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United States Senator Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock to be Honored with the Trailblazer Award on June 23 at Together We Sing

Texas Instruments, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, Reps. Rhetta Bowers and Morgan Meyers among list of local winners for outstanding commitment to DEI DALLAS, (June XX, 2024) – Project Unity is elated to announce the winners of the 2024 Unity Awar...

Quinn Minute – Good manners

by Rix Quinn Did you know that 4,000 years ago people lived without rules? With no restrictions, imagine the chaos, imagine the confusion…imagine the fun. That changed when Babylon’s King Hammurabi pulled out his ball-point chisel, an...

Illinois DCFS to Recruit at Chicago Urban League Job Fair

In an effort to expand its workforce, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services will participate in the Chicago Urban League’s citywide job fair on June 25. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UIC Forum, located at 7...

J. Pharoah Doss: Are reparations supposed to right historical wrongs?

Since Rep. John Conyers introduced H.R. 40, a bill to investigate and redress the impact of slavery on Black Americans, in 1989, the term “reparations” has evolved to mean “reparations for slavery.” Nonetheless, the phrases were not interchangeable i...

White Student Who Broke Black Girl’s Nose In Racist Attack Gets 18 Months

Photo: Getty Images A white teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile custody in connection to a racist attack against a Black student at a Kansas high school, per KSHB. The sentencing comes after the November 2023 attack against Black s...

White Teen Who Broke Black Girl’s Nose In Racist Attack Is Sentenced To 18 Months In Juvenile Custody

A white teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile custody in connection to a racist attack against a Black student at a Kansas high school, per KSHB. The sentencing comes after the November 2023 attack against Black student Brey’an...

New Ways to Understand Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Disease

Did you know that studying biomarkers has dramatically improved our understanding of brain changes that occur as we age, as well as those that occur in the earliest phases of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or other types of dementia?Medical Science Hospita...

A Survey of Second Thessalonians

The wonderful sequel to I Thessalonians is II Thessalonians which was written by the Apostle Paul from Corinth in A.D. 51. Paul wrote this very informative epistle to comfort and correct a severe problem that had upset the spiritual health of the ch...

Navigating Alzheimer’s: Tips to boost brain health and help caregivers

June is Brain Health Awareness Month DALLAS – Age may be just a number, but as we add more candles to our birthday cake our risk for cognitive decline also increases. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that slowly destro...

Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer Passes Away at 51

Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer passed away Sunday night, according to an announcement from his family. Deer represented the county’s second district. He was 51. The family said in a statement, “Dr. Deer’s passionate lifelong d...

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks two years after Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Tashi McQueenAFRO Political WriterTmcqueen@afro.com With the first presidential debate of this election season just days away, Vice President Kamala Harris (D) made a stop in College Park, Md. to recognize the second anniversary of the U.S. Suprem...

Pres. Joe Biden applauds U.S. Supreme Court following United States v. Rahimi

By Ashlee BanksSpecial to the AFRO The Biden-Harris administration and members of Congress applaud the U.S. Supreme Court for upholding a law that temporarily bans domestic abusers from possessing firearms.“As a result of today’s ruling, survivors of...

COLUMN: How Angel Reese Outshining Caitlin Clark Flips The Script

On Sunday (June 23), the media darling of women’s basketball, the athlete tabbed as the central protagonist in her sport’s revival, got upstaged by the so-called villain.& And it was glorious.& Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky tr...

Opinion: Black Vote, Black Power: Why Black Republicans aren’t persuading Black voters

By Keith BoykinWord in Black “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark...

Sha’Carri Richardson sprints onto US Olympic team after winning 100 in 10.71 seconds

By Eddie PellsAP National Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Two steps before she reached the finish line, Sha’Carri Richardson started pounding her chest.She knew she had it won. Anyone who doesn’t see her as the sprinter to beat later this summ...