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Eleven-Year-Old Black Girl with IQ Higher Than Einstein is Earning Master’s Degree

Adhara Pérez Sánchez, a 12-year-old brown skin girl from Mexico City, is making headlines for her exceptional intelligence, with an IQ score higher than that of Albert Einstein. Adhara, who is of Afro-Mexican descent, has an IQ of 162 and has already received a bachelor’s degree in systems Engineering from CNCI University and is currently studying a master’s program in Mathematics at the Technological University of Mexico. Her dream is to be an astronaut for NASA. […]

Local News

Langston, Oklahoma

     Thanks to our Black Press we can read about the history of the Black town of Langston Oklahoma. Langston was founded in 1890. The website: https://www.blackpast.org/ details the town’s principal founders as William Eagleson, a prominent newspaper editor, Edward McCabe, a former Kansas state auditor, and Charles Robbins, a White land speculator. The two Black men helped lead a migration of Black settlers from the South. The settlers came in a desperate search for solace from the “Jim-Crow” brutality. Mr. McCabe proposed creating a majority-Black state in the Oklahoma territory. He named the town for John Mercer Langston, a Black member of Congress from Virginia.  […]

Local News

One of Miami’s Historic Black Neighborhoods is Changing. Hialeah Wants A Piece Of It

     “Whatever deal they put up with, we get the short end of the stick,” Pinkney, 91, said. When asked whether the neighborhood’s changing demographics motivated the plan, she said that Brownsville’s population is now nearly half Hispanic — 45.5% to be exact. “When I first moved out here, it was a Black community. Now, I’m totally against the [annexation]. Because all they want is money.” […]

Opinions

The Cost of White Discomfort

     That fire has taken up residence in my body; it has occasion to visit me often and knows each nook and cranny. And since May 1, when Jordan, a Michael Jackson impersonator and unhoused man complaining of thirst and hunger on the New York City subway, was choked to death by a white former marine, the fire has stayed. […]

Opinions

America’s Mortal Enemies: Divided Government and Its People

    America’s path towards becoming the most powerful country in the world has undergone a Revolutionary War, Civil War, two World Wars, countless lesser wars, and the  infamous January 6, 2021, unsuccessful insurrection. Despite the devastating impact of each of these events on this Nation, the two that have and continue to represent America’s  greatest mortal enemies are a divided government and its people. […]

Opinions

Who Taught Us To Hate Each Other?

     The practice of Black self-hate and racial hatred was promoted during slavery days. The Willie Lynch theory of dividing Black people and turning the light-skinned slaves against the dark-skinned and the house N-words against the field N-words has endured and impacted our communities to this very day. […]