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In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign:
- If elected, he’d rename the White House to the Blues House.
- Running mate was slated to be Phyllis Diller. “She seems to have that sua-a-a-a-ve manner; she looks far into the future. She’s looking into the future. So I’m a future man, I said to her.”
- His nominees for a stacked cabinet: Duke Ellington (minister of foreign affairs), Charlie Mingus (minister of peace), Peggy Lee (minister of labor), Malcolm X (minister of justice), Louis Armstrong (minister of agriculture), Ray Charles (Librarian of Congress), and Miles Davis (head of the CIA). Of Davis, Gillespie said: “O-o-oh, honey, you know his schtick. He’s ready for that position. He’d know just what to do in that position.”
Gillespie dropped out before the election, paving the way for Lyndon Johnson’s victory over Barry Goldwater, who Gillespie said “wants to take us back to the horse-and-buggy days when we are in the space age”.
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The actor was charged with two counts after allegedly punching two men and causing chaos at bars
The actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early on Tuesday for alleged battery in New Orleans after apparently spending the long weekend partying across the city during Mardi Gras.
The New Orleans police department confirmed that at approximately 12.45am on Tuesday officers were called to Faubourg Marigny, located next to the French Quarter, the heart of the revelry, where LaBeouf was allegedly becoming increasingly aggressive at Royal Street Inn and Bar.
Continue reading...In an interview at the Munich security conference, Clinton urged the Trump administration to ‘get the files out’
Hillary Clinton has accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” over the Epstein files, while claiming that she and her husband are being forced to testify before Congress to deflect scrutiny from Donald Trump.
In an interview with the BBC, Clinton said the US Department of Justice was “slow-walking” the release of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s catalogue of crimes and urged the administration to “get the files out”. Despite periodic document dumps of the files since Congress mandated their release late last year, the justice department is still withholding about 3m files.
Continue reading...The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination. He remained a prominent figure in US politics for more than 50 years, championing the rights of Black, poor and working-class people with his ‘rainbow coalition’. Lucy Hough speaks to columnist and host of Over the top, Under the Radar podcast Carys Afoko.
Continue reading...Follow latest updates as public figures praise civil rights leader who was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for Democratic presidential nomination
You can watch Jesse Jackson’s famous 1988 speech at the Democratic convention urging Americans to “keep hope alive” below. It quickly became an American political classic and was echoed in the “hope and change” slogan of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential campaign.
The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his “mentor” Jesse Jackson, whom he worked closely with over the civil rights era. In a tribute posted to X, Sharpton wrote:
My mentor, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has passed. I just prayed with his family by phone. He was a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world.
He shaped public policy and changed laws. He kept the dream alive and taught young children from broken homes, like me, that we don’t have broken spirits.
Continue reading...MILAAN (ANP) - Rintje Ritsma is "tevreden" met een zilveren medaille voor de vrouwen en "trots" op de mannen die vierde zijn geëindigd. Dat zei de bondscoach van de schaatsers in Milaan bij de NOS.
Ritsma stelde dat hij tevreden, maar niet blij kan zijn met de tweede plaats van de vrouwen bij de ploegenachtervolging achter olympisch kampioen Canada. "Ik heb een hekel aan verliezen", zei de bondscoach. "Blij ben ik er niet mee."
De oud-schaatser moest toezien hoe de mannen het brons verloren aan China. "We zaten er dicht bij. Het was onze beste race van het seizoen. Dat het dan op 9 honderdste van een seconde niet lukt, dat is heel zuur."
Prosecutors accused the man of trying to transport parts for a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Saiga carbine from Russia to the U.S. via Turkey.
Meerdere kades in Vlaardingen en op het Noordereiland in Rotterdam zijn dinsdagmiddag ondergelopen vanwege hoogwater. De hoogste waterstand was om 16:00 uur. Toen bereikte het water een hoogte van 2,25 meter boven NAP (Normaal Amsterdams Peil).
Ferrari Team Principal Fred Vasseur is “convinced” that most teams will “bring huge upgrades” to the second pre-season test in Bahrain, with the Frenchman also setting out his expectations for how the development race could initially unfold.