Category : News

Black America must rally around Kamala Harris to save our nation

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – In 2020, Black voters helped carry President Joe Biden to the White House. But now that the president has done the right thing by stepping aside and passing the torch to Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee, Black Am...

BBB Tip: Scams on campus – the digital threats facing college students

(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – Across the nation, college students are setting themselves up for success during the upcoming semester with an expected spending of $86.6 billion on school supplies, more than doubling expected spending for K-12 stu...

Schools, church, state and the Texas Legislature: Debate heats up over what and where students should learn

(The Texas Tribune) – Texas lawmakers on Monday sparred during a hearing over two topics expected to consume much of the public education debate during the 2025 legislative session: religion in schools and education savings accounts.The House Public...

‘A Different World’ sequel follows Dwayne and Whitley’s daughter as she navigates college life

(BlackNews.com) – A Different World was a spin off from The Cosby Show that followed Denise, the daughter of Cliff and Claire Huxtable, through her first year in college at Hillman College. The years to follow focused more on other students, such as...

Dallas Water Utilities offers payment plans to customers with past due accounts

(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – In March, Dallas Water Utilities implemented DallasGo, the new online payment platform. During the transition, water service interruptions and late fees were not applied, and customers could make payments using the...

OpenAI worries people may become emotionally reliant on its new ChatGPT voice mode

(CNN) – NEW YORK – OpenAI is worried that people might start to rely on ChatGPT too much for companionship, potentially leading to “dependence,” because of its new human-sounding voice mode.That revelation came in a report Thursday from OpenAI on the...

Harris decides on Tim Walz as running mate

(CNN) – Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota as her running mate, elevating the former teacher and Army National Guard veteran to join the Democratic ticket and help lead the party’s fight to defeat Donald Trump.The sele...

Texas schools got billions in federal pandemic relief. It is coming to an end as the school year starts

(The Texas Tribune) – The $43 million infusion the Port Arthur Independent School District received in federal COVID-19 pandemic relief funds accomplished more than Phyllis Geans could have ever imagined.The money allowed the district to upgrade anti...

Build A Man camp introduces Black teens to trades, bolsters their confidence and community

CNN – PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) – Fourteen-year-old Isaiah Clark-White never thought of himself as a plumber, but that changed on Monday when he successfully soldered a copper pipe at a local trades camp for teen boys.After carefully sealing t...

Vouchers are not opportunities for most students; they are about crippling or killing public education

(Texas State Teachers Association) – As we begin a new school year, many districts throughout Texas are struggling with inadequate budgets, including multimillion-dollar deficits, which threaten to shortchange millions of school children of the progr...

‘When we fight, we win!’

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Sometimes a writer has to figure out what to write about because it seems that not much is happening. Everything seems to be about the same old problems, but Vice President Kamala Harris, stepped up for us as soon as we began a...

The power of the gumbo spirit was on display at Paris Olympics

“In addition to giving us countless thrilling moments of athletic excellence, the Summer Games have given the DEI movement the greatest gift it could ever hope for: a picture of success that can inspire people from across the political spectrum … The...

Harris’ Republicans: Protecting democracy, exposing the threat of Trump

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – It is no surprise that police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attacks are now hitting the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris. Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, former Capitol Polic...

Staying strong

(Children’s Defense Fund) – At a discouraging time in my life, I heard beloved late spiritual director Gordon Cosby of the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., read this Request for Transfer by an unknown author. I often return to it and...

Black cowboy culture celebrated during 35th Texas Black Invitational Rodeo

(The Dallas Examiner) – Black cowboys can be traced back to the early 19th century in Texas, after “The Great Exodus” when African Americans moved from the South to the western parts of the United States, following the Civil War. In search of land an...