Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Former Indianapolis Colt awarded Prevention Provider of the Year

Fight for Life Foundation founder and CEO, Marlin Jackson, has been awarded the Indiana Department of Child Services Prevention Provider of the Year award for 2024. The Fight for Life Foundation, founded by former Indianapolis Colt Marlin Jacks...

Cartoon of the Week by Walt Carr: Diddy

Walter Carr is a prominent American cartoonist known for his incisive political commentary through the medium of cartoons. Active during the mid-20th century, Carr’s work graced the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines, where he fearlessly tack...

My detox in jail was horrific. Let’s help others avoid that hell.

Jerome Maynor, a street outreach worker for Central Outreach Wellness Center, Friday, May 24, 2024, in the Hill District. Maynor is in recovery from opioid use disorder while helping others who are still actively using drugs. (Photo by Stephanie Stra...

Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporated

By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year re...

Are Christian values in sync with those of the Divine 9, or not?

Choosing which sorority or fraternity to pledge is a decision often made before college students arrive on campus — usually based on chosen occupation, what friends may be doing, and which group offers the most prestige. And, of course, if legacy pla...

Mechanicsville residents oppose homeless housing initiative, cite lack of consultation and safety concerns

Residents of Mechanicsville are deeply concerned and frustrated by the city’s recent decision to introduce a 100-unit homeless housing initiative within their community. This initiative, aimed at addressing homelessness, has sparked significan...

Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.& Charles Sykes/Invision/AP by Catherine Strong, RMIT University; Bianca Fileborn, The University of Melbourne, and Paige Klimentou, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with...

Black Hoosiers and the innovation economy

Indiana’s innovation economy holds tremendous potential for wealth creation, and it is time to unlock the invisible talent of underrepresented groups, especially Blacks and Latinos, to drive inclusive competitiveness. By embracing the untapped...

Coco Gauff says she wants to win ‘as many slams as possible’ as she cruises into French Open second round

(CNN) — Coco Gauff raced into the second round of the French Open on Monday, taking just 52 minutes to defeat Russian qualifier Julia Avdeeva 6-1 6-1.Gauff, who won her first grand slam title at last year’s US Open, reached the final at Roland Garros...

Facing playoff sweep, Timberwolves fend off Dallas Mavericks to force Western Conference finals back to Minnesota

(CNN) —& With their playoff elimination on the line, the Minnesota Timberwolves put in a gutsy performance to fend off the Dallas Mavericks 105-100 on Tuesday and force a Game 5 in the Western Conference& finals. Having lost the opening t...

Exclusive: A federal grand jury may soon hear from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ accusers

CNN) —Federal investigators are preparing to bring accusers of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs before a federal grand jury, two sources familiar with the probe tell CNN — signaling the US Justice Department is moving toward potentially seeking an indi...

Takeaways from closing arguments in the Donald Trump hush money trial

(CNN) — Prosecutors told jurors on Tuesday they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records& in order to cover up a damaging story about an alleged affair at the end of the 2016 election.Trump’s attorney...

Biden returns to Philadelphia, this time to win back Black voters

Philadelphia (CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to launch a nationwide effort to mobilize Black voters during a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Wednesday, aiming to win back support from a slice of the electorate that polls show wavering in support....

What Philadelphians need to know about the city’s 7,000-camera surveillance system

Surveillance cameras are getting cheaper, more powerful and more ubiquitous. Denniro/iStock via Getty Images Plus by Albert Fox Cahn, New York University The Philadelphia Inquirer recently investigated Philadelphia’s use of what it described as a “l...

Whites in Protest

By Bryan Jenkins It’s hard to close my eyes, with all that’s been going on in America these last couple of years. I turn the lights off, hoping the t.v. will lull me to sleep. But protests over police brutality still keep me up.We Baby Boomers have...