National

By Charlene Crowell Record-breaking, back-to-back hurricanes in Houston and Florida brought unprecedented winds and rains affecting millions of Americans. Yet another storm just as brutal, but financial in nature, is raging and affects at least […]

Stacy M. Brown After years of financial trouble and heartbreaking enrollment decline, Cheyney University, one of the oldest Black institutions of higher education in America, is on the verge of fiscal ruin and in danger […]

Stacy M. Brown Legendary Civil Rights Activist and Comedian Dick Gregory died on Saturday. He was 84. Friends, family and celebrities took to social media to honor the icon and innovator of the Black community. “It […]

Lauren Victoria Burke In May of 2017, the Black unemployment rate hit its lowest level in 17 years: 7.5 percent. Then, in June, the jobless rate for Blacks fell to 7.1 percent, before rising to 7.4 […]

Lauren Poteat As Derrick Johnson assumes the role of interim president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), leaders of the nation’s oldest Black civil rights organization say that young people […]

Stacy M. Brown O.J. Simpson will be a free man on October 1. On Thursday, July 20th, a Nevada parole board unanimously voted to grant the fallen gridiron star parole on his 2008 conviction on […]

Giving Back and the Making of History Historical figure Dale Atkins became the first African-American woman elected as Clerk of Civil District Court in the State of Louisiana in 1990. While widely-known as one of […]

After a brief statement that was read by Wyatt, Cosby and his team hopped into a waiting SUV and drove away from the Montgomery County Courthouse, certainly hoping […]