by Toter - 5 months ago
(CNN) — It’s hard to believe we are face-to-face with a new health crisis, monkeypox, before we are even out of the woods with the previous — but still very much current — crisis, Covid-19. The pandemic, which has held the United States and almost every other country in i...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 5 months ago
By H. R. Harris, Special to the AFRO Last month, the D.C. City Council passed the Human Rights Enhancement Amendment Act to amend the Human Rights Act of 1977. The […] The post D.C. City Council passes legislation giving rights to homeless: first legislation in U.S. seeking to lift stigma of...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 5 months ago
Reporters Notebook: Inclusive civic engagement By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor The National Association of Counties (NAC) just ended their annual conference on Inclusive Civic Engagement in Colorado this week. […] The post As counties become more diverse, new voices need to be at the tabl...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 5 months ago
Lori Harvey recently took to Instagram to showcase that some of Las Vegas’ secrets are meant to be exposed. In the upload shared on July 29, Harvey was seen posing in various places in what appears to be a hallway in a hotel while flaunting her all-black ensemble. Lori Harvey stuns fans...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 5 months ago
(Photo/Twitter) This year marks the 61st anniversary of the 1961 Freedom rides through the segregated South, aimed at dismantling the Jim Crow system looming over the transportation industry at the time. Freedom Riders risked life and limb protesting illegal and often violent racial segregation thro...
by Toter - 5 months ago
Two men were in hospital after separate shootings in Gros Islet within hours of each other. According to a law enforcement official, one of the men sustained injuries to the face and back after a shooting incident at Assou Canal, Grande Riviere, Gros Islet about midnight on Saturday. The official t...
Lifestyle / Parenting/ Health - 5 months ago
Apparently, there are both mental and physical reasons behind why people have the urge to crack their knuckles. The real question though is, is it healthy? According to Michael Suk, M.D., chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Geisinger Health System, “From a mental standpoint, it’s a...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 5 months ago
Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler rocked the internet on Thursday, after uploading a video of his loc install process to Instagram. The NBA baller upgraded his look as an extension of his short cornrows, which the video shows each step: unbraiding his hair, washing his afro, and the final product of f...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 5 months ago
Rev. Johnny C. Smith,Pastor – Mount MoriahMissionary Baptist Church In chapter 17, we continue the thrilling Second Missionary Journey of Apostle Paul. Having traveled to Philippi in chapter 16, Paul goes to Thessalonica and Berea. Using the synagogue as a springboard to get into a city or communi...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 5 months ago
By Matthew Lee and Eric Tucker, The Associated Press The U.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul […] The post In rare contact, US offers Russia deal for Griner, Whelan appeared first on AFRO American Newspapers .
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 5 months ago
A Dallas department store sales clerk purportedly has been fired after a viral video put him on blast for allegedly uttering a derogatory racial slur after a Black customer walked by, in earshot of the man’s 10-year-old son. Video screenshot of Dallas father confronting a Dillard’s employeeThe fathe...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 5 months ago
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor President Joseph R. Biden kicked off a campaign to ban assault weapons on America’s streets in an address to Black law enforcement officers this […] The post Biden promotes assault weapon ban in message to National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Exec...
Lifestyle / Parenting/ Health - 5 months ago
Symptoms can be tricky because the minute we think we’ve gotten to the route of what’s causing them, we may be shocked to learn that something else is the cause. For example, all your symptoms may point to a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), when you actually have neuromyelitis opt...
by Toter - 5 months ago
A few Outdoor Afro members, including Baba Jahahara, after a vigorous 8-mile hike in the east bay hills. OA was founded by our friend, Queen Mama Rue Mapp in 2009 to encourage more Black men, women, children and families to get out in nature as well as build our community connections. OA now has th...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 5 months ago
It appears that Bill Cosby‘s attorneys are asking for a retrial in fighting back against a recent lawsuit that found the comedian liable of sexually abusing a woman named Judy Huth and awarding the alleged victim $500,000 in damages. The alleged incident reportedly occurred in the 1970s at...
