Новости за 06.02.2016

Two major African American activists made their presidential endorsements known on Friday, as former NAACP head Benjamin Jealous released a statement sanctioning Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. On the same day, civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump threw his support behind Sanders’ rival in the race, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Solange Knowles, who has made New Orleans her home for years, lost her wedding ring on Friday as she participated in weekend Mardi Gras festivities, reports People Style Watch.

Voter suppression gets a blow as as a federal court panel ruled on Friday that two of North Carolina’s congressional districts were racially gerrymandered and must be redrawn, reports the Charlotte Observer.

Jay Z’s fledgling music streaming platform Tidal is donating $1.5 million to Black Lives Matter and several other local and national social justice organizations from money raised at an October concert, reports Mic.

San Antonio, Texas, police say they vow to thoroughly investigate the shooting death of an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by cops, reports Reuters.

Is it wrong to honor one’s own?

Baltimore: It’s that big-city mayor’s race on the East Coast we had forgotten about until Ferguson, Mo.,-inspired protester extraordinaire and symbolic godfather of the Black Lives Matter movement Deray Mckesson dropped on the political scene with an audacious, blogged announcement of his candidacy for mayor.

When the Kansas City Chiefs took the field against the Green Bay Packers nearly a half-century ago in the first Super Bowl, they embodied the most obvious plotline of the game: How would the champions of the upstart American Football League fare against the established titans of the NFL?

My son is gone.

I remember the first time it happened.

Andres De Leon is an honorably discharged Army veteran who served his country after enlisting to fight in Vietnam when he was just 18. 

I’m a writer. As a writer, one of my least favorite things on this planet is Comic Sans. Coming in a close second is writer’s block. If you are a writer, there’s a better than 100,000,000 percent chance that at some point you’ve experienced a case of writer’s block.