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Harris and Booker Presidential Races Stir Pride, Excitement and High Hopes
Dr. Shiela Harmon Martin said she recently got two very pleasant surprises within days of each other when Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced that they are joining the race to become America’s next president.
Read MoreHow to Reduce Your Risks of Dementia
Many people do not want to think about dementia, especially if their lives have not yet been touched by it. But a total of 9.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with dementia each year. That is one person every 3.2 seconds.
Read MoreIn Peak Flu Season, UC Riverside’s Dr. Cedric Rutland, M.D. Highlights its Impact on The Black Community
As flu season peaks, UC Riverside’s Dr. Cedric Rutland provides important information regarding the Black community and flu vaccinations.
Read MoreCommentary: Changing the Rigged Game That Perpetuates Inequality
It’s not enough to know that there is a great deal of inequality in the United States and around the world. We need to know not only how much, but also how.
Read MoreDr. Sheila Brooks, Author and Emmy Winner, Nominated for NAACP Image Award
Dr. Sheila Brooks, the founder, president and CEO of SRB Communications, a full service Washington, D.C.-based advertising and marketing agency…
Read MorePetition Seeks to End Practice of Charge Stacking
Turning one crime into many is easily done, and with this in mind a prosecutor can easily circumvent laws of double jeopardy in order to lump, for example, drug offenses with conspiracy…
Read MoreBattle for Mayor in One of America’s Proudest Black Cities is Underway
Ernest D. Davis firmly believes that his successor, the city’s current mayor, Richard Thomas, is in it for himself and has done much more harm to Mount Vernon…
Read MoreFormer North Carolina Rep. Frank Ballance Dies at 77
Ballance served over two decades in the state House and Senate, rising to the No. 2 post in the Senate chamber. He was elected to North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District seat in 2002…
Read MoreAt Least 4,500 Abuse Complaints at Migrant Children Shelters
Accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrants in government shelters were made over the past four years, directed against adult staff members, according to US federal data.
Read MoreGet Engaged, Not Enraged: 30 Ways to Take Ownership of Your Community’s Future
When things aren’t going well in our community, our first impulse has traditionally been to get upset. Our second impulse has been to look for someone to blame. Typically, we may point the finger at government…
Read MoreNAACP Infusing Social Justice into Wall Street- Highlighting New Minority Impact ETF
“ETF’s represent the means by which communities can support those companies who invest in us and are concerned about our issues,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson.
Read MoreN.C. Court Cites Gerrymandering and Rules New Constitutional Amendments as Invalid
A Wake County court on Friday struck down two state constitutional amendments approved by voters in November, including one that mandated voters show ID at the polls…
Read MoreThe 2019 Academy Awards: Black Filmmakers Win Big
The 2019 Academy Awards have come to an end and #BlackGirlMagic and #BlackBoyJoy were in full effect as some of our favorites walked away with statuettes, some after a 30-year uphill climb.
Read MoreEpidemic of Missing Black Girls Continues to Stump Authorities, Frustrate Parents
“One thing I think for sure about the missing teens is that human trafficking is a hotbed in my city [and around the country],” said Psychologist and Navy veteran Sheri Davis, who lives in Madison, Alabama.
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Russell Bertrand Sugarmon Jr. – Civil Rights ‘Giant’
As a member of the Memphis Branch NAACP, Mr. Sugarmon was instrumental in using the law to fight legal battles to desegregate public transportation, schools and restaurants.
Read MoreWill Reparations Become Democrats’ Campaign Theme?
“America has an ugly history of racism,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said after addressing Democrats at an annual state dinner in New Hampshire, according to The Boston Globe.
Read MoreCVS Officials Talk Project Health, Black Press at Rainbow Push Wall Street Conference
David Casey, the vice president of Workforce Strategies and Chief Diversity Officer at CVS Health, joined Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push 22nd Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit…
Read MoreThe Green New Deal — The Left’s Attempt to Co-Opt Trump’s Labor Populism
The Dems plan is what it has always been – the Robin Hood strategy. That is, they want to steal from the rich and give to the poor. That’s why the Green New Deal is based almost entirely on cost-shifting…
Read MoreNew Bill to Require Federal Agencies to Advertise with Black Press
A new Government Accountability Office report that concluded that, of the $5 billion spent on advertising by federal agencies over the past decade…
Read MoreCollege Student Hosts Prom Dress Drive
University of Memphis sophomore and freelance makeup artist Diamond Butler is hoping to provide 100 girls with the necessities they need for prom… To ease the financial burden for some girls, Butler is asking that the community donate…
Read MoreFounders of After Life Mortuary Services Breaking New Ground
It’s time out for fish fries, GoFundMe accounts and the embarrassing fundraisers that families have to do, in order to have the finances to bury a loved one.
Read MoreHidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy That Launched the 1968 Sanitation Strike
They were just two men working a very crappy job to provide for their families. It was a garbage truck malfunction that took their lives and galvanized their peers to strike.
Read MoreIrving Students Take Flight to New Adventures
The industry is trying to grow, and it can’t grow because there are not enough people coming in the front door to match the people who are going out of the back door…
Read MoreAt 88, Toni Morrison Personifies the Strength of Black Womanhood
Morrison personifies what it means to be a freedom-fighting author. “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives…”
Read MoreACT NOW: It’s Time to Advocate for Voter-Friendly ID Rules!
The State Board of Elections must write guidelines to implement North Carolina’s new voter ID law through a public rule-making process.
