Lifestyle
Mile High Key Lime Pie
FOOD: Mile High Key Lime Pie NNPA NEWSWIRE — Yup, that’s right, I’m making a mile-high key lime pie. I wanted to make a meringue, and I wanted to make a key lime pie, so […]
Month: October 2020
Business
This Black Owned Private Jet Company Seeing Huge Growth Amid the Pandemic
by Dana Givens – The travel industry has been severely impacted by the spread of COVID-19, causing new travel restrictions to go into effect. The airline industry has already reported millions in losses as executives learn to adapt […]
Entertainment
Gospel Singer CeCe Winans Says Her Appearance in Trump Administration’s Covid Ad “Was Not Political”
by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton (Black Enterprise) – Controversy has surrounded a famed gospel singer due to her participation in an ad campaign commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Madame Noire. CeCe Winans is slated […]
Sports
NFL Postpones Steelers-Titans After 2 More Positive Tests
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NFL postponed Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers game at Tennessee until later in the season after one additional Titans player and one personnel member tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement Thursday came […]
Lifestyle
Resorts to RV Parks: Parents Take School Year on The Road
By LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — In RVs, rental homes and five-star resorts, families untethered by the constraints of physical classrooms for their kids have turned the new school year into an […]
Health
Subway Bread Isn’t Bread, Irish Court Says
LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. The ruling came in a tax […]
National
California to Study, Consider Reparations for Black Residents after Landmark Law Passed
USA TODAY N’dea Yancey-Bragg – California has become the first state to adopt a law that requires a study of how the state could provide reparations to Black residents and the descendants of slaves. Gov. […]
Entertainment
‘Essence’ Magazine Furloughs Employees Indefinitely
Terry Shropshire | October 1, 2020 | Essence magazine, the premier publication dedicated to the edification and upliftment of Black women, has been forced to furlough many staff members. Essence announced in a statement on its website that it had […]
Editorials
Decorum, Decency Abandoned During First Presidential Debate
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA – Americans Emerge the Real Losers as Vital Policy Questions Went Unanswered – American politics nose-dived, spiraled, crashed and burned Tuesday night during what masqueraded as the first 2020 presidential […]
Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: ‘We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy’ by Elijah Cummings with James Dale
By Terri Schlichenmeyer – Things could always be worse. You didn’t sleep well last night, your day started earlier than usual, and traffic, ugh; then you forgot your lunch and lost a bag of chips […]