Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The head of the Asheville, Buncombe reparations commission says he’s stepping down as chairman. Dr. Dwight Mullen says the time and stress of leading the commission for the past two years has taken their toll. COMMUNI...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Joseph S. Pete The Papa House will host a intergenerational conversation on Black women’s mental health across three generations in Crown Point Saturda...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Kampala — An official of the International Criminal Court has promised victims of Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army that the court will provide reparations that were promised after the conviction of a top LRA leader. However, the Tribunal...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Highland Park-based Parker Pride Foundation, in partnership with the city of Highland Park, will host its annual Michigan Week Parade and Car Show on Saturday, May 18, from 12-4 p.m. “The spectacular parade will start at the intersection of Tuxedo Av...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Photo: Pamela Lue-Hing (Right) at a book-signing event. In a heartwarming tale of perseverance and recognition, Pamela Lue-Hing and her mother, Velma Wilson (formerly Frierson), return to a historic landmark that holds profound personal significance....
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
ASHEVILLE – Dwight Mullen stepped down May 13 from his role as chair of the city and county’s historic reparations commission. The commission was seated two years ago to make progress toward repairing the damage caused by public and priv...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By KIRSTIN NICHOLS Otha Smith III has always aimed to live holistically. He eats a plant-based diet and runs three to four miles a day. After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a car crash 18 years ago, during his senior year at Bowie State Un...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Photo by Julian Myles/Unsplash With the 2024 NFL draft being held virtually, football fans recently saw some selected players celebrating their big day surrounded by large crowds of family and friends who marked the occasion and million-dollar cont...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By JAMES MATHESON Capital News Service Prince George’s County has long been considered the poor step-sibling of the Washington area’s more affluent and business-savvy counties. But that image is starting to change as the county becomes an increasing...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
This Black-owned ice cream brand was founded over 100 years ago and still going strong – Face2Face Africa...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:33 EDT, 14 May 2024 | Updated: 12:17 EDT, 14 May 2024 Presidential candidate Cornel West will join reparations activists this weekend at the launch of a boy...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association By responding to the African American community’s concerns about proposed regulatory and administrative policies, the Biden-Harris Administration has proven to...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Under Trump: “Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans lost health care.” Today, Biden-Harris 2024 is launching a new television ad, “Failure” which outlines how President Biden is delivering after Donald Trump tried to rip away healthcare from hund...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Each year, about 250 million people in Africa are afflicted with malaria, a deadly mosquito-borne disease that comes with fatigue, fever and chills. Of those people, about 600,000 each year die. As if those numbers aren’t scary enough, anot...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Jill McKeon May 14, 2024 – Healthcare organizations should harden their systems to protect against Black Basta ransomware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and HHS warned in a joint cybersecurity advisory...
