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By Frederick H. Lowe Three African-American U.S. Senators have introduced a bill in Congress that if passed and signed into law would make lynching a federal crime. It is similar to legislation introduced earlier this […]
By Frederick H. Lowe BlackmansStreet.Today U.S. Army Lieutenant General Darryl A. Williams has been named the 60th superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, making him the first African American to command […]
After 40 years, Debbie Africa has been released from Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution Cambridge Springs, the first of the infamous MOVE Nine to be paroled. Founded in 1972, the Philadelphia-based Black liberation group drew national […]
It’s been almost a month since Texas teen Dajerria Becton reached a settlement with the City of McKinney over her violent arrest at a neighborhood pool party in 2015. As a recent high school grad, […]
Some cities are finally acknowledging the huge racial disparities in low-level marijuana arrests and promising changes. About 61 percent of Americans say marijuana should be legalized, a sentiment that has increased steady in recent years, […]
By Salih Booker and Ari Rickman, washingtonpost.com Beginning in 2035, the number of young people reaching working age in Africa will exceed that of the rest of the world combined, and will continue every year […]
ELECTIONS: Mia Mottley has become Barbados’ first female prime minister THE BARBADOS Labour Party (BLP) has won a landslide victory in the country’s elections. The new government will be led by Mia Mottley, the country’s […]
As Edward Waters Collefe President Nathaniel Glover winds down his tenure leading Jacksonville’s only Historical Black College, the accolades continue to come in celebrating his seven year tenure. OVer the weekend, EWC staff, city council […]
By Jeffrey McKinney, blackenterprise.com When it comes to hiring black businesses, the Democratic National Committee has much more to do. Just 17.6% of the $17.5 million of the DNC’s contract spending for consulting work, including an anemic 6.4% for black […]
(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.)Bethune-Cookman University is all abuzz with the announcement that entertainer and philanthropist Beyoncé Knowles will award a deserving student a $25,000 scholarship for the 2018 – 2019 academic year as part of the BeyGOOD Initiative […]
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