Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

New novel explores the life of Effa Manley, the first female Negro Leagues team owner

By: Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Effa Manley (1897-1981) was the first female Negro Leagues team owner, the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and a civil rights activist. Manley first became the team...

We reviewed the health habits of centenarians. These 4 things could lead to a longer life

Adobe Stock Photo by Zhaoli Dai-Keller, UNSW Sydney and Perminder Sachdev, UNSW Sydney The number of centenarians around the world rose from 151,000 in 2000 to 573,000 in 2021. People are living longer, and we can expect to see more people reach 10...

3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views

More than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen’s views on slavery remain unclear. Jim Dyson/Getty Images by Devoney Looser, Arizona State University More than two centuries after Jane Austen died in 1817, many of the English novelist’s fans want t...

Memphis Has No Representation On TVA Board

More than 11 months since she was nominated to become the only Black member of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors, Memphian Patrice Robinson is still waiting to take her seat. Robinson, a former Memphis City Council member, was n...

Progressive National Baptist Convention leaders hail Harris, pan Trump, urge voting

(Religious News Service) —The Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNBC) centered its annual meeting on get-out-the-vote efforts and celebrated Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president. “We need everyone to register,” PNB...

Kelly v. Board of Education paved way to Nashville school desegregation

By Ivan Sanchez In a landmark ruling on February 18, 1958, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee mandated the Nashville Board of Education to overhaul its desegregation plan, underscoring the federal judiciary’s critical ro...

Two Million Preventable Deaths in the Past 20 Years

Washington D.C.– The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition of 150,000 African American churches, which constitute over 27.7 million churchgoers, are calling for the 118th& US Congress to take action against the stark state of heal...

Ron Daniels: Black America must rally around Kamala Harris to save our nation

& (TriceEdneyWire.com)—In 2020, Black voters helped carry President Biden to the White House. But now that the president has done the right thing by stepping aside and passing the torch to Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s nominee, Black Am...

Democrat Pitch Man’s Most Embarrassing Interview

The following article, Democrat Pitch Man’s Most Embarrassing Interview, was first published on The Black Sphere. No sincere group would want Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman as its spokesperson. And because Democrats sell snake oil, they happi...

Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness

Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP by Ben McCann, University of Adelaide Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce, edgy, often emotionally unstable on screen presence. She often played traumatized mothers or...

THE STORMS BEFORE THE STORMS: THE AFTERMATH

By Travis McGee My condolences for any lives lost and my sympathy for the entire city of Houston for enduring another nightmare. Just one month into the hurricane Season and Houston has experienced two major storms thus far, Derecho and Beryl. Howeve...

AFSCME’S SAUNDERS ON HARRIS’ VP PICK:

By Lon Walls WASHINGTON, DC – American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AF-SCME) President Lee Saunders released the following statement aft er Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate...

U.S. MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT RATES 2 TO 4 TIMES HIGHER

By Phil Helsel and Courtney Kube The number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military is likely two to four times higher than government estimates, according to a new study out of Brown University. The study, completed by the Costs of War Project at Br...

Michigan judge puts teen in handcuffs for falling asleep during field trip

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Trump sparks criticism with Medal of Honor comments

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