Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt, the new interim superintendent, will officially take over as chief of the school district on September 1st.
Robinson was expected to start when the Commanders take on the Jaguars on September 11th.
The next launch window won’t open before Friday.
The Bowie Metropolitan Alumni Chapter is hosting it’s 2022 BSU Bike Tour September 10th
The Bowie Metropolitan Alumni Chapter presents BSU Bike Tour 2022 September 10th Registration takes place at Vista Gardens Marketplace in Bowie. Proceeds provide scholarships for BSU students. For more information go here:
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Dr. McKnight discusses priorities for the new school year.
Foreman has denied the allegations since they became public.
Dr. Lewis Ferebee discusses teacher hiring, COVID mandates, and safety and security for the new school year.
The judge said the government has proved parts of the affidavit should be kept under wraps.
Rock for Life Foundation is hosting “The FunTastic Voyage” day September 3rd
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Talking to the chiefs of some of the regions biggest school systems.
Five people have been shot and two killed in a shooting in Northwest DC.
Biden is also extending the pause on federal student loan payments through the end of the year.
Those who went to college on low-income Pell Grants qualify for 20-thousand dollars of debt relief on federal student loans. Biden is also extending the pause on federal student loan payments through the end of the year. He noted this will be the final pause in the payments, first implemented due to the COVID economic crisis.
The Dance Institute of Washington presents “Encore” this evening at 5:30
Dance Institute of Washington “Encore” at the Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens is August 24thfrom 5:30pm to 8:30pm. For more information go here:
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How the now-adult children of Hurricane Katrina are still impacted by the aftermath of the storm.
Prosecutor said the decision to not charge the officers is “the right one.”
Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police detective who helped write the warrant that led to the deadly police raid at Breonna Taylor’s apartment has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.
Federal investigators said Kelly Goodlett added a false line to the warrant and later conspired with another detective to create a cover story when Taylor’s March 13, 2020, shooting death by police began gaining national attention.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by officers who knocked down her door while executing a drug search warrant. Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that hit one of the officers as they came through the door and they returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times.
Goodlett, 35, appeared in a federal courtroom in Louisville on Tuesday afternoon and admitted to conspiring with another Louisville police officer to falsify the warrant.
14-41 Inc is opening a new facility to assist with homelessness and addiction
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Are there deeper, more serious issues, maybe even divisions within the African and African American community?
The first day of the recount turned up a possible mistake which is expected to slow the recount down.
The Annual National African Dance and Music festival takes place over the Labor Day weekend
KanKouran 39thAnnual National African Dance and World Music Labor Day Weekend is September 2nd– 4th
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It’s a head to toe, inside and out event for women.
Prince George’s County Police have released a photograph of person they believe may have been involved.
The defense was set to start presenting its case today.
The Pan African Collective is hosting The Pan African Family Reunion is Saturday August 27th
The Pan African Family Reunion is Saturday, August 27thfrom 12pm to 4pm at Greater Mt. Nebo AME Church in Bowie Maryland. For more information go here:
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If you’re the one paying for dates, are they becoming more difficult to afford?
The star QB will be eligible to return during week 13.
The Great Big Home Show is back this weekend in Waldorf.
The Great Big Home Show is August 20thand 21st at the Capital Club House in Waldorf Market Place. For information go here:
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Why is this happening and what can parents and educators do about it?
Dr. Rochelle Walensky calls for structural overhaul
Prince George’s County Public Schools and WHUR are hosting the Back to School Drive and Dash this Saturday
Prince George’s County Public Schools and WHUR are teaming up to host the Back2School Drive and Dash event Saturday, August 20thfrom 9am to 1pm to handout thousands of school supplies and bookbags at three locations. Flowers High School, Oxon Hill High School, and High Point High School. For more information go here:
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What has changed for new Black businesses and funding opportunities in 2022?
The “quite quitter” phenomenon. Is it something new or just another symptom of a changing workforce?
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The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections.
The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over the decade — and would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities, with additional funds going to reduce the federal deficit.
In a triumphant signing event at the White House, Biden pointed to the law as proof that democracy — no matter how long or messy the process — can still deliver for voters in America as he road-tested a line he will likely repeat later this fall ahead of the midterms: “The American people won, and the special interests lost.”
The program will also offer help to low-income borrowers by offering them an additional down payment and closing cost loan option.
Giant Food’s 18th Annual Pediatric Cancer Fundraiser is underway.
Giant Food’s 18thAnnual Pediatric Cancer Fundraising Program is underway and the goal is to raise 2 million dollars by October 13th. All funds raised will be donated to Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Children’s Cancer Foundation, Inc. For more information go here:
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The warrant details that federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including the Espionage Act.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week.
A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday.
The seized records include some that were marked classified as top secret and also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets and those that if revealed publicly would harm U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about the documents or what information they might contain.
The warrant details that federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations.
The New York A-G is looking into whether the Trump Organization improperly reported real estate assets.
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said the flyers were discovered in Lake Kittamaqundi and Columbia.
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A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses, a Leflore County grand jury last week determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter.
