by Brakkton Booker , NPR News January 22, 202111:05 AM ET Lloyd Austin, a retired four-star Army general, has been confirmed by the Senate, making him the first Black secretary of defense in U.S. history. The Senate approved President Biden's nomination for Pentagon chief in a near-unanimous 93 to 2 vote. Austin's nomination was approved despite concerns raised on both sides of the aisle that he hadn't been out of uniform for the legally mandated seven-year period. The Nat

Rev. Silvester Beaman, a graduate of Wilberforce University, the nation's first, private HBCU , will deliver the benediction at the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden, Wednesday, January 20th. Beaman, a native of Niagara Falls, New York, has pastored Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware for more than 25 years. As a close friend and confidant of, and spiritual advisor to the Biden family, Beaman was asked to deliver the prayer by President-elect Biden. Introduced to each oth

On March 16th, 2017, the City of Dayton Human Relations Council (HRC), The Dayton Police Department (DPD) and the Dayton Community Police...