Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 7 months ago
MAY 15 1911—Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation’s leading Black fraternities, is founded on this day on the campus of Indiana University by 10 young men led by Elder W. Diggs and Byron K. Armstrong. 1942—The 93rd Infantry is activated and assig...
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(CNN) —& Rev. William Lawson, a long-time civil rights advocate and founder of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, has died, according to an obituary posted on the church’s website.& He was 95. Lawson& was known as “Houston’s Pa...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 7 months ago
by Dr. Donald Suggs ST. LOUIS AMERICAN—The fact that exit polls showed that Donald Trump received 9 percent of the Black vote in 2016, the highest number since George Bush in 2000, and then won 12 percent in the presidential race in 2020 should be a...
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By Terri Schlichenmeyer Your toes didn’t wait long before they started tapping. They knew what was coming, almost as soon as the band was seated. They knew before the first notes were played and the hep cats and jazz babies hit the floor to cut a rug...
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Warner Chappell Music (WCM) has signed a global publishing deal with 4x Grammy nominee and jazz/R&B star Patrice Rushen. She is considered one of the world’s top recording artists and composers, performing with and producing for esteemed artists...
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By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic (**) Telling someone “You have nothing between your ears,” isn’t a compliment. Telling a filmmaker and screenwriter “You have nothing between the action scenes,” also isn’t a compliment. Read on… The trailers for The...
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent In the wake of a recent survey revealing startling apprehensions among American voters regarding the possibility of a second civil war, experts in history and political science offer sobering insig...
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The City of Irving presents, Fusion, an event celebrating the beautiful tapestry of cultures, traditions and cuisine that make Irving one of the most culturally diverse cities in the nation. Fusion is Saturday, May 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at Heritage...
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent As the nation commemorates the second anniversary of the heinous Buffalo mass shooting that claimed the lives of 10 Black individuals at a Tops supermarket, a painful reality emerges: hate crimes a...
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By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Duke University sheds light on the significant health risks posed by the V142I transthyretin variant within the US Blac...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 7 months ago
The Reds signed Jeimer Candelario in December of 2023. The thought was he would add some pop to the lineup and stability at third base. He still may ultimately do that. Thus far it’s been a rough go for the Reds third baseman. He has been baptized b...
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By Taalib Saber the AFRO Historically, non-competes have been used to restrict employees from working in the same industry after leaving their former employer. Though the intention is to protect the intellectual property of businesses, non-competes h...
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By Ashlee Banks Special to the AFRO Congressional Black Caucus members are putting pressure on the Biden-Harris administration to grant protections to Haitians fleeing to the U.S. amid the unrest in the Caribbean nation. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-...
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By Lori Lee NDG Contributing Writer Every 26 seconds, someone in the U.S. defaults on a student loan. With over 45 million American borrowers, this $1.7 trillion of debt is second only to American mortgages. American borrowers, in pursuit of a better...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 7 months ago
Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Nicole Jeanine Johnson to discuss how, in his first year, he made specific and intentional investments in Chicago’s historically divested Black community and the tension caused by migrant spending. Below is part o...
