Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Texas schools got billions in federal pandemic relief. It is coming to an end as the school year starts

(The Texas Tribune) – The $43 million infusion the Port Arthur Independent School District received in federal COVID-19 pandemic relief funds accomplished more than Phyllis Geans could have ever imagined. The money allowed the district to upgr...

Build A Man camp introduces Black teens to trades, bolsters their confidence and community

CNN – PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (KYW) – Fourteen-year-old Isaiah Clark-White never thought of himself as a plumber, but that changed on Monday when he successfully soldered a copper pipe at a local trades camp for teen boys. After carefully seal...

Kangaroo moves and other Olympic lessons

Unlike many, I am not mad at Rachael “Raygun” Gunn, the Australian breakdancer who has gone viral at the Olympics. Her moves were, probably unfairly, compared to a kangaroo. I will admit her version of breakdancing did seem somewhat comical. I...

Vouchers are not opportunities for most students; they are about crippling or killing public education

(Texas State Teachers Association) – As we begin a new school year, many districts throughout Texas are struggling with inadequate budgets, including multimillion-dollar deficits, which threaten to shortchange millions of school children of the prog...

‘When we fight, we win!’

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Sometimes a writer has to figure out what to write about because it seems that not much is happening. Everything seems to be about the same old problems, but Vice President Kamala Harris, stepped up for us as soon as we began...

The power of the gumbo spirit was on display at Paris Olympics

“In addition to giving us countless thrilling moments of athletic excellence, the Summer Games have given the DEI movement the greatest gift it could ever hope for: a picture of success that can inspire people from across the political spectrum … Th...

Lilly Endowment supports student success in Marion County

Lilly Endowment’s summer programs began this week in community centers around Indianapolis. Lilly Endowment Inc. is launching two multi-year initiatives to help K-12 public and private schools in Marion County to improve students’ academic a...

Lilly to invest $600M in Marion County students

Harris’ Republicans: Protecting democracy, exposing the threat of Trump

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – It is no surprise that police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attacks are now hitting the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris. Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, former Capitol Poli...

Staying strong

(Children’s Defense Fund) – At a discouraging time in my life, I heard beloved late spiritual director Gordon Cosby of the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., read this Request for Transfer by an unknown author. I often return to it and...

US election 2024: Kamala Harris knows her jazz – why this could count with voters

‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine’: Kamala Harris’s music purchase included a classic Roy Ayers album.& EPA-EFE/Ken Cedeno/pool by Haftor Medbøe, Edinburgh Napier University and Jose Dias, Coventry University Since Kamala Harris became the presumpti...

Hope Does Not Disappoint

“Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we a...

His crayon is purple – but is Harold a Black boy?

Prior to 1998, Harold of ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ was depicted as racially ambiguous. Harper & Brothers, 1955 by Philip Nel, Kansas State University Is Crockett Johnson’s Harold, of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a child of color? If you’...

Black cowboy culture celebrated during 35th Texas Black Invitational Rodeo

(The Dallas Examiner) – Black cowboys can be traced back to the early 19th century in Texas, after “The Great Exodus” when African Americans moved from the South to the western parts of the United States, following the Civil War. In search of land a...

US election: does it matter who is the vice-presidential pick? In Tim Walz’s case, yes

EPA-EFE/Bisuayehu Tesfaye by David Hastings Dunn, University of Birmingham The fanfare and publicity surrounding Tim Walz for his first fortnight as Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick has sparked renewed interest as to whether the second person...