Tuesday is Primary Day in New York, and one of the biggest congressional races is for the 13th District. For the first time since 1971, Charles Rangel won't be on the ballot as he is finally retiring after more than four decades in Congress.
Now nine candidates are running for his seat in a district that goes from Harlem though Washington Heights and into the Bronx.
After 46 years in Congress, Rangel says the man to follow in his footsteps is New York Assemblyman Keith Wright.
By now you have all heard or seen the actor/activist, Jesse Williams phenomenal speech that he gave after winning a humanitarian award at the BET Awards. Watch his amazing speech on race in the United States in which he calls out everyone including black people and whites who steal black culture below.
President Obama’s approval rating is at its highest level in more than five years, an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Sunday shows.
According to the results of the survey, conducted in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., two weeks ago, 56 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of his job as president, compared to 41 percent who disapprove.
The last time the president’s approval rating was this high was in May 2011 following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a nighttime raid led by U.S. Navy SEALS in Pakistan.
According to the Washington Post, Obama is more popular now than Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush were at this point in their presidencies, though not quite as popular as Bill Clinton in 2000.
Read more: Obama’s approval rating at highest level since killing of Osama bin Laden
Police are looking for a missing woman, Allison Young whose car was located on the I-55 bridge across the Mississippi River between Memphis and Arkansas.
Police described Young as a 43-year-old black woman who is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds. She has shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes and a medium complexion and was last seen wearing a light-colored shirt and white shorts.
If you have any information, call Memphis Police at 545-2677.
In 2006, Tavis Smiley—along with a team of esteemed contributors—laid out a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, Black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, Black women still die from preventable diseases, Black children still struggle to get a high quality education, the digital divide and environmental inequality persist, and American cities from Ferguson to Baltimore burn with frustration. In short, the last decade has seen the evaporation of Black wealth, with Black fellow citizens having lost ground in nearly every leading economic category.
And so in these pages Smiley calls for a renewal of The Covenant, presenting the original action plan alongside new data from the Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to underscore missed opportunities and the work that remains to be done. While life for far too many African Americans remains a struggle, the great freedom fighter Frederick Douglass was right: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Now is the time to finally convert the trials and tribulations of Black America into the progress that all of America yearns for.
