Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

March 14, 2024

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9-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Milana Price Among Birmingham’s StrongHer Honorees

By Chanda Temple | birminghamal.gov Nine-year-old honoree Milana Price during the unveiling of the StrongHer art exhibit last Friday on the second-floor lobby of Birmingham City Hall. (Amarr Croskey, For The Birmingham Times) Milana “LaLa” Price was...

StrongHer Honoree Candace Chandler: ‘God Has Given Me Beauty for My Ashes’

By Chanda Temple | birminghamal.gov Losing her husband to a massive heart attack was gut-wrenching for Candace Chandler. Then, one month later, she miscarried the couple’s first baby. Another gut-wrenching moment. Experiencing the back-to-back losses...

How Podiatrist Dr. Ronald Agee Helps Patients Get Back on Their Feet

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | The Birmingham Times Even though he didn’t know it at the time, Dr. Ronald Agee worked a job while young that prepared him for a career he never expected. “[My siblings and I] had an uncle who had a shoe shop by Legion Fie...

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat wants to remain your sheriff

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat (above) visited The Atlanta Voice office on Tuesday, Mar. 12 in order to complete our series of stories on everyone campaigning for the office of sheriff in Georgia’s largest county. Labat was elected sherif...

Atlanta takes center stage at SXSW

Photo by Julia Beverly/The Atlanta Voice AUSTIN, TX- Two back-to-back premieres this week during Texas’ popular music and film festival SXSW shine the spotlight on popular black culture in the 1990s in Atlanta. The first installment of a three...

Guest Editorial: Women’s History Month 2024

“We’ve come a long way, baby” is a phrase that was popular years ago. It was a Virginia Slims cigarette ad that targeted women and alluded to the changing status of women in American society. Not too long-ago women were treated as second-class citize...

The Legendary Anita Baker To Grace Atlanta With Special Mother’s Day Weekend Performance

Renowned eight-time Grammy Award-winning superstar Anita Baker today announced a special Mother’s Day weekend performance at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA, on Saturday, May 11. Ms. Baker is returning to the stage for this one-night-only performanc...

Easy, Safe, and for Everyone: The Essentials of Opening a Bank Account

Sponsored by JPMorgan Chase There are many reasons for opening a bank account. From depositing a check to making a transfer, working with a bank makes it seamless to manage your money in a safe way. Opening up a bank account also makes it easier to p...

Africa’s Coup Calamity: What Happened To Deterrence?

BY CLAUDE LAMBERT Senegal, one of West Africa’s most stable democracies has the unfortunate distinction in becoming the first member in 2024 to join the democratic backslider club. Although not yet a coup, President Macky Sall has announced the p...

Kemp signs Georgia law reviving prosecutor sanctions panel. Democrats fear it’s aimed at Fani Willis

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law Wednesday that lets a state commission begin operating with powers to discipline and remove prosecutors, potentially disrupting Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution of former Pr...