Category : News

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announces pancreatic cancer diagnosis

By Christian Terry HOUSTON – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee announced Sunday that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In a statement, Lee said she is currently undergoing treatment to fight the disease. “To the constituents of the 18th C...

Mark Brown to Be the First Alumnus to Serve as President of Tuskegee University in Alabama

Mark Brown has been named the tenth president of historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama. He will assume the presidency of his undergraduate alma mater on July 1, making him the first alumnus to ever hold the position. Tuskegee University e...

Trump suggests Supreme Court intervene in hush money case before sentencing

Photo: Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has suggested that the Supreme Court intervene in his New York hush money case ahead of his sentencing next month, The Hill reports. In a post on Truth Social, Trump called his opponents “Fasc...

How High School Graduation Rates Impact Life Expectancy of Black Male Students

The Schott Foundation for Public Education, in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles, has released a new report that outlines the systemic opportunities and institutional barriers facing Black male students in the United States....

Model Anok Yai claims photographer called her ‘cockroach’ during ZARA shoot

Photo: Getty Images Rising model Anok Yai says a photographer called her a “cockroach” during a shoot for the clothing brand ZARA. “Who wants to hear a story?” Yai said last month in a now-deleted Twitter post. “I remember in 2019 being...

Qualifiers Announced For Soca Monarch Quarterfinals

After an overwhelming response from artistes following the call for submissions for the 2024 National Groovy and Power Soca Monarch competitions, a panel of judges sat for a listening audition to select the artists who qualify for the 2024 Soca Monar...

Judge falls victim to ‘Traveling While Black’ on American Airlines

& by Stephanie Gadlin, The Chicago Crusader & A retired Cook County judge says she was racially profiled during an American Airlines flight and now she is seeking civil damages against what she believes is a case of “travelli...

The Post-Verdict Polls Have Spoken

The following article, The Post-Verdict Polls Have Spoken, was first published on The Black Sphere. Polling is part propaganda and so-called experts’ “wild a55 guesses”, so take them with a grain of salt. Still, the post-verdict pol...

Betty Stewart Appointed Executive Vice President and Provost of Hampton University

Betty H. Stewart has been appointed executive vice president and provost of Hampton University, a historically Black university in Virginia. She will take on the university’s chief academic post on July 1. With over three decades of higher educ...

Triad Cultural Arts announces 25th annual Juneteenth Celebration

Festival will be held on Saturday, June 15, from 1-8 p.m. at Innovation Quarter Triad Cultural Arts will present a Juneteenth weekend celebration throughout Winston-Salem from June 13 through June 16, including its 25th annual all-day festival in Bio...

Novant Health expands beloved neighborhood clinic in East Winston-Salem

Clinic adds new services to multispecialty care location Novant Health Today’s Adult Primary Care will open the first week of June at the corner of Today’s Woman Avenue and Burton Street in Winston-Salem. If this location sounds familiar, it’s becaus...

Study Finds Bias in the Workplace Results in Lower Productivity for Everyone

A new study from researchers at Oklahoma State University and the University of South Carolina has found discrimination in the workplace negatively affects productivity for everyone, regardless of if they are disadvantaged or advantaged by it. For th...

Busta’s Book of the Week: Children’s book chronicles life of Dr. Joe Dudley Sr.

By Busta Brown Imagine your life as a child who lived in a shack on a farm, with no electricity. It’s barely big enough for two, yet both of your parents and ten siblings live with you. Every day at 5 a.m. it’s time to feed the cows, chickens, and pi...

Winners of the inaugural National Preservation Month Essay Contest announced

The Chronicle and the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission education committee joined together to sponsor an essay contest during the month of April for 6th-8th graders in Forsyth County Schools. The contest was to bring attention to and cele...

Cosign Yenze Shares Untold Struggles of Ugandan Musicians

Consign Yenze took to X (Twitter) to express his frustration with being labelled a faded artist due to his lack of new releases. He opened up about the financial challenges he has faced over time whilst investing every penny earned from his...