GOP Senate candidate Lena Epstein is claiming her Twitter account was hacked after screenshots surfaced which appeared to show the account liked Tweets from former KKK leader David Duke, as well as white supremacist internet troll “Baked Alaska.”
The screenshots were posted Thursday evening by Brandon Dillon, Chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
Michigan State University officials will not allow white supremacist leader Richard Spencer to speak at the campus.
A statement issued by the school Thursday afternoon says the decision was made after consulting with law enforcement.
MARCUS GARVEY
The week of Aug. 16-22
August 16
LOUIS LOMAX
KEA MICHAELS
There’s never been a time when sketch artist, spoken-word artist and singer Kea Michaels hasn’t been trying to create things. She’s always been an artist, it just took her some time to commit. The Pittsburgh native has been drawing since the age of 2, singing since the age of 4, her songwriting career began when she was 9, and began writing poetry when she was 12. However, there’s one moment that stood out to her.
THE TIME IS NOW—Melanie Campbell of the Black Women’s Roundtable and National Coalition on Black Civic Participation returns to Pittsburgh to empower and inform. (Photos by Diane I. Daniels)
CHARLENE CROWELL
As millions of students return to school, the nation’s Justice Department (DOJ) is beginning an investigation that could potentially sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies. As first reported by the New York Times, Justice’s Civil Rights Division will carry out this effort to determine whether white applicants were discriminated against.