Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Birmingham’s Cornell Wesley Selected to International Board of Economic Developers

birminghamal.gov Cornell Wesley, director of Innovation and Economic Opportunity for the City of Birmingham, has been selected to serve a two-year term on the board of directors for the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). Wesley is the...

HBCU Football This Weekend: Miles College Returns to Action

By Donald Hunt | For The Birmingham Times Following a bye week, Miles College (0-2, 0-0) returns to action this week to host Lane College (1-1, 1-0) on Saturday, Sept. 21 in the Prince Hall Americanism Football Classic. The kickoff will be at 4 p.m....

NABJ Journalists Interview VP Kamala Harris – Behind the Scenes

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More than an athlete: The rise of Jaylen Brown

PHOTO: Cecil Brown, Jaylen Brown& UC Berkeley Professor Cecil Brown with his former student, Jaylen Brown, who recently founded XChange Oakland, a nonprofit initiative aimed at generating $5 billion in generational wealth for communities of colo...

Yolanda Adams Returns with a New Album After 13-Year Hiatus

Yolanda Adams, one of the most influential voices in gospel music, has released her first studio album in 13 years, titled Sunny Days. With this long-awaited project, Adams reaffirms her position as a central figure in modern gospel, seamlessly blend...

A nice reprieve

A few weeks ago, I enjoyed a car show that took place in a wealthy and well-known suburb just north of Indianapolis. The remarkably well-attended event served as a testament to the community’s shared passion for classic beauty on four wheels. The...

Black teen named ‘Kid Of The Year’ after creating cancer-treating soap

Photo: Getty Images A 15-year-old teenager has been honored as “Kid of the Year” after creating a soap that could potentially treat and cure skin cancer. TIME recently recognized Heman Bekele, 15, as its “Kid of the Year” fo...

Here’s hoping Nashville remains an oval on the IndyCar schedule

Ever been to Lebanon, Tennessee? How about neighboring Mt. Juliet? You’ll find a tremendous number of good, hospitable people looking to welcome you into these small towns, with clean hotels and plenty of restaurants to serve you meals....

Fever beat Wings 110-109 in final home game

In a thrilling matchup at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Sept. 15, the Indiana Fever edged out the Dallas Wings 110-109, closing out their regular season home games with a victory. Rookie guard Caitlin Clark led the Fever with a career-high 35 points,...

The women Kamala Harris has mentored

(CNN) – Backstage, Kamala Harris pulled aside Jahana Hayes. She’d give the congresswoman her local press boost and photo op, but first, the vice president needed to talk about why she was popping into Connecticut of all places during the final month...

We need more live fact-checking

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – We are living through Donald Trump’s third consecutive run for the presidency, and nothing should surprise us during this year’s campaign. For those of us who are not Trump supporters, we should be used to the name-calling, lie...

Trump and Vance continue trafficking racist lies about immigrants

“These kind of anti-Black propaganda narratives that the ‘savages are coming to destroy and eat your family’ are really part of the same playbook that goes back hundreds of years. They try to create division and hate and get the political power that...

Lessons after Sept. 11

(Children’s Defense Fund) – As the nation and world commemorate the anniversary of Sept. 11 this week, I remember again that it was a gloriously beautiful morning in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 11, 2001. I saw a glimpse of Dr. Martin Luther King...

Why my fight against domestic violence is so personal

(The White House) – Tonight, on the South Lawn of the White House, more than 1,000 survivors, advocates and allies will gather to mark the 30th anniversary of the first comprehensive law addressing violence against women in our nation’s history: the...

Saving the world as a path to prosperity

(Sierra Club) – “Made in the USA” is a tagline that should apply to every major piece of the clean energy economy. It is within our grasp. But we need to bust some myths.This week, clean energy and sustainability leaders from around the country got t...