By Sandra Gonzalez This year’s Emmy Awards will be hosted by a first-timer. CBS and the TV Academy on Monday announced that Cedric the Entertainer will make his Emmys hosting debut in September as the big show returns to a live, in-person format. A “limited audience of nominees and their guests” will also be present,
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By Amir Vera, Artemis Moshtaghian and Elizabeth Joseph A Lewis and Clark statue featuring Sacagawea (also spelled Sacajawea), a famous Native American woman, was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, making it the third statue to be taken down in the city. The statue was of two White men — Meriwether Lewis and William Clark —
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By Marielle Mohs North Minneapolis community and church leaders gathered Sunday afternoon along Emerson and 33rd avenues â just one block from where a 3-year-old child was shot playing outside Friday night â to demand and beg for the gun violence to end. The child is hospitalized in serious condition but is expected to survive.
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By Betsy Klein The White House is encouraging state and local governments to use funding from the Covid relief package passed earlier this year to address a summer rise in violent crime as pandemic restrictions loosen nationwide. The administration’s strategy to combat crime, a White House memo obtained by CNN said, “uses the American Rescue Plan’s $350 billion in financial
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By Wayne Sterling Paige Bueckers, the star point guard for the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, was named the best college athlete in women’s sports at the 2021 ESPYS on Saturday night and used her acceptance speech to celebrate and honor Black women. “With the light that I have now as a White woman
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By Leah Asmelash Around the country, school, county and even bird names are being reconsidered and changed, as greater attention is paid to their origins and the racism the names may invoke. In this same tradition, multiple areas have reconsidered geographical names containing the word “negro” — a term once considered socially acceptable, but now viewed as outdated and offensive
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By Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson avoids making too many promises when it comes to his new select committee to investigate the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. But the Mississippi Democrat is sure on one thing: He isn’t going to let the pressure of
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By Allison Morrow and Matt Egan Wells Fargo is shutting down all of its existing personal lines of credit, sparking outrage from consumers and advocates. A spokesperson for the bank said Wells Fargo made the decision last year as part of an effort to simplify its product offerings. The bank feels it can better meet
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By Theresa Waldrop Zaila Avant-garde, the teenager who this week became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, has earned yet another honor: an offer of a full scholarship to Louisiana State University. “Your academic performance reflected scholarship first! You modeled intellectual excellence,” LSU President William F. Tate IVÂ tweeted Saturday. “@LSU_Honors
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By Emma Tucker and Christina Carrega The Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up their first case involving a White person who was killed after being shot during an encounter with a police officer. The civil rights leader and the high-profile attorney, who Sharpton has dubbed “Black America’s Attorney general,” deemed the police shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain “one
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