2022-10-06 14:48
Wheeling, W.Va. (AP) – As the old saying goes, to know how someone really feels, walk a mile in their shoes.
The new “Civic Empathy Through History” exhibit at the Ohio C… Read More
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2022-10-06 14:48
Former longtime New York Jets offensive linemen Marvin Powell and Jim Sweeney have died this week, the team announced Sunday.
Powell was a three-time All-Pro at right tackle and served as p… Read More
2022-10-06 14:48
Fort Myers, Fla. (AP) – In darkness and despair, there were flickers of light and hope, even for Jane Compton who lost her home and possessions to Hurricane Ian’s wrath. As the… Read More
2022-10-06 14:48
Washington (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday took up an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States and seemed… Read More
2022-10-06 14:48
(Black PR Wire) – Nikki Giovanni is one of one of America’s most celebrated poets and one of the best-selling poets in the United States. Her work includes poetry anthologies, p… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Greenwood, Miss. (AP) – Funeral services were held Monday for the Mississippi prosecutor who worked on one of the renewed investigations into the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmet… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Los Angeles (AP) – Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced. He was 81.
San… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Orlando, Fla. (Black PR Wire) – Blacks In Technology, LLC and the Blacks In Technology Foundation (BIT) are hosting BITCON 2022, their 4th annual conference for Black IT professionals… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Whitehall, N.Y. (AP) – A town justice in upstate New York who bragged to colleagues about pulling a loaded gun on a “large Black man” in court should be removed from of… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
(StatePoint) – If you dream of homeownership, having your mortgage application denied can be devastating. If this does happen to you, it’s important to remember that you’r… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Like other South Florida towns, the City of Fort Lauderdale is on the brink of banning cigarette smoking and vaping on the city’s public beaches and park… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
(StatePoint) – Black Americans have served in the U.S. Armed Forces since the Revolutionary War, paving the way for Black service members today.
“It is also important we foster… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Miami-Gardens, Fla. (AP) – Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins’ offense were barely on the field Sunday. But Miami’s defense kept Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills… Read More
2022-10-03 06:47
Writer/director Tyler Perry had never had a movie programed at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. He said as much on the night of his latest film’s premiere. O… Read More
2022-10-01 17:58
WASHINGTON (AP) – The way President Joe Biden sees it, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade was not just about whether a woman has a right to obtain an abortion.
“It’s about fre… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Chicago (AP) – Renowned jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis, whose music entertained fans over a more than 60-year career that began with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and made him one of the country&r&helli…Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Nebraska born Islamic minister, civil rights icon, and human rights activist Malcolm X recently became the first Black honoree to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. He was pr… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Miami, Fla. – A movement to showcase the artwork of talented Black female South Florida artists has made its way to Liberty City in a monthlong exhibition that brings recognition for… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Los Angeles (AP) — Maury Wills, who intimidated pitchers with his base stealing prowess as a shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers on three World Series championship teams, has died… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP) – Stillman College’s first female president, Cynthia Warrick, has announced plans to retire after leading the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based historically… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn disclosed that he lost three races before being elected to his first position in Congress as representative of South Carolina’s 6th District, during his… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
The mighty women of the Agojie were warriors. From the 1600s to1800s in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey this all-female military regiment gallantly fought their empire’s enemies… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
Wyatt Worthington II understood well the task ahead, and the Methodist University graduate knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Worthington and the United States team traveled to the other side… Read More
2022-09-22 16:34
West Palm Beach, Fla. – Floyd Andrews of West Palm Beach, a decades-long basketball coach and educator, succumbed to illness under hospice care at his home on Sept. 14 at age 85.
Andr… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP) – Tyreek Hill’s success with Kansas City made it easy to imagine the impact he’d make on this new team.
Hill made his Dolphins debut in Sunday&rs&helli…Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
New York (AP) – Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War i… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Miami, Fla. – City of Miami Commissioners have been heavily criticized by the Virginia Key Beach Trust board and numerous others for planning to house dozens of homeless near the hist… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (AP) – The president of the Dominican Republic has barred Haiti’s former interim prime minister _ who is now an aspiring presidential candidate… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Omaha, Neb. (AP) – Fifteen years after being rejected as too controversial, Malcolm X is the first Black honoree to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame.
The organization… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Atalanta (AP) – Most contractors told them they would tear it down. A two-story five-bedroom Victorian built around 1900, it was abandoned and collapsing, with vines reaching it… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Miami (AP) – The Miami-Dade School Board overwhelming decided against recognizing October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History month which included a measure to te… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
“This morning I received a call from the NBA letting me know about their decision to fine Robert Sarver and suspend him from the league for one year. While I commend the league… Read More
2022-09-20 13:58
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) – Paul T. Kwami, who served as musical director of the Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers for nearly 30 years, has died, Fisk University said in a statement. He… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
Washington (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
Earnie Shavers, whose thunderous punches stopped 68 fighters and earned him heavyweight title fights with Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes, has died. He was 78.
