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St. Patrick’s Day Kampala celebrations culminate with charity gala

By Our Reporter The Irish community in Kampala came together for the culmination of the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, with a charity gala event held at the Kampala Sheraton Hotel gardens on Saturday. The event, organised by the Irish...

Recorder Rewind: Brooklyn Nets at Indiana Pacers

Check out some of these amazing photos from the Brooklyn Nets at Indiana Pacers basketball game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on March 17! Pacers veteran guard T.J. McConnell (9) puts up a jumper over Brooklyn Nets center Nicolas Claxton (33) during t...

James Griffin Is the First Black President of the Medical Staff at University of Texas Southwestern Hospital

James Griffin has been appointed president of medical staff at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 1958, Dr. Griffin was born at Parkland Memorial Hospital while the delivery ward was still segre...

Saint Lucia To Erect Shrine In Memory Of Cathedral Attack

Saint Lucia is to erect a shrine in memory of the deadly New Year’s Eve attack on worshippers in the Cathedral in Castries in the year 2000. The initiative is part of the Island’s venture into religious tourism. In what one eyewitness des...

‘Break the generational curse’

PERSONAL FINANCE SPECIALIST DR. SALOAM BEY, center, with many of the graduates of the “Understanding and Starting Your Business” program from December 2023; Sheila Clemons, Dianne C. Lemon, Shatel Abram, Darlyn Reaves, Sadir Lee, and Danielle Anderso...

Talk Magazine Awards

MANY OF THE HONOREES WITH ROXANNE AND LUTHER SEWELL OF TALK MAGAZINE ON EACH SIDE. TALK MAGAZINE HELD ITS AWARDS CEREMONY ON FRIDAY, FEB. 23. (PHOTOS BY J.L. MARTELLO) HONOREE RUTH TOLBERT ASHLEY JOHNSON ACCEPTS THE AWARD FOR COURIER EDITOR AND PUB...

Allegheny County’s smallest school district depends on big community spirit

Cornell School District students walk between classes on Feb. 15, at the Coraopolis middle school. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource) Administrators at the Cornell School District say they foster an all-hands-on-deck approach to the challeng...

Black Mental Health Summit coming to Winston-Salem in May

On Saturday, May 17, Reset and Heal, a local mental health consulting firm, will host Winston-Salem’s first Black Mental Health Summit. The event, which will be held at The Enterprise Conference and Event Center, is designed to help attendees better...

Rain can’t dampen the spirits at International Women’s Legacy Parade

By Felecia Piggott-Long, Ph.D. Despite the rain showers on Saturday, March 9, girls and women of all ages proudly marched down Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem to celebrate the International Women’s Day Parade. The parade’s purpose is to promo...

COVID-19 vaccines: CDC says people ages 65 and up should get a shot this spring

Adobe Stock Photo – a geriatrician explains why it’s vitally& important by Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia In my mind, the spring season will always be associated with COVID-19. In spring 2020, the federal government declared a na...

Community Tourism Agency Signs Funding Agreement

by Virgil Leonty A handful of local tourism projects will benefit from a financial agreement between the CARICOM Development Fund and Saint Lucia’s Community Tourism Agency. The agreement will allow for the development of four tourism projects namely...

The hostility Black women face in higher education carries dire consequences

Isolation can make opportunities elusive. fotostorm via Getty Images by Ebony Aya, Macalester College Isolated. Abused. Overworked. These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and rela...

Origin: Caste, Class, or Race? The danger of not knowing the difference.

George Middleton Ms. Wilkerson asserts that the issue of inequality is not because of the system of race i.e. racism, but that of another system, the Caste system. The author of Caste passionately states that in America we call everything racist,...

‘Friendship recession’ is ravaging our mental and physical health. Here’s how we fight against it together.

Jay Height It’s been called the friendship recession. And it’s having devastating consequences on our emotional, mental and physical health. Recent surveys indicate that Americans have significantly fewer close friends on average and are much m...

CTO To Spotlight The Caribbean At Routes Americas 2024

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is poised to positively impact the Routes Americas in Bogotá, Colombia. This premier air service development forum uniting the Americas brings together senior decision-makers from the region’s leading airlines...