Shameka Mitchell Williams, who is the owner of The Chrysalis Center, LLC, is one of 300 licensed therapists in Louisiana who offers online video counseling according to the
Comedian, activist and nutrition expert Richard “Dick”
Gregory was born in St. Louis, MO, 1932 on this day.
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Bank of America has named 20-year finance industry leader Lanän Clark as market executive for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s Orange County Inland Empire market, which includes offices in Brea, Indian Wells, Ontario, Riverside and Temecula. She is responsible for a team of 115 financial advisors delivering wealth management solutions for clients at every stage of their lives, as well as building Merrill’s presence in the market. Her team manages a $16 billion portfolio for individuals and families, corporate and institutional clients.
The NAACP plans to highlight 110 years of civil rights history, and the current fight for voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity and education quality during its 110th national convention now happening in Detroit.
However, of the 24 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the only one that has agreed to address key influencers of the African American community — the Black Press of America — at the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) annual convention later this month in Cincinnati.
“One of the reasons that I don’t think it’s an individual problem is that these folks are talking to each other. There are a lot of posts that have eight comments underneath them, and three of those comments are by other police officers, and in those long comment threads you often see a kind of piling on,” said Philadelphia-based attorney Emily Baker-White.
The taunt documentary follows Bruce at one of the most critical junctures in his life.
The midterms revealed that the margin for victory in Georgia is within reach. Abrams lost to Republican Brian Kemp by about 55,000 votes out of nearly 4 million votes cast. Clearly, a surge in the size of the Black voter base could close such a gap and end a drought in state representation dating to Reconstruction.
The St. Louis County NAACP is joining the McKinnies family in the call for transparency and justice regarding the murder of Danye Jones. “There’s too many unanswered questions that we are demanding answers to,” said John Gaskin III, St. Louis County NAACP President. “We support Mrs. McKinnies call for justice and transparency in the death of her son.”
This weekend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles co-hosted #BlackSunday, an opportunity for the community to intentionally spend their dollars with Black-owned businesses, who were provided with booth space at no charge.
Nelson and Robinson settled with Starbucks for an undisclosed sum and an offer of a free college education. They also reached a deal with the city of Philadelphia for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from officials to establish a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
Mill was given a two- to four-year prison sentence in November 2017 for violating his probation stemming from a 2008 gun and drug case.
I’ll forever remember his performance as the first black actor to sing the title role of “Phantom of the Opera,” appearing with an all-white cast, leaving jaws dropped and audiences remarking “We had no idea Benson could sing, let alone sing opera!”
The Los Angeles Rams have agreed to terms to trade DE William Hayes and the first of the team’s seventh-round selections (No. 223) to acquire the Miami Dolphins sixth-round selection (No. 206) in the 2017 NFL Draft
U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey found that the nine plaintiffs “completely failed to present any credible evidence”