WI Web Staff The Washington Informer [dropcap]Terrie[/dropcap] M. Williams, one of the country’s premier public relations professionals whose firm has represented some of the biggest names in entertainment, sports and business, has announced the company that bears her name will close this month. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] After 40 years of being in the public eye, Williams […]
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Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Is a Brilliant Business Strategy | The Atlantic
Why increasing the pay floor —and urging the federal government to do the same—is a moral and strategic masterstroke by Jeff Bezos
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He’s a Rhodes Scholar. The G.O.P. Keeps Calling Him a ‘Big-City Rapper.’ | The New York Times
PORT EWEN, N.Y. — It has taken 12 years, but Antonio Delgado has finally received recognition for his brief career as a rap artist.
All it took was for him to run for Congress in New York.
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Professor and television host Melissa Harris Perry reveals she was raped in 2016 | The Grio
Wednesday, while Twitter was abuzz about the Brett Kavanaugh allegations, writer, professor and television host, Melissa Harris Perry joined in on the conversation by revealing very personal details of her own experience as a victim of rape and shed light on why victims wait so long to come forward.
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Will Florida’s Ex-Felons Finally Regain the Right to Vote? | The New York Times Magazine
A referendum on the November ballot in Florida would re-enfranchise 1.5 million citizens — and could change the state’s electorate.
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Meet the gallant all-black American female battalion that served in Europe during World War II | Face2Face Africa
The success of the formation of the all black female battalion was thanks to Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American civil rights activist who at the time, appealed to the then-first lady of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, to create more meaningful roles for black women in the army to help balance out the shortage of soldiers.
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City Caught Trying To Grab Senior Citizen’s Brownstone | Kings County Politics
“Home-ownership is one of the most important ways a family is able to build and transfer wealth from one generation to the next. In that light, and with the ever-increasing cost of living in this city, preserving home ownership opportunities is critical in predominantly black and brown communities like ours…”
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Eyewitness to the Desolation of ‘Black Wall Street’ | The New York Times
A woman who survived the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 reminds us that history doesn’t stay stuck in time.
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This 26-year-old Nigerian is now the highest paid robotics engineer in the world | Face2Face Africa
Silas Adekunle achieved this feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.
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Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave | The New York Times
The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by about 30,000 years
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