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New Orleans Removes Confederate Statues To Mixed Reaction

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

by Kevin McGill NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The statue of the Confederacy’s president had been hoisted from its stone pedestal in the pre-dawn hours and the blue glint of police lights was still visible two […]

Entertainment

Independent Documentary “Black White & Blue” Critically Examines Race, Police Brutality and America’s 2016 Presidential Election

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

Film poster Nationwide — Set for release in early 2018, independent documentary BLACK WHITE & BLUEis a critical examination of the role race and police violence played in the 2016 presidential campaign. Some of the […]

Sports

Former NFL Wide Receiver Michael D. Jackson Killed in Motorcycle Accident

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

Sad news for the NFL community. Former wide receiver Michael D. Jackson, who played for the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens from 1991-98, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Louisiana  as reported by TMZ Sports. He was 48. The site reports […]

Political

Speculation Persists About Kamala Harris Preparing for a Presidential Run In 2020

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

A first-term U.S. Senator from California could be the rising star Democrats are hoping can lead the party in the 2020 presidential race. She is Kamala Harris who, according to her Senate bio, “was the […]

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This Mother’s Day, Black Lives Matter Activists Will Give More Than 30 Women Their Freedom

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

by Dani McClain Shonta Montgomery hugs her son Levell Jones at California Institute for Women in Chino, California. (Reuters / Lucy Nicholson)  (THE NATION) This week, black women in more than a dozen jails across […]

Business

BET Networks Shutting Down DC Headquarters, Moving To NYC

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

BET is shutting its Washington DC headquarters, the city where the network got its start in 1980 before it was acquired by Viacom in 2000. The office will close July 7, with operations to move to […]

Feature

Our Own Vines: Black Women Cultivate New Ground in the Wine Industry

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

by BIANCA HOLMAN (NBC) African American women are cultivating success and living the “grapelife” in the U.S. wine industry — a field that traditionally has lacked a diverse landscape. Entrepreneurs such as Nichelle and Nicole […]

Health

Does Eating Fruit Prevent or Worsen Diabetes?

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

Many of the more than 29 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes may avoid eating fresh fruit because of the relatively high amounts of sugar in things like bananas, apples, cherries and mangos. […]

Feature

Thurgood Marshall’s Widow Keeps His Legacy Alive

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

Cecilia Marshall never imagined that the battle for equal rights in schools and elsewhere would still be as vital today as it was six decades ago when her husband, United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood […]

National

Attorney General Sessions Charts Course Back to Long Drug Sentences Reversed Under Obama

May 13, 2017 Staff 0

by John Schuppe (NBC NEWS) The Trump era of drug enforcement has officially arrived, and it sounds a lot like the old days. The message came this week in the form of a memo from […]

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