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We Are Way Past Due to Elect Candidates Representing Our Interests

February 22, 2024 Staff 0

By Lucius Gantt      The 2024 United States election campaigns for federal, state, and local races have already begun. There will be Black candidates running for office but most Black Americans will continue to run […]

Entertainment

Where’s Wendy? Williams, 59, Diagnosed with Aphasia and Frontotemporal Dementia

February 22, 2024 Staff 0

By ( Wendy Williams in 2019. PHOTO: EVAN FALK/SHUTTERSTOCK Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), her medical care team announced. According to a press release, the former talk show host, 59, received […]

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Op-Ed: In 2024, Keep Your Relationship To Yourself — Good, Bad And The Ugly

January 3, 2024 Staff 0

by Elisabeth Ayoola (Essence) Privacy, or ”the state of being free from public attention” has become increasingly rare in the social media age, and a lot of the time, it’s the most famous among us […]

Entertainment

Les McCann, Innovative Jazz Musician Dies at 88

January 3, 2024 Staff 0

Les McCann, a prolific and influential musician and recording artist who helped found the soul-jazz genre and became a favorite source for sampling by Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest and hundreds of other hip-hop […]

Sports

Record Number of Black Quarterbacks Have Starting Positions in the NFL for the 2023-2024 Season

September 15, 2023 Staff 0

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The 2023 NFL Draft marked the first time in NFL history Black men were selected in the top three positions for quarterback. The position was once seen as a white male-dominated one […]

National

60th Anniversary of Birmingham Church Bombing Unites Families of Victims and Perpetrators

September 15, 2023 Staff 0

16th Street Baptist Church Credit: Ariama C. Long photo Four innocent young girls getting ready for Sunday services died when the Ku Klux Klan detonated a devastating bomb inside Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church sixty years […]

National

Workers Are on Strike at all 3 Detroit Auto Makers for the First Time in Their Union’s History

September 15, 2023 Staff 0

by TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer, COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn’t bridge a giant gap […]

National

MARCH ON WASHINGTON 60th ANNIVERSARY: A Day of Speeches to Spark a Life of Change

August 28, 2023 Staff 0

By Essence Wiley Howard University News Service Thousands crowded at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday in honor of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther […]

National

Florida Braces for Category 3 Hurricane – Jacksonville in the Path Wednesday at 8 PM

August 28, 2023 Staff 0

Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen to a hurricane as it bears down on Florida this week. The first major storm of the  could become a major Category 3 hurricane by Tuesday night.  Landfall […]

National

Minnesota Descendants of Enslaved Africans to Receive $50 Million as Part of Wealth-building Initiative

July 13, 2023 Staff 0

by Niara Savage (Minneapolis Spokesman) The promise of 40 acres and a mule An ambitious wealth-building initiative will provide 800 Black residents of Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota with $50,000 grants over the next eight […]

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