Former British box… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
After #1 New York Times best-selling author Brit Bennett tweeted about her love and admiration for the American Girl (a doll company founded in 1986) franchise and how she would like to wr… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
Jehovah’s Witnesses have restarted their door-to-door ministry after more than two and a half years on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, reviving a religious practice that the f… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
Miami Gardens, Fla. – For many alumni and students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the return of the Orange Blossom Classic this weekend in South Florida was more tha… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
There is no doubt that we are in a housing crisis. All you have the do is turn on the news or catch a snippet of conversation at the grocery store to hear about the rising cost of insurance… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) – Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu – whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at th… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
West Palm Beach, Fla. – Nicole Jones Pierce, a former officer of the national and local alumni chapters of Florida A&M University, lost her battle with multiple myeloma Satur… Read More
2022-09-09 17:09
Historians have documented how college students contributed to the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the role college presidents played in the fight for equality… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – Jerry Ceppos, a distinguished news editor, executive and educator, whose career included leading Pulitzer Prize winning teams and two journalism schools, died… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
Along the Jordan River (AP) – Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just dipped her feet in the water where Jesus is said to… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP) –Tua Tagovailoa was on the field four hours before the game against the Raiders, visualizing how the Dolphins offense would operate Saturday night.
Tag… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
He works hard for the money. Hunting, killing and extracting teeth from vampires for a living, in the hot San Fernando Valley, is no joke.
Bud (Jamie Foxx) acts like he’s just an inn… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
(StatePoint) – Heading off to college can be an exciting, yet stressful time. You’ll be moving away from the friends and family you’ve known your whole life and will be li… Read More
2022-09-07 15:08
Memphis, Tenn. (AP) – Ralph Prater, one of the first Black students to enroll at then-Memphis State University in 1959, has died recently at 81.
“Prater’s impact on… Read More
2022-09-07 15:07
Cincinnati, OH. – Retired Judge Nadine Lovelace Allen received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Judge Allen celebrates many years of exper… Read More
2022-09-07 15:07
Miami, Fla. – North Miami Beach Police Chief Harvette Smith’s law enforcement career took her from being a secretary for the police department to becoming the first Black… Read More
2022-09-07 15:07
Winston-Salem, N.C. (AP) – Charlene Curtis, the first Black women’s head basketball coach in the ACC, died Thursday after a battle with cancer, the conference said. She wa… Read More
2022-09-01 22:55
The talk of tennis – and beyond – for most of the past three weeks has been about Serena Williams and her announcement that she is planning to stop playing professional tennis… Read More
2022-09-01 22:55
Charlottesville,, Va. (AP) – Charlottesville native Diane Brown Townes knew some of her family history from records kept in an old tattered family Bible passed down for generations an… Read More
2022-09-01 22:55
(StatePoint) – When the school bell rings at the end of the day, the learning doesn’t need to stop. Some of the latest and greatest tech can get kids excited to expand their kno… Read More
2022-09-01 22:55
If the job of an act/thr/hor is to scare the daylights out of you, “Beast” gets the job done.
The success of this film’s eye-catching, ear-grabbing hocus pocus can… Read More
2022-09-01 22:54
Washington (AP) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his long-awaited plan to deliver on his campaign promise to provide $10,000 in debt cancellation for millions of Americans… Read More
2022-09-01 22:54
Aventura, Fla. – Lynda Roberts fought back tears when she accomplished a milestone in the 69-year history of a local international service organization, becoming the first Black… Read More
2022-09-01 22:54
Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP) – Jason Jenkins, who spent nearly 14 years with the Miami Dolphins and eventually became the team’s senior vice president of communications, died unexpe… Read More
2022-09-01 22:54
Orlando, Fla. – Florida A&M University will unveil a plaque honoring its 57 original College of Law graduates at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, on the north end of the Coleman Library bu… Read More
2022-09-01 22:54
Troy, Ala. (AP) – There’s now a historic marker at the one-story brick house in Alabama where the late civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis grew up as one of 1… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
Bogalusa, La. (AP) – The home that served as the base of operations for the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement is now recognized with a marker along the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. Lt… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) – Sam Gooden, one of the original members of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 87.
His da… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
Las Vegas, Nev. – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) was back in Las Vegas last week for the first time since 2008, when the group’s guest speakers inclu… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
Camden, Del. (AP) – An idea that started more than a decade ago to help preserve centuries of Kent County history is a million steps closer to reality in Camden.
The county has recei… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
NEW YORK (AP) – Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the celebrated HollandDozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” a… Read More
2022-08-30 23:11
Last year, the U.S. branch of the Jesuits pledged to raise $100 million for a reconciliation initiative in partnership with descendants of people once enslaved by the Catholic order. On Tue… Read More
2022-08-30 23:10
Philadelphia (AP) – Sesame Place has announced the implementation of diversity and inclusion training for its employees following a $25 million class action lawsuit alleging multiple… Read More
2022-08-30 23:10
Las Vegas, Nev. – The accolades included “best of the best” … “Her stories read like novels” … “A journalist on the frontlines of history&r&helli…Read More
2022-08-30 23:10
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Florida’s alligator hunting season started Monday with new rules expanding the time and weapons that can be used.
