Author: Carma Henry

       The conference is moving to eliminate football games against non-Division I and non-Division II opponents beginning with the 2027 season, a decision Commissioner Charles McClelland says is designed to increase competitiveness across the league.

Joseph announced Friday that transfer quarterback Jacobe Robinson will enter the 2026 season as the Tigers’ starting quarterback, citing the signal-caller’s command of the offense and steady presence as key factors in the decision.

      At his 2021 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement, Calvin Johnson challenged the sports world to recognize cannabis as medicine. “It’s about time that we recognize the potential of phytomedicines — plant medicines — to aid and improve the mental health and quality of life for so many,” Johnson stated. “These plants, primitive in nature, provide an alternative to their destructive counterparts: opioids.”

       Nationally, Black Americans experience higher cancer rates – including for breast and prostate cancer – and have the highest overall cancer death rate among racial and ethnic groups, according to the American Cancer Society.

   Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has helped drive nearly $2 million in sales to Black-owned bookstores through his best-selling novel, “Worse Than a Lie,” using his national platform to direct readers and attention to independent shops that serve as cultural and economic anchors in communities across the country.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE: Black families are the fastest-growing demographic in alternative education. Discover how the National Association of Black Micro School Leaders is providing educators with resources, training, and certification to launch thriving microschools.

     Black Maternal Health Week is recognized each year from April 11-17 to bring attention and action in improving Black maternal health. Everyone can play a role in working to prevent pregnancy-related deaths and improving maternal health outcomes.

       In the early hours of Thursday, April 15, Virginia’s former lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, shot and killed his wife of 19 years, Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax, in their home before turning the gun on himself. By noon, the 47-year-old disgraced politician was being eulogized like a saint by several people who once knew him. 

  America does not whisper its values to the world—it declares them with thunder. Freedom. Democracy. Justice. Yet beneath those declarations lies a foreign policy record that tells a far more unsettling truth: America often exports instability while branding itself the guardian of order.

    Let’s listen again to these viral words, as they hover over the planet . . . as they hover over, good God, the future. Finally, finally, the time has come for every last one of us to release the question these words force on us, from the privacy, from the cynicism, of our hearts, and collectively scream it until it begins to orbit Planet Earth: How do we transcend war?