Herb Boyd

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Sam Greenlee in Chicago in 1973. Greenlee, who was best known for his 1969 novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door," later adapted into a political drama movie. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media)

For nearly an hour at the opening of the 2024 DNC, President Joe Biden applied a capstone and thesis to his remarkable career in politics.

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Ruby Dandridge is best known and remembered as the mother of Dorothy Dandridge, but like her daughter, she made an indelible mark in the world of entertainment — both on stage and in film. She was born Ruby Jean Butler in Wichita, Kansas, on March 3, 1900. One of four children, her parents were Nellie Simon and George Butler, who worked in the entertainment industry as a “minstrel man.” In September 1919, she married Cyril Dandridge

As we often declare, it isn’t necessary to plumb the depths of Black history to find someone who, for any number of reasons, needs profiling. When Arthur James Gregg died last month, we sat him aside as a potential subject, but honoring him became all the more important after Trump’s desecration at the Arlington National Cemetery. Gregg, the first African American to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, will now be included among our honored dead when he interred there September 19, 2024.

If a pair of interviews with Secretary of State Antony Blinken are indications, the U.S. may be ready to modify its conduct and policy on the war in Gaza.

Each day has brought fresh uncertainty and drama to the presidential race between Vice President Harris and former President Trump.

Sybil Haydel Morial is well known in the annals of New Orleans where her husband was the city’s first Black mayor.