Month: June 2019

The NAACP prepares to mobilize thousands of millennials and youth activists within the Black community at the upcoming 110th National Convention, taking place in Detroit, Michigan from July 20 to 24. The convention will feature a wide variety of events and workshops that will empower the leaders of tomorrow to create a better world for all people to thrive.

     McGovern is the Florida Department of Health in Broward County’s Drowning Prevention Program Manager and her mission is to save as many lives as possible through education. Her passion about water safety stems from the personal pain she experienced on August 3rd, 2009 when she found her 19-month-old daughter Edna Mae floating face-up in the pool the child had been playing in just hours earlier. “Em” died eight days later on August 11th.

     Jackie Robinson’s arrival in Brooklyn in 1947 may have changed the way Major League Baseball looked to outsiders, but it did not change the reality for many African American players in the game. Many remained ignored, marginalized and stuck in baseball’s backlands even as the world assumed the color line had become a relic of bygone days.

     While skeptics persist, for years former military personnel, airline pilots and ordinary citizens have argued they have witnessed objects in the sky they argue are “not of this world.” For decades, The Final Call newspaper has published research chronic-ling the existence of what are commonly called UFOs but what the Nation of Islam refers to as IFOs—Identified Flying Objects.