Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

Texas historical marker designated for Dr. Thomas Freeman

The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has recognized the late Dr. Thomas F. Freeman, long-time Texas Southern University debate coach, as a significant part of Texas history by awarding an Official Texas Historical Marker in his name. The designatio...

Lack of access to healthy food may raise risk of death from heart failure

This study is one of the first analyses to investigate the association between local food environments and heart failure mortality. Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart muscle becomes so weak it no longer pumps blood a...

Business, Bank Groups Sue to Stop CFPB’s Fight Against Financial Discrimination

By Charlene Crowell On September 28, two of the nation’s largest and most influential business groups filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its Director Rohit Chopra. The action aims to prevent the CFPB from usin...

2022 Vote: Don’t just register, turn out and vote

By Allen R. Gray NDG Contributing Writer Voting in any election is a process that isn’t complete until the ballot is cast by whatever means is legally permissible. While Democrats are doing great when it comes to registering voters, the actual votes...

Jariya Lee gives it her all in Wisdom HS volleyball

Wisdom junior outside hitter Jariya Lee is a ball of energy on the volleyball court that is always anticipating her next opportunity to put her team in a position to succeed. Whether that requires making close-out serves as she did in Wisdom’s 3...

Inflation relief in sight: Will our efforts be fast enough?

By Lori Lee NDG Contributing Writer Now at 3.5% unemployment, we are back where we were prior to the pandemic. Perhaps, it is a good time for change–change in the way we do businesses, change in materials and resources, and change in how we obt...

The Chevy Bolt’s huge sales prove America is craving a cheap electric car

(CNN) — General Motors makes a big deal out of the Ultium battery technology underpinning its new and upcoming electric vehicles like the& Cadillac Lyriq,& GMC Hummer EV& and the& Chevrolet Silverado EV pickup. But the GM EV th...

Herschel Walker faces abortion allegation from 2nd accuser

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, of encouraging and paying for her 1993 abortion — an accusation that came just weeks after a former girlfri...

Ayesha & Kevan Shelton: Preserving Black Houston monuments

Preserving Black historical landmarks in the United States is crucial but has its share of challenges. Of the 95,000 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, only 2% focus on the experiences of Black people, according to the African...

Annie Benifield leads League of Women Voters Houston

For Annie Benifield, voting is in her blood. Her father was a first generation born out of slavery African American, who lived to be 90 years old and never missed an opportunity to vote once he was given the right. Her father passed in 2004, but his...

Domestic violence fund gets $4.7M from Harris County

Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and domestic violence prevention advocates announced on Wednesday a $4.7 million Domestic Violence Assistance Fund to help domestic violence victims. The funds will help the county’s increasing rate of d...

Homelessness and the November 8th Vote

By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher,San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper This week we have new numbers suggesting that the homeless population is growing in spite of efforts to make […] The post Homelessness and the November 8th Vote appeare...

Nation’s Report Card makes case for Universal Kindergarten

The country’s education system received a tough blow with the release of the& National Assessment of Educational Progress’s& Nation’s Report Card, the first one released since 2019. The report showed exactly how much the pandemic has impacte...

BLK, the dating app for Black singles, launches Homecoming Mode to bring HBCU students and alumni together

By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com BLK, the prime lifestyle and dating app for Black singles, is helping students and alumni come together to […] The post BLK, the dating app for Black sing...

Biden says to Fetterman: Hold my beer!

The following article, Biden says to Fetterman: Hold my beer!, was first published on The Black Sphere. I said a while back, nobody campaigns with Biden. And then Fetterman comes along. My instinct was to say that Biden bribed Fetterman with some of...