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Best Karaoke Night EVER: Tennessee Mass Choir members crash East Memphis Karaoke Night

Karaoke Night at Neil’s Music Room in East Memphis may never be the same. Let’s face it: most people who grab the mic on karaoke night can’t really sing. Maybe they can sing (as in carry a tune), but they can’t REALLY sing (a...

Kearney and Albi appointed to National League of Cities leadership positions

Contributed The National League of Cities appointed Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney and Councilmember Anna Albi to provide strategic direction and guidance for NLC’s federal advocacy agenda and policy priorities. Councilmember Albi was ap...

Black Girls Stay Lit: A literacy movement to empower black girls

By Dr. Tiffany Noelle, PhD Founder, Director & Chief Facilitator Dr. Tiffany Noelle. Provided Black Girls Stay Lit (BGSL), a Cincinnati-based in-person and virtual after-school/summer program, is a literacy movement to affirm, support a...

NDG Book Review: Great reads for Women’s History Month

By Terri Schlichenmeyer You can do it. All your life, you’ve been told that you can do anything you set your mind to do. Try new things, get better at old things, dream big and act bigger. You can be soft and tough at the same time. And if you need a...

National Urban League unveils 2024 State of Black America Report

The National Urban League has unveiled its highly anticipated 2024 State of Black America Report, a comprehensive benchmark and thought leadership document offering profound insights into racial equality in the United States. Established in 1976 unde...

SMU: Artifact could be linked to Spanish explorer Coronado’s expedition across Texas Panhandle

(Newswise) — DALLAS (SMU) – It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle. But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he gets a mental image of...

Guilty verdict in the 2002 murder of hip-hop icon Jam Master Jay

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent After years of speculation and decades of frustration for family members, detectives, and fans alike, a federal jury in Brooklyn has finally reached a verdict in the murder trial of hip-hop pioneer...

Texas Senator Nathan Johnson wins in Democratic primary for Senate District 16

Incumbent State Senator Nathan Johnson won the Democratic Primary Election for Senate District 16 with approximately 60% of the vote. Reflecting on the election outcome, Johnson said, “We ran a positive race about understanding the needs of the distr...

Study reveals officer-involved killings of unarmed black individuals linked to adverse sleep outcomes in Black community

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent A comprehensive national study has brought to light distressing connections between officer-involved killings of unarmed Black individuals and adverse sleep outcomes within the African American com...

Don’t politicize the very real human trafficking problem

By Allen R. Gray NDG Contributing Writer We survive on the belief that all men have been emancipated, set free of slave shackles. Not necessarily so. Enslavement has merely been baked deeper into the American system. It might be argued that the 13th...

A Giant of the Community: The life and legacy of Dr. W. Larry Lundy

Born during the great depression and segregation in Selma, Alabama, he overcame the odds to become a podiatrist and start his own practice. He worked his way through college and podiatry school and became the first person in his family to become a do...

Cincinnatian’s Hydeia Broadbent leaves impact on H.I.V and AIDS awareness

Cincinnatian Hydeia Broadbent, who was born with the H.I.V virus, recently died at the age of 39. A few years ago, I toured across Ohio with her and Marvelynn Brown, who contacted the virus by having unprotected sex. They toured universities and co...

BLP Studio pitching a ‘multi-agency police substation’ on proposed film lot in Whitehaven

With a film production set to begin this month, BLP Film Studio requested a permanent law enforcement presence be considered at the site of its planned 100-acre South Memphis film lot during an update to Memphis City Council Parks and Tourism Committ...

Cincinnati police captain Danita Pettis celebrates 25 years of service

By Jerome Waller Herald Contributor Captain Danita Pettis recently earned her 25 Year Service Award from the Cincinnati Police Department. This award reflects the highs and lows of serving, seeing, and responding to an array of challenges enro...

SUPER TUESDAY ROUNDUP: Sawyer wraps up Democratic nomination for Court Clerk

Former Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer will be the Democratic Party nominee for General Sessions Court Clerk, after toppling incumbent General Sessions Court Clerk Joe Brown to win her Super Tuesday primary race on March 5. Meanwhile, Presiden...