Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Every day, I board the M101 bus on the East Side for my five-mile, half-hour commute to the CUNY School of Medicine in Harlem, where I am dean. The neighborhoods connected by this bus line offer a striking illustration of the health disparities that persist in our city and country. On the Upper Eas...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer California State Assembly member Lori Wilson. Stock photo, OBSERVER Credit: Louis Bryant III Elected leaders, activists and experts gathered online Feb. 9 for a discussion on the movement to abolish indentured servitude from the California Constituti...
by Toter - 9 months ago
The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) is proud to announce the successful completion of the Foundation Fingerprint Course, held from January 29, 2024, to February 9, 2024. The programme, facilitated by Mr. Narace Ramnarine of the Law Enforcement Advanced Development Company Ltd (L.E.A.D.C.O),...
by Toter - 9 months ago
By BigEyeUg Team In a recent development stirring up controversy within Uganda’s social media circles, the family of young TikTok sensation Rango Tenge Tenge has reportedly expressed intentions to reclaim custody of their son. Rango Tenge Tenge Their aim is to remove him from the...
by Toter - 9 months ago
University Students have been urged to make good use of available technology to not only ready themselves for work life but also use the same to make their professions better.& This candid advise is premised on the fact that technology can be adopted and used to improve products and service...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Arzella J. Valentine, 97, accepted a CLBC/CBCC Business Award for owning Woods-Valentine Mortuary in Pasadena. The mortuary started in 1928 and Ms. Valentine and her now-deceased husband Fred Valentine bought the business in 1958. Feb. 12, 2024. (...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Nadira Jamerson | Word In Black Amira Virgil is a gaming content creator and community organizer. Photo courtesy of Amira Virgil. Illustration by Nadira Jamerson/Word In Black. (WIB) – Jerry Lawson and Ed Smith, Black pioneers in the gaming industry, revolutionized home gaming in the...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
The Simpsons, which celebrates its 500th episode on Feb. 19, has had a long history of famous guest stars including musicians, actors and artists. In a new episode on March 4, some of the most famous street artists of the present day will be featured on the Fox animated comedy. Photos: THR Goes Beh...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By The Associated Press Sculptor Ed Dwight, left, and Dr. Vern Howard, chairman of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission, discuss the vandalism to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument in City Park, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Denver. Dwight designed the monument while Ho...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Scott Thomas Anderson | Solving Sacramento Dre Benjamin, out front, and the NolaCal Second Liners, lead the Krewes and Kings of Queens Parade in Oak Park on Feb. 3. (Photo by Scott Thomas Anderson) Festive feathers of a madcap umbrella jump with the snare beats as Dre Benjamin comes dancin...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
A university has said it will “not tolerate” any form of discrimination after what it described as antisemitic graffiti was found painted on a campus building. Two messages were daubed onto the Lasdun Wall walkway at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich. A spokesperson said t...
Entertainment / Music - 9 months ago
The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion to have the infamously spray-painted skyscraper cleaned and secured. The owners of the half-built Oceanwide Plaza in downtown L.A. were given until last weekend to take action on their own, but with no response, the city began a $3.8 million process that...
by Toter - 9 months ago
Socialite Bad Black claims that SB4 Media dumped media personality Ann Taylor for a one London-based chic. In a video shared on her Snapchat, Bad Black alleges that SB4 who’s now a “Ssalongo” after welcoming twins with Ann, dumped Ann Taylor and went on with a London based woman who she didn...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago
By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said he will have no problem steering Black athletes away from colleges and universities in Alabama if state lawmakers passed a bill that would prohibit public institutions of higher education from maintaining diversity, equit...
News / Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs - 9 months ago
Times staff report Some of the greatest individuals in Black history have delivered some of the most significant speeches in American history. Their names and words are iconic. In the 1800s, Sojourner Truth—born into slavery, and dedicated to the causes of abolition and obtaining equal rights for wo...
