The California Census Office believes there will be higher participation among African Americans during next year’s census if “trusted messengers” help get the word out and...
Ra Malika Imhotep will lead a performative lecture and writing workshop called “The Cotton Patch—Memory Writing” as part of the Black Life monthly series on Sat.,...
In a nod toward the campus’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2025, UC Berkeley took home five best practice awards Tuesday, July 9, at the...
Sadie Roberts-Joseph Founded the Baton Rouge African American History Museum An arrest has been made in the death of a 75-year-old Louisiana woman who founded an African...
It was clear that Trump was a racist decades ago, but he has made it clear this week beginning with tweets insulting four U.S. Congresswomen of...
THE AFRO — Howard University is leading with 12 finalist nominations in the 2019 HBCU Awards. Presented by HBCU Digest, the HBCU Awards are the first and...
OAKLAND POST — From now through Sept. 30, a new mixed media art show is donning the walls of the Linda Lee Calvan Drake Gallery at El...
MILWAUKEE TIMES WEEKLY — Women in Worship was a two-day gathering for women to pray, worship and hear the word of God. As part of the event...
MILWAUKEE TIMES WEEKLY — Midwest Bible College (MBC) celebrated another wonderful school year at its 16th graduation on Friday, June 7, 2019. Forty-five students received their...
OAKLAND POST — The California statewide Youth And Family Civic Engagement Initiative, a joint program of the Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield and the Martin Luther King...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — The Palace of Auburn Hills opened in 1988. This fall, it is scheduled for demolishment. Detroit Pistons Owner Tom Gores and Livonia-based Schostak Brothers...
VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight with France and Great Britain against...
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Motown Records was founded in Detroit in 1969 by Berry Gordy Jr. To commemorate its 60th year, the Motown Museum announced plans for its highly...
OAKLAND POST — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $214.8 billion state spending plan last week that he and legislative leaders are calling “the Affordability Budget” for the...
OAKLAND POST — Heavy lifting done by two Berkeley Law students from Nevada — Savannah Reid and Dagen Downard — has led to a new law...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a diverse collection of 500-plus Memphians steadily streamed into the Paradise Entertainment Complex on Georgia Avenue, there wasn’t so much a set...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I can remember at a NAMAD banquet there were two tables, maybe three at a conference of minority dealers,” he said. “But I...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — More than 50 years ago, this nation enacted legal guarantees that fair housing would be available to all Americans. Despite this federal assurance,...
OAKLAND POST — Over 120 local community and elected leaders rallied June 27 to celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision to block the citizenship question on Census 2020,...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — When state lawmakers passed their landmark $11.6 billion school finance law in late May, school employees were eager to see how mandatory raises...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Allen West, the former Florida congressman who now lives in Texas, announced Wednesday evening that he is exploring a run for Texas GOP...
DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Houston First Corporation and Airbnb, the online home sharing platform, have announced a breakthrough agreement in which Houston’s Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT)...
ROLLINGOUT — In a move that won’t surprise pop culture fans, rapper 50 Cent tried to shame Young Buck for posing for a photo with Lil Nas...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The nation’s second-largest school moved Tuesday to end random metal-detector searches of students at secondary schools, a daily procedure that critics called...
OAKLAND POST — In the new age of technology, social media networks like Twitter and Instagram are serving as effective recruiting channels. In addition, often times talented...