Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

GM is leaving the Renaissance Center in 2025 for new HQ at Hudson’s site in downtown Detroit

Photo: Dan Gilbert, Chairman and Founder of Bedrock, Mary Barra, GM CEO and Chair It’s a new dawn and it’s a new day as General Motors and Bedrock came together in partnership at Hudson’s Detroit. GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra announced that the glob...

A conversation inside Indy’s juvenile detention center

The Marion County Juvenile Detention Center is located right in the middle of the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. It saw more kids admitted in 2023 compared to 2022 according to the Marion County Probation Department. Chief Probation Officer,...

Leading on and off the court

By V.S. Santoni Jordan Obi, a fourth-year forward for the Penn women’s basketball team, has garnered numerous accolades throughout her collegiate career, demonstrating her prowess both on and off the court. Throughout her time at Penn, Obi has...

O.J. Simpson case was one for the ages

No single case better epitomized the flaws and divides in the judicial system and the nation as a whole than the O.J. Simpson case. His death last week at 76 of prostrate cancer revived a host of discussions and analysis over his 1994 murder t...

Fisk gymnast wins national honors

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Fisk University again made athletic history last week, this time on an individual basis. Gymnast Morgan Price became the first HBCU athlete to win a national college gymnastics championship. Price became a Fisk team me...

‘SWAT’ show gets yet another reprieve

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — Shemar Moore’s CBS show “S.W.A.T.” seems one of those programs oblivious to cancellation. The program was initially canceled at the end of last season, but then the network changed its mind and decided to give it a fin...

Ice Spice makes film debut

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE, TN — The cast of Spike Lee’s upcoming Apple Studios and A24 film “High and Low” has added another cast member. It was announced last week that Ice Spice would be making her major film debut in the production which co-stars...

Nashville Ballet reveals cast for Romeo and Juliet

NASHVILLE, TN —& Nashville Ballet has proudly announced the four incredible dancers who will portray the lead characters for the highly-anticipated production of Paul Vasterling’s Romeo & Juliet. & James Lankford and Nicolas Scheuer wi...

Culinary cookoff celebrating family, fun and food

You could find kids, families and food inside the gymnasium of Brookside School 54 Thursday, April 11 for their 3rd annual culinary cook off. Audrey Andrew has four grandchildren who attend the school, and she sat on the bleachers watching local...

Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism

President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan greet Donald Trump during a reception in August 1983.& Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum by Diane Winston, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism In August 1982, Ronald Reagan’s...

I Made Rock ‘N’ Roll campaign highlights roots of genre

The I Made Rock ‘N’ Roll Festival will mark Indiana’s inaugural one-day Black rock event. The goal is honoring rock and roll’s origins while celebrating continued Black artistry and authorship in the genre. Leading up to the festival, GANGGANG an...

Distinguished Tenor Roderick George, Alabama Native, Featured in Opera’s ‘Greatest Hits’

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times For distinguished tenor Roderick George, Ph.D., who has traveled the world, there’s no place like home. George has performed a wide-ranging concert and operatic repertoire throughout the United States and abroad, a...

Birmingham’s Elias Hendricks III to Perform Selections in “Opera Unveiled”

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Birmingham’s Elias Hendricks III will be one of the featured tenors during next week’s Opera Unveiled: A Concert of Greatest Hits, which will include the Opera Birmingham Chorus, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra...

Behind Tiera Kennedy’s ‘Dream Collaboration’ with Beyoncé, Dolly Parton

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times When asked about her dream music collaboration, rising singer-songwriter Tiera Kennedy would always respond, “Beyonce and Dolly Parton.” That dream has become a reality. “Technically, I have collaborated with both...

“If hopelessness had a basement, I would be living in it due to my given circumstances; but God, being rich in mercy, had a different plan for me.”

MATTHEW NORRIS, A SENIOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJOR AT UAB, WHO GRADUATES THIS MONTH, ON FINDING ACCESS TO EDUCATION SCARCE WHILE HE WAS GROWING UP IN UGANDA; UAB.EDU, APRIL 15. &