It is now increasingly unlikely that Donham, who is now in her 80s, will ever be prosecuted for her role in the events that led to Till’s lynching.
The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living witness to Till’s 1955 abduction, said Tuesday’s news is unfortunate, but predictable.
“The fact remains that the people who abducted, tortured, and murdered Emmett did so in plain sight, and our American justice system was and continues to be set up in such a way that they could not be brought to justice for their heinous crimes,” Parker said.
An email and voicemail seeking comment from Donham’s son Tom Bryant weren’t immediately returned Tuesday.
A group searching the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse in June discovered the unserved arrest warrant charging Donham, then-husband Roy Bryant and brother-in-law J.W. Milam in Till’s abduction in 1955. While the men were arrested and acquitted on murder charges in Till’s subsequent slaying, Donham, 21 at the time and 87 now, was never taken into custody.
In an unpublished memoir obtained last month by The Associated Press, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till, who lived in Chicago and was visiting relatives in Mississippi when he was abducted, killed and tossed in a river. She accused him of making lewd comments and grabbing her while she worked alone at a family store in Money, Mississippi.
Donham said in the manuscript that the men brought Till to her in the middle of the night for identification but that she tried to help the youth by denying it was him. Despite being abducted at gunpoint from a family home by Roy Bryant and Milam, the 14-year-old identified himself to the men, she claimed.
Till’s battered, disfigured body was found days later in a river, where it was weighted down with a heavy metal fan. The decision by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, to open Till’s casket for his funeral in Chicago demonstrated the horror of what had happened and added fuel to the civil rights movement.
The U.S. Justice Department last year said it was ending its investigation into Till’s killing.
The Prince George’s County Health Department is hosting a town hall meeting to discuss and answer questions about Monkeypox.
Prince George’s County Health Department is having a Monkeypox Town Hall Wednesday, August 10th@ 6:30pm. For more information go here:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in a lengthy statement Monday that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. A person familiar with the matter said the action was related to a probe of whether Trump had taken classified records from his White House tenure to his Florida residence.
The action, which the FBI and Justice Department did not immediately confirm, marks a dramatic escalation in law enforcement scrutiny of Trump and comes as he has been laying the groundwork to make another bid for president. Though a search warrant does not suggest that criminal charges are near or even expected, federal officials looking to obtain one must demonstrate that they have probable cause that a crime occurred.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said in his statement.
He added: “These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including about whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized the search.
A person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the search happened earlier Monday and agents were also looking to see if Trump had additional presidential records or any classified documents at the estate.
The Justice Department has been investigating the presence of classified records inside 15 boxes that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year. The Archives then referred the matter to the Justice Department.
Federal law bars the removal of classified documents to unauthorized locations, though it is possible that Trump could try to argue that, as president, he was the ultimate declassification authority.
There are multiple statutes governing classified information, including a law punishable by up to five years in prison that makes it a crime to remove such records and retain them at an unauthorized location. Another statute makes it a crime to mishandle classified records either intentionally or in a grossly negligent manner.
The probe is hardly the only legal headache confronting Trump. A separate investigation related to efforts by Trump and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has also been intensifying in Washington.
And a district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia is investigation whether Trump and his close associates sought to interfere in that state’s election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.
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The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020.
U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood handed down the sentences against Travis McMichael, 36, and his father, Greg McMichael, 66, reiterating the gravity of the killing that shattered their Brunswick community and became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice.
“A young man is dead. Ahmaud Arbery will be forever 25. And what happened a jury found happened because he’s Black,” Wood said.
Both men were previously sentenced to life without parole in state court for Arbery’s murder and had asked the judge to divert them to a federal prison to serve their sentences, saying they were worried about their safety in the state prison system. Wood declined their request.
In February, a federal jury convicted the McMichaels and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan of violating Arbery’s civil rights, concluding they targeted him because of his race. All three were also found guilty of attempted kidnapping, and the McMichaels were convicted of using guns in the commission of a violent crime.
The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery with a shotgun. The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a burglar, but investigators determined he was unarmed and had committed no crimes.
Soliel Solar Energy is hosting it’s event August 20th at the DC Convention Center
Soliel Solar Energy event is Saturday August 20th. For more information go here:
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President Frederick talks with Lauren Bush, editor-in-chief of the Howard University Undergraduate research journal and Trisha Lal, co-founder of Howard University College of Medicine Research Digest.
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In 2020, the battle against the coronavirus pandemic coincided with a reckoning of systemic racism in our country. The cries of racial injustice took hold of our society, in part, because there was data to validate them. The fight against systemic racism leans on research to identify the problems and propose forward-thinking solutions, just as our efforts to end the pandemic depended on the medical research establishment and the individual researchers. As we work to correct health care disparities, economic inequality and more, research is an essential tool that we must continue to leverage and sharpen. Howard University students, alumni and all play an important role in bettering our society by conducting research needed to diagnose problems and prescribe much-needed remedies. On today’s episode of “The Journey,” President Frederick talks with Lauren Bush, editor-in-chief of the Howard University Undergraduate Research Journal and Trisha Lal, co-founder of Howard University College of Medicine Research Digest.
Air Date: March 14, 2021
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