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WATCH: Man Points Gun At Black Drive-Thru Worker Over Discounted Breakfast

Photo: Willowick Police DEpartment Authorities in Ohio are looking for the man who pointed a gun at a Black drive-thru employee trying to give him a discount. According to WOIO, the incident unfolded around 9 a.m. Sunday (March 31) at a Burger King...

Atlanta’s first Black woman-owned health market and juice bar celebrates 5 years

Jeanette Sellers (above), also known as Sister Nilajah Ma’at, opened Wadada in 2019. Photo by Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice Wadada Healthy Market and Juice Bar, Atlanta’s first Black woman-owned health market and juice bar, is celebrating fi...

Rare 4.8-magnitude earthquake leaves little damage after rattling Northeast

New York (CNN) — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled buildings across parts of the Northeast Friday morning, according to the US Geological Survey, with tremors felt from Washington, DC to New York City to Maine.It was the third largest earthquake rec...

Day 2 of Disney Dreamers Academy includes ‘Living Labs’ journalism session

Disney Dreamers, Stitch, and author Tony Weaver, Jr. (second from right) pose for a photo during a break in the action. Weaver led the journalism “Living Laboratories” session Friday, April 5, 2024. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voi...

Exposing High Rates of Suicide Among Young Black Men in Rural Areas

By Clayton Gutzmore Originally appeared in the Word in Black Suicide is a sensitive topic because of how damaging it is for the person who does the act and the lives of people around them who need to cope. A recent& study& from the Uni...

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...