Keith Boykin

Janeese Lewis George holds a 53% to 37% lead over her opponent, Kenyan McDuffie, in the Democratic primary for the Washington, DC mayor’s race with 64% of the votes counted. Trump has threatened to remove DC home rule if she’s elected in November.

Eight people are presumed dead in the B-52 crash in California today. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing portraits of Black generals and spending millions of dollars on ribeye steaks and lobster tails.

Reporters should ask everyone who attended Trump’s 80th birthday spectacle on the South Lawn of the White House if they will condemn UFC fighter Josh Hokit (on the record) for attacking former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Aerial footage of the celebration in New York: You see people out on their fire escapes, on their balconies, clinging on the side

The only game the Knicks lost since April 23 was the one game that Donald Trump attended.

VIDEO: Tourists visit the Kennedy Center at 8:30 Saturday morning to document that Trump’s name has been removed from the memorial. Workers built scaffolding and covered the project with a tarp around 2 o’clock this morning to conduct the removal in secret to save Trump the embarrassment.

As Trump’s name comes down off the Kennedy Center, Americans should know this was a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars to stroke one delusional man’s ego.

Racism is holding a 17-year-old Black kid to a higher standard than the 80-year-old white man who is President of the United States.

Karmelo Anthony got 35 years in prison. A Black teenager. A white judge. A jury with no Black members. Less than 3 hours to convict a scholar-athlete. And they call it justice.

Trump promised he would bring down prices "on Day 1" if he was elected. It's now Day 506 and inflation just climbed to its highest level in three years. When Biden left office in January 2025, inflation was 3.0%. Now it's up to 4.2% because of Trump.

Apparently, Iran shot down the US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz last night while the US commander-in-chief was busy sleeping at the Knicks game.

Trump says Iran’s military shot down a US Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz and the US must respond. The same military he claimed was totally destroyed last month.

Trump has refused to allow a celebrated soccer official from Somalia to enter the US to referee the World Cup. Omar Artan was named referee of the year by the Confederation for African Football. But Trump hates Somalis. He says Somali immigrants are “garbage” and Somalia is “not even a country.”

Former Trump aide Caroline Sunshine says unqualified Bill Pulte is a “fantastic choice” for director of national intelligence because “we don’t need any more experts.” Wrong answer. Federal law actually requires the DNI to be an expert.

A tiny fraction of Republicans are slowly starting to realize that Trump is toxic for the midterm elections. 1. They push back on his $1.8 billion slush fund 2. They call out his unqualified DNI pick, Bill Pulte. 3. They reject his candidate for Iowa governor. 4. They vote to stop his war on Iran.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advances to the mayoral election in November.

Are Republicans slowly starting to grow a baby spine? First, they speak up against Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund. Then they criticize his unqualified DNI pick, Bill Pulte. And now they have rejected Trump’s endorsed candidate for Iowa governor, Randy Feenstra. Probably just a coincidence. 😒

CBS News has fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley.

Republicans criticize Bill Pulte, Trump's pick for DNI: Senate Republican Leader John Thune: “We don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.” Senator John Cornyn (R-TX): “I see no evidence of any qualifications for that job.”

MAGA Republicans love to play tough guy — lifting weights, doing pull-ups, and now hosting a UFC cage match at the White House — but they're afraid to stand up to the bully in their midst.

Bill Pulte, the unqualified 37-year-old man Trump just chose to be director of national intelligence, was so shady that he was kicked off the board of his family's construction company. Now he owns some run-down trailer parks in Florida.

Trump has named his personal henchman, Billl Pulte, to be acting director of national intelligence. Pulte abused his position as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to send baseless criminal referrals against Letitia James and Lisa Cook. He has no experience in national intelligence.

The Justice Department says it will “abide by” a federal court ruling not to proceed with Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund. The announcement on social media did not indicate whether DOJ would still seek to appeal the court’s decision.

But I thought he said the war was ending soon.

A former Accenture employee is suing the company for firing him because of his dreadlocks. Joseph Nelzy had an “exemplary performance record" at Accenture but was fired two months after the company eliminated its diversity and inclusion goals last year when Trump took office.

