March 2017 Archive

JONI SLEDGE
We Are Family singer Joni Sledge died of natural causes
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (The Washington Informer) – Joni Sledge, the second-eldest sister in the hit pop group Sister Sledge, died of a preexisting medical condition, according to TMZ. ...
For-profit colleges gain beachhead in Trump Administration
By Annie Waldman ProPublica Until June 2016, Taylor Hansen lobbied for the largest trade group of for-profit colleges. At the forefront of its agenda: eliminating a rule known as “gainful employment,” which ...
Black cancer survivors study is underway in Detroit
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — The largest study so far of African-American cancer survivors is now underway in Detroit.
Proposed White House order would track undocumented residents via census
(Special from India-West and New America Media) – A draft executive order currently under consideration by the White House would – for the first time – mandate census workers to ...
TERENCE BLANCHARD
An Opera in Jazz: Terence Blanchard’s Champion
By K.P. Williams Contributing Writer Pop, Rock, Jazz, and Classical. These are all separate genres of music. But what happens when you put two of them together? You get “opera in jazz” ...
Nation adds jobs elsewhere, but Blacks are left standing in the unemployment line
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — The nation’s businesses added 235,000 jobs in February but the companies obviously didn’t hire in the Black community where the unemployment ...
DAVELL CRAWFORD
Music festivals on the horizons…
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Happy Musical Days of the Week “Ray Charles is the total embodiment of everything that African music is and of what it means to be a true American ...
Fakeness, dishonesty and the race card
By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Guest Columnist The race card is being played these days, even as we try to ignore that fact. As we all watch what is going on in ...
We played Donald Trump cheap; now the joke’s on us
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist On Friday, January 20, America inaugurated a narcissistic misogynist millionaire who marketed to what Dr. King called the “white backlash” by playing to racist ...
The ammunition we need now more than ever
By Oscar H. Blayton TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist In 1960, Blacks in Virginia watched as the state changed the laws against trespass to make it a more serious crime, and the penalty was ...

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