Allen West resigns as chairman of the Texas Republican Party and may run for governor.
Allen West spoke to supporters of President Donald J. Trump during a rally in Dallas in November.Credit.LM Otero/Associated Press
June 4, 2021, 12:03 p.m. ET
Allen West, a transplanted one-term Florida congressman and right-wing provocateur, announced his resignation on Friday as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, possibly as a precursor to running for statewide office.
“Maybe something congressional,” he suggested.
He had served in the job for less than a year.
In that short time, Mr. West a Fox News fixture who attended an event in Dallas last month at which Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald J. Trump, suggested the United States could witness a military coup has earned a reputation for taking on Democrats and Republicans with equal aplomb.
Curator Joy Bivins Is Named New Director of the Schomburg Center
As the center moves beyond the pandemic, Bivins plans to add more items reflecting the African diaspora and make those materials more accessible.
Joy Bivins will become the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on June 21.Credit.Jonathan Blanc/NYPL
June 4, 2021, 3:05 p.m. ET
Joy Bivins, who joined the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem last year, has been named director of the center.
Bivins joined the Schomburg a division of the New York Public Library and a leading repository for archival materials related to African, African diaspora and African American life, history and culture in 2020 as an associate director of collections and research services. Before that, she had served as the chief curator of the International African American Museum, in Charleston, S.C., and the director of curatorial affairs at the Chicago History Museum.
Editor of JAMA to Step Down Following Racist Incident
Dr. Howard Bauchner will leave his post after a colleague suggested “taking racism out of the conversation” on a journal podcast.
Dr. Howard Bauchner during a C-Span appearance in September. He will step down from JAMA at the end of June. Credit.C-Span.org
June 1, 2021, 2:13 p.m. ET
Following an outcry over comments about racism made by an editor at JAMA, the influential medical journal, the top editor, Dr. Howard Bauchner, will step down from his post effective June 30.
The move was announced on Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which oversees the journal. Dr. Bauchner, who had led JAMA since 2011, had been on administrative leave since March because of an ongoing investigation into comments made on the journal’s podcast.