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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...

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...

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...

‘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...