By CHARLI PENN Bae is all about his money, ladies. Queen Sugar star, and every Black woman’s man crush, Kofi Siriboe appeared on a State Farm panel at ESSENCE Fest 2018’s Empowerment experience and showed fans a different side of his hustle. The sexy star knows that fame and success can come and go, so…
Peter Makari Executive, Middle East and EuropeGlobal Ministries of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) A delegation from Egypt recently visited the U.S. for a week, meeting with civic, religious, and civil society leaders. The visit was part of an ongoing Egyptian-U.S. Dialogue Initiative, organized jointly by Global Ministries of…
By: Lou Yeboah “Are ye yet without understanding [Matthew 15:16-20]? Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Do you not know that if anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him? The temple of God is holy…. [1 Corinthians 3:16-17]….
Breanna Edwards The backlash continues after “Coupon Carl” called the police on a black woman who was trying to use a manufacturer’s coupon in store, accusing the woman of forgery. ‘Coupon Carl’ Calls Cops on Black Woman at CVS for Allegedly Using a Forged Coupon, But Was Busted… Yes, this is yet another story of…
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) If President Donald Trump’s last Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is any indication, his latest pick in Brett Kavanaugh will do the civil rights community no favors, National Urban League President Marc Morial said following the announcement of the president’s high court nominee. Morial wasn’t alone, as many…
School leadership’s problem with a student’s voice was not a problem for the Black female mayor By Jayme S. Ganey President and founder of University Preparatory Charter School for Young Men, Joseph Munno, denied Jaissan Lovett, the school’s first Black male valedictorian, the opportunity to speak at his graduation. Lovett was given no explanation but…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – On June 28, 2018, we received information regarding negative comments posted online by one of our prosecutors. At that time, we took immediate steps to initiate a personnel investigation. The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office does not condone hate, discrimination or incitement of violence. Our community and the entire criminal…
By Tess Eyrich RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Private prison stocks soared in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election. Given his tough stance on immigration as a candidate, it’s easy to understand why. According to political scientist Loren Collingwood, Trump’s proclivity for anti-immigrant rhetoric served as a signal to investors that the U.S. detainee…
The Law Office of Sharon J. Brunner and The Law Office of James S. Terrell The Law Office of Sharon J. Brunner and The Law Office of James S. Terrell urge the public to come together to voice your concerns to the San Bernardino County Grand Jury. The San Bernardino County Grand Jury oversees all…
The U.S. attorney general attributed the guidelines to “unnecessary or improper rulemaking.” Kaitlyn D’Onofrio On July 3rd — the day before America was gearing up to celebrate Independence Day — Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was busy rescinding guidance intended to protect minorities. In a statement Sessions called the documents “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with…
By Brian Depew, briand@cfra.org, Center for Rural Affairs The Center for Rural Affairs first examined consolidation in the banking industry in “Where Have All the Bankers Gone?”, a 1978 report. We have long understood the critical link between credit, who has access, who doesn’t, and how it shapes communities. That’s why a recent report in…
By Sommer Brokaw and Susan McFarland July 7 (UPI) — Elon Musk on Saturday said SpaceX engineers are hours away from finishing a “tiny kid-sized submarine” that could be used to extract a soccer team trapped inside a Thailand cave. The 12 boys and their coach had gone into the cave on an excursion after…
The project is breaking down barriers to breastfeeding resources and education. By Casey Leins, Staff Write For many women in Brooklyn, New York, the ability to breastfeed doesn’t seem like a reality, according to Francesca Stephen-Alexis, a 37-year-old mother of two. “I think a lot of women, especially in my area, see breastfeeding as a…
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The Black church, among the most prosperous institutions in America, has long led movements for the spiritual, social and civic uplift of Black people. When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he had just launched the Poor People’s Movement, which quickly fizzled…
Rev. Dr. Chris Davies Program Manager, Congregational Assessment, Support and Advancement My grandmother taught me how to be a Christian, and told me about marching for abortion rights prior to Roe v. Wade. She shared stories with me about how her advocacy for women’s rights connected to her faith. She reached into her charismatic roots…
By Lou Yeboah “Because warning comes before destruction and you have been warned, says the Lord!” I want you to know that when Noah and Lot warned their respective people of God’s coming judgment and destruction, the people would not listen. Instead they treated Noah and Lot as “extremists.” Then the destruction that did come…
By Susan McFarland July 10 (UPI) — Divers on Tuesday rescued the final four boys and their coach from a deep cave in Thailand, where they’d been for more than two weeks. Thai navy SEALs, who’d led the operation, made the announcement on its Facebook page Tuesday. “Today, the boar’s pack will be reunited again,”…
By Susan McFarland July 10 (UPI) — The Senate on Tuesday began discussions about Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s appointee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court, even before he arrived on Capitol Hill. Trump announced Kavanaugh late Monday as his much-anticipated choice to fill the vacancy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opened…
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Ford Motor Company sent one of its millennials to host a session at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) annual summer convention in Norfolk, Virginia. Jessyka Faison, the automaker’s product communications coordinator specializing in SUVs, delivered a spirited message in a session titled, “The Black Press: Our Community…
27 percent of people killed by police were Black. In all killings, only 1 percent of the officers involved were charged with a crime. Kaitlyn D’Onofrio In 2017, police killed 1,129 people. Officers were only charged with a crime in 1 percent of cases. And of the 1,129 people officers killed, 27 percent were Black…
Ron Harris is a journalist, adjunct professor at Howard University and co-author of the new book The Black and The Blue, A Cop Reveals Crimes, Racism and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement By Ron Harris Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald…
By Michigan.Gov/NNPA/ESSA On April 26-28, the Detroit – For Inspiration Recognition of Science & Technology (FIRST) World Championships were held, hosting over 15,000 students and 40,000 spectators from all around the world, including of 111 Michigan teams. It is with great excitement that the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) share two Michigan teams, Stryke Force,…
By Charlene Crowell With 44 million consumers owing student debt that now reaches $1.5 trillion and still climbing, a lot of people want to better understand how and why this unsustainable debt trajectory can be better managed. For Black consumers who typically have less family wealth than other races and ethnicities, borrowing is more frequent,…
SHINES at UC Riverside pursues fundamental advances in energy production, storage, and use By Iqbal Pittalwala On JUNE 29, 2018 RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems center, known as SHINES, at the University of California, Riverside, has received funding for two more years from the Department of Energy. SHINES received…
