Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Tireless Activism and the Latest Region to Go Coal-Free

With the End of the Coal Era, It Just Got Easier to Breathe in New England By Ben Jealous Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for 17 years. He is one of many local activists who hav...

Commissioner Ellis, Art Community will Unveil 9 Murals on Downtown Buildings

Harris County Commissioner Ellis, Former Houston Mayor Turner, Art Community will Unveil 9 Murals on Downtown Buildings New Murals Bring Total to 44 Pieces of Art in Big Art. Bigger Change. Campaign that Reflects the UN General Assembly’s 17 Sustaina...

World Leader Openly Insults Joe Biden

The following article, World Leader Openly Insults Joe Biden, was first published on The Black Sphere. Joe Biden may be the most disrespected president in American history. Fitting, given how much Biden has disrespected the office. Still, Americans r...

The Stench of the Biden Family Fraud is Back

The following article, The Stench of the Biden Family Fraud is Back, was first published on The Black Sphere. Lucky for the Bidens, they are Democrats. Because if they were Republicans almost all their children would be in foster care, as the adults...

Spring Break Film Camp Provides Creative Outlet for Birmingham-Area Students

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | For The Birmingham Times Ready, set, action. Nearly 50 Jefferson County students participated in the third annual Dundrill Heights Spring Break Film Camp, last week at the YMCA Youth Center in downtown Birmingham. The film...

Heartbreak on the Hilltop: A Letter to Birmingham

By Wardine Alexander | Special to The Times (An opinion) Wardine Alexander is President Pro Tem of the Birmingham City Council. I’ve been thinking about my granddaughter a lot lately. I try to imagine what it must be like to be young and in school du...

Video: Watch TSU Students and National Civil Rights Leaders Sound Alarm About Attacks and Defunding of HBCUs

RMU TOWN HALL, Stop The Attack on HBCUs. Live from Nashville, Tenn. https://t.co/467pr6I8Os— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) April 1, 2024 NASHVILLE – Tennessee State University (TSU) student leaders sounded the alarm alongside invited nat...

Idris Elba’s Eco-Dream: A Smart City on Sherbro Island

[Image via Getty/J. Countless] Hollywood star Idris Elba, renowned for his roles in iconic television series and movies, is setting his sights far beyond the silver screen to embark on an ambitious project that could transform Sierra Leone’s Sh...

Youth Take Down Tobacco

(NewsUSA) – Advocates of all ages across the country join forces on April 1, Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action, to stand up and speak out against the tobacco industry. Demonstrations, rallies and educational events are scheduled to expo...

Raphael Warnock shuts down GOP criticism of Transgender Day of Visibility

Photo: Getty Images Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) handed out a lesson on faith amid GOP criticism of International Transgender Day of Visibility coincidentally falling on Easter Sunday. Warnock’s comments came after House Speaker Mike Johnson...

Recorder Rewind: Indianapolis Indians at Louisville Bats

Check out some of these photos from the Indianapolis Indians versus Louisville Bats on March 30! Indianapolis Indians pitcher and top MLB prospect Paul Skenes during their game versus the Louisville Bats on March 30, 2024 in Kentucky. (Photo/Adam...

N.C. State and its 2 DJs headed to 1st Final Four since 1983 after 76-64 win over Duke

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Bruising big man DJ Burns Jr. plays with plenty of joy, skipping on and off the floor and interacting with North Carolina State fans that he often works into a frenzy with slick moves and a soft-t...

Recorder Rewind: Los Angeles Lakers at Pacers

Check out some of these amazing photos from the Los Angeles Lakers versus Indiana Pacers game on March 30 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse! Indiana Pacers forward Myles Turner (33) was honored before the matchup on March 29, 2024 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse...

Get out and vote!

The Black Political Empowerment Project, once again, has teamed with area organizations to make sure Pittsburgh’s Black community exercises their right to vote in the upcoming Primary Election, which this year, 2024, is April 23. This get out and vot...

News Analysis: In the Black Community, It’s Not Voter Apathy

Public Politics is the negotiating process between interested constituencies regarding the access to and distribution of limited resources and the resulting outcome or policies pertaining to those resources.One of the popular narratives that was diss...