Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Nashville to celebrate Earth Day April 20

& Centennial Park Conservancy announced today that Nashville Earth Day, the city’s only official annual event to celebrate Earth Day, will return to the BandShell area of Centennial Park on Saturday, April 20 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.& Pres...

Fight for Diversity in Public Service is the Heart in the Film ‘Shirley’

“Shirley” tells the story of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and her trailblazing run for president of the U.S. It chronicles her 1972 presidential campaign. Oscar-winning actress Regina King plays the ico...

Job Corps Infrastructure Academies prepares students for high-demand, quality jobs created by Biden-Harris administration’s historic investments

Training opportunities available at two campuses in Indiana WASHINGTON (March 19, 2024) – In response to emerging workforce needs in high-demand industries across the nation, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program offers free trainin...

Haiti is in crisis, but foreign intervention comes with an ugly past

Chaos on the streets of Port-au-Prince.& Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images by Ernesto Sagás, Colorado State University Haiti is fast becoming a failed state. Armed gangs control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and have forced the shu...

Job Opportunities 3-20-2024

TEACHING POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Falk School, a coeducational K-8 school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, is seeking two full-time teachers for the next academic year beginning August 2024 for the following po...

Legal Advertising Bids and Proposals 3-20-2024

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Allegheny County Department of Human Services recently issued a Request for Proposals for a Debit Card Payment Service. Due Date: 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 18. For more details and submission information, visi...

Announcements – Meetings 3-20-2024

HACP MARCH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETING The next regular HACP Board of Commissioners Meeting will take place on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. EST. This will be a hybrid meeting (with limited in-person seating (on a first come, first serve...

Legal Advertising – Estate Notices 3-20-2024

Letters have been granted on the estate of each of the following decedents to the personal representative named, who requests all persons having claims against the estate of the decedent to make known the same in writing to his/her attorney, and all...

Birmingham Seeks $2 Million to Replace and Repair ‘Aging’ Police Vehicles

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | For The Birmingham Times With the Birmingham Police Department vehicles, on average, over the standard mileage of 120,000 and many in need of replacement, the city is seeking $2 million from the Department of Justice for t...

Woodfin Details Where Money is Spent During Birmingham’s 2024 Budget Town Hall

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | For The Birmingham Times Hundreds packed the second floor of the Boutwell Auditorium on Monday to hear Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin discuss the city’s budgeting process during a 2024 Budget Town Hall which lasted...

Legal Advertising – Public Notices 3-20-2024

& RAD AT LARGE BOARD MEMBER NOMINATIONS Regional economic and community development organizations are invited to nominate persons to serve for a two-year term on the Board of the Allegheny Regional Asset District as an At Large member. Certain...

‘He Was in Front of Our Fireplace on One Knee and Said, ‘I Love You’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times WHITNEY AND MICHAEL NALLS Live: Fairfield Married: Aug. 19, 2019 Met: Feb. 10, 2016, at the 3000 Bar on the Southside. Whitney was out for a drink with some friends when she noticed Micheal...

Legal Advertising – Public Notices – Sheriff’s Sale 3-20-2024

CONDITIONS OF SALE Effective with the August 3, 2020, Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office...

Julianne Malveaux: Let them eat flakes…Inflation, nutrition, and reality

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant? As each approached an elephant and tried to describe it, they came up with wildly disparate answers. One thought it a snake, another a tree, another a trunk. Becaus...

COMMENTARY: Is a Cultural Shift on the Horizon?

By Maya Mackey | Inglewood Today Almost two weeks removed from Black History Month, I find myself pondering what Black Culture is, in modern times. There’s a running joke on X/Twitter that “we are losing recipes!” whenever young Black people (Gen...