Author: Carma Henry

        Another HBCU basketball coach opening has been filled, this time by a veteran who knows her way around the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

  When Dacia Petrie first started curating Black-owned businesses on Instagram, she wasn’t planning to launch a tech startup. She just wanted to make it easier for people to buy Black—without scrolling for hours or asking, “Where the Black businesses at?”

 Right now, our FL-20 communities and our country are facing a cost-of-living crisis.

Jeneita M. Bent –   Funeral service was held April 2nd   at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel.   Willie Curtis Jackson  –  Funeral service was held April 5th…

Lillieth Alfreda Womack – 93   Funeral service was held March 29th at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center.

Marie Pauline Colas  71 – Funeral Service was held March 29th at  Renaissance Evangelical Baptist Church with Rev. Arnold Simon officiating. Dr. Sybil Veronica French…

Clyde Dudley Funeral Service will be held April 5th at New Birth House of Prayer For All People   Ronald Ruggle   Toma Thompson   Aqa…

Norma Bent  Funeral service was held April 6 at Central Chapel.   Carolyn Davenport  Funeral services will be held March 29th at Word of the Living…

       As a Black publisher and proud steward of a media platform that uplifts and informs our community, I’ve long witnessed the power of the Black dollar. We are a trillion-dollar consumer force—one that fuels the American economy with every swipe, tap, and trip to the store. Yet, despite our economic impact, far too many corporations, including the household names we frequent like Target, Walmart, and others—continue to fall short when it comes to investing back into the very communities that help them thrive.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — King was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers upset over poor working conditions and low pay. At his death, King also organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address poverty and economic inequality.