Author: Carma Henry

Dr. Du Bois wrote a seminal essay for Black assimilation called “The Talented Tenth.” It’s one of seven essays included in  the 1903, “The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day.” Booker T. Washington edited the book and contributed the first essay.  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H. T. Kealing, and T. Thomas Fortune were the other Black intellectuals that participated.

     Florida is facing “a bit of a perfect storm,” Jeff Goodale, a subcontractor who worked on the report, told the Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.

Kwaku Boakye Gyamfi, a 22-year-old from Cape Coast, Ghana, is making waves as one of the youngest medical doctors in the country. He recently graduated from the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), earning praise for his achievement.

      Raise your hand if you do any of the following: drive a loved one to a doctor’s visit, make meals for this loved one, help this loved one make medical decisions or call this person regularly to check on them.

Environmental Sacrifice Zones Can Be Beacons of Clean Energy Investment

     Not surprisingly, then, the two countries currently lead the rest of the world’s nations in their number of billionaires. This March, according to Forbes, the United States had 735 billionaires (worth a collective $4.5 trillion) and China had 562 (worth $2 trillion) out of a global total of 2,640.

The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and lost one audience — but gained a new one — after he rejected the idea of hell and supported gay rights has died, his agent said Monday.

McKoy died on November 10th, at the age of 69.

     Famed artist Radcliffe Bailey who made Atlanta his home has died. Bailey who received international acclaim for his remarkably impressive and prodigious body of work, which includes a mammoth mural at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield, welcoming visitors and giving them a glimpse of the cultural treasures in the Capital of the South passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 15.

Dulce Anderson –  Funeral services will be held November 24th at Mt. Zion Apostolic Temple L. Phillippe Petit –  Funeral services will be held November 25th…