By: Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Do not for one second believe celebrities and people who are in a position of power are above being petty. I thought a perfect example of this was the recent
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Baton Rouge’s 1st Black Female Mayor Hopes to Unify a City Torn Apart by Racial Strife
By: Kiersten Willis Article Reprint Residents of Louisiana’s state capital of Baton Rouge elected their first Black female mayor over the weekend. Sharon Weston Broome, a former state senator, will succeed Baton Rouge’s first Black mayor Kip Holden, whose
Read moreSenate Finally Approves $170M in Funding to Help Clean Up the Mess State of Michigan Created In Flint
By: Tanasia Kenney Article Reprint After much anticipation, the U.S. Senate on Saturday passed a critical piece of legislation providing $170 million in much-needed federal aid to Flint, Michigan, and other cities in the country affected
Read moreGhana Election Results Released on Twitter
voanews.com Article Reprint Voters in Ghana are awaiting official results from Wednesday’s election to choose the country’s next president and parliament.
Read moreFareed Zakaria Will Attempt to Sum Up 8 Years of President Obama in Two Hours on CNN
By: Brian Steinberg Article Reprint Fareed Zakaria has a tough challenge ahead of him: Trying to sum up President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure as U.S. President in about two hours.
Read moreTime Magazine Calls America “Divided” and Names Trump Person of the Year
BTN STAFF Donald Trump acknowledge that America is divided but dismiss the notion that he was the cause of the division. “When you say divided states of America, I didn’t divide them. They’re divided now.
Read moreWho Owns the North?
By: Michael Heykoop Article Reprint Several claims now sit before the United Nations in an effort to answer an important question: Who owns the North Pole—and, perhaps more importantly, the resources that lie under the
Read moreBET Bob Johnson & Donald Trump, Blacks Give the President-elect a chance.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Article Reprint (ThyBlackMan.com) There was fury when former BET founder and financial mogul Bob Johnson urged African-Americans to give President-Elect Trump a “shot” and “the benefit of the doubt.” Johnson was lambasted
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