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NEW YORK, NY — June 23, 2026 — BET today announced that Keke Palmer has been unanimously appointed to its Board of Advisors. Formed earlier this month under BET President Louis Carr, the Board brings together cultural icons, business leaders, and industry visionaries to help steer the ongoing growth of the 45-year-old network as a key player at the crossroads of media, community, and culture. The Board serves as a strategic and cultural sounding board – offering insight, perspective and accountability as BET expands its reach and champions the voices and stories that move culture forward. Palmer's appointment extends that founding vision, pairing the architects of BET's legacy with the talent defining its next chapter. Palmer embodies the qualities the Board was built to represent. Over more than two decades, she has become one of the most versatile forces in entertainment, an Emmy-and NAACP Image Award–honored actor, host, and producer whose milestones include being the firs...

QUEENS, NEW YORK — Tonight, Grace Meng decisively won the Democratic Party’s nomination to continue representing New York’s 6th Congressional District. Rep. Meng released the following statement: “Tonight, Queens spoke, and I am humbled and grateful for the trust this community has placed in me. Over the past several years, we have delivered real investments — for our families, our schools, our small businesses, and our NYCHA communities — and tonight the people of Queens clearly said: keep going. “There is so much more to do. Costs are still too high, immigrants who built this borough are under attack, and the federal government has been turned into a weapon against the very people it's supposed to serve. I will not rest until the promise of Queens — that you can come here with nothing, work hard, and build something real — is true again for every family in this district. “This victory belongs to every volunteer, organizer, and neighbor who believed that the work we'...

Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers 4   of   19,095 Erasing the record -america at 250 Inbox Mona Austin   < monasnewsslice@gmail.com > Jun 20, 2026, 10:34 PM (2 hours ago) to   me Erasing the Record: How Political Pressure Is Reshaping America's Telling of Slavery History 250 Years Later A research compilation # The Dual Record: Documented History Versus the Politics of Erasure For nearly two and a half centuries, two versions of American history have existed side by side: the version written into law, statute, and the physical record — and the version permitted to be taught. The gap between them is not new, but it is widening again, and the documented past offers a clear corrective to the narrowing now underway. ## What the Founding Documents Actually Say The Declaration of Independence's promise that all men are created equal was never meant, in practice, to include the enslaved. Jefferson's original draft condemned the slave trade; the Continent...