Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Big business: how the AFRO has celebrated Black entrepreneurship for 130 years

As the oldest family-owned, continuously published Black newspaper in the country, the oldest Black-owned business in the State of Maryland, and the 3rd oldest in the country, the AFRO knows a thing or two about Black entrepreneurship and sustainabil...

Braves: Rain delay didn’t affect Spencer Strider Monday

Braves right hand pitcher Spencer Strider found his groove Monday against the Mets in Monday’s 13-1 win. Strider improved to 7-4 and finished with four strikeouts while allowing three hits and one earned run in five innings pitched. This was a bo...

Braves’ bats dominate first game of Mets series 13-1

ATLANTA – The bats were hot for the Braves in their dominating 13-1 victory against National League Eastern Division rival New York Mets Monday night. Every player finished with a hit this game while the Braves as a team finished with 15 hits....

‘First do no good,’ the hypocritical oath of prison medical care

by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson The Hippocratic Oath versus the hypocritical oath The Hippocratic Oath, often reduced to the four words “First do no harm,” is one of the oldest professional pledges in Western society. Still preserved...

Tallu Schuyler Quinn, Founder of the Nashville Food Project, to be Honored Posthumously

NASHVILLE – A bridge will be renamed Tuesday in a ceremony to celebrate the life of Tallu Schuler Quinn, the founder of the Nashville Food Project who died earlier this year from brain cancer.& Rep. John Ray Clemmons and Sen. Jeff Yarb...

High school football players to watch

Once you’ve& inhaled the smell of fresh cut grass and heard coaches’& whistles amid the sounds of& on-the-field collisions,& you know football is back. For this upcoming 2022-23 high school football season, the Defender has...

Two Tennessee McDonald’s Shift Managers Win Brand New Vehicles

TN Tribune–Local McDonald’s owner-operators of the Greater Tennessee Valley Operator’s Association (GTVOA), including Middle Tennessee, held drawings and selected two lucky winners among their Shift Managers for brand-new 2022 Hyun...

Houston 2023 mayoral candidates talk fundraising

Mayor Sylvester Turner has led the Bayou City for the past seven and a half years, steering Houston through countless storms, including the Labor Day Flood (2015), Tax Day Flood (2016), Hurricane Harvey (2017), Independence Day Flood (2018) and Wint...

Parent empowerment tour focuses on public schools

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is making its rounds in Houston as it continues its Parent Empowerment Tour to give parents the opportunity to express concerns about issues in public school education and their roles in the academic success...

AFRO News on education: celebrating 130 years of a journey worthwhile

Since its establishment in 1892, the AFRO American Newspaper has strongly believed in the role of education as a key to both eradicate racism and transform African-American lives. AFRO reporters have covered a variety of stories related to education...

City awarded grant for Telephone Road Project

The United States Department of Transportation announced yesterday that the City of Houston will receive $20.96 million in federal funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity (RAISE) grant program for the&...

Troubling questions remain in Till case

By her own telling, Mississippi authorities provided Carolyn Bryant Donham with preferential treatment rather than prosecution after her encounter with Emmett Till led to the lynching of the Black teenager in the summer of 1955. Instead of arrest...

Volunteers for the Plano International Festival gear up as the beloved event set to return on October 15

By Jackie Hardy NDG Contributing Writer “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members,” a quote from the late Coretta Scott King, American author, Civil Rights activist and widow of Dr. Martin L...

Our Unique Journeys: Diversity within Diversity

By A. Tonya Odom, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield I often hear people wondering aloud about what makes a group diverse. Is it different races, ethnicities or gender? Do members need to […] The post Our Unique Journeys: Diversity within Diversit...

Your Essential Checklist for a Late Summer Camping Trip

Camping as a family can seem daunting—kids need so much& stuff, don’t they? With a bit of careful planning, however, you can easily take a late summer trip and enjoy each other’s company away from the demands of daily life. On a camping trip,...