Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum upset a crowded field of well-funded candidates in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday, a step away from becoming the state’s first black governor. His surprise victory sets up a November showdown with Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, a favorite of President Donald Trump.
Hart’s “Help From The Hart Charity” and KIPP Public Schools each donated $300,000 in scholarships administered by the fund. Hart also gave $100,000 to the fund in 2015.
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Friends and family described Howard as a “gentle giant” who could paint in words what a jazz song was saying. Howard was an author, volunteer jazz disc jockey, author, lecturer and activist in Sonoma County, where he later made his home.
Starting last summer, student loan servicers like Navient have been lobbying DeVos to shield them from liability for their practices. And it’s worked. Despite objections from a bi-partisan group of Attorneys General (AGs), the National Association of Governors, and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, DeVos and the Department of Education have increasingly made it more difficult for state and federal law enforcement agencies to do their jobs by retracting information sharing agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and instructing servicers not share student loan information with state law enforcement and banking supervisors.
Sanders says Jealous has had a lifetime of courageous activism and can speak to every community.
Former NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, also former Black press executive, is now launching a political career.
Charlie Taney read some of the words that his great-great-grand uncle, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, wrote in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision 160 years ago
In this photo provided by the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, Chandler Davenport is shown in a police booking photo on March 20, 2015, in Frederick, Md. Davenport was sentenced to a year in jail for setting up a gang confrontation at a Maryland high school that ended in gunfire that wounded two teenage boys. (Frederick County Sheriff’s Office via AP) A man who provoked a confrontation that ended in gunfire and bloodshed at a Maryland high school was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail after apologizing for his actions. Chandler Davenport, 20, went into the Frederick High School gymnasium
the manager at City View Bar & Grill in Woodlawn, Md., is concerned that he, the cooks, the waiters and other workers at the popular restaurant will soon be facing a repeat of 2013 when business at the eatery dried up dramatically following the first government shutdown in 17 years.