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• Dr. Kisha E. McCaskill Appointed as Cook County Commissioner for 5th District

  19-01-2025 23:00
  
  In a decisive move to fill a key leadership vacancy, Dr. Kisha E. McCaskill has been appointed Cook County Commissioner for the 5th District. The selection, made by Illinois State Senator and Thornton Township Committeeman Napoleon Harris III alongside ten other Chicago and south suburban Democratic Committeemen, was announced last evening at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois.
  The appointment comes following the vacancy left by Monica Gordon, who was elected Cook County Clerk in
  
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• How to Help Black Wildfire Survivors in Altadena and L.A.

  19-01-2025 16:30
  
  Photo Credit: AP under a CC BY 4.0 license.
  By Anissa Durham
  This article was originally published on Word In Black.
  Since Jan. 7, Los Angeles has dealt with the Eaton and Palisades fires, the most destructive fires in Southern California history. So far, nearly 41,000 acres (about three times the size of Manhattan) have burned, and more than 12,000 structures have been destroyed.  
  The Eaton fire ravaged the communities of Altadena, a historically Black community, and Pasadena. W
  
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• COLUMN: Why We Need DEI to Combat the “Good Ol’ Boy” Network

  19-01-2025 16:00
  
  By James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D. 
  The confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth, former Fox News host and President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, have begun. Hegseth’s nomination comes at a time of profound global instability: the wars in Gaza and Ukraine rage on, and the geopolitical threats posed by China and Russia loom larger than ever. In such a precarious moment, the role of Secretary of Defense—a position overseeing the largest federal bureaucracy with
  
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