National

By Barrington M. Salmon   It’s been nearly a month since two, historic hurricanes savaged Puerto Rico, and despite the utter devastation left after the storms, the island’s 3.4 million residents are still waiting for […]

The Company said it “missed the mark” with an Ad that Shows a Black Woman who Turns Herself White with Dove Soap […]

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 […]