Category : News

How did we allow DEI to transform into negatives?

by Vernon A. Williams, Chicago Crusader In the upside-down, inside-out culture of this nation, there are some changes impossible to swallow. One is that words like diversity, equity and inclusion have been twisted from being assets to liabilities. Of...

David Marshall: HBCUs need the lobbying support of their students and alumni

& (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Every young person needs to heed the words of the late great John Lewis. “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.” Lewis made this statement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on...

Firefighters Spend Hours Controlling Vieux Fort Bush Fire

Firefighters spent several hours monitoring and controlling a bushfire in Vieux Fort on Saturday. Vieux Fort Fire Station received the bush fire report at 4:05 pm and responded. However, Saint Lucia Fire Service (SLFS) spokeswoman Stacy Joseph disclo...

Rep. Love Calls for Federal Lawsuit to $2.1 Billion TSU Debt

Nashville, TN (TN Tribune)-District 58 Rep. Harold Love, Jr. convened a press conference at the state capitol calling for the filing of federal lawsuits to address the $2.1 billion a 2023 federal government report states is owed to Tennessee Sta...

Millions Across North America Awed by Total Solar Eclipse Phenomenon

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The eagerly anticipated celestial spectacle of a total solar eclipse finally descended upon North America after a seven-year hiatus, captivating millions of skywatchers...

Rev. Al Sharpton Convenes Panel on the State of Black Health Featuring Transplant Advocate Al B. Sure

Physicians, Public Health Officials, Clergy and Advocates to Explore Establishing a New Normal on Black Health& New York, NY – Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), will convene a panel at the NAN Annu...

A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting kidney transplants — it’s finally changing

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.As upsetting as that notif...

Love for the Outdoors is a Gift that Pays Forward

By Ben Jealous When we see a 75-year-old white man out in the woods with a group of Black and brown kids from low-income neighborhoods, teaching them about nature, few of us assume he is there because that is where he feels most comfortable. P...

Prominent Civil Rights Activist Dies of Natural Causes

Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, a senior minister and civil rights leader who emerged as a calming presence during the Los Angeles riots in 1992, passed away of natural causes this week at the age of 94.Reverend Murray was born in Lakeland, Florida, and gr...

‘Go Fast’ Was ‘Innocent Victim Of Senseless Gang War’

Relatives of fatal shooting victim Ricardo Wilson alias ‘Go Fast’ believe the twenty-four-year-old was an innocent victim of what one family member described as Vieux Fort’s senseless gang warfare. Wilson, a Bruceville resident, was...

International civilian aid flotilla to break the siege of Gaza

The international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will sail in mid-April with multiple vessels, carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade of the Ga...

Pierre To Attend Brussels Meeting On International Migration

The Hon. Philip J Pierre, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, is scheduled to travel to Brussels, Belgium from the evening of April 7th to the evening of April 12th, 2024. The purpose of this trip is to engage in discussions with the European Commission a...