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Trump weighs in on Virginia scandals with claim blacks are ‘very angry at the double standard’

10/02/2019 News

President Donald Trump on Sunday weighed in on the political scandal consuming Virginia by saying African Americans are ‘very angry at the double standard’ there.

The president did not elaborate on what he meant by a double standard.

‘African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full display in Virginia!,’ he wrote on Twitter.

The state has been consumed by bomb shell after bomb shell involving Virginia’s three top Democrats embroiled in potentially career-ending scandals: their governor who was caught in a blackface scandal, their African American lieutenant governor who was accused of sexual assault and their state attorney general also revealed to have worn black face.

President Donald Trump on Sunday weighed in on the political scandal consuming…

City Hall Kicks-Off African American History Month with ‘Blacks in Cinema’ Exhibit – Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Ang…

09/02/2019 News

City Hall Kicks-Off African American History Month with ‘Blacks in Cinema’ Exhibit

Council President Herb J. Wesson Jr. recognizes Blacks in Cinema by designating February 5th, 2019, as “Blacks in Cinema” Day in the City of Los Angeles.
(Los Angeles City Council Meeting in Los Angeles City Hall, John Ferraro Council Chamber.)

Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson kicked-off African American History Month surrounded by scores of Black actors, filmmakers and industry professionals during a ceremony in City Hall Council Chambers on Feb. 5.

The presentation also marked the opening of the “Blacks in Cinema” exhibit on City Hall’s Bridge Gallery, which salutes African Americans’ involvement in 1970s film and television. The display features movie posters, films, TV shows,…

Nearly twice as many blacks stopped by city police in December

18/01/2019 News

It's the first month since the department first reported data in September that more African-Americans were stopped than were white people in the city.
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No Blacks in CBS' initial 'embed' team of digital journalists for 2020 campaign

16/01/2019 News

The uproar began following a producer's tweet that included a graphic with 12 staffers, of which none are African-American or Black. Immediately the …
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Blacks don't need the wall, either

09/01/2019 News

This was not the first time we heard the president using the cover of African-Americans to make his case for a border wall and other hard-line …
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Trump’s White Evangelicals are Nostalgic for an American Past that Never Existed for Blacks and Others

30/12/2018 News

In 2013, I received an email from Rev. Ray McMillan, the pastor of Faith Christian Center, a conservative evangelical and largely African American congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. McMillan was writing to ask me if I might be interested in participating on a panel at an upcoming conference on evangelicals and racial reconciliation, to be held later that year at Wheaton College, a Christian liberal arts college in western suburban Chicago. I was initially surprised by the invitation. I cared about racial reconciliation, but I had never spoken at a conference on the subject. I was not an expert in the field, and even my own historical work did not dive explicitly into race or the history of people of color in the United States.

I was even more confused when Rev. McMillan asked me…