Read MoreChief Justice Beasley Maintains Importance of Civic Engagement – GDN Exclusive
If ever there were historic accomplishments of pride that North Carolinians could point to as undeniable progress, thanks to aggressive civic engagement and voter mobilization, look as recently as last November 2018.
Read MoreNAACP Celebrates 110th Anniversary of Freedom Fighting
Had there been no May 17, 1954 (the day the Supreme Court ruled in Brown V. Board of Education), I’m not sure there would have been a Little Rock. I’m not sure there would have been a Martin Luther King Jr….
Read MoreTrump Keeps Government Open But Continues To Run a Scam
As the Democrats sound the alarm, and condemn the president for his decisions, President Trump is playing golf. The Trump reality is in real time, and the only response to his insanity is to resist…
Read MoreBlack Millennials Embrace the Struggle and Message of Rapper 21 Savage
Although 21 Savage has lived in the U.S. for the past 14 years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is attempting to expedite his deportation back to the United Kingdom.
Read MoreThe “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” Creates Opportunity Zones to Spur Economic Development
Opportunity Zones have the potential to address many of the country’s most vexing economic problems, notes Tami Bonnell, CEO of EXIT Realty International.
Read MoreIt’s Time to Stop Marginalizing African Americans in Public Higher Education
The same states where African Americans are underrepresented in selective public colleges are also underfunding the open-access colleges that African Americans attend.
Read MoreRedemption: ‘Spiritual Parents’ Throw Party for Man Who Broke Into Their Church
“I appreciate DeAndre because he broke a cycle in his life,” said Pastor Henry Lavender. “Now, he has his own son to raise. The cycle is broken. Jesus makes it possible for DeAndre…”
Read MoreNew York May Join Other States in Ending Cash Bails
Defendants charged with certain non-violent crimes should be presumptively released. But there are a small number of crimes which we believe prosecutors should have the opportunity…
Read MoreU.S. Senate Passes Legislation to Strengthen HBCUs
The legislation, which is supported by The United Negro College Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is expected to pass the House of Representatives and could become law within a matter of weeks.
Read MoreMost and Least Ethnically Diverse U.S. Cities Identified
A growing body of social psychological research suggests that information about increasing ethnic diversity can lead white Americans to express greater concerns about their ethnic group’s status and…
Read MoreDENIED! Bi-Partisan Pushback Leads Trump to Cry, “Emergency”
Trump said he’ll get money from multiple sources including tapping into the $3.6 billion earmarked for military construction, $600 million in asset forfeitures seized by the U.S. Treasury Department…
Read MoreMike Singletary: Express Yourself: “When I retired, I knew I would coach…”
“When I retired, I knew I would coach,” said Singletary, who will be barking plays as head coach of the Memphis Express, one of eight startup teams in the Alliance of American Football.
Read MoreNew TSD video series tells forgotten history of Memphis
Over the course of February (and maybe beyond), we’ll bring you short video clips of historic places you drive or walk by every day – places that have profound historic implications that go overlooked all the time.
Read MoreTribune Lauds History Makers at Awards Luncheon
In a packed upstairs dining room in the Union League in Center City, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III of the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, delivered a powerful keynote speech…
Read MoreChicago Police Announce “Shift” in Investigation Regarding Jussie Smollett
“We can confirm that the information received from the individuals questioned by police earlier in the Empire case has in fact shifted the trajectory of the investigation,” Chicago Police Department spokesman…
Read MoreThe Truths We Hold: An American Journey
From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.
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Minstrel Black Faces Evoke America’s Uncanny Preoccupation With Real Black Faces
I need all eleven seceding Southern states to join in: “I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten.” Now Northern States I need you to chime in.
Read MoreLegislation to Award Aretha Franklin with Congressional Gold Medal
Aretha Franklin’s music served as a 1960s call to action that inspired thousands to join civil rights movements and still maintains a social context that resonates across these movements today.
Read MoreBlack Boys Need Rites of Passage Programs in 2019 Across the Country
There are Black role models in the communities and the Black media has a responsibility to tell positive and powerful stories of Black men and women who are making a positive difference…
Read MoreCongresswoman Frederica S. Wilson’s Statement on the Anniversary of the Parkland Shooting
Young people stood up and spoke both forcefully and passionately about gun violence’s impact on their ability to feel safe, which led to the passage of new gun control laws…
Read MoreDeveloping a Universal Enrollment System for All Memphis Public Schools
I started in 1995 when I was asked to help open a Family Resource Center in a high school and students without involved parents in their lives took to me. Parents would stop me and say…
Read MoreNNPA President Talks Black History, Diversity During Fireside Chat
Chavis said the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and its 215-member newspaper and media companies reach more than 22 million weekly subscribers and millions more daily…
Read MoreHBCU Alum Beverly Winstead, Esq. to Chair Maryland State Bar Association’s Tax Division
As Tax Chair, the Bowie State University alumna immediately assembled a Diversity and Inclusion Committee to prioritize recruitment and mentoring for diverse attorneys…
Read MoreAt 94, The Legendary Cicely Tyson Remains An ‘Optimist’
“There isn’t a day – I’m grateful to say – that when I walk out of my doors, I don’t run into somebody who says, ‘I can’t tell you what you’ve done for me. ‘You changed my life,’” Tyson shared.
Read MoreAn Evening with Ken Chenault as part of a Groundbreaking Business Initiative
“We’re excited to have produced the ‘must see’ program,” says Julieanna Richardson, Founder and President, The HistoryMakers. Having the opportunity to showcase the life and career…
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