September 2020 Archive
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist When a seventeen-year-old white boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered ... Local barber recently celebrated 50 years of service
By Kelsyn Parker Contributing Writer New Orleans sees him as its champion: “They say Muhammad Ali is the greatest. No! Mr. Green is the greatest.” Those are the words ... Now threatened, USPS was once a gateway to African-American prosperity
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer For more than a century and a half, the U.S. Postal Service has played a major role in Black American tradition and development, both as a means ... Officials sound alarm bells on New Orleanians not filling out census
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer An emergency situation has popped up regarding federal funding to cities and states. Initially, the collection of 2020 census data was slated to end on October 31, ... Study: $100M lost to stimulus check, COVID-19 fraud; Black Americans most vulnerable
(Defender News Service) — As a demographic group, African Americans face a greater risk of being victims of fraud than the nation’s overall population. That eye-popping statistic is ... Sylvester Francis, founder of Backstreet Cultural Museum, dies
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer “A Powerhouse of Knowledge” stands as the slogan of the Backstreet Cultural Museum. It also is an apt description of the museum’s founder and curator, the much ... The ‘bad guy’ narrative is back again – this time it’s Jacob Blake
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist You could have mailed this one in. The “this” is the cynical, calculated, cold hearted, factually challenged assertion that Jacob Blake was really the bad ... The US’ Dual System of Justice
By C. C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Columnist When white ranchers in Nevada launched a standoff with the Bureau of Land Management in 2014, the images on television were shocking ... Thousands descend on the Nation’s Capital for the 2020 March on Washington
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — On the 57th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, tens of thousands of protestors gathered again at the Lincoln Memorial to protest the ... US Black Chambers names September 19 ‘Buy MBE Day’
(Defender News Service) — In honor of the 2020 National Minority Enterprise Development Week (MED Week), the U.S. Black Chambers (USBC) will join the national network of Minority Business Development ...
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