Author: Carma Henry

Baron Walker, featured in the award-winning documentary MILWAUKEE 53206, has received parole and was released today in Milwaukee, after serving more than 22 years in a Wisconsin prison, Odyssey Impact

        Donna Oliver, the first African American woman to lead a public university in Mississippi, was today announced as provost and senior vice president at Edward Waters College.

NASA’s Johnson Center Appoints First Black Deputy Director

Melanin Origins, LLC announces the publication this summer of Not All Superheroes Wear Capes (available for pre-order on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com), a children’s book designed to teach African American students the opportunities available to them in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers

Choosing Nursing, an online program that prepares nurses in the U.S. and Canada to sit their NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN exams and meet the prerequisites for their nursing license, is currently offering eight paid digital products and courses with strategies to help its students secure passes.

Toyota Establishes the John W. Mack Scholarship Fund Through the National Urban League

New online tool launched by CLC will help up to 23 million Americans understand their Voting Rights

Yes on 10 Campaign responds to revelations that California NAACP Leader Alice Huffman is hired by campaign opposed to Prop 10 funded by billionaire landlords

“Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man’s World,” count among the highlights of the 12th annual African Diaspora International Film Festival which opens on Friday, August 17 at the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

American Roots of Jamaican Music