NNPA NEWSWIRE — The daughter of a Jamaican immigrant father who taught at Stanford University, Vice President Harris’ mother, a cancer researcher, was the daughter of an Indian diplomat. And, the new Vice President has never forgotten her roots, nor has she forgotten those who helped her achieve the American dream.
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Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett Reveals New Details of Trump’s Insurrection Role
NNPA NEWSWIRE — While the violent mob of insurrectionists were storming the U.S. Capitol, leaving death and destruction in their wake, President Donald Trump telephoned several Congress members urging them to illegally overturn the election so that he can remain in office, Congresswoman Plaskett pronounced. The disgraced, two-time impeached President refused to call off his mob of supporters as they rummaged through the offices of Senate and House members, defaced the Capitol, and caused the death of a federal police officer and four others.
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Camille Cosby: Capitol Insurrection a Reminder that ‘Hatred is a Hellish Emotion’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Camille Cosby has unleashed a scathing commentary in the aftermath of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.
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U.S. Attorney Seeking Sedition and Conspiracy Charges in Aftermath of Capitol Riot
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We are resolutely committed to upholding the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, including speech, peaceful assembly, and press, and we will investigate, prosecute, and hold accountable anyone who attempts to obstruct or curtail these freedoms through violence or intimidation,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin. The prosecutor added that the Department of Justice had created a specialized task force that “will look at everything from travel to movement” of the individuals involved. “The range of criminal conduct is unmatched.”
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Senate Passes Bill to Create African American Burial Grounds Network
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We know that for too long in too many parts of our country, Black families were blocked from burying their loved ones in white cemeteries,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). “These men and women were freed slaves, civil rights champions, veterans, mothers, fathers, workers in communities. We need to act now before these sites are lost to the ravages of time or development,” Brown concluded.
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Biden Administration to Appoint Kristen Clarke to Key Civil Rights Post
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Clarke’s appointment adds even more diversity to an incoming administration that has kept its campaign promise to ensure that top staff and cabinet members reflect all of America. “Our first-rate nominees to lead the Justice Department are eminently qualified, embody character and judgment that is beyond reproach, and have devoted their careers to serving the American people with honor and integrity,” Biden said in a statement.
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Biden: ‘Police Would Have Reacted Far Differently with Black Lives Matter Protestors’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The nation’s 46th president spoke of his granddaughter sending him a photo of armed security guards and law enforcement standing at the Lincoln Memorial during a Black Lives Matter protest last year. “She said, ‘Pop, this isn’t fair. No one can tell me if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they would not have been treated very, very different than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol,'” Biden relayed. “We all know that it is true. And it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable,” Biden remarked.
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D.C. Officials, Feds Tracking Credible Inauguration Day Threats
NNPA NEWSWIRE — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is demanding unprecedented protection for the event. Meanwhile, multiple reports indicate that the FBI is aware of chatter about plots by right-wing extremists who plan to continue their protests of the 2020 Presidential election and possibly inflict further acts of domestic terrorism like that carried out on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
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Impeachment Shame for Donald Trump – Presidency Concludes on Lowest Note in History
NNPA NEWSWIRE — First came the testimony and closing arguments – Congress members laid out a four-year reign of terror that was Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Maxine Waters accuses Trump of attempting to start Civil War
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Today Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) was a guest on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show, and went into detail about her conversation with the Chief of Capitol Police before the violent insurrection on Capitol Hill, and how the massive security failure could have been prevented and invoked the assassinations of JFK and MLK when describing her experience inside the Capitol building.
