Trump goes after Spike Lee after Oscars speech

Credit to Author: khallare| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:46:05 +0000

Trump goes after Spike Lee after Oscars speech

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going after director Spike Lee, who used his Oscar acceptance speech to urge mobilization for the 2020 election. Trump tweeted Monday that Lee did a “racist hit on your President.” Trump claimed that he had “done more for African Americans” than “almost” any other president. Lee won the Oscar […]

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School draws flak for ‘runaway slave’ game on Black History Month

Credit to Author: ccepeda| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:23:37 +0000

School draws flak for 'slave' game

An elementary school in Virginia has earned criticism for a “runaway slave” game it conducted during Black History Month this February.

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Blackface turmoil comes amid bid to honor black tennis great

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:56:26 +0000

David Harris Jr. and Kim Gray

A movement to rename a Richmond, Virginia, thoroughfare for groundbreaking black tennis player Arthur Ashe Jr. is cresting just as the state finds itself in turmoil over a blackface scandal involving the governor and attorney general.

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Dominion Files to Extend Operations at Surry Nuclear Plant to 80 Years

Dominion Energy has filed an application to extend the operating licenses for two 45-year-old nuclear reactors at the Surry Power Station through 2052 and 2053—when they will be 80 years old.  Surry’s Unit 1 and 2, located near Newport News, Virginia, are three-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactors (PWRs) that began operation in December 1972 and […]

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