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Mobilizing the Poor People's Campaign
This week in Washington, the powers that be are hearing from a vital new democratic force in this country. For three days, the Poor People's Campaign will bring poor and low-wage Americans to the nation's capital to call for a moral renewal in this nation. They will question many of those who are seeking the Democratic nomination for president.
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André 3000 Is Just Walking Around the Airport Playing the Flute
André 3000 does whatever he wants. The ever-enigmatic Atlanta rapper and half of the hip-hop duo OutKast was spotted Friday at Los Angeles International Airport keeping his musical skills sharp. At first, traveler Antonia Cereijido thought she was losing her mind when she saw a man who looked like the rapper walking around her terminal playing a flute, the producer for NPR's Latino USA told CNN. It turns out that man was, indeed, André 3000.
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Lauren London Posts Tribute On Her First Father's Day Without Nipsey Hussle
This was Lauren London's first Father's Day without Nipsey Hussle, her boyfriend and the father of her child. Nipsey, born Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot three months ago. London posted an emotional tribute to him Sunday on Instagram: "One of the reasons I fell in Love with You.... Your Fatherhood
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Bayou Ball ‘N’ National Basketball Tournament
RAP Events is sponsoring its annual Bayou Ball ‘N’ National Basketball Tournament in Lake Charles Friday - Sunday, June 28 - 30, to be held at a variety of locations throughout Southwest Louisiana. Bayou Ball ‘N’ National Basketball Tournament is presented in memory of Bolter Perkins, son of Ronnie Perkins with RAP Events.
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Beyond the Rhetoric 824: The Evolution of the National Black Chamber of Commerce – Part 1
The National Black Chamber of Commerce was incorporated in Washington, DC on May 23, 1993. Kay and I did this together and by ourselves. Such an organization was a long-time coming. Booker T. Washington had such a vision at the beginning of the 20th Century. He called it the National Negro Business League
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Shanahan withdraws as Trump's defense pick as domestic incidents resurface
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has "decided not to go forward with his confirmation process." Shanahan's withdrawal was announced shortly after the Washington Post published a report detailing a violent incident in 2011 in which his son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat.
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Astros routed by Blue Jays on Father’s Day
“Even though they didn’t get the win it is always a pleasure to see my son play,” said Sam Bregman who is the father of Astros All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman after the game as he made his way towards the clubhouse. The elder Bregman was one of four fathers (Hector Rondon Sr., Cionel Perez Sr., and Lourdes Gurriel Sr.) of current Astros player to throw out the first pitch to their sons on Father’s Day.
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Patrick Gaspard to Receive Prestigious NAACP Spingarn Medal
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s foremost civil rights organization, has announced that Ambassador Patrick Gaspard will be awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal during the NAACP’s 110th Annual Convention taking place in Detroit, Michigan on July 24.
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Fashion icon and artist Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
Gloria Vanderbilt died Monday morning, according to her son, CNN's Anderson Cooper. The fashion designer, artist and socialite was 95.
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Airbus launches world's 'longest range' narrow-body plane
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has unveiled designs for the A321XLR -- an aircraft it claims will be the world's "longest range single-aisle airliner."
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Most self-driving companies say this tech is crucial. Elon Musk disagrees.
For most people building self-driving cars, lidar is viewed as a godsend. In recent years, enthusiasm for the technology has sparked shortages of the depth-measuring sensor, acquisitions of startups developing it and more than a billion dollars of investments.
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How he got 200,000 people to buy ugly fruits and vegetables
Ben Simon thinks about wasted food, a lot. In 2011, during his freshman year at the University of Maryland, Simon was struck by how much food was thrown away in the college cafeteria.
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Annual Pow Wow Honors Native American Culture
The rain couldn't keep people away from an annual cultural event in Sullivan County on Sunday.
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Amazon condemns Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 'starvation wages' comment
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for being a billionaire while his company pays its warehouse workers "starvation wages." Amazon says Ocasio-Cortez is "just wrong."
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MIT teaches robots to 'feel' objects just by looking at them
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are teaching robots to "see" what an object looks like just by touching it and predict what something will feel like by looking at it.
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Injuries from cosmetics send 4,300 children to ERs every year
Cosmetic products such as perfume, nail polish and shampoo help us feel and look good. But in the wrong hands -- especially those of the very young -- these products can be harmful, or even deadly. More than 64,000 kids in the United States younger than 5 years old had a cosmetic-related injury between 2002 and 2016, according to estimates in a study published Monday in the journal Clinical Pediatrics.
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Gov. DeSantis may address Russian election hacking at news conference on Monday
Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to make a 'major announcement' on Monday that could deal with the security of Florida's elections.
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Magician feared drowned after attempting Houdini-style trick in Indian river
An Indian stuntman who went missing in the Hooghly River on Sunday after attempting a Houdini-style daredevil stunt is feared drowned, according to authorities.
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Norway island wants to be world's first time-free zone
Don't you wish those long summer days could last forever? An island in northern Norway is campaigning to do just that.
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Elon Musk says he deleted his Twitter account, which isn't actually deleted
Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO who has repeatedly gotten himself into hot water on Twitter, tweeted early Monday that he had deleted his account on the site. But it may be just one more misleading tweet from Musk: more than 10 hours later, the account was, in fact, still active.
