Bookie Shonuga Reporting

27/06/2025

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
June 27, 2025

Representative Adriano Espaillat Denounces Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship

WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), issued the following statement regarding the heinous Supreme Court decision that sets the country on a path to strip away birthright citizenship for U.S. born children across the country.

“I am appalled at the Supreme Court's irresponsible decision to allow the Trump Administration to strip birthright citizenship from millions of U.S. born babies within 30 days. Let’s be clear, President Trump is fully responsible for the chaos that will ensue after his executive order takes effect. This is his cruelty and his court.

“By focusing its attention on the partisan issue of nationwide injunctions, the Supreme Court threatens millions of newborn Americans with statelessness and subjects them to the whims of masked rogue agents that pass as immigration enforcers under Trump. It bears repeating: This administration will have ICE target newborns, and we will fight back.

“The chaos that will be wrought on growing families – regardless of the citizenship status of the parents – rests on the shoulders of President Trump and his xenophobic administration, their enablers in Congress and now on their abettors in the Supreme Court. Depending on where they live, parents will be forced to prove their citizenship in the maternity ward. This is blatantly unconstitutional and will split the nation into free states and Trump states.

“This fight is not over. The case must run through the courts on its merits – as multiple judges have made clear, the interpretation of the 14th amendment to the Constitution is not a controversial matter. All persons born in this country – save for the children of foreign diplomats or those born to invading armies – are United States citizens. Period.”

23/06/2025

"In the late ’90s through the early 2000s Moshood’s annual fashion show and block party was a Brooklyn staple—until Fort Greene’s gentrification drove up rents, forcing many businesses, including Moshood, further up Fulton Street to Restoration Plaza. Yet, the spirit behind his brand remains unshaken. With a loyal customer base, Moshood could relocate anywhere—even to Mars—and his followers would still find him."

Juneteenth at Moshood's Village. I stopped by an old friend's shop Moshood yesterday at the Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn for the Juneteenth Celebration. It ...

15/06/2025

15/06/2025

https://youtu.be/6x40IYw-Qm8?si=pxXmslL1YgoZ6dQi

Thousands of New Yorkers joined protesters across America on Saturday to resist Trump’s authoritarianism. America is not a Monarchy, it’s a Democracy! NO KIN...

14/06/2025

https://www.nyclu.org/event/no-kings-new-york-city-march

09/06/2025

I was among the journalists at the Black History Month celebration honoring Congressman Rangel a couple of years ago.

The most influential politician from Harlem and the longest serving member of the House of Representatives, Congressman Charles Rangel was among the public ...

08/06/2025

A Legend Has Passed at 94,
May his Soul Rest with the Ancestors!

Congressman Charles B. Rangel
Harlem New York, June 11, 1930 — May 26, 2025

Congressman Rangel was a trailblazer and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. He served 23 terms, 46 years in House of Representatives

Scheduled Public Service in honor of Congress Rangel

Lying in Repose
St. Aloysius Church, 219 W 132nd St., New York, NY 10027 June 9 -10, 12:00 p.m. – 8 p.m. Congressman Rangel will lie in repose at St. Aloysius Church. Members of the public, especially his beloved Harlem community, are invited to visit the Church to pay their respects.

Lying in State
City Hall, New York, NY June 11 & June 12 Congressman Rangel will lie in state at City Hall, offering the community and dignitaries a formal opportunity to honor his service and dedication to the nation. Hours TBD.

Funeral Service (Mass) June 13, 9:45 a.m.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 5th Ave between 50th St. and 51st St., New York, NY, 10022.

09/05/2025

"President Trump’s ignorant decision will impact America’s libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for Congress," Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat, posted to social media shortly after Hayden's firing became public late May 8. "His decision is a complete disgrace."

Hayden is a professional librarian nominated to the post by then-President Barack Obama in 2016.

08/05/2025

Meeting the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the World Voices Festival and book signing in New York last week felt like a full-circle moment. I’ve admired her work from afar for years, captivated by her unparalleled ability to craft characters who leap off the page, transcending race, culture, and gender with ease. As a lifelong New Yorker, I’ve mastered the local norms – folding my pizza like a pro, navigating subway stairs with precision, ensuring to keep to the right side so others can walk pass you if they’re in a rush . . . and, like Ifemelu in Americanah, I have witnessed the theatricals at my Francophone hair braider’s shop for the past 20 years. Adichie captures these vibrant, everyday moments so perfectly in her writing, weaving humor and insight into every page.
As she signed my copy of Americanah and her latest release, Dream Count, she looked up with that trademark smile and said, “So, you are my Naija Sista?” It was a moment I’ll cherish!

05/04/2025

https://youtu.be/gNoxhnq6Q4I?si=vpBZWK8KXQYNOtp1

Over a hundred thousand Anti-Trump Protesters turned out in NYC earlier today yo express their discontent over the Trump administration’s authoritarian rule…

16/02/2025

Good Reads: Understanding the Belly of the Beast.

“Vought, at a 2023 planning meeting organized in preparation for this moment, promised exactly that. People who had previously viewed themselves as patriots, working for less money than they could make in the private sector, must be forced to understand that they are evil, enemies of the state. His statement has been cited before, but it cannot be quoted enough times: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.”

How regime change happens in America

03/02/2025

“The AfDB has significantly amplified Africa’s voice in the global financial landscape. I am regularly invited to G20 Compact meetings with African heads of state - I was recently at the Rio de Janeiro summit. Africa’s voice is now heard at the negotiating table. More importantly, Africa’s priorities and solutions are part of global discussions. This is a transformed African Development Bank.”

Original version: https://afrique.latribune.fr/finances/2025-01-10/la-bad-a-amplifie-la-voix-de-l-afrique-dans-la-finance-mondiale-akinwumi-adesina-1014285.html The eighth president of the African Dev