Archive for December 2020

More than 200 people on Sunday, many of them Black female politicians, clergy, activists and union members, gathered to protest Chicago police leadership following the controversial release of a video of a wrongful police raid at the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Read more at The Chicago Tribune.

Hundreds of people, mainly Black women, gathered outside Chicago Police headquarters in the Bronzeville neighborhood Sunday to express outrage over the botched 2019 raid of Anjanette Young’s home. Read more at The Chicago Sun-Times.

With three weeks left before polls close in two U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine the balance of power in Washington, a record number of early voters cast their ballots in person in multiple counties, according to reports. Following close races in November, Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are hoping they…

President-elect Joe Biden stated during his campaign that he would assemble a diverse staff in his administration. After picking a Black woman as his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, and winning the election, he then included two more Black women in his administration: Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US ambassador to the United Nations and Cecilia…

A state board voted unanimously Tuesday against an application to close Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Bronzeville, following months of outcry from the community. The 6-0 vote by the state Health Facilities and Services Review Board means that Mercy now has 14 days to notify the board if it wants to reappear before the…

CHICAGO (AP) — As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Read more at AP News.

The Black Lives Matter movement is buckling under the strain of its own success, with tensions rising between local chapters and national leaders over the group’s goals, direction — and money. From the beginning, Black Lives Matter was a grassroots effort, born in the streets with no central hierarchy. The idea: to keep power concentrated…

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council, which tried and failed to dismantle the police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death, voted early Thursday to shift nearly $8 million from next year’s police budget to other city services as part of an effort to “transform” public safety in the city. The controversial plan was approved…

Executives Ken Frazier of Merck and Ginni Rometty of IBM join “CBS This Morning” to discuss a new coalition, OneTen. The group seeks to train, hire and promote 1 million Black Americans over the next 10 years. Watch the video over at CBS News.

Of over 495 sister voters polled, more than 87 percent said they’re likely to vote Jan. 5, a runoff that’ll decide Senate control. Almost 90 percent of Black women polled in a new survey say they are planning to vote in the Senate runoff race in Georgia less than a month away. Read more at…