Author: Carma Henry

‘Test Your Bible Knowledge’

Coronavirus cases are stabilizing in the Northeast but still rising rapidly in the South and Southwest.

     “When he slapped Chris, he slapped all of us,” Rose claimed, adding, “he really slapped me.”

     In celebration of African American Music Month, the Pompano Beach Cultural Center is proud to present The Motowners in concert as part of the Pompano Beach Arts Music Series 2022. This accomplished and polished group will present the definitive Motown tribute show, recreating the smash hits of The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and many more. The performance is on Saturday, June 11, 2022, at 8pm. Tickets are $45.  For more information, www.pompanobeacharts.org

Three people, including a local rapper, were killed and two others injured when a car slammed into the bedroom of a home in Miami, authorities said Wednesday. The fiery crash happened just after 5 a.m. in the area of Northeast 82nd Street and Third Avenue, according to Miami police

     Top recruit Morgan Price has committed to Fisk for its inaugural intercollegiate women’s gymnastics season. The 16-year-old gymnast had previously committed to the University of Arkansas, where her sister finished her first year on the team.

     Tuskegee head football coach and athletic director Reginald Ruffin said he received deaths over a social media post stating that Nick Saban and Alabama should possibly consider scheduling in-state games against FCS HBCU programs.

     The HistoryMakers is pleased to announce that our 2022-2023 Digital Archive Student Ambassadors have been selected from a competitive pool of applicants. There are four chosen from four colleges and universities, three of which (Howard University, Spelman College, and Wellesley College) also have a 2022-2023 Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy and Teaching Fellow.

      On the first day of May in 1865, just weeks after the end of the Civil War, a solemn procession of 10,000 mourners—mostly freed slaves but with a smattering of White missionaries—filed past a Charleston, South Carolina racetrack that had been converted into a graveyard. 

     As reported exclusively in Your Black World in February, Judge Christopher Cooper – who was appointed by President Obama in 2014 – had stood accused of abusing litigants and of ethnic bias against Arinderjit Dhali, a respected Sikh civil rights attorney in Washington, D.C., who also is of Indian Heritage and was representing legal scholar and civil rights attorney Amos Jones in Jones’s racial discrimination and contract-violations lawsuit against Campbell University and The Catholic University of America. The earlier complaint was filed by the late Jeanette Pollard. The pair of complaints against Cooper offer a rare look into the world of judicial discipline, especially involving alleged ethnic and gender bias.