Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

It’s not just TikTok. Solen Feyissa/Flickr, CC BY-SA by Sarah Florini, Arizona State University When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s Chi...

Power outages linked to heat and storms are rising, and low-income communities are most at risk, as a new NYC study shows

People line up for ice provided by a utility company during a 2019 power outage in Brooklyn. AP Photo/Seth Wenig by Nina Flores, Columbia University and Joan A. Casey, University of Washington Many Americans think of power outages as infrequent inco...

The Assault on Reproductive Rights: A Call to Action for Supporters of Self-Determination

For nearly 50 years, Roe v. Wade stood as a protector of reproductive rights, holding that women have a constitutional right to an abortion under the 14th Amendment. The right to choose has been a fundamental freedom for those who want to decide the...

Birmingham’s South Hampton K-8 Students Create Podcast on Global Topics

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times South Hampton K-8 School students have created and host a weekly podcast to have candid conversations about world issues. Recorded in the school’s Library of Innovation in Birmingham’s North Pratt neighborhood, eac...

Alabama Power Names New Vice President for Birmingham Division

By William Thornton | wthornton@al.com Ralph Williams, Jr. is the new vice president of Alabama Power’s Birmingham Division. With the company since 2011, Williams will lead the company’s economic and community development initiatives and extern...

Women Under Construction Network to Launch ‘Freedom Friday’ Today

The Birmingham Times Women Under Construction Network (WUCNetwork) will launch “Freedom Friday in the Park,” a monthly multicultural initiative for women today, May 3, to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the Children’s Freedom Ma...

CBS orders daytime drama about a Black family under pact with NAACP

CBS has ordered a new daytime drama developed under its partnership with the NAACP, the network announced on Monday.“The Gates,” which is scheduled to premiere in January 2025, is the first greenlighted project to come out of the pact, which was for...

The Atlanta Voice – May 3, 2024

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Rap Rivals: How the Drake-Kendrick Lamar Feud Escalated

[Photo: Getty Images] The Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud has escalated to a new level after Lamar’s release of “Euphoria,” a six-minute diss track aimed squarely at Drake, attacking everything from his biracial identity to his credib...

Takeaways from Day 10 of the Donald Trump hush money trial

CNN) —& Donald Trump’s attorneys on Thursday sought to paint one of the witnesses at the heart of the& hush money deal& with& Stormy Daniels& as someone with a long history of extracting money from celebrities while going “up to...

Meghan Markle & Prince Harry set to visit Nigeria

Photo: Getty Images The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are headed to Nigeria. According to PEOPLE, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are set to visit Nigeria later this month following an invitation from the country’s Chief of Defense Staff. The inv...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force vote over Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster next week

Washington (CNN) — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Wednesday she will force a vote over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s ouster next week – a move that comes after Democrats have said& they will vote to kill the effort and ensure Johnson do...

Alabama lawmakers pass legislation that will clear way for Biden to appear on state’s fall ballot

(CNN) — Alabama lawmakers have passed legislation that will allow President Joe Biden to appear on the state’s November ballot, after the Republican secretary of state warned that& Democrats might miss a state deadline to formally name him as the...

Nataly Lowder joins IRT as new director of development

The Indiana Repertory Theatre welcomed Nataly Lowder as the organization’s new director of development on April 27. Nataly Lowder, director of development for the Indiana Repertory Theatre. (Photo provdid/Indiana Repertory Theatre) In her new p...

Waste Not, Want Not: Preferred Waste Solutions

Preferred Waste Solutions co-owner Julia M. Isaac at a customer’s home in Jonesboro, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice The waste management business is a multi-million-dollar industry that thrives on making r...