Author: The Carolinian

By MANUEL RUEDA and ASTRID SUAREZ Former rebel Gustavo Petro, left, his wife Veronica Alcocer, back center, and his running mate Francia Marquez, celebrate before supporters after winning a runoff presidential election in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) As Colombia’s voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new president, they also carved out another milestone — electing the country’s first

By DANIEL NIEMANN, PAOLA CORONA, JADE LE DELEY and HAU DINH At a gas station near the Cologne, Germany, airport, Bernd Mueller watches the digits quickly climb on the pump: 22 euros ($23), 23 euros, 24 euros. The numbers showing how much gasoline he’s getting rise, too. But much more slowly. Painfully slowly. “I’m getting rid of my car this October, November,” said Mueller, 80. “I’m retired, and then there’s

By ANDREW DALTON FILE - Bill Cosby arrives for a sentencing hearing following his sexual assault conviction at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown Pa., on Sept. 25, 2018. Eleven months after he was freed from prison, 85-year-old Cosby will again be the defendant in a sexual assault proceeding, this time a civil case in California. Judy Huth, who is now 64, alleges that in 1975 when she was 16,

A caucus supporting African Americans within the North Carolina Democratic Party announced on Wednesday it’s boycotting statewide party events this weekend because it said party officials overlooked Juneteenth and Father’s Day.  The state party convention, State Executive Committee meeting and “Unity Dinner,” all in Durham, will be held Saturday, the day before both observances.  “The NCDP did not consider its magnitude of disregard” for the holidays, the African American Caucus of the

By DR. JOYNICOLE MARTINEZ, Staff Writer For more than 400 years, the economy of our country and white Americans' wealth were built with the unpaid labor of the Black people they enslaved. The Emancipation Proclamation, signed in 1863 during the American Civil War, ordered the release of enslaved people. But the timeline and path were slow and brutal for the four million enslaved people to whom freedom was promised. Many

Juneteenth is the celebration of freedom. It tells the story of America's promise and the power of the Presidency to do good for the people. President Lincoln, a Republican, used his powers as President to do what was right to preserve the union and unite the country. At the heart of the civil war was this issue of freedom for enslaved Black Americans as our new nation strove to grow into the country we have today.  Liberty and the

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Chris Stirewalt, former Fox News political editor, bottom right, speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2022. House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to the insurrection by

FILE - Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021. Three women are competing for the Democratic nomination to take on Sen. Tim Scott, who said this will be his last term if he is reelected. Scott has no Republican opposition and has raised $44 million for his pursuit of a second full six-year term. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

ATLANTA (AP) — A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes seeking to terrorize people across America. But Xernona Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings as routine.  “We’re having too many racial conflicts,” Clayton, 91, told The Associated Press

NEWSWIRE-The Society of Illustrators has announced a dynamic new installation coming to the museum that delves between the pages of comic books and explores the artists’ process. “The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman” on display from June 15 through October 29, 2022. The exhibit celebrates some of the top African-American artists in the comic book industry, and was co-curated by renowned culture journalist and writer Karama Horne (Marvel’s Protectors of Wakanda: