By Adam Mahoney The skies over New York City turned a hazy orange and grey again this week. Reminiscent of when the skies turned a deep orange in 2023 — and then again in 2024 — this reality is quickly becoming a normal

Opinion by Bakari Sellers Editor’s note: Bakari Sellers is a former Democratic member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and a CNN commentator. He is the author of the book “My Vanishing Country” and an attorney at Strom Law. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. America
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I tried to blow off Deion Sanders’ much ballyhooed hiring at Jackson State.After all, he’s not the first former professional player to coach at an HBCU, and while there have been some successes, there have been flops as well. For every Doug Williams at Grambling State or Sam Washington at North Carolina A&T success story, you
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It took less than one day after Kamala Harris was announced as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee for a racist and baseless “birther” conspiracy theory to start circulating among her critics. The morning after Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate, making her the first black woman and the first Asian American to join a major party’s presidential ticket,
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