HBCU enrollment on the rise amid increasing racial tensions
(Special Defender News Service) — HBCUs have long been held as a Black students’ home away from home – where they can receive the education they deserve while escaping the ...
Local teen poet wins gold medal at national arts competition
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer When Lusher Charter School senior Raven Little began writing poetry in a seventh-grade creative writing class, her work covered many of the usual subjects in a teenager’s ... Major prostate cancer research targeting African Americans to begin
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — For African-American men, prostate cancer is real. Health statistics paint disturbing trends, including that 60 percent of Black males are more likely to develop ...
The home of Medgar Evers has been designated a national landmark
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (BlackmansStreet.Today) — Medgar Evers was carrying NAACP printed t-shirts that demanded “Jim Crow must go in Mississippi.” As he walked from his car parked ... Missing Black girls and the individuals and organizations trying to help
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Have you seen Iniaya Wilson? Just 14, Iniaya has been missing from her Columbus, Ohio home since January 25. NAARC applauds reparations conversation by the 2020 presidential contenders
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Institute of the Black World 21st Century) — The National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC) applauds several presidential contenders for their recent expressed ... EPA, LDEQ want Mosaic to resume water removal from shifting gypsum stack
By Tom Wright The Lens The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked Mosaic Fertilizer to resume removing wastewater from its reservoir atop its Gypsum Stack No. 4 in St. James Parish, despite ...
Costly Confusion: Medicare’s wellness visit isn’t the same as an annual physical
By Michelle Andrews Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Health News) — When Beverly Dunn called her new primary care doctor’s office last November to schedule an annual checkup, she assumed her Medicare ... Facebook won’t let employers, landlords or lenders discriminate in ads anymore
By Jack Gillum and Ariana Tobin ProPublica Facebook advertisers can no longer target users by age, gender and ZIP code for housing, employment and credit offers, the company announced last Tuesday as ... Did your doctor ‘ghost’ you? An employment contract may be to blame
By Michelle Andrews Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s office for a urine culture and antibiotics. It was ...
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(Special Defender News Service) — HBCUs have long been held as a Black students’ home away from home – where they can receive the education they deserve while escaping the ...
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer When Lusher Charter School senior Raven Little began writing poetry in a seventh-grade creative writing class, her work covered many of the usual subjects in a teenager’s ... Major prostate cancer research targeting African Americans to begin
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — For African-American men, prostate cancer is real. Health statistics paint disturbing trends, including that 60 percent of Black males are more likely to develop ...
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (BlackmansStreet.Today) — Medgar Evers was carrying NAACP printed t-shirts that demanded “Jim Crow must go in Mississippi.” As he walked from his car parked ... Missing Black girls and the individuals and organizations trying to help
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Have you seen Iniaya Wilson? Just 14, Iniaya has been missing from her Columbus, Ohio home since January 25. NAARC applauds reparations conversation by the 2020 presidential contenders
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Institute of the Black World 21st Century) — The National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC) applauds several presidential contenders for their recent expressed ... EPA, LDEQ want Mosaic to resume water removal from shifting gypsum stack
By Tom Wright The Lens The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has asked Mosaic Fertilizer to resume removing wastewater from its reservoir atop its Gypsum Stack No. 4 in St. James Parish, despite ...
By Michelle Andrews Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Health News) — When Beverly Dunn called her new primary care doctor’s office last November to schedule an annual checkup, she assumed her Medicare ... Facebook won’t let employers, landlords or lenders discriminate in ads anymore
By Jack Gillum and Ariana Tobin ProPublica Facebook advertisers can no longer target users by age, gender and ZIP code for housing, employment and credit offers, the company announced last Tuesday as ... Did your doctor ‘ghost’ you? An employment contract may be to blame
By Michelle Andrews Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s office for a urine culture and antibiotics. It was ...
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