Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
Starting today (July 1), Illinois will have the second-highest gas tax rate in the nation. The motor fuel tax rises by two cents to $0.47 a gallon. The Illinois Policy Institute reported that with these changes, it will cost drivers $184 more per yea...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
The Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) has taken a monumental step forward, ratifying a new two-year contract with the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD). This landmark decision marks the first time in nearly three decades that t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Home repairs aren’t just about fixing what’s broken—they’re about restoring dignity, safety, and stability to our underserved families and everyday folks who need it most. Our homes are more than four walls and a roof; they are our...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
Photo: Getty Images A Texas woman says a Burger King employee put a racial slur on her receipt after the fast food chain got her order wrong, per Fox 7. On Sunday (June 23), the woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she ordered a fiery wrap an...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 6 months ago
Finally!!..No professional sport honors accomplishments and history of African Americans more than MLB. A historical event recently took place. MLB is now honoring Negro League stats. Many people wonder why it took so long for this to happen. The de...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen At Elmore’s Home in Orange Mound Celebrating Tom Mboya’s 60th without an Mboya there would never have been an Obama Presidency During the Civil Rights many Black Homes had the picture of John Kennedy,...
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The world’s most well-known and well-regarded 10K race, the Peachtree Road Race, will take place throughout the heart of Atlanta next week. There will be thousands of runners (and joggers and walkers, respectfully) hitting the pavement, and among th...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
Kwame Kilpatrick is straightforward about supporting Donald Trump’s return to the White House and why it isn’t terrifying as a Black man in America. “White people being racist is not a big issue for me,” he said. “My li...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) – In what may have been his greatest triumph, a very frail and emotionally tested Michael Jackson walked out of a Santa Maria, Calif., courthouse on a sunny June day in 2005, having beaten 13 charges related...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Charlene Crowell | Trice Edney Wire Hands of family together holding house in green park – family home and real estate concept (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Regardless of race, income, or geography, every family needs and deserves a pla...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Aaron Beard | The Associated Press Zaccharie Risacher, second from left, and Alex Sarr, fourth from left, both of France, stand on stage with, from left, Ron Holland, Rob Dillingham, Reed Sheppard and Dalton Knecht before the NBA basketball dr...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black Overview: Jointly produced by the Aspen Institute and the Baha’i Faith’s U.S. branch, “Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
By JT Torres | Washington and Lee University | Word In Black (WIB) – Just four years ago, following the murder of George Floyd, almost every college and university in the U.S. had at least one diversity, equity, and inclusion — or DEI — pro...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 6 months ago
By Black PR Wire Amelia Boles in “The Debutantes.” (NBC News Studios)(Black PR Wire) – Debutante balls have traditionally been associated with a particular kind of coming of age: that of teen girls who are well-to-do and, for the most pa...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 6 months ago
As the Netherlands marks on Monday 161 years since the abolition of slavery, activists have questioned the sincerity of recent apologies by Dutch authorities given they have not addressed the politically thorny issue of reparations. In December 2022...
