Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

HOMELESS & MENTAL HEALTH CHAMPION

By: Shelley McKinley Omar Sesay, Program Director for e Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD, currently leads three outreach programs that target the homeless of Harris County with the intent of reducing the number of people living on the streets...

Recorder Rewind: NCAA March Madness, first round

March Madness is officially in full effect as NCAA basketball continues. Many teams dueled it out in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Downtown Indianapolis. Game #1: Marquette 87 – Western Kentucky 69 We...

OP-ED | Prostate Cancer: A Silent Killer No More

"Explore the urgent call for awareness sparked by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's revelation about his battle with prostate cancer. Amidst health disparities, prominent figures like Austin and philanthropist Robert F. Smith are leading the charge t...

All six former ‘Goon Squad’ officers sentenced for violent civil rights offenses in Mississippi

Courtesy of NNPA Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced this week for torturing and abusing two Black men in Rankin County, Mississippi, in 2023. U.S. District Judge Tom Lee sentenced the defendants to prison terms ranging fro...

Banning discrimination based on hair styles top priority

A COALITION – STATE REPS. LA’TASHA D. MAYES AND JOANNA MCCLINTON, WHO ALSO SERVES AS THE STATE HOUSE SPEAKER, ANNOUNCE THE “CROWN ACT COALITION” DURING AN EVENT AT THE UNION TRUST BUILDING, DOWNTOWN, MARCH 8. (PHOTO BY MARLON MARTIN) Reps. Mayes, McC...

Diane and Kenneth Neely’s Pop-up Art Shop

& The New Pittsburgh Courier was there as Diane Neely held a “Pop-up Art Shop” at the Steel City Emporium, Feb. 24. It featured pieces from Kenneth Neely and his students from Imani Christian Academy. In this photo above, it’s the Neely family in...

Speaker of the House JoAnna McClinton introduces new voting regulations

Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton shown in this file photo in Pittsburgh. Voters would be able to register at polling stations on Election Day, which McClinton has argued would help correct in voting rolls. —FILE PHOTO & by Marco Cerino PHIL...

Happy 90th Birthday, Mary Elizabeth Clark!

EVERYONE THAT CAME WITH BIRTHDAY GIRL, MARY ELIZABETH CLARK, WHO CELEBRATED HER 90TH BIRTHDAY IN MID-FEBRUARY 2024. (PHOTOS BY J.L. MARTELLO) HAPPY 90TH! ALL THE SISTERS! WITH MARY ELIZABETH CLARK IN THE FRONT ROW, MIDDLE. ALL THE GUYS, WITH MARY...

Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can’t agree what marriage is for

For love or money?& Kameleon007/iStock/Getty Images Plus by Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina “First comes love, then comes marriage” – so goes the classic children’s rhyme. But not everyone agrees. Increasingly, the idea that love is the...

Meharry and Vanderbilt Partner to Advance Clinical Trial Diversity

Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-Equitable Breakthroughs in Medicine Development (EQBMED) has selected Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., as one of four sites aimed at addressing disparities in clinical trial access through industry and commu...

Nixon declared Americans deserved to know ‘whether their president is a crook’ – Trump says the opposite

Richard Nixon and Donald Trump may seem similar, but they have key differences. Official White House portraits, CC BY-ND by Spencer Goidel, Auburn University One of the four criminal trials of Donald Trump was slated to start in the next few days, bu...

Biden cannot easily make Roe v. Wade federal law, but he could still make it easier to get an abortion

A protester marks the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision anniversary outside the Supreme Court building on June 23, 2023. Associated Press/Nathan Howard by Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia; Alan Morrison, George Washington Univer...