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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...

Disney Dreamers Academy gets off to great start, eight Georgians are in attendance

Phpto by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice ORLANDO, Fl. – Led by their drum major Mickey Mouse, a brass band and trio of drum majors from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) started a procession into a ballroom at Disney Conte...

‘We had to own the land’: How the Forest Theater became a neighborhood revitalization project

By Jennifer Treijo For the first time in its history, the Forest Theater on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is owned by a Black-led entity.& “Historically, it has been owned by a Jewish family,” says Elizabeth Wattley, president and CEO...

Pushing Past Obstacles to Find Missing Black Women

By Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute, and Sarah Conway, City Bureau While the mishandling of missing person cases has been an ongoing problem for Chicago police, there is momentum — at the state, city, and community level — for solutions that...

COLUMN: They Still Can’t See Angel Reese or Her Humanity

Some say that so-called villain Angel Reese got some comeuppance when her LSU Tigers lost to Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes in Monday night’s Elite Eight matchup.& When Reese fouled out on a questionable call, hundreds of Iowa fans wa...

Farewell to James A. Washington: A Trailblazer in Black Journalism and Community Advocacy

James A. Washington The president and general manager of the Atlanta Voice, Washington, always displayed a genuine concern for Black America and its longtime voice, The Black Press of America. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspon...

Historic Black Church Vandalized With Racial Slurs During Easter Weekend

Photo: Monashee Frantz / OJO Images / Getty Images An investigation is underway after a historic Black church in Delaware was vandalized with racial slurs and threatening messages over Easter weekend, according to WPIV-TV. New Castle County Police...

Opinion: Something’s rotten, and not just in the state of Tennessee

(CNN) —& On Thursday March 28th, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee& dissolved& the board of Tennessee State University (TSU) — the state’s only& public historically black college or university (HBCU)& — with the stroke of his pen. You r...

Senator Bernie Sanders: It’s time for a 4-day work week

The wealthiest people in this country have never had it so good. While income and wealth inequality in the United States is soaring, more than 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, we have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty among m...

Biden and Netanyahu call comes amid extreme mutual tensions and political pressure

(CNN) — President Joe Biden’s scheduled call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday will not simply test the leaders’ increasingly sour relationship.It will also highlight a glaring contradiction in US policy toward the war in Gaz...

This Week In Black History April 3-10, 2024

MARIAN ANDERSON APRIL 3 1930—Ras Tafari is proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia—one of the only African nations to successfully resist European colonization. He is renamed Haile Selassie. Blacks in many parts of the world view him as a god-like figur...