Category : News

HSPA NEEDS YOUR VOICE!

We need your urgent assistance to protect public notices in newspapers! TOMORROW,& SB 252& is scheduled to be amended in committee, putting public notices at risk and reversing the original intent of the bill. This is a critical moment, a...

Pedestrian Dies After Being Struck by a Vehicle in Castries

A sixty-one-year-old pedestrian has died after a vehicle struck him in Castries on Sunday at about 9:15 pm. Police have identified the deceased as Carol Alphonse. Emergency personnel conveyed him to the OKEU Hospital for medical attention. However, A...

Pedestrian Dies After Suspected Hit-And-Run In Castries

A sixty-one-year-old pedestrian has died following a suspected hit-and-run incident in Castries on Sunday at about 9:15 pm. Police have identified the deceased as Carol Alphonse. Emergency personnel conveyed him to the OKEU Hospital for medical atten...

‘Sports & Education and the African American Influence’ featuring Shannon Sharpe

Steward Speakers will kick-off its 2023-2024 speaker season on Thursday, February 22, 2024. The season, “Sports & Education and the African American Influence” will feature Football Hall of Famer, former Pro Bowler and Super Champion, Shannon...

United Negro College Fund Outlines Best Practices for Teacher Education at HBCUs

The United Negro College Fund has released a new report outlining best practices for educating future teachers attending historically Black colleges and universities. The report was created in partnership with Huston-Tillotson University in Texas, Al...

Jackie Alexander is the First Black Woman President of the College Media Association

Jackie Alexander, director of student media at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named president of the College Media Association. Her appointment makes her the association’s first president of color. Alexander has been a member...

Trump Sneakers Foretell the 2024 Election Results

The Left always under-estimate Donald Trump. But they have never run up against a man who knows how to market. While Leftists celebrate verdicts against Trump for money the plaintiffs will never receive, Trump capitalizes on their unhinged zeal to ge...

Dominican Republic President Says Haiti On Brink Of Civil War

Asserting that the deteriorating situation in Haiti has not attracted the speed and urgency it requires, Dominican Republic President Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona has warned that the country is on the edge of a civil war. The Dominican Republic and H...

Study Finds Young Black Women Are Six Times More Likely to Be Murdered Than White Women

A new study, led by Bernadine Waller, a researcher fellow at Columbia University, has found that on average, Black women under age 45 in the United States are six times more likely to be murdered than White women of the same age group. To investigate...

Two African American Women Appointed to Deanships

Aherial Polite has been named dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Augusta Technical College in Georgia. She previously served as chair of the chemistry, physics, and nuclear technology department at Aiken Technical College in South Carolina. &...

Blackness Our Perspective: The biracial side of Blackness

As our Black History Month discussion progresses, we shift the dialogue to how biracial people define their cultural identities. Living in a nation that once implied that one drop of Black blood made you a Black person, navigating a...

Journalist Gabriel Buule Introduced by Lover Mulungi Joan to Her Parents

By BigEyeUg Team In a heartwarming ceremony over the weekend, journalist Gabriel Buule was formally introduced by his partner, Mulungi Joan, to close friends and family. The intimate gathering, held at Joan’s family home, was grac...

Mike Carey made history as the first Black Super Bowl referee. He wants to continue to give back to the game he loves

(CNN) – On Feb. 3, 2008, Mike Carey made history just by walking onto a football field. On that day in Glendale, Arizona, Carey became the first Black referee in a Super Bowl – and it happened to one of the most iconic games in NFL history. In...

From Classroom to checkout: Dallas ISD students learn life skills with student-run market

The ringing of a cash register isn’t a typical sound heard in an elementary school, but at Victor H. Hexter Elementary School, students are learning how to run and operate their own store. Known as “Hexter Market,” students in Heidi Zeko’s Functi...

Millions of people have long COVID, including children and pregnant women, studies show

(CNN) – Millions of people deal with COVID-19 symptoms long after their initial infections. Two new studies – one looking at pregnant people and the other on children – give a better look at the burden from this health problem that doctors say often...