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The National Urban Professional Baseball League Holding Open Tryouts

May 2, 2017 Staff 0

The National Urban Professional Baseball League (A Replica of Negro League Baseball) will be launching four new Urban Baseball League teams in the spring of 2018. Baseball in our inner-cities is dying and the NUPBL […]

Editorials

Time for Black Fraternities and Sororities to Step Up

April 25, 2017 Staff 0

by James Klingman Remember the scene from “New Jack City” when Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) told Scotty (Ice-T), “This ain’t personal; this is business?” And at the end of the movie, Scotty said to Nino, […]

Editorials

So the “N” Word Does Have Power – To End a Career

April 25, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood I am as guilty as any other Generation X black male – I grew using the word “Nigga” or the “N” word as a term of endearment of sorts. No big deal […]

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Jaguar Linebacker Says Pro Athletes Shouldn’t Charge for Camps – He’s Right

April 25, 2017 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood One of my grandmother’s favorite bible verses is from the Book of Luke, “To whom much is given, much will be required.” Pretty self explanatory, but it basically means that we are […]

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117-year-old Jamaican Violet Brown Becomes the World’s Oldest Person

April 24, 2017 Staff 0

By Namrata Tripathi, International Business Times After the death of the Italian woman Emma Morano, who held the title of the world’s oldest person, Jamaican centenarian Violet Brown, aged 117, is now the oldest person […]

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Massachusetts Court Dismisses 21,000 Drug Cases After State Chemist Falsified Evidence

April 24, 2017 Staff 0

By David Love, Atlanta Black Star In what is being described as the largest single dismissal of wrongful criminal convictions in U.S. history, a Massachusetts court has dismissed over 21,000 drug-related cases after it was […]

Business

The Many Lawsuits and “Sins of Wells Fargo Bank”

April 24, 2017 Staff 0

NNPA By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper Intergovernmental Affairs Contributing Writer During the last 10 years, a reported 109 lawsuits have been filed against Wells Fargo Bank covering 43 […]

Education

FAMU App Challenge Rewards Top Student Techie Innovators

April 24, 2017 Staff 0

Technology wizards partnered up to show off pure creative science and the benefits of collaboration at the AC3, the 2017 App Challenge sponsored by the Division of Research at Florida A&M University. The event continues […]

Entertainment

Sylvia Moy, Motown Pioneer and Stevie Wonder Collaborator, Dies at 78

April 18, 2017 Staff 0

Songwriter Sylvia Moy in her Masterpiece Studios in Detroit in 1995. (Photo: Pat West, Detroit Free Press) By Brian McCollum , Detroit Free Press Songwriter and producer Sylvia Moy, who helped spark Stevie Wonder’s career while […]

Editorials

Don’t Be a Radio Activist

April 18, 2017 Staff 0

by James Clingman “Well done beats well said every time…When it’s all said and done, much is said and little is done.” There are many Black folks who can tell us what “we need to […]

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