Join us at the 1st Annual UNCF New Jersey Walk/Run for Education in partnership with The KAT Team Foundation as we raise money to help students get to and through college!

Donate here: https://give.uncf.org/site/TR/NewJerseyWalk/General?team_id=31748&pg=team&fr_id=2551

A team led by Tuskegee University researchers have developed a new way to detect the most aggressive and fatal form of breast cancer.

The university and researchers hope the new method may hold the potential for earlier detection and more informed treatment decisions. Read more: https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2018/06/tuskegee-university-develops-new-breast.html

Unlike the current Democratic “leaders,” Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who have offered only criticism and no support to Maxine Waters after her comments asking supporters to confront those who work for Trump, The Congressional Black Caucus has stated their support of Waters. Read more: https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2018/06/congressional-black-caucus-issues.html

Auntie Maxine ain’t scared!

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has addressed a series of recent death threats she said she has received, telling would-be threateners to “shoot straight” during an immigration rally on Saturday. Read more: https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2018/07/maxine-waters-to-those-making-death_1.html

Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, a 1983 U.S. Military Academy graduate who has held high-ranking Army posts in Europe and Asia, will become the first black officer to command West Point in its 216-year history. Read more: https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2018/06/lt-gen-darryl-williams-named-west.html

U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), and Tim Scott (R-SC), the only African-American members of the United States Senate, have introduced legislation to make lynching – the willful act of murder by a collection of people assembled with the intention of committing an act of violence upon any person – a federal crime. Read more: https://www.africanamericanreports.com/2018/06/cory-booker-kamala-harris-tim-scott.html

Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother of four was shot and killed by Seattle Police after she called 911 for help after a burglary. Here is the disturbing audio of that shooting.

When is a certain president going to honor Richard Collins an US Army lieutenant that was murdered by a terrorist that is a member of an alt-right hate group?