Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
The Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, under the leadership of Iris Y. Martinez, is proud to announce its first-ever Juvenile Expungement Train the Trainer program. This groundbreaking event, a historic milestone for the office,...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
Photo: Getty Images A former Charlotte, North Carolina police officer was caught on camera stealing money from a Black man during an arrest, per WSOC. Ex-officer Henry Chapman was arrested on charges of embezzlement in connection to the March 14 ar...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
*As folks continue waiting for some form of reparations to be made official, Jasmine Crockett, a congresswoman in Texas may have a way for Black Americans and the country as a whole to come out winners overall on the divisive issue: tax breaks. Du...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
More than half of Detroiters rent Detroit’s aging housing stock. Suzanne Tucker/Getty Images by Roshanak Mehdipanah, University of Michigan; Kate Brantley, University of Michigan, and Melika Belhaj, University of Michigan Detroiters who face rising...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
1957—Althea Gibson becomes the first Black person (male or female) to win the singles championship at Wimbledon. JULY 3 1775—Prince Hall founds African Lodge Number One—the first Black lodge of Free Masons in the United States. Hall would becom...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
TeQuan Penny was just 16 years old when she was diagnosed with HIV. She got the virus from sexual activity with a partner who was “much older” than her, who didn’t disclose his positive status. When she got meningitis two years later, her immune syst...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 6 months ago
By Vada Stephens The Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame has been recently honored by Blavity as one of the top 11 museums and monuments nationwide that keep the spirit of Black music alive. From Prince’s Paisley Park to Detroit’s Motown, t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Scott Benson, Detroit City Councilperson I am writing to strongly rebut statements made in a June 19 Detroit News column written by Bankole Thompson about the work of the Wealth Generation Task Force (WGTF), which I convened and chaired. Thompson...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
You have reported that Harford County schools will not offer Advanced Placement African American Studies after a majority of school board members voted to eliminate that course because they consider it divisive and political (“Harford schools wrong...
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Nubian Books, located in Morrow, was the only Black-owned bookstore in Clayton County. It is now the only bookstore in the county. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice Sandwiched between a TJ Maxx and a DTLR outlet, the one and only Black-own...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
· 97% of Black-owned businesses have just one employee — the owner. · Annual revenue for Black-owned businesses are lower than the revenues of other businesses in the Atlanta area, and Black-owned businesses are overrepresented in lower-revenue indu...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
By Reginald WilliamsSpecial to the AFROThe marginalization of Black women in health care continues to be plagued by dismissive medical professionals and practices.& Historically, Black women experience disproportionately poor health outcomes. Str...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Many African Americans, gathered June 29 at The OBSERVER’s “It’s OK Brotha” Mental Health and Resource Fair in Oak Park to discuss resources and advice surrounding Black men’s mental health. Throughout the event, men of color across different ages a...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Carolyn Jones (CALMATTERS) – The battle over trans rights has mostly played out at school boards, but is now erupting in Sacramento as lawmakers seek to limit local authority on the issue. Following a raucous, emotional hearing last week in...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Don Thompson | KFF Health News SACRAMENTO — A federal judge has found top California prison officials in civil contempt for failing to hire enough mental health professionals to adequately treat tens of thousands of incarcerated people with s...
