Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images Joe Biden is centering racial justice in his Fourth of July message, deepening the contrast with President Donald Trump. “We have a chance to rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country,” Biden says in the Independence Day video shared with…
I celebrated last New Year’s Eve in Ghana, Africa. I’d grown up poor with a mom addicted to drugs but started this decade far from the South Side of Chicago and amongst some of the most “elite” black people in the world.With me was one of my best friends, Nate, an executive for one of…
A 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were among those fatally shot Saturday night as Chicago erupted in gun violence on Independence Day.The evening included two attacks that each had eight victims, the Chicago Tribune reported.The girl, identified by her family as Natalie Wallace, was outside her grandmother’s home at a Fourth of July party in the city's…
A 24-year-old woman died Saturday of her injuries after she and another woman were hit by a car on a closed highway in Seattle while protesting against police brutality, authorities said. Summer Taylor of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center, spokeswoman Susan Gregg said. Ms. Taylor and Diaz Love, 32, of Portland,…