Category : News

Voices of Black Women: American Cancer Society conducts largest cancer study geared to change the risks and outcomes among Black women

(The Dallas Examiner) – Black women make up close to 22 million of the population across the United States. Yet, in a country of over 332 million total population, Black females have largely been ignored or misunderstood by the medical community. Ma...

VONtv premieres CBS 2 Chicago Dorothy Tucker’s Special Report ‘Investigating Injustice: The shocking truth about Black women and crime in Chicago’

Dorothy Tucker’s program, “Investigating Injustice: The Shocking Truth About Black Women And Crime In Chicago” airs this evening on VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network.& VONtv, WVON’s OTT Digital Streaming network will premier award-w...

Linda Holloway Receives Anti-Oppression Award From the American Counseling Association

Linda J.M. Holloway, associate professor at historically Black Alabama State University, has received the 2024 Dr. Mary Smith Anti-Oppression Award from the Counselors for Social Justice Division of the American Counseling Association. The award reco...

Interim City Manager Tolbert creates city’s first chief of strategy, engagement and alignment

(Special to The Dallas Examiner) – Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert recently announced the creation of a new role in her interim administration: chief of strategy, engagement and alignment. This first-of-its-kind position for the city str...

Atlanta University Consortium and Howard University Partner With Kenya on Technology-Driven Research

The Atlanta University Center Consortium, Howard University, Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth, and representatives from the United States and Kenyan governments have partnered to establish EDTECH Africa, a program aimed at fostering tec...

EC$2 Commemorative Banknote Wins International Awards

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is the proud recipient of two global awards for its 40th Anniversary $2 Commemorative Banknote, which was launched in Antigua and Barbuda on 1 December 2023. The ECCB captured the 2023 ‘Bank Note of the Year’...

Dr. Tashion Macon creates blueprint for Black women with new book, ‘Coming In Hot’

The hardback/hardcover edition of “Coming in Hot’ will be coming out soon, according to author Dr. Tashion Macon. The E-book is available now on Amazon. For more information about Macon, visit https://www.tashionmacon.com. Photo by Kerri...

Why did former Cincinnati superintendent fail?

No, it wasn’t because of Cincinnati’s parochialism. Or bully unions. Or that she came in as an outsider. If she had simply taken the time to study and understand that a culture had set in going back to the 1970s, she might have succeeded. Look....

Three African Americans Appointed to Administrative Positions in Higher Education

Toyia K. Stewart has been named vice president of human resources, people, and culture at The Art Institute of Chicago. She has over two decades of experience in human resources, currently serving as vice president and chief human resources officer f...

‘You must choose democracy’: Filipino journalist makes plea to U.S. voters

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg: ‘I Did My Job’

Recorder Rewind: Seattle Storm at Indiana Fever

Check out some photos from the Seattle Storm versus Indiana Fever WNBA game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on May 30 Indiana Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark speaks with the media before the tip-off of the game against the Seattle Storm on May 30, 2024...

The Manhattans win Pittsburgh over again

THE MANHATTANS FEATURING GERALD ALSTON, FAR RIGHT. (PHOTOS BY BRETT D. ALLEN) The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston were, “like you have never seen them before,” with a fantastic concert at the O’Reilly Theater on May 4, part of New Horizon Th...

How MLB’s inclusion of Negro League stats proves power of DEI

FORMER PIRATES PLAYER KEVIN YOUNG, right, is pictured in a throwback Pittsburgh Crawfords uniform with Sean Gibson, great-grandson of Negro League great Josh Gibson. Sean Gibson is sporting the throwback Homestead Grays jersey. Courier File Photo Neg...

Texas schools illegally suspended thousands of homeless students

Houston Landing (The Texas Tribune) – Channelview High School senior Danielle Stephen trudged out of the assistant principal’s office, defeated and desperate. In the fall of 2021, an administrator at the east Harris County campus had just susp...