The federal government on Tuesday filed a motion to join an ongoing civil rights lawsuit to stop the nation’s first reparations program that offers Black residents of Evanston, Illinois, payments for past race-based housing discrimination. The complaint in intervention filed on June 16 by the U.S. Department of Justice says Evanston’s housing reparations program, which...
The fiancée of the worker who died at the metro Atlanta USPS facility is speaking out after coworkers revealed disturbing details about his death. Demarcus Little Sr., 45, died at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center on June 3. His fiancée, Laura Wheaton, spoke with the Atlanta Black Star about what happened. “I talked...
President Donald Trump, on a global stage at the G7 summit in France, embarrassingly showed how little he knows about world geography, apparently confusing countries that physically border Iran with those that don’t. During a meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on Tuesday, June 16, Trump startingly claimed “you...
A Republican lawmaker might have missed his calling after he was caught on video faking a phone call to evade questions about a secret plan by House Speaker Mike Johnsone to cut Social Security benefits and briskly trying to shake the reporter to avoid having to make any statement on what critics call another potential...
