::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

(The Slice): In his first public appearance since contracting the Coronavirus, Pres. Donald Trump torched the Democrats record on protecting Blacks and Latinos from crime and violence. "Democrats have run nearly every inner city in America -- and I mean for a hundred years -- and their policies have delivered nothing but calamity, poverty, and trouble." Sleepy Joe Biden has betrayed black and Latino Americans. If you think he can run this country, you’re wrong." Organized by the Blexit group, the event was billed as a peaceful protest but did not address specifc police violence against Blacks or Black Live Matter that are at the root of the discussion or the recent plot by right wing extremists to kidnap the Democratic Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Instead, Pres. Trump used the opportunity once again to praise police and campaign against his oppoent Joe Biden instead of focusing on a unifying message. The president painted a scary picture of minority com...

During a visit to the White House last Thursday, Kanye West left the impression that his out-of-control behavior was due to a lack of "male energy" as he trumpeted his support for Pres. Donald Trump, who is viewed as a threat by the majority of African Americans. It may come as a surprise to know that Wests' maternal grandfather, Portwood Williams, Sr. was a well-known Civil Rights leader from Oklahoma City who led a tight-knit Christian family. His late mother, Dr. Donda West and her father were very close, which she wrote about in "Raising Kanye: Life Lessons From the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar.” "Some would say it was blasphemous the way Grandmother Williams worshiped her husband, the way my dad worshiped me, and the way I worship Kanye. But I just call it plain-old heartfelt, couldn't-help-it-if-you-tried-to love,” Donda West wrote. "In my family there is a legacy of that kind of love. And there was no shortage of that in our household...