The new rules expanded alligator hunting… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
It’s that time again: back to school, back to spending so much money on supplies. And this year, families will have to shell out even more than usual because of inflation.
Thankfully… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
“Fate will do what it wills,” says The Elder.
But what happens when fate turns out to be a series of unpredictable and ultraviolent events aboard the world’s fastest trai… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close. Click again and join thousands of pilgrims praying and circling around the cube-shaped Kaaba at Islam’s most sac… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood as communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, died a week ago at the… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
London (AP) – British civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, a leader of a bus boycott that played a key role in ending legal racial discrimination in the U.K., has died. He was 93.
Th… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
Atlanta (AP) – Everyone who moves through downtown Atlanta today passes places where innocent Black men and women were pulled from trolleys, shot in their workplaces, chased through t… Read More
2022-08-12 19:16
Today, the United States Department of Justice charged four former and current Louisville Police Officers with federal crimes of excessive force, obstruction of justice, deprivation o… Read More
2022-08-12 19:15
OIC of South Florida presents “The Middle Class Summit” August 17 and 18, at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (located at 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, Fl). The two day conference ha… Read More
2022-08-12 19:15
Miami, Fla. – At the epicenter of the nation’s affordable housing crisis, Miami-Dade County’s emergency rental assistance funding program just got a big boost from the fed… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Visit the United States Virgin Islands and your foodie experience will be as pleasurable as your playtime.
The tropical archipelago of three main and 50 smaller islands was originally inha… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Lafayette, La. (AP) – Lafayette Parish School Board member Elroy Broussard showed up to his church parish hall at 6 a.m. on a recent Saturday to get started cooking 120 pounds of chic… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Boston (AP) – Bill Russell redefined how basketball is played, and then he changed the way sports are viewed in a racially divided country.
The most prolific winner in NB… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
West Palm Beach, Fla. – Elder Fern Miles, trusted stalwart of Redemptive Life Palm Beach, died suddenly July 24 the way she cherished life: getting ready for church service.
According… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Broward County, Fla. – Republican congressional candidate Carla Spalding is facing another uphill battle to unseat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democrat, during midterm elections… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Florida City, Fla. – With the rapid increase in population, health disparities, and property development in southern Miami-Dade County, the members of the Iota Pi Lambda Chapter of Al… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards honoring the best in American prime time television programming will be held September 12, 2022 and amongst the list of talented nominees is three time Emmy a… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. – A COVID-19 Weekly Situation Report published July 15 from the Florida State Department of Health indicates 72% (15,900,810) of eligible Floridians are now p… Read More
2022-08-08 15:49
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded Children’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center (CDTC) in Ft. Lauderdale a grant totaling $1, 814, 131 towards its progr… Read More
2022-07-27 21:18
St. Louis (AP) – A man accused of killing a retired St. Louis police captain while looting a store during a violent night prompted by racial injustice protests in 2020 is facing trial… Read More
2022-07-27 21:18
Visit Houston and its rich African American heritage will amaze you. Discover historic sights, bike around iconic neighborhoods. Visit museums and cultural centers. Eat and drink around the… Read More
2022-07-27 21:18
Chicago (AP) – Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally sl… Read More
2022-07-27 21:18
Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on Monday, commencing a monthslong effort to learn… Read More
2022-07-27 21:18
Minneapolis (AP) – Two Minneapolis police snipers fatally shot a man from the roof of an apartment building across the street from where he had been holed up in an overnight standoff… Read More
2022-07-27 21:17
Lake Worth, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel has announced $3 million in grant funding awarded to Palm Beach State College by the U.S. Department of Education to expand the Upward Bound… Read More
2022-07-27 21:17
New York – With a heat wave bringing dangerously high temperatures for tens of millions of Americans, the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is providing important tips to… Read More
2022-07-27 21:17
Riviera Beach, Fla. – Juliet Bradford, who owns a home health care service in West Palm Beach, and Carla Felder have turned their passion for reading into an opportunity for children… Read More
2022-07-27 21:17
Atlanta, Ga. – “chromatic black” has launched Season Two of the Ida B. Wells Fund and calls for entries in short filmmaking and two new categories – visual art… Read More
2022-07-27 21:17
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Alison Smith, a partner at the law firm of Weiss, Serota Helfman, Cole and Bierman, is the new president for the Broward County Bar Association (BCBA), b… Read More
2022-07-18 23:13
School pride, sororities and fraternities ruled as the South Florida Historically Black College University (HBCU) Picnic was held this year Saturday at Florida Memorial University in Miami… Read More
2022-07-18 23:13
Miami, Fla. – Members of Miami’s most historic mosque celebrated the spirit of Ibrahim, or Abraham, with a communal food giveaway Saturday that happened to fall on the Eid holid… Read More
2022-07-18 23:13
Lisbon, Portugal (AP) – Jose Eduardo dos Santos, once one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers who during almost four decades as president of Angola fought the continent’s lo… Read More
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