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‘Black Boys Cry’ Stage Play Shines Light on Joy, Brotherhood, and Healing

The touring play Black Boys Cry, now at the City Lit Theatre, explores the emotional journeys of seven Black men (Photo Credit: 1989 Dreams production). “Black Boys Cry,” a touring stage play, is at the City Lit Theatre. This compelling a...

COLUMN: Trump’s Debate Remark on ‘Black Jobs’ Exposes His True Nature

In a Presidential debate more cringeworthy than a straight-to-Tubi movie, one of the more uncomfortable moments occurred when the “Black people” portion of the program commenced.President Biden and Donald Trump were asked how they would address the n...

Chicago’s REACH Pathways wins $20K Prize at Summerfest Tech Pitch Competition

REACH Pathways, a startup from Chicago, won the top prize at this year’s Summerfest Tech Pitch Competition, earning a $20,000 cash award. Sponsored by Molson Coors and in partnership with Milwaukee World Festival, Inc. (MWF) and Young Enterpris...

Bally’s Chicago Casino Celebrates 1 Millionth Visitor

Just nine months after opening its temporary location in the historic Medinah Temple, Bally’s Chicago Casino welcomed its 1 millionth visitor, Don Neushwander and his partner, Hwa, from Morris, IL, who walked in together and were awarded the grand pr...

Teen on Home Confinement Charged with Murder of Retired CPD Officer

Sixteen-year-old Lazarius Watt, who turned himself in over the weekend, has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder for the shooting death of retired Chicago Police Officer Larry Neuman.& During a hearing, a Cook County judge described...

CNN Fails To Grant Credentials To Black-Owned Media Ahead Of Biden-Trump Debate

CNN continues face backlash after failing to grant credentials to Black-owned media outlets ahead of tonight’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The highly-anticipated debate is taking place at the CNN studio in Atlanta this...

UNCF’s AMI Gala Raises $700K, Celebrates Black Excellence

Target received the “A Mind Is…” Gala Corporate Award. Left to right are: Maurice E. Jenkins, Jr., executive vice president for field development, UNCF; Kenya Joyce Hatch, area development director, Chicago, UNCF; Fred Mitchell, vice president of dev...

Kidneys from Black donors are more likely to be thrown away

Corey Mayes at his New York home on Feb. 10, 2023, after receiving a kidney transplant. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images − a bioethicist explains why by Ana S. Iltis, Wake Forest University As one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., k...

Dryades YMCA

#foogallery-gallery-13278 .fg-image { width: 700px; } Prev 1of9 Next Glenda Bell Data News Weekly Contributor The Dryades YMCA kicked off its highly anticipated Capital Campaign on June...

Actress Producer and Director Tyra Barabino-Baker Celebrates Birthday and Given Proclamation from the New Orleans City Council

#foogallery-gallery-13274 .fg-image { width: 699px; } Prev 1of11 Next Elise Schenck Data News Weekly Contributor Her star continues to rise, Tyra Barabino-Baker has an increasingly visib...

Loyce Pierce-Wright Recipient of the 2024 Regina Matrum Award from the Archdiocese of New Orleans

Benjamin Bates Data News Weekly Contributor Loyce Pierce Wright is a phenomenal woman and mother, and now the world knows this fact. On Monday, June 3, 2024, at St. Raymond and St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in New Orleans, Ms. Wright was granted...

HANO and McCormack Baron Salazar Secure PRIME 3 Funding for Winn Dixie Phase II Project

New Orleans Agenda The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is proud to announce that one of its development partners, McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc., is one of seven agencies selected to receive funding from the Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC...

Black Voters Strongly Give Support for Quality Early Childhood Education

First Five Years Fund NNPA Newswire A new poll conducted on behalf of First Five Years Fund by the bipartisan research team of New Bridge Strategies (R) and Hart Research (D) found that, in this election year, voters by overwhelming margins want cand...

Are You Raising One of the Next Generation of Hoodlums? ARE YOU READY FOR SUMMER?

Dr. Joyce Teal by Dr. Joyce Willard Teal Allow me to take the liberty to remind readers once again as I did nearly a year ago at the beginning of a new school year that we are again at the end of another school year and the start of summer vacation f...

Jazz Prodigy Roy Hargrove’s Legacy Lives on Through His Music

Dallas has always been a hotbed for the performing arts, and in the 1980s, no part of the city lived up to that billing more than the south side. Singing, dancing, producing, and beyond, if you were looking for entertainers, South Dallas was your fi...