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Days away from the swearing-in of President-elect Donald Trump and what they jokingly refer to as their “expiration date,” nearly 20 African-American appointees shared memories of the thrills ...
Gregory Washington, the first Black president of George Mason University, is under fire for his promotion of campus diversity ...
In an op-ed for the LA Times, columnist LZ Granderson eviscerated the pledges by Democrats like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden to name Black women to high positions. In a ...
President Joe Biden is reshaping the federal judiciary in a historic way, appointing a record-breaking 40 Black women judges during his presidency. This achievement not only fulfills a campaign ...
According to White House data, of the approximately 1,500 agency appointees hired thus far, 58% are women, 18% identify as Black or African American, 15% identify as Latino or Hispanic, 15% ...
President Biden continues to appoint a high share of women and people of color to the bench. Yuri ... So far, more than one-quarter (26 percent) of Biden’s appointees are Black women, ...
President Biden Breaks Record For Appointing Most Judges Of Color. Biden has appointed 40 Black women to lifetime federal judgeships, surpassing any president in a single term.
“It’s taken more than 20 years following Ruth Simmons’ presidential appointment at Brown for another Ivy League campus to experience the greatness of a Black woman president,” she notes.
Representative James Clyburn, who helped secure President-elect Joe Biden's path to the White House, expressed disappointment over the incoming administration's lack of Black appointees. While the ...
Claudine Gay celebrated her history making appointment. But after she resigned, she spoke very differently about her experience. Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Mass., last month ...
Former President Clinton said he was flattered when acclaimed author Toni Morrison called him America’s “first Black president.” “When my friend Toni Morrison said that, you know, it was ...