BLACK COLLEGES CAN’T DO IT ALL
By JEFFREY MERVIS Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States have had outsize success in launching Black students into physics. Although only 9% of all Black undergraduates attend the country’s 100 HBCUs, those schools for decades have […]
Read MoreSenate hearings for high court nominee to begin on March 21
By MARY CLARE JALONICK The Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin March 21, keeping the Senate on track for a possible final vote next month. Sen. Dick Durbin, the committee chairman, […]
Read MoreAnalysis: Biden seeks ‘reset’ on pandemic and his presidency
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Midway through his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Joe Biden pleaded with the country to finally, after nearly 1 million deaths, stop viewing the coronavirus as a political fault line. “Let’s use this moment […]
Read MoreWith Russian sanctions, NC agencies told to end contracts
By GARY D. ROBERTSON North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday ordered state offices under his control to terminate government contracts that benefit Russian businesses in response to its war against Ukraine. The directive also meant some liquor was getting removed […]
Read MoreBiden steps to State of the Union lectern at fraught moment
By ZEKE MILLER and COLLEEN LONG Facing disquiet at home and danger abroad, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address at a precipitous moment for the nation, aiming to navigate the country out a pandemic, reboot […]
Read MoreRussia pummels Ukraine’s No. 2 city and convoy nears Kyiv
By YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Russian shelling pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — as Ukraine’s […]
Read MoreAP Source: Biden taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for high court
By COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ZEKE MILLER President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, according to a person familiar with the matter, making her the first Black woman selected to […]
Read MorePutin waves nuclear sword in confrontation with the West
By JOHN DANISZEWSKI WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It has been a long time since the threat of using nuclear weapons has been brandished so openly by a world leader, but Vladimir Putin has just done it, warning in a speech […]
Read MoreLandlords finding ways to evict after getting rental aid
By MICHAEL CASEY A day before she was due to be evicted in November from her Atlanta home, Shanelle King heard that she had been awarded about $15,000 in rental assistance. She could breathe again. But then the 43-year-old hairdresser […]
Read MoreA Black Woman Won’t Change Biden’s History
Appointing a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court will change little about Black America’s perception of President Joe Biden. This nomination will not compensate for his blatant bigotry, discriminatory vaccine mandates, and history of opposing minorities – namely Black […]
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