🚨 BREAKING:
World-renowned US rapper Kendrick Lamar:
"Donald Trump is a narcissist who runs a country built on fear and division, trampling over democratic values; you either stand for equality and the truth, or you are part of this climate of hate."
JUST IN: LeBron James will leave the Los Angeles Lakers and continue his career elsewhere, according to a report from ESPN, citing James' agent Rich Paul. https://t.co/L9w8ABavGb
Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses.
She was the first black woman employed as a mail carrier in the US and the second woman to work for the US Postal Service.
—Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman, and only the second woman, to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach because she never missed a day of work, even showing up during heavy snow by wearing snowshoes and carrying the mail packs on her back.
Fields stood six feet tall, and was a woman who commanded attention. Legend has it she wore a 38 Smith & Weston strapped under her apron and could hit anything within 50 paces.
After quitting the mail route in 1901, Fields opened her own laundry and restaurant with the help of Mother Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio.
More than 11,000 bottles of a widely prescribed blood pressure medication have been recalled nationwide after a manufacturing issue was discovered, according to federal records. https://t.co/zsZMyMN8xJ
It was great reconnecting with our alumni tonight!
Michelle and I will always be grateful for the chance to work side-by-side with so many brilliant, selfless people who believed in something bigger than themselves.
Jun 17 10AM CDT: First Tropical Storm of the season forms in the Atlantic Basin. Here are the Key Messages for Tropical Storm #Arthur. For the latest information visit https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb
Jun 15 8am EDT: NHC is monitoring an area for potential tropical development in the northwestern Gulf of America over the next couple of days. Regardless of tropical cyclone formation, heavy rainfall, flash flooding and gusty winds are possible across portions of eastern and southern Texas and Louisiana this week. Stay up to date with the latest information at https://t.co/Wq6ZtKfHp9 and local National Weather Service Forecast Offices at https://t.co/zJDnFUKPfU
Terry Crews and his wife Rebecca Crews, five kids and 37 years together ❤️
Terry said it simply.
"Where she's weak, I'm strong. Where I'm weak, she's strong. This is the battle we were designed to fight together."
37 years. Cancer. Parkinson's. Almost divorce. Still together.
Twin sisters Tia and Jasmin will graduate as valedictorian and salutatorian of Cheyney University, the nation’s oldest HBCU. Their excellence, resilience, and sisterhood embody the power of Black education and Black brilliance. Their late father would surely be proud. 🙏🏿
California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth. https://t.co/6MkhBw3Fr5
A woman who went viral for spending less than $47 on her wedding dress has died during childbirth at 32 years old.
Kiara Brokenbrough died on March 30 as her son, Jonah, was born. Jonah remains in the NICU and is showing improvement. The Brokenbroughs gained attention in 2022 after celebrating their nuptials with a $500 wedding in Los Angeles.
They kept costs low by hosting fewer than 30 people at their roadside ceremony and having guests go Dutch at the reception. Kiara told the Los Angeles Times they didn't want to go into debt over a wedding. The couple was moving from West Virginia back to California when Kiara unexpectedly died.
Kiara's death came just weeks before the 10th annual Black Maternal Health Week. Black women are three to four times more likely to die during childbirth than any other demographic.