Tag: Politics

Andrew Gillum is back behind bars in Alabama after authorities say the former Florida gubernatorial candidate missed a required drug screening and later tested positive for meth in court. Gillum was booked into the Baldwin County Jail on Aug. 6, jail records show.

Washington, D.C. was long ago dubbed Chocolate City in recognition of its significance as a place where Black residents built communities, elected leaders and created a cultural legacy that has shaped America for decades. But under President Donald Trump's second term, a new wave of battles over who controls the capital continues to rock residents and visitors alike. D.C. has long struggled with its lack of statehood, which many fear has opened the floodgates for the federal government to meddle in local affairs.

Despite public attention on Immigration and Customs Enforcement dying down in recent months, the agency is quietly reshaping daily life far beyond the border. From Haitian immigrants in Ohio to university campuses, tax databases, and fake federal agent scams, ICE's reach now extends into neighborhoods and airports across the country. What remains uncertain is just how much power the agency will ultimately hold.

Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor who came within 34,000 votes of becoming Florida's first Black governor in 2018, was arrested in Daphne, Alabama on charges including possession of dangerous drugs, drug paraphernalia, and marijuana.

Nicki Minaj has a grim view of Dr. Fauci's future, saying he'll be eating from feeding tubes and losing the ability to speak. On Friday, the rapper posted a lengthy message on X with her bleak assessment of Fauci while also blaming the scientist for the pain and suffering that she believes he caused during the pandemic.

Before Zohran Kwame Mamdani stepped into New York City Hall to become the city's youngest mayor in over 40 years, his namesake, Kwame Nkrumah, was actively dismantling British colonial rule in Ghana in the 1950s. The Ghanaian revolutionary spent a decade in the United States and the United Kingdom working alongside political icons like W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey to host anti-colonial summits before becoming Ghana's first president.