Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Birmingham Creatives Invited to Help Mark Opening of New York Fashion Week

By Ameera Steward | For The Birmingham Times To mark the opening of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) on Friday, September 6, the Magic City Fashion Week team, based in Birmingham, has been invited to Fashion For Our Future — a march in Midtown Manh...

Metro Public Health Department Expands Nashville Strong Babies Program to all Davidson County Residents

Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-In July, the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD) announced that services through the Nashville Strong Babies program, the community’s HRSA Healthy Start program, will now be available countywide. The program offers ca...

The Unsung Story of Black Labor

On this Labor Day – let’s share with others the& unsung story of Black Labor. That helped build the largest economy in the world and its democracy. Organized Black workers, like those that unionized Amsterdam News in 1935 (and yes! we are...

107TH ANNIVERSARY OF CAMP LOGAN WAR

Freedman’s Town grassroot residents and other Moor American neighborhoods celebrate annually the remembrance and show of love, respect and appreciation to the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry soldiers stationed at Camp Logan (Memorial Park today), for st...

Kamala Harris Exposed

The following article, Kamala Harris Exposed, was first published on The Black Sphere. How sad for Democrats that Kamala Harris represents the best they can do. Although the media will present a very different narrative, the Democrat convention faile...

Labor Day Black History: Honoring A. Philip Randolph and Black labor unions

Photo: Getty Images The first Monday of September marks the end of summer every year in the US. It’s also the day workers’ rights advocates pushed to formally recognize the achievement and contributions of American laborers.& The holiday was f...

Cedarwood Homes in West End latest ‘win’ in city’s affordable housing crisis

THE GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION FOR CEDARWOOD HOMES IN JULY 2024. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO) Finding “affordable housing” in Pittsburgh is like looking for a World Series run from the Pittsburgh Pirates. It’s hard to find. From Mayor Ed Gaine...

You get what you can take: The fight to make the skilled trades representative

Mitchell Ayers, 2 ½, carries a sign protesting employment practices at the Downstate Medical Center construction site in Brooklyn, New York on August 8, 1963. His mother, Eunice Ayers, 27, also took part in the demonstrations. The use of childre...

Trump and Harris, with starkly different records on labor issues, are both courting union voters

Both candidates are reaching out to union leaders and rank-and-file members. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images and Andrew Harnik/Getty Images by Robert Forrant, UMass Lowell Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican nominee Donald T...

U.S. Secretary Of Education Miguel Cardona announces 2024 Back To School Bus Tour

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will launch the 2024 Back to School Bus Tour from Sept. 3 to Sept. 6. The week-long, multi-state road trip will showcase the many ways schools, families, and communities are doubling down on accelerating s...

All the reasons a cup of coffee really can be good for you

PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock by Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Consuming too much caffeine is definitely bad for your health, and there may be good reasons why some people want to quit it altogether. But if you despair at...

How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality

In the 1920s, many women became more comfortable in their skin. But the facts of life remained in short supply. George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress by Anya Jabour, University of Montana American women still have fewer orgasms than me...

Proposal to Extend School Days to Keep Students Away From Gun Violence Draws Mixed Reviews

By Ayron Lewallen | WVTM13 BIRMINGHAM — A Birmingham city councilman is proposing a bold idea to make sure students stay away from gun violence. Birmingham City Councilor Clinton Woods Councilor Clinton Woods is looking to extend the school day for s...

Miles College, the Reigning SIAC Golf Champs, to Compete in Miyoshi City, Japan

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times On Sunday, The Miles College golf team boarded a flight to Miyoshi City, Japan, to compete in the University Golf Super League tournament, which features men’s and women’s collegiate golf teams fro...

David Marshall: Breaking the glass ceiling in November

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act in Washington on Aug. 14, 1935, as Labor Secretary Frances Perkins stands behind him. (AP/File) (TriceEdneyWire.com)—People can be pleasantly unpredictable at times, so our politics is equ...