Author: Carma Henry

     FIU’s International Forensic Research Institute (IFRI) is using its decades of experience researching and identifying odors to help train and improve the ability of detector dogs to locate COVID-19.

       The 90-minute virtual event, themed “The Rise and Relevance of HBCUs,” will also feature Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., and South Carolina State University President James E. Clark. It will be streamed live 7 p.m. Thursday, February 11, on Zoom and the FAMU Facebook page. 

     The CORE 100 honorees, which include changemakers like Stacey Abrams, Attorney Ben Crump, NBA superstar LeBron James, and Oprah Winfrey, mark and remind the world of the beauty, boldness, and brilliance of Black Excellence at a time when the cultural, economic, and political landscape in the United States has grown increasingly more hostile towards Blackness.

As small businesses in America have been hit the hardest by the economic fallout of the pandemic and Black-owned businesses are shutting down twice as fast as others according to NBER, L’Oréal USA teamed up with the NAACP to identify the most promising Black-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs in the beauty industry that are most in need of investment.

Verda Freeman Welcome, a proud member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, taught for nearly a dozen years in the Baltimore public school system before setting her sights on the political arena where she ultimately made history.

A year fraught with a pandemic and tragedies was the opposite for Williams. Good things were happening and when doors closed, even better opportunities were waiting immediately. After months of COVID restrictions, [what he originally thought was a] “Food Network prank” came knocking two more times. “They reached back out to me again in August of last year asking me if I still interested because they had plans to start filming the show again,” he said.

    Rev. Dr. John Warren, who accepted his prestigious award virtually while battling an illness, has remained a steady hand among the more than 230 African American publishers and media company owners who are members of the Black Press of America.

ELLIOTT Funeral services for the late Ruby Nell Elliott – 83 were held February 6 at Boyd Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Ricky Scott officiating. GRIFFIN…

Funeral services for the late Dorrell Joseph Brown – 83 were held February 6 at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. CASCOE Funeral services for the late Mezzie…

WALKER Funeral services for the Robert Walker – 79 were held February 6 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center.