Category : Black Owned Newspapers And Blogs

What are microcredentials? And are they worth having?

The payoff for microcredentials varies by profession. Drs Producoes via Getty Images by Daniel Douglas, Trinity College As private firms and governments struggle to fill jobs – and with the cost of college too high for many students – employers and e...

Statement by Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS WASHINGTON —The Biden-Harris Administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. Following historic progress made under the President’s leadership—with over 14 million jobs added since the...

Tennessee Lawmakers Want More Oversight of Juvenile Detention. The Department of Children’s Services Is Pushing Back.

By Paige Pfleger, WPLN/Nashville Public Radio The commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services publicly said this month that the agency was working with lawmakers to address oversight gaps at juvenile detention facilities acros...

BJCTA Donates Two 40-Foot MAX Transit Buses to Miles College

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times For the first time, Miles College will have its own transit buses for students to travel on and off campus and to area destinations, courtesy of a gift from the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority’s...

Consolidated Pipe Will Invest $28.7 Million to Relocate Headquarters to Lakeshore Parkway

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Consolidated Pipe & Supply Company, Inc., which currently has its headquarters on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College, will invest $28.7 million to relocate its corporate headquarters off Lakeshore P...

The Morgan Project Launches ‘Courage’ Curriculum in Birmingham Schools

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times After three years of planning, coordination, and commitment, The Morgan Project recently announced the launch of its “Conflict and Courage” curriculum in two Birmingham City Schools — Phillips Academy,...

Titusville Library to Host A. Faye Boykin’s Portrayal of Harriet Tubman on March 26

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times In honor of Women’s History Month, the Titusville Branch Library will present A. Faye Boykin’s renowned portrayal of Harriet Tubman at 11 a.m. on March 26. Tubman serves as a pivotal figure not only in Black histor...

Dr. John Warren: An opportunity to stop the hate…Lent and Ramadan

by Dr. John E. Warren We, the citizens of the United States of America, as well as our fellow citizens of the world, are living in a period of unprecedented conflict. While the word “hatred” is rarely used or mentioned, it is the source of the worst...

Our Sincerest Apologies

OUR SINCEREST APOLOGY Dear Valued Readers: The NPC staff and Roz Edward wish to retract an incorrect statement published on our online publication on Friday, March 22. The NPC content editors and staff offer our sincerest apologies for the error in M...

Black Biden: Woke AI will Rewrite History

The following article, Black Biden: Woke AI will Rewrite History, was first published on The Black Sphere. People need to fully understand that we live in a distorted world where right is wrong and up is down. And the Left loves play-acting in that w...

Woke AI will Rewrite History

The following article, Woke AI will Rewrite History, was first published on The Black Sphere. People need to fully understand that we live in a distorted world where right is wrong and up is down. And the Left loves play-acting in that world. In fact...

Racist Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Is Aimed At Blinding Voters To Reality

Replace the bombing in New York with the death of Laken Riley … “cesspools of the Old World” with “sh**hole countries” … “polluted the clear spring” with “poisoning the blood” and Ellis Island with the southwest border, and a 1920 editorial could be...

The process of dealing with death is experiencing rebirth in a less-religious Pittsburgh

Tanisha Bowman, of the North Side, a palliative care social worker for Butler Health System and a “death walker,” walks amongst the old graves in St. Mary’s Cemetery on March 12, in the Butler County community of Herman. Bowman frequently visits the...

Princess of Wales and King Charles: one in two people develop cancer during their lives – the diseases and treatments explained

B. Lenoir/Shutterstock by Gavin Metcalf, Anglia Ruskin University The Princess of Wales released a moving video message on March 22 to address speculation about her health. In it, the future queen disclosed that she’d been diagnosed with cancer follo...

Are you one of the millions about to have cataract surgery? Here’s what ophthalmologists say you need to know

Cataract surgery removes the clouded lens of the eye and replaces it with a new, clear lens. Ivan-balvan/iStock via Getty Images Plus by Allan Steigleman, University of Florida and Elizabeth M. Hofmeister, Uniformed Services University of the Health...