A Louisiana town council meeting ended in chaos when its mayor got into a shouting match with residents and allegedly smacked a phone out of the hands of a woman recording the scene. Mayor Kesia Lemoi...
12.02.2023 Nypost.com and 1 sitesRICHMOND — Mayor Levar M. Stoney, who has led Virginia’s capital through a historic reckoning with its Confederate past and a contentious period of economic growth, is set to announce Monday that he w...
12.04.2023 Washingtonpost.com and 2 sitesColorado Supreme Court justices turned their skeptics on the case to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s 2024 ballot Wednesday as they heard arguments over whether the Republican frontr...
12.07.2023 Denverpost.com and 2 sitesDenver District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled last month that although Trump “engaged in insurrection” within the meaning of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the clause — which prohibits a person...
12.07.2023 Rawstory.com and 3 sitesO n 14 September 1874, less than a decade after the end of the US civil war, the former Confederate general James Longstreet was back in arms. This time, he was seeking to prevent an insurrection: a white supremacist bid to take over New Orleans. Once seen by northerners as among the three most notorious Confederates – with his commander, Robert E Lee, and president, Jefferson Davis – Longstreet now led state militia and city police. His troops were Black and white, reflecting an unlikely commit...
12.03.2023 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesThe Colorado Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether former President Donald J. Trump is barred from holding office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies people wh...
12.07.2023 Nytimes.com and 3 sitesThe first thing I noticed about the monument to Southern women is that its Confederate flag flew upside down. One of the flagpole’s ropes had snapped so that the Stars and Bars fluttered in the breeze...
12.05.2023 Yahoo.com and 1 sitesIf there’s anything the racist corporate media will not stand for, it’s a black man who threatens the Democrat Party’s hold on political power, and right now, that man is Cornel West. Democrats are de...
12.05.2023 Breitbart.com and 2 sitesCommentary: African American Scientists and Inventors By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor Benjamin T. Montgomery (1819–1877) was an influential African-American inventor, landowner, and freedman....
12.02.2023 Dailykos.com and 2 sitesScott Gessler, an attorney for Donald Trump, was peppered with questions in a Colorado case that could keep the former president off the state's ballot. During oral arguments on Wednesday, a justice for the Colorado Supreme Court asked Gessler how it...
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