Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

For individuals who inject their drugs, compassion and acceptance help heal skin infections and increase trust in healthcare

In the past 10 years, injection drug use (IDU) in the U.S. has increased. The uptick follows a shift in the way people use drugs — from taking prescription opioids by mouth to injecting opioids like heroin, or synthetic opioids like fentanyl and seda...

To avoid amputation, diabetics must be vigilant about foot wounds — and seek treatment early and often

& Are you or someone you love living with diabetes? If so, Dr. Chandan K. Sen, UPMC Chief Scientific Officer, Wound Healing Services, and Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has an important message for you: Check the sk...

Black Women Honored, Unsung Greater Indianapolis Heroes to be Awarded the 2024 Honor Her Award

On Saturday, May 11, at 3 PM, the Emerging Pearls Foundation is hosting its ‘Honor Her’ fundraiser in Indianapolis. The event will raise funds for scholarships and community programs and give attendees a place to celebrate the incredible women in the...

Indy Community Pantry feeds hungry through community fridges

Starting in 2020 with the spark to create a change, DeAndrea Rayner established the Indy Community Pantry with the hope to help people struggling with food insecurity in her area. “I was just asking myself ‘what can I do to assist them?’,” said R...

Morgan Price secures historic national collegiate title; becoming first HBCU gymnast to do so

Morgan Price has etched her name into gymnastics history, becoming the first athlete from an HBCU team to clinch a national collegiate championship in the sport.& Representing Fisk University at the USA Gymnastics’ 2024 Women’s Collegiate Nati...

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month and it’s an opportunity to highlight the importance of early detection, prevention, and education. Early detection starts with a trip to your dentist. Dentists serve as the first line of defense in early detecti...

Job Opportunities 4-17-2024

Carnegie Mellon University, headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA has work-at-home Senior Software Engineer position (w/ability to telecommute w/approp. telecommuting sys.; remote worksite must be w/in commuting distance of Pittsburgh, PA for weekly trips...

Legal Advertising Bids and Proposals 4-17-2024

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Allegheny County Department of Human Services recently issued a Request for Proposals for a New Continuum of Care (CoC) Program for Individuals and Families& Experiencing Homelessness. Due Date: 3 p.m. Eastern Time on...

Announcements – Meetings 4-17-2024

PUBLIC NOTICE ALLEGHENY COUNTY SANITARY AUTHORITY The Finance Committee of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority& will hold a special meeting for general purposes on Friday, April 19, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. prevailing time, in the Trefz Board Ro...

Legal Advertising – Estate Notices 4-17-2024

Letters have been granted on the estate of each of the following decedents to the personal representative named, who requests all persons having claims against the estate of the decedent to make known the same in writing to his/her attorney, and all...

City of Birmingham Unveils Boutwell Auditorium’s First-Ever Sensory Room

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | For The Birmingham Times The City of Birmingham on Tuesday unveiled its first-ever “sensory room” at the Boutwell Auditorium in downtown for children and adults who experience sensory sensitivities – which often produce ad...

Meet the 6 Qualifiers Seeking to Fill John Rogers’s Vacant House District 52 Seat

The Birmingham Times Six hopefuls on Tuesday qualified for the June 18 special primary election to fill John Rogers’s vacant Alabama House District 52 seat. Rogers, D-Birmingham, officially resigned from his elected office in March after pleading gui...

‘I Had Fallen In Love And It Was All Over Then’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times DELOIS AND DONALD MASON Sr. Live: McCalla Married: June 15, 1974 Met: June 1970, in Roosevelt City, a Birmingham area neighborhood. Delois had just graduated from George Washington Carver H...

Legal Advertising – Public Notices – Sheriff’s Sale 4-17-2024

CONDITIONS OF SALE Effective with the August 3, 2020, Sheriff Sale of real estate and all such monthly public sales thereafter shall be conducted virtually through video conferencing technology or live streaming. ALL PARTICIPANTS OR BIDDERS MUST BE R...

Remembering Dr. King and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

by Dr. John E. Warren Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, a day those of us who are old enough will never forget. But April 4th is significant for another reason, because on April 4, 1972, the Rev. Dr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr...