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Why Are Teachers So Unhappy?

Originally appeared in Word in Black By Joseph Williams A new survey finds teachers at high-poverty (read Black) schools are dealing with far more than assigning lessons and grade papers. Four years after a global pandemic completely disrup...

Regional Transportation Authority – Event No. 230 – Creative Services

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Hope is not the same as optimism, a psychologist explains − just look at MLK’s example

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a champion for equity in education. Civil Rights Movement co-founder Dr. Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Mrs. Juanita Abernathy (not pictured) follow with Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the Abernathy chil...

Ahead of WrestleMania XL, These Black Women Wrestlers Body Slam Misogynoir

By Evan F. Moore Last fall, after a very long time, I started watching pro wrestling again (the last time I checked, WWE Smackdown took place on Thursday nights — don’t be mad at me, Wrestling Twitter). As I started watching WWE, AEW (All Elite...

March jobs report comes in hot: The US economy added 303,000 positions last month

Job growth remains plentiful at American businesses.Employers added 303,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The total far surpasses economists’ expectations of 205,000 and for the jo...

Boebert continues stoking controversy amid intense battle to keep her job

Three months after Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized for disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, the Colorado Republican attended a glitzy Republican gala headlined by former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, where her behavior once again raised ey...

US Army Corps of Engineers plans to reopen Baltimore channel affected by bridge collapse by end of May

Just over a week after the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it plans to fully reopen the channel leading to the Baltimore port by the end of May – a significant update since the disaster...

The Atlanta Voice – April 5, 2024

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J. Pharoah Doss: I’m not a White man but my employer is forcing me to be one

& Mostafa Hefny, an Egyptian-born man who identified as Nubian, sued the United States government in 1997 to change his racial classification from White to Black. Since the 1940s, people of North African and Middle Eastern heritage have been lega...

Black Man Charged With DUI After Cop Opens Sealed Bottle, Plants It In Car

Photo: Getty Images A Tallahassee, Florida police officer appeared to be caught on camera opening a sealed bottle of alcohol and planting it as evidence to charge a Black man with a DUI, per Our Tallahassee. Calvin Riley Sr., 56, was pulled over fo...

Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps alive campaign to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

(CNN) —& Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bluntly warned Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday that moving ahead with an aid package for Ukraine would be one of “the most egregious things he could do” as she said she was “not backing off at all” over her...

NAACP National President Urges Black Athletes to Boycott States that Eliminate DEI

Most of the nation is fixated on the NCAA’s Basketball March Madness Tournament to see which team will win the National Championship. But Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, has taken to the media urging Black high school athletes to tur...

FAFSA Fiasco Could Keep Black Kids Out of College This Fall

By Joseph Williams Originally appeared in Word in Black It’s been one thing after another with the new-but-not-necessarily-improved Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a form that helps students pay for college. First, the long-anti...

Five Dallas-area Teens Rep the Big D at Disney Dreamers Academy

Ever been sitting outside on an August summer day in Dallas and wondered, “why in God’s name would the first people to find this place find it, set up shop, hang out for a bit, then experience the first summer and still decide to stay?” Between dabb...

Dallas Love Field Prepares for April 8th Total Eclipse

DALLAS, TX – Dallas Love Field (DAL) is preparing for the highly anticipated Total Eclipse event on April 8, 2024, expecting a significant increase in travelers due to this celestial event of the year. With projections indicating a 30% increase in ro...