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JOLIET, IL — Hundreds of cars and trucks were honking their horns at the busy intersection of Caton Farm Road and Route 59 Friday afternoon showing their support for George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. The 46-year-old Floyd died Monday after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was seen on video with his knee on Floyd’s neck during an arrest. On Friday, authorities in Minnesota charged Chauvin with third-degree murder and manslaughter in Hennepin County. Joliet’s Black Lives Matter rally began at 2 p.m. and was scheduled to go until 4:30 p.m. By 3 p.m., the rally had attracted…

On an unseasonably warm day in late April in Louisville, Ky., the drone of low-flying helicopters overtook the usual sounds of spring as the wealthy descended on the Kentucky Derby. Less than five miles away in a historically Black neighborhood, Donna Goldsmith, 62, addressed a room of 15 people gathered around a scarred folding table. They are part of Louisville’s burgeoning tenants union, which mobilizes the residents of low-income apartment complexes, rural trailer parks and gentrifying neighborhoods to challenge the corporate landlords that they say have devastated affordable housing. This meeting, like most of their gatherings, started with testimonials.Goldsmith initially…

Opponents protest and call on ‘predatory’ lending business in Wichita to close Wichita Eagle Source link

Kameron Stanton, center, and his girlfriend Chevy Linear, right, both of Chicago, look on as a server pours them drinks during the welcome party for a Black Travel Maine MLK weekend event at Allagash Brewing on Friday night. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland  After a day ice fishing near Augusta, Kameron Stanton grooved to the beat and sipped craft brews at Allagash Brewing’s Cellars event space Friday night, looking forward to a weekend on the slopes at Sunday River. It was a quintessential Maine trip for the Chicago-area resident, who said he would “never, never” have made it to the Pine Tree…

Restoration Underway For Historic Black Business Hub Designed By America’s First Black Architect In Alabama yahoo.com Source link

Members of Black Lives Matter Utah and the Proud Boys also attended.(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, left, speaks with Rae Duckworth, before she got up to speak in support of critical race theory during a Granite school board of education meeting on Tuesday, July 6, 2021.More than 100 people gathered before the Granite School Board Tuesday to attack or defend the principles of critical race theory, which already is banned from the state’s education curriculum.Critical race theory is an academic framework that identifies racism as the defining feature of the…

A New York Times report saying the air control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has been understaffed for years came amid a lawsuit claiming the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) discriminated against air traffic controller applicants based on their race.The Times report said the tower at the airport was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, citing the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report to Congress that contains target and actual staffing levels.The targets set by the F.A.A. and the controllers union call for 30. The…

A recent announcement that nearly 100 Red Lobster locations are scheduled to close as part of bankruptcy proceedings is likely to hit Black communities differently — and not just because we consume more fish than any other group in the U.S. Bill Darden opened the first Red Lobster restaurant south of Orlando, Florida, in 1968 just a few weeks before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. As he’d done with the first restaurant he’d opened during the height of Jim Crow racial segregation in Georgia, Darden insisted that Red Lobster be fully integrated. Customers would enter and exit the same…

Editorial note to readers A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By using these words, our reporting distorted rather than clarified the point of the study. Changes to this version include: an updated headline, new “explainer” paragraphs, some additional context and direct quotes from focus group participants. Claudia Deane, Mark Hugo Lopez and Neha Sahgal contributed to the revision of this report. Most Black adults say they have experienced racial discrimination (75%), either regularly (13%) or from…

New Roku Show Spotlights Tracee Ellis Ross As Solo Travel Queen. And Black Women Are Embracing The Movement Black Enterprise Source link