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Tech CEO May Have Used ChatGPT Bot To Write Martin Luther King Into Layoff Notice

Earlier this week a tech CEO came under fire for invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the same email she announced layoffs. Now, because of an experimental tweet, some suspect PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada of using ChatGPT to compose the message.On...

Tennessee State University Reveals Its Plans for $250 Million Received From the State

In 2021, a joint committee of the Tennessee State Legislature found that historically Black Tennessee State University had been shortchanged on budget allocations dating back to the 1950s. In 1913, the legislature stipulated that Tennessee State shou...

Even “Child Welfare” Workers Say Their Agency Is Racist

Systemic racism is a key driver of the so-called child welfare system, better understood as the family regulation system. This is a system in which thousands of mostly Black and Brown families are put under a microscope and threatened with separation...

Top Research Firm Puts Out Short Seller Fatwa Against Adani Group, Alleges Largest Corporate Fraud In History

A sell-off of Adani Group stocks linked to Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has wiped out $47 billion in market value Friday after U.S. short-seller Hindenburg Research published a report alleging massive fraud at the company and announced its short p...

Law Enforcement Agencies Across America Prepare For Unrest After Release Of Killer Cops Video In Tyre Nichols Case

Tyre Nichols. The name of the 29-year-old Black man who& died after being brutally beaten& by five Black Memphis police officers reverberates across the country. Law enforcement agencies across the country are& bracing for unrest& and...

We need more growth in minority media ownership

By: Barbara Arnwine I’ve fought for civil rights my entire career. In fact, in honor of my late mother, Vera Pearl& Arnwine, I will tell you that my actual birth was amidst a fight for justice and equality to desegregate a White Hospital that...

Miriam Mobley Smith Honored by the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists

Miriam Mobley Smith, interim dean of the Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo received the Distinguished Leader Award from the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists. The honor, which recognizes contributi...

Ministry of Equity, World Food Programme Sign Technical Assistance Agreement

On January 27, 2023, Officials of the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice, and Empowerment and the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP), affixed their signatures to a new Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA). Under the watchful eye of Min...

Oakland politics in review

People’s Slate candidates campaigned in Emeryville in December 2022. From left, they are Yoana Tchoukleva, Peralta Trustee Sheweet Yohannes, Emeryville City Councilperson Kalimah Priforce, Chaney Turner, Osagie Edebiri, Hannah Groce, Nelson Ta...

Opinion: 2023 Is The ‘Jordan’ Year … So What?

There is a lot we can say about Michael Jordan as a philanthropist and capitalist.As for Michael Jordan, the Hall of Fame basketball player, he remains the most iconic figure in all of professional sports. Jordan’s greatness on the court is unparalle...

UNCF Receives $190 Million for Scholarships for Students From Underrepresented Groups

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), which supports 37 private historically Black colleges and universities, has received its largest philanthropic corporate gift in its 78-year history from Boston-based financial services leader Fidelity Investment...

Pigtown’s Groundwork Kitchen reopens its doors after pandemic hiatus

By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com After nearly a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Groundwork Kitchen is gearing up to reopen its doors in Southwest Baltimore’s Pigtown neighborhood. During the break, the restau...

St Mary’s College To Host Old Boys’ Reunion

The St Mary’s College is hosting an Old Boys’ reunion to coincide with its annual Sports Meet on Thursday March 2nd 2023 at the Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium. Apart from the usual inter-house track activities being held on that day for t...

Three Black Scholars Who Have Been Given Duties Relating to Diversity

Wilmore Webley will serve as the inaugural senior vice provost for equity and inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is an associate professor of microbiology and has been serving as associate dean for inclusion and engagement in th...

Champ Green on his new album, ‘Adult Contemporary Playeristic Love Diaries’

“This Bay Area rap scene is looking pretty fruitful. It’s about to blow up like Silicon Valley, haha. We have so many diverse cats putting in that work, so many dope crews with talent, it’s abundant,” says Champ Green. by Minister of Information J...