Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Turn your school and community Green

(Family Features) – Preserving your community for future generations can take many forms. It might mean volunteering with local organizations and participating in community improvement initiatives. Taking steps to protect the environment is another c...

How to navigate FEMA during this year’s hurricane season

(The Texas Tribune) – The arrival of Hurricane Beryl in Texas was a reminder that this year’s hurricane season is supposed to be a busy one.Texans should know that should severe weather damage their homes this season – they can apply for federa...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 101

(Family Features) – You may find it difficult to wrap your mind around the idea of an energetic student-athlete with a cardiac diagnosis. Heart conditions may be more often associated with older individuals, but you might be surprised to learn hypert...

A summer wave of COVID-19 has arrived in the U.S.

(CNN) – COVID-19 levels have been rising in the United States for weeks as new variants drive what’s become an annual summer surge.COVID-19 surveillance has been scaled back significantly since the U.S. public health emergency ended more than a year...

A Black man got a job interview after he changed the name on his resume. Now, he’s suing for discrimination

(CNN) – A Black man has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a hotel in Detroit, Michigan, alleging the hotel only offered him a job interview after he changed the name on his resume, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by CNN.D...

Trust, expectations of this Supreme Court no longer surprise

(Texas Senate) – As the Supreme Court of the United States released several rulings to close out its 2023 term, I wonder aloud how I can expect less of the judicial body that has the final say when it comes to interpreting the laws of the land.The Ju...

Dangerous immunity threatens democratic principles

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Ordinarily when we hear the word immunity, we don’t think about the possibility of a United States president being free to do whatever his/her heart desires – and certainly not to allow a president to walk down 5th Avenue and s...

Dispatch from a world on fire

(Sierra Club) – The smoke pollution from Canadian wildfires last summer killed more than 100 people in Michigan – about two dozen in Detroit alone, according to a Cornell University study.Other Detroiters, like June Mack, saw their medical conditions...

Vice President Kamala Harris in Dallas: VP urges Black women to vote

(CNN) – WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday delivered the keynote speech at Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.’s biennial convention, issuing a call to action for Black women voters as she seeks to mobilize the key demographic amid a...

The Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling threatens democracy – it’s time for drastic measures

(Duvalier Malone Enterprises) – The Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump was entitled to immunity from federal prosecution for official actions he had taken while in office. This landmark decision, rendered at the height of an elect...

President Biden, talk to the voters

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – President Joe Biden missed a great opportunity on June 27. Two days after the disastrous debacle also known as a debate, tens of thousands of people thronged to Washington D.C. for the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers As...

Presidential immunity and the second Revolutionary War

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – There are times when leaders from the past can be very prophetic in their words, and we should take heed of their warnings. Ulysses S. Grant is most known as the commanding general who led the Union Army to victory over the con...

Dream and labor: Rev. James Lawson’s on John Lewis’s legacy

(Children’s Defense Fund) – When Congressman John Lewis passed away in July 2020, Rev. James Lawson gave a eulogy memorializing our beloved friend at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. As our nation continues to mourn Rev. Lawson’s own death l...

Biden’s fate could come down to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sunday morning, Hakeem Jeffries went to church back home in Brooklyn. Shortly after, he tweeted a verse from the Book of Joshua: “Do not be discouraged, for the Lord your god will be with you wherever you go.”That’s from right afte...

‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ reloads with Eddie Murphy in his ‘encores for streaming’ phase

(CNN) – Beverly Hills Cop spawned a trio of movies, but more significantly, the 1984 film capped off a string of hits (after 48 Hrs. and Trading Places) that launched Eddie Murphy into the movie-star stratosphere. As Murphy moves into the encores-for...