September 23, 2021

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Raising Up Kamala

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BY: TAMARA E. HOLMES (B.A. ’94) When Kamala Harris shattered the political glass ceiling to ascend to the vice presidency, the swell of Bison pride reached a fever pitch heard across the nation. Howard is used to experiencing #BisonPride for many of its notable alumni across the public sphere – Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison, Vernon Jordan,

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks during a news conference after the verdict was read in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, in the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Rev. Jesse Jackson is discharged from rehab facility after being hospitalized for Covid-19

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By Carma Hassan and Devon M. Sayers, The Rev. Jesse Jackson was discharged from a rehabilitation facility Wednesday following an earlier diagnosis of Covid-19. Jackson was being treated at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago after he and wife Jacqueline Jackson were hospitalized for Covid-19 in August. The couple were released from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago

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A general view of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPDC) logo as seen on a police van in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. This week marked 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the United States, as outbreaks accelerated in more than a dozen states and many countries across the global south according to reports. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Ten current and former Black women officers sue DC police claiming racial and sexual discrimination

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By Emma Tucker and Christina Carrega, A group of former and current Black women officers filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington, DC police on Wednesday claiming racial and sexual discrimination, a hostile workplace and a culture of intimidation. The 10 women say that while on the job at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) they were

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A member of the National Guard prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena drive-thru facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. The Louisiana Department of Health reported an increase in confirmed Covid-19 cases by 8,296 on Monday. Photographer: Bryan Tarnowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images

FDA authorizes booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for people 65 and older

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By Maggie Fox, The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would grant emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older, people at high risk of severe disease and people whose jobs put them at risk of infection. “After considering the totality of the available scientific

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Melvin van Peebles en concert live à la 'Cite de la Musique' le 8 septembre 2015, à Paris, France. (Photo by Paul CHARBIT/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Melvin Van Peebles, trailblazing director and Black cinema champion, has died

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By Megan Thomas, Melvin Van Peebles, a trailblazing African-American director who helped champion a new wave of modern Black cinema in the 1970s, has died, his son announced Wednesday. He was 89. Van Peebles, father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles, died at his home on Tuesday night, according to a statement shared on

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US President Joe Biden, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (R), speaks to the press after meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus to build support for his infrastructure and economic investment goals during the Democratic luncheon at the US Capitol on July 13, 2021 in Washington, DC, July 14, 2021. - The meetings come as the president and his allies step on the accelerator in hopes of getting two huge spending packages passed within the next couple months. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden goes all in to try to defuse Democrat-on-Democrat war with his agenda on the brink

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By Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, President Joe Biden may have started this week with a foreign policy-heavy schedule, but his decision to launch intensive in-person engagement at the White House on Wednesday makes clear the reality: The stakes for his domestic agenda simply could not be higher at this moment, nor the impasses more complicated to reconcile.

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