Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

The power of the gumbo spirit was on display at Paris Olympics

“In addition to giving us countless thrilling moments of athletic excellence, the Summer Games have given the DEI movement the greatest gift it could ever hope for: a picture of success that can inspire people from across the political spectrum … Th...

Lilly Endowment supports student success in Marion County

Lilly Endowment’s summer programs began this week in community centers around Indianapolis. Lilly Endowment Inc. is launching two multi-year initiatives to help K-12 public and private schools in Marion County to improve students’ academic a...

Lilly to invest $600M in Marion County students

Harris’ Republicans: Protecting democracy, exposing the threat of Trump

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – It is no surprise that police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attacks are now hitting the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris. Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, former Capitol Poli...

Staying strong

(Children’s Defense Fund) – At a discouraging time in my life, I heard beloved late spiritual director Gordon Cosby of the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., read this Request for Transfer by an unknown author. I often return to it and...

US election 2024: Kamala Harris knows her jazz – why this could count with voters

‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine’: Kamala Harris’s music purchase included a classic Roy Ayers album.& EPA-EFE/Ken Cedeno/pool by Haftor Medbøe, Edinburgh Napier University and Jose Dias, Coventry University Since Kamala Harris became the presumpti...

Hope Does Not Disappoint

“Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we a...

His crayon is purple – but is Harold a Black boy?

Prior to 1998, Harold of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ was depicted as racially ambiguous. Harper & Brothers, 1955 by Philip Nel, Kansas State University Is Crockett Johnson’s Harold, of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a child of color? If you’...

Black cowboy culture celebrated during 35th Texas Black Invitational Rodeo

(The Dallas Examiner) – Black cowboys can be traced back to the early 19th century in Texas, after “The Great Exodus” when African Americans moved from the South to the western parts of the United States, following the Civil War. In search of land a...

US election: does it matter who is the vice-presidential pick? In Tim Walz’s case, yes

EPA-EFE/Bisuayehu Tesfaye by David Hastings Dunn, University of Birmingham The fanfare and publicity surrounding Tim Walz for his first fortnight as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick has sparked renewed interest as to whether the second person...

Kamala, a common name in India, is associated with several deities and is a symbol of wisdom

Relief of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi from a temple in India. Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images by Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris became a presence on the national scene, her na...

Netflix to develop “A Different World” spin-off series about Dwayne and Whitley’s daughter being in college

Dwayne and Whitley in the new A Different World Netflix series Exciting news for fans of “A Different World,” Netflix is currently in the early stages of developing a sequel series that will follow the adventures of Dwayne and Whitley’s daughter at H...

Raygun is now Australia’s most famous dancer. What does she reveal about our own attitudes towards dance?

Abbie Parr/AP by Jeanette Mollenhauer, The University of Melbourne The inclusion of breaking in the 2024 Olympic Games certainly raised eyebrows. And now, Australian competitor Rachael Gunn (known as “Raygun”) is one of the most famous Olympians fro...

International students will offer a big boost to the US economy this back-to-school season

Move-in day at the University of Southern California attracts students from around the world. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images by Barnet Sherman, Boston University Of the millions of young adults heading off to college this fall,...

Kamala Shape-Shifts on a Critical Policy and it Spells Doom

The following article, Kamala Shape-Shifts on a Critical Policy and it Spells Doom, was first published on The Black Sphere. Recently, I started my daily browsing of headlines when this one caught my attention: “Kamala Harris’ stance on m...