Year: 2023

by Amy Johnson  While I was pregnant with our second child, our local church held an Advent Fair where we all made Advent wreaths out of cardstock, paper greens, and small candles. We took ours home and I reverently placed it on our dining room table. “Let’s try something,” I said to my spouse. “Let’s…

By Aziah Siid, Word in Black Here’s what you probably know about school segregation in the United States: On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Many cities across the Jim Crow South refused to comply with…

By Cedric Jones, Word In Black I remember sitting in a small classroom in Barrows Hall at U.C. Berkeley when I learned of my acceptance into Teach For America, a national education nonprofit that supports public school systems by sourcing talent to lead as anti-racist educators within the classroom. Then — as is the case…

The Asociacion de Medios de Informacion seeks more than $598.6 million from Meta Mauro Orru | The Wall Street Journal A group representing more than 80 media outlets in Spain filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, saying the Facebook and Instagram owner hadn’t complied with European data-protection laws that require users’ consent before their data…

State/Health /Lifestyle News As if HIV and AIDS wasn’t scary enough… The disease has stricken the Black community for decades and was starting to see some action against the disease, but for the first time in nearly 20 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown…

By Stan Popovich Many people underestimate the impact that mental illness can have on an individual or family. It can be difficult to admit that you have a mental health problem in your life. Secondly, it can be just as difficult in getting the people you know to understand your situation without making any kinds…

By Tenzin D. Tsagong Editorial Assistant, Special Projects, Opinion It’s a cruel fact of war that at any moment, a journalist covering the story could become part of it. Another casualty. Another headline. And yet war journalism has perhaps never been more dangerous or more important. Since the Israel-Gaza war began on Oct. 7, over…

By Associated Press staff Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall…

Vanessa Romo NPR (12/01/23) Phillip Hancock on Thursday became the fourth death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year. The state’s parole board had voted 3-2 to recommend clemency for Hancock, who was convicted for the 2001 murders of two men, but the governor declined to intervene. Nationally, executions climbed for the second year in…

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Iconic rock star Lenny Kravitz has clarified his comments regarding his absence from Black Awards programs, emphasizing that his concerns were not directed at Black-owned media companies. In response to his comments to Esquire, the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Let It Be Known digital news broadcast…

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor New Colorado Buffaloes Coach Deion Sanders has been named Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year.” After all the controversy with his decision to leave an HBCU, Jackson State University, Sanders remains a winner even after a losing season. The Colorado Buffaloes record is 4-8. But the excitement around…

Blackdoctor.org News Blood pressure is more than just numbers your doctor writes on a chart. To explain it, Dr. Shawna Nesbitt, medical director of the Hypertension Clinic at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, talks about plumbing. Think of blood vessels as pipes in a house, she says. Those pipes feed blood to the whole body. If…

by S.E. Williams If we’ve learned nothing else during the age of Trump, we’ve learned that the illusion of voter fraud runs deep among many remaining in the Republican Party to the point that it supersedes almost everything else on their agenda including truth, justice, fairness, legality, integrity,  even threats to human life. Despite this…

By Oliver Darcy, CNN CNN—The exodus from X is bleeding beyond just major advertisers. In recent days, a number of prominent media brands have not only paused their paid marketing campaigns on the embattled Elon Musk-owned social platform, but have ceased posting on it altogether, going silent on the once essential site that sought to…

By Larissa Bungo Senior Attorney Giving Tuesday is a terrific time to support your favorite cause or charity. Here’s how to avoid charity scams and make your donations count. Donate to charities you know and trust. Watch out for names that only look like real charities. Donate using contact information you know is real, like…

Thaddaeus Elliott Justice and Peace Fellow Recently, I have been disturbed by the growing erasure of Thanksgiving as a legitimate holiday deserving of its moment to shine. Too many have now embraced a jump from Halloween to Christmas on November 1. In October, Target already looked like the North Pole and Black Friday had begun….

By Lou  K. Coleman Because there can be no doubt that we are living in the last days. The signs we are seeing and the things taking place in this world point to the soon coming final events, the mark of the beast, the time of trouble and the return of Jesus Christ. In all…

Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media In August, the California Attorney General’s Office, publicly apologized for its role in the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. This belated acknowledgement highlights America’s capacity for prejudice and injustice. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s apology, issued on the 35th anniversary of the Civil Liberties…

By George Townsend  Special to the AFRO Your birth certificate is one of the most important identification documents you have – containing vital information about you, your birth and your family. It is important that your birth certificate has accurate information. Often, many Marylanders need to change some of the details on their birth certificate,…