Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 9 months ago
The LeMoyne-Owen College is set to introduce men’s volleyball to its athletic program in the 2024-2025 season, joining the ranks of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (SIAC) NCAA Division II teams. This development makes LeMoyne-Owen the seventh SIAC HBCU to sponsor men’s...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
From pizza joints to personal styling, local minority business owners from all industries showcased their goods and services last week at the first Minority Business Expo hosted by Williamson Inc.’s Black Business Coalition at the Turner Theater in the Factory at Franklin. Visitors to the inaugur...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 9 months ago
Among soul music fans, few things are as emotionally charged as comparisons between Stax Records and Motown. And now the Soulsville Foundation’s 2024 Black History Month production commemorates both labels in its 2024 Black History Month original production: “Stax Meets Motown.” The presentation is...
by Toter - 9 months ago
A group of researchers at the University of Alabama have established a new website compiling historical records of enslaved people who labored on the university’s campus before the start of the Civil War. The University of Alabama project is part of a larger effort from the Consortium of Unive...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago
We are excited to announce that the application process for Cohort 4 of the SSREI Green Belt program will officially OPEN on Monday, February 19! Early registration ends with this open registration on Monday. So we invite YOU to apply today. You are receiving this invitation to apply early becau...
by Toter - 9 months ago
Ask yourself this. Given what you've witnessed of Biden's decline, would you fill in the oval in support of Joe Biden for another 4 years? The post NY Times: Another Major Biden Defector first appeared on The Black Sphere.
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
DJ Khaled has never been sure and confident of himself from the very beginning, so it’s no surprise that he has high hopes for his new album — especially since one of his longtime collaborators will be assisting on it. On Sunday (February 18), the 48-year-old took to Instagram to tease an upcoming p...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago
& by Spenser A. Warren, University of California, San Diego Fresh U.S. intelligence circulating in Congress reportedly indicates that Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon in space with a nuclear component. News reports speculating about what the weapon could be abounded after Rep. Mike...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 9 months ago
Denton Loudermill, a Kansas City Chiefs fan cuffed during last week’s mass shooting and mistakenly identified in social media rumors as the shooter, seeks to clear his name. Image from Getty Many may be familiar with this picture of a man in a red jumpsuit at the super bowl parade last wee...
by Toter - 9 months ago
Manya Whitaker, executive vice president and chief of staff at Colorado College, has been selected to serve as the college’s interim president for the next two years. Dr. Whitaker’s selection follows the resignation of former president, L. Song Richardson, the first woman of color to lea...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 14:41 EST, 19 February 2024 | Updated: 14:47 EST, 19 February 2024 Boston activists have urged the city to lavish $15 billion in reparations to black residents, stoking fears of a potential strain on resources...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
Lansing Eastern High School freshman Nautikah Garcia can easily drop the names of dozens of hip-hop and rap artists throughout the past five decades: “Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Aaliyah, Big Gee, 50 Cent, Rihanna, Tupac … “They’ve influenced pop culture, language, fashion and even a women’s movement fo...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
(NewsNation) — In the vibrant streets of 1970s New York City’s Bronx borough, a young Jamaican American disc jockey ignited a musical revolution that would bring people together and pioneer groundbreaking techniques that led him to become the founding father of hip-hop music. He was born Clive Camp...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
Lansing Eastern sophomore Alana Gabriel explains pieces of hip-hop history with Matinga Ragatz of Lansing, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, as part of the ‘Finding Common Ground: This is Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary” museum. Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal One of the rap museum pieces on dis...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago
We need your urgent assistance to protect public notices in newspapers! TOMORROW,& SB 252& is scheduled to be amended in committee, putting public notices at risk and reversing the original intent of the bill. This is a critical moment, and we need your voice to ensure that public notice...
