikely coalition of the city’s two largest minority voting groups, blacks and generally conservative white voters, the latter comprising just 26 percent of the 1.4 million population.
Taylor was appointed interim mayor last summer, when Julian Castro resigned to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, winning the seat outright in Saturday's runoff with 52 percent against one of the state’s best-known politicians.
Read more: Hispanic majority San Antonio elects African-American mayor
Looks like Lando Calrissian won't be the only black man in the Star Wars universe. Variety reports that Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to join the first Star Wars anthology picture, Rogue One. Chances are that since he has won an Oscar his character probably wont die first and should be in the movie for more than thirty minutes.
