Apple’s first-ever VP of Diversity and Inclusion, Denise Young Smith, is stepping down at the end of the year.
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During an interview about AL candidate for Senate Roy Moore having allegedly asked mothers for permission to date their daughters, his lawyer Trenton Garmon invoked the “background” of MSNBC host Ali Velshi.
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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker will lead an advisory panel for a new $25 million fund being set up through the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help ensure that historical sites important to African American history are no longer endangered.
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Former President Barack Obama was on the fundraising trail this week attending a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Senate Victory Fund event, hosted by Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
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Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) sent letters to several heads of major federal government retirement boards urging them to apply the “Rooney Rule” and interview at least one minority- or woman-owned firm when contracting for asset management opportunities.
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Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Wednesday introduced the Military Domestic Violence Reporting Enhancement Act, legislation to close a loophole in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) that enables convicted abusers to purchase firearms.
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Congressmen Rubén Gallego (D-AZ), Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), José Serrano (D-NY), Juan Vargas (D-CA), and Vicente González (D-TX) wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) urging him to clarify his position on whether the federal government should be permitted to use eminent domain to obtain land for the construction of Donald Trump’s border wall.
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Former President Barack Obama can now add artist to his long list of titles. His pencil sketches, which include some self-portraits and the words Making America Competitive Again, have sold at auction for $11,113.
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Just hours after Democratic leadership insisted that the ongoing battle between the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) over his request to join the CHC was just “noise,” Curbelo took to his personal Twitter account to denounce the CHC and some of its members.
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The in-fighting between Hispanic members of Congress over Congressman Carlos Curbelo’s (R-FL) attempt to join the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has gotten so out of hand that Politico reports it’s threatening to derail momentum for a deal to save “Dreamers.”
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A Daily Beast reporter may have answered a question that has been bugging some people in DC for months -- what exactly does Omarosa do?
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The Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) announced Andrew Givens as Chief Operating Officer.
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Congressman Al Green (D-TX) said on the House floor last week that he plans to pursue impeachment proceedings before the holidays.
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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) took the interim CEO of Equifax to task last week when he testified before the Senate Commerce Committee.
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A juror dismissed from the corruption trial of Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) wrote a note to Judge William Walls expressing her concerns, saying, "It's going to be a hung jury."
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The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity program has announced its first cohort of Fellows. Meet them!
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During a Chicago City Council meeting, Chance the Rapper spoke out in opposition to a plan by Mayor Rahm Emanuel --Barack Obama's former WH Chief of Staff -- who wants to spend $95 million on a new police training academy. Chance says the money would be better-spent funding education and mental health services in the community.
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Former President Barack Obama showed up for jury duty yesterday and fellow jurors brought books for him to sign and snapped photos. Obama swept into the room with his entourage of security, going down the line shaking hands saying, “Thanks everybody for serving on the jury, or at least being willing to. This looks like Chicago right here.” POTUS44 never had a chance to even be questioned as a possible juror. After several hours, he and the rest of Juror Panel 6 were sent home. But before he left, he did meet privately with Cook County Circuit Court Chief Judge Timothy Evans and promised he’d make a trip to Chicago next year to visit the kids housed at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
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Were you planning a trip to Cuba? Think again. The Trump administration on Wednesday announced tight new restrictions on American travel and trade with Cuba, implementing policy changes that Donald Trump announced five months ago to reverse the Obama administration's normalization with the Communist-ruled island.
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Donna Brazile's book is full of revelations, including some helpful advice from a friend. Hillary Clinton campaign advisor Minyon Moore. Brazile wrote in her new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House, that Minyon told Brazile, “Donna, you cannot cuss these kids out because it will shut them down."
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