Wayne G. Davis, One of the FBI’s First Black Agents, Dies at Age 81
Wayne G. Davis, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who served as special agent in charge of the Detroit, Indianapolis and Philadelphia offices, died Thursday.
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Emmerson Buie Jr. Becomes First African American to Lead FBI’s Chicago Field Office
Emmerson Buie Jr. has become the first African American to serve as special agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office.
Barnes & Thornburg First Major Firm to Have 3-Ex-U.S. Attorneys As Partners Who are African Americans
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Barnes & Thornburg, based in Indianapolis, is the first major law firm to have three former U. S. Attorneys as partners who are African American. The firm has 13 offices and is among the 100 largest in the U.S. The former U.S. Attorneys include Mike Battle, who served in the Western District…
FBI Spied on African American Novelist James Baldwin for More Than Decade
James Baldwin, a famous African American writer, was pursued for more than a decade by the FBI because of paranoia about his politics, according to a new biography, “All the Strangers” by Douglas Field.
Loretta Lynch Makes History: Senate Confirms Her as First African American Woman Attorney General
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Making history doesn’t always come easy. But that’s what Loretta Lynch did on Thursday, finally securing the Senate confirmation as the new Attorney General, the first African American to do so. The five month battle played out, with some Republicans opposing her because of her view on immigration reform. CNN reported…
Retired DEA Agent Was Trailblazer for Better Treatment of African Americans, Women in Bureau
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Arthur Lewis, the first African American acting deputy administrator of the DEA, rose to prominence after starting his career on the hardscrabble streets of Harlam as an undercover agent. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Lewis is credited with breaking down racial barriers and winning a legal battle in the 1970s to improve…
A 1947 Memo Shows FBI Trained Agents to Exploit Perceived Weaknesses of Minority Groups
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents were trained to exploit the perceived weaknesses of various minority groups, including Mexicans, Catholics and black people, according to a bureau memo from 1947, the U.S. News & World Report writes. Compiled for the FBI’s field agents, the memo describes Mexicans as “slow to respond.” Catholics, according to the report,…
$100K Down the Toilet: Scandal Rocks DC Suburb as FBI Investigates
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The former school superintendent is behind bars. County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife are whisked away in handcuffs by FBI agents, after authorities say she flushed evidence in the form of a $100,000 check down the toilet. And a few days later, three county cops are indicted in…
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