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White House Nominates Gen. Charles Brown to Become the First Black Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
A broken clock can be right twice a day and apparently so can a blatant xenophobe and racist. Air Force Times reports that our alleged president Donald Trump just nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to become the next chief of staff of the United States Air Force. For those out the loop, Brown would…
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Newseum Honors Alice Allison Dunnigan, The First Black Woman to Serve as a White House Reporter
The first black woman accredited to cover the White House was honored with her own life-sized statue at the Newseum Friday, in Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reports. Alice Allison Dunnigan, who faced both sexism and racism during her career, was tapped to be the Washington bureau chief for the Associated Negro Press, after a…
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Meet Michele Roberts: 1st Woman To Head Pro Sports Union. Professional Bad-Ass
Look. I’d be lying if I said I heard of Michele Roberts, new head of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) union, before today. Maybe some of you wonks or Washingtonians might have, but I hadn’t. Still, despite knowing nothing about her outside of her bio on her firm’s website, you have to be a Ceaser/Stringer/Leonidas/Lucy…