Category : News

2023 Carnival Queen Encourages Transit Home Residents

In an inspiring gesture of community engagement, Shanice Butcher, the crowned 2023 Carnival Queen, has been sharing her life story of overcoming hurdles and beating the odds. Butcher, an avid advocate for the youth and other social causes, has consis...

Should Men Buy Unique Wedding Rings In Harlem And Beyond?

The #1 source in the world for all things Harlem. For many years, many men considered wedding rings as something that only women were interested in. They spent three months’ salary to buy their wives an engagement ring with diamonds, then anoth...

Three African Americans Appointed to New Administrative Posts at Universities

Arthur Lumzy Jr. is the new director of student career preparedness at Texas A&M University–Commerce. Most recently, Lumzy served as a director of career services at the University of North Texas at Dallas. Lumzy graduated from the University of...

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Passes Away at 93

By Stacy M. BrownFor the Washington Informer Sandra Day O’Connor, the trailblazing legal luminary who shattered the glass ceiling as the first female Supreme Court justice, breathed her last on Friday morning in Phoenix, Arizona. She was 93. T...

World AIDS Day 2023: Uniting For Awareness, Action, And Hope From Harlem And Beyond

The #1 source in the world for all things Harlem. As the world marks World AIDS Day on December 1, 2023, the global community comes together to raise awareness, show support, and commemorate those affected by HIV/AIDS. This annual observance serves a...

Lil’s World: The Soapbox Presents An Indoors Event At Kente Royal Gallery

The #1 source in the world for all things Harlem. By Lil Nickelson On Saturday, November 18th, 2023, I attended the first intimate indoor event sponsored by The Soapbox Presents titled, “Welcome In: For Love and Blackness,” in Harlem, NY. The event w...

Santos expelled from House not because of what he said but how he said it

Rep. George Santos in the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 7, 2023. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images by David E. Clementson, University of Georgia U.S. Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, was expelled on Dec. 1, 2023 from Congress for...

Saint Lucia Reports 15 Deaths From AIDS-Related Illnesses In 2023

From January 2023 until the end of September, 15 persons have died as a result of AIDS-related illnesses in Saint Lucia. That’s according to Senior Medical Officer Dr. Gail Gajadhar in a message to mark World AIDS Day. “In 2023, the early...

North Carolina A&T State University to Debut New Graduate Programs in Criminal Justice

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will soon be home to new criminal justice master’s and doctoral degree programs. The university plans to begin accepting students into the pr...

Congressman George Santos ousted from House over fraudulent activities

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia GOP Rep. George Santos of New York has become the third congressman in the last 50 years to be expelled from the chamber. Santos, who has faced allegations of lies, frau...

IndyGo plans for leadership transition

President and CEO plans to resign, interim leader identified INDIANAPOLIS – After nearly five years at the helm of the agency, IndyGo president and CEO Inez Evans has notified IndyGo of her plans to depart from her position on December 31, 2023....

HU Dean’s Outreach In Hollywood Will Help Her Journalism & Communications Students

Dean Julia Wilson of Hampton University, through her strategic outreach, has secured an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation. She is one of 12 professors nationwide chosen for this fellowship, granting her access to the...

YSL Trial Week 1: Jurors exposed online; Judge brings dog to court; and Young Thug means ‘truly humbled under God’

If the first week of the YSL trial is any indication of what’s to come in the high-profile case, it’s going to be a wild ride in the upcoming weeks.& The trial centering around Atlanta rapper Young Thug (Jeffrey Williams) and his YSL crew, kno...

Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition Honors Gwendolyn Pough

Gwendolyn D. Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor in the department of women’s and gender studies at Syracuse University in New York, is the latest recipient of the 2023 Ede Mentoring Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars i...

Singers Christopher Lumanyika alias Chrisrayug and Fresh Isaac, born Tumusiime Isaac, combined forces to work on a collaboration dubbed “Woman”

Both artists are talented musicians, singers, and songwriters who have been in the arts business for sometime. In this project, the pair praised women for their positive contribution to society and their role in looking after the young ones. Christ...