Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

NCAA, leagues back $2.8 billion settlement, setting stage for current, former athletes to be paid

The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model th...

I am fashion: Style moments from the “I Made Rock and Roll Festival”

Tiffanie King rocks out at the inaugural “I Made Rock’n’Roll Festival.” (Photos/LaTasha Boyd Jones) Indianapolis proudly hosted the inaugural I Made Rock ‘N’ Roll Festival, a truly unique event that lived up to...

EVERYTHING’S GOING AS PLANNED: Black-owned PAIR Charcuterie opens new shop at The Pitt Building, Downtown

DONALD BETTS AND SHAQUALA SWINTON-BETTS WITH ONE OF THEIR SONS, DONTE BETTS, AT THE NEW “PAIR CHARCUTERIE,” DOWNTOWN AT 201 SMITHFIELD STREET. (PHOTO BY ROB TAYLOR JR.) & Leaders at The Greenwood Plan have a plan to make The Pitt Building, on Smi...

Elevate Ventures, Gov. Holcomb announces $100M fund

INDIANAPOLIS& – Governor Eric J. Holcomb, Indiana Secretary of Commerce David Rosenberg and CEO of Elevate Ventures Christopher Day today announced a new $100M fund focused on cross sector innovation driven growth stage companies with a $500M to...

Kayaker Devin Brown to challenge the mighty Mississippi

Devon Brown Photo by Sarah Whiting by& Tony Kiene, Minnesota Spokesman Recorder Sometime this Memorial Day weekend, Northside resident Devin Brown will begin her journey from the headwaters at Lake Itasca to Mile Marker Zero in the Mississippi Ri...

Holcomb, Elevate Ventures announce $100M fund to help growing Indiana companies

By BRANDON SMITH The state and venture capital firm Elevate Ventures announced Thursday the creation of a $100 million entrepreneurship fund that Gov. Eric Holcomb said will fill a void for growing companies in Indiana. Elevate Ventures CEO Ch...

The mother of African dance at 80. Why Senegal’s Germaine Acogny is so influential

Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny in 2022.& Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images by Lliane Loots, University of KwaZulu-Natal Africa’s most celebrated dancer and choreographer, Germaine Acogny, turns 80 on 28 May. I have had the privilege of meeti...

Swipe right or left? How dating apps are impacting modern masculinity

Adobe Stock Photo by Treena Orchard, Western University What it means to be a man is changing. Critical men or masculinity studies is an emerging robust research field that explores how men and masculinity are being transformed by shifting socio-eco...

Campus protests are part of an enduring legacy of civil disobedience improving American democracy

Protesters at Brown University in Providence, R.I., dance during a rally in support of Palestinians. The protest ended peacefully when university leaders agreed to discuss demonstrators’ demands. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images by Lawrence Torc...

Pa. Republicans are pushing mail-in voting for 2024, but Trump-fueled skepticism remains in the party

(News illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource) The 2024 presidential election in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, could come down to whether the Republican Party can execute a drastic shift in strategy from four years ago.Local and national...

Coca-Cola UNITED’s $335 Million Investment Expected to Create Dozens of New Jobs in Birmingham

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times The Jefferson County Commission on Thursday approved $2 million to help remediate a brownfield site to clear the way for Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Inc.’s $335 million headquarters as well as its...

Calling All Musicians: Win a Chance to Take Center Stage at the 2024 UAB Arts Block Party

By Shannon Thomason | UAB News Musicians, bands, rappers and vocalists of all ages from across Alabama are invited to audition now for the 2024 Arts Block Party at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The Arts Block Party promises to be an un...

E. Faye Williams: Daisy Bates…From Little Rock to the U.S. Capitol

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—A few weeks ago you might have read about my family reunion and being a former teacher, I like to teach the little ones something about our history. To be honest the young teens were busy sharing their latest dance and cheerlead...

Guest Editorial: Clarence Thomas cries foul over barrage of public criticism – Does he protest too much?

There are those who believe that all Black folk “look alike.” Of course, just a cursory glance at the vast panorama of hues, heights and hairstyles that can be seen within the African diaspora dispel such absurd notions. Similarly, and just as incorr...

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Ops in the Bronx

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Here we go again. On break from his New York hush mon...