California’s First African American Controller Malia M. Cohen Takes Office
Malia M. Cohen was sworn-in as the first Black woman – and first African American — to serve as California’s State Controller.
Malia M. Cohen was sworn-in as the first Black woman – and first African American — to serve as California’s State Controller.
The symbolism was stunning, but it was far more critical that President Biden hit the ground running, and he did. He signed 17 executive orders, reversing some of the most onerous declarations of his predecessor. He dissolved the 1776 Commission, an odious truth-erasing propaganda body charged with developing “patriotic education.” Replete with lies, peppered with quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln, neither of whom would have cosigned the report, the previous administration had the utter audacity to release this madness on Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday holiday. One of the final slaps in the face from the deranged “leader.”
Fresh off her nationally acclaimed poetry reading at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Los Angeles native Amanda Gorman will be presenting her work on another massive stage — the Super Bowl,
David G. Brown Cartoon January 21, 2021
America has seen true darkness; the COVID-19 outbreak catapulted the nation into a new way of operation, with many lives lost. The escalated climate during the leadership of the 45th president, Donald Trump, coupled with unjust behavior fueled by racism, created a hemorrhage in the country’s unity and applied pressure to a new awareness around the minds of society.
African Americans, Hispanics, in fact most people of color, were a rarity at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Donald Trump’s inaugural address was heavy on nationalism and populism.
Initiated by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation enterprise