Two Black families whose children died after they were used as test subjects in a vaccine trial without their parents’ consent have sued the federal government. But if you know your history, you know this has happened before.

A federal judge has reopened Trump’s case against the IRS to investigate “grievous allegations” that his $1.776 billion deal was “premised on deception.” The judge noted that the IRS had a 25-page memo of defenses to Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit but DOJ never raised the arguments in court.

Louisiana Republicans have passed a new congressional map to eliminate a majority-Black House district. The bill, once signed by Republican Governor Jeff Landry, would eliminate the district represented by Rep. Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat.

A federal judge has ordered Trump to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and halt his plan to close the venue for two years. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit from Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH).

Two Black families whose children died after they were used as test subjects in a vaccine trial without their parents’ consent have sued the federal government. Sample tissues from the boys’ autopsies were stolen to develop the RSV vaccine that is now used around the world.

Dell gets a a $9.7 billion Pentagon contract after Trump buys more than $1 million of the company’s stock.

The Treasury Department is designing a new $250 bill with Trump’s face on it for the 250th anniversary of America. Under federal law, no living person is allowed to appear on US currency, so either Trump is planning to die or they plan to break the law to honor the first criminal as president.

Trump building a UFC stadium at the White House, painting the reflecting pool blue, and erecting a billion dollar ballroom while Americans are struggling to pay for groceries, health care, and gas is exactly what you’d expect for a rich old white guy who’s out of touch with reality.

When quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee in a silent protest about the murder of Black people, Trump pressured NFL owners to fire him. But when quarterback Jaxson Dart spoke at a Trump rally last week, suddenly it was okay for NFL players to do politics again.

Trump tore down Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC and put up statues of racist enslavers around the city. This is just a warning shot of the backlash to come.

The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on US companies to keep their promise on voting rights. Back in 2021, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Target, PayPal, Intel, and Starbucks all demanded Congress pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. So where are they now?

America will pay reparations to anybody but Black people.

If the US can prosecute former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the extrajudicial killings of four people in international airspace 30 years ago, then Trump should be prosecuted for the extrajudicial killings of nearly 200 people in international waters in the past year.

Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, are suing to block Trump’s $1.8 billion payout to himself and his fellow insurrectionists. The lawsuit calls Trump’s fund “the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century.”

Former Congressman Barney Frank has died at 86. He was the first member of Congress to come out as gay and the first to enter a same-sex marriage. He was a co-author of the Dodd-Frank law. And on a personal note, he wrote a blurb for the back cover of my first book in 1996. May he rest in peace.

BREAKING: Four Republicans break with Trump as the US Senate votes 50-47 to advance a resolution that would force Trump to end the war on Iran without congressional authorization.

One day after paying himself $1.8 billion to settle a frivolous lawsuit, Trump forces the IRS to drop all tax claims against him, his family, and his company. The U.S. government is “forever barred and precluded” from examining or prosecuting them. An astonishing level of corruption in two days.

Trump has endorsed scandal-plagued Ken Paxton over incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary. Cornyn voted with Trump 99% of the time, and even introduced a bill to name a highway after him. Let this be a lesson to Republicans. Trump has no loyalty to anyone except Trump.

They still don’t get it.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

Trump announced on Monday that he plans to bring in 10,000 more white people from South Africa into the United States at a cost of $100 million. The move came on the same day he announced $1.8 billion in reparations to white people.

Trump just paid $1.8 billion in REPARATIONS to himself and his allies. And now that he’s set the precedent, it’s time to pay Black people too.

Even by Trump’s crooked standards, this is outrageous. It’s not just corrupt to steal taxpayer money for his personal needs, it is treasonous to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States. Trump should be thrown out of office, prosecuted, and put in prison.

As America races to dismantle 70 years of civil rights protections, one well-known Black man is enabling them.

Trump is planning to pay $1.7 billion in REPARATIONS to white people. Yes, that’s exactly what this is. The same government that refuses to compensate Black people for hundreds of years of slavery and second-class citizenship now wants to pay reparations to Trump’s cronies. Straight up racism.