Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Are college degrees still worth it?

There was a time when obtaining a college degree was the solution to having a financially stable career and life. Recently with the increase of tuition and the crippling amounts of student loan debt on young people, and low-salary paying jobs, it is...

HBCUs Are Becoming More Diverse, But Not Everyone Considers That a Good Thing

insightintodiversity.com (Photo/Twitter) Recently, a White student who was accepted to Spelman College — among the nation’s most prominent historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) — sparked a heated online debate after posting about her...

Senator Bill Frist Elected Incoming Chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Board of Directors

Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–The Nature Conservancy announced Senator Bill Frist, M.D. was elected Chair of its Global Board of Directors at its recent board meeting in June 2022. He will begin his three-year term in October 2022. Senator&...

COVID pandemic hit hospitalized patients hard

Sashank and Bhuvi hand-deliver a Care Kit to a patient in a pediatric subacute facility and read a story to the child. by Medical Students Association During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients across the nation were isolated in their rooms without...

Redistricting is Voter Suppression Too

By Ben Jealous When Charles Diggs, Jr., won election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th& District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress.& That’s likely to change...

Learn How to Plan a Menthol Funeral

Each year 45,000 African Americans die from tobacco induced diseases. That’s 45,000 funerals! Now we are flipping the scenario and burying Menthol Cigarettes. This informative training will show you how to use “Menthol Funerals” to...

Max Fried wins pitchers duel, Braves take 3 of 4 from Mets

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves avenged their series loss in Flushing to the New York Mets by winning three out of four games in this pivotal series. With a 3-2 win Thursday night at Truist Park, the Braves are now 3.5 games out of first place in...

Black members of Gen Z take to the 2022 political stage

If there is doubt that young people are interested in advocating for the improvement of American values, the worry is over. Young Black politicians have put in their bids this political season.Korey T. Johnson, a Baltimore native candidate for the Ho...

EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?

Whether the U.S. economy is heading for a recession got more difficult to answer, when a report showed employers hired hundreds of thousands more workers last month than expected. The stunning strength made clear that a linchpin of the economy re...

Ex-Texans QB Deshaun Watson to serve 11-game suspension, pay fine

Following a week of back-and-forth negotiations, former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, the NFLPA and NFL came to a settlement on punishment on Thursday for more than two dozen sexual misconduct claims against him. Watson, who is now the Cleve...

Baltimore City Fire Department helps young girls prepare for future service

By Kara Thompson, Special to the AFRO After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Baltimore City Fire Department’s Camp Spark returned this summer. The two-day camp took place on […] The post Baltimore City Fire Department helps young g...

CNN Exclusive: ‘Ludicrous.’ ‘Ridiculous.’ ‘A complete fiction.’: Former Trump officials say his claim of ‘standing order’ to declassify is nonsense

& (CNN) — In the days since the FBI seized classified and top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, the former President and his allies have claimed that Trump had a “standing order” to declassify docume...