NNPA NEWSWIRE Chairman Thompson told reporters on April 29 that were members of Congress the committee has reached out to already but there will be more. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is one of the members who will likely be called to testify. Others include Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH). Specific dates have not been determined but one date remains unchanged: The date of November 8, 2022.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE Sellers notes how his life has been bookended by tragedy – the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre and the 2015 Charleston Massacre, where he lost a friend. “This is the Negro experience in America,” Sellers decided. “I want to tell the stories about the Black women who always sit on the front two rows of the church wearing their big hats, and when you hug them, you smell like Chanel all day long, and they use two sticks of butter in their pies. And the stories of the men who served in Vietnam and who sit in the barbershop all day without getting a haircut and talking about why Muhammad Ali would beat Mike Tyson and when Dr. King came through town.”
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NNPA NEWSWIRE At minimum, 41 prominent individuals connected to Harvard University were connected to slavery. This includes four past presidents of Harvard University. The report also found that slavery was “a part of daily life” at Harvard. The report also bluntly pointed out that Harvard “today memorializes benefactors with ties to slavery across campus through statues, buildings, professorships, student houses, and the like.”
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NNPA NEWSWIRE Because the midterm elections are occurring two years after the last CENSUS count, redistricting is still being decided in several states. Harrison is presiding over the DNC at a particularly tumultuous time that has included a CENSUS, a historic pandemic that has killed over 1 million Americans and altered the economy, and a former President who sparked social and racial divisions in the U.S.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE Alice Dunnigan and Ethel Payne, pioneering African American journalists that penned articles for the Chicago Defender, earned recognition from the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) for their historic and ground-breaking contributions. The WHCA established the Dunnigan-Payne Prize for Lifetime Career Achievement, honoring the two women as the initial awardees.
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