Author: Carma Henry

     Welker will be the first Black moderator of “Meet the Press” and the first woman since Rountree left in 1953.

ANTHONY Funeral services for the late Brown Anthony III- 49  were held June 2nd at Mt Zion AME Church. LEMON Funeral services for the late Milan…

LOVETT Funeral services for the late Emma Jean Lovett – 63 were held June 3rd at St. Luke Baptist Church with Rev. W.J. Gaskins officiating. NELSON…

ALLEN Funeral services for the late Claudine Allen – 74 were held June 2nd at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. BAZILE Funeral services for the late Roseline…

SMITH Funeral services for the late Jasmin LaShawn Smith – 29 were held June 3rd at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center.

     Jessie Maple was recognized as the first Black woman to write and produce a full-length film independently.

     A federal appeals court cited Bethune-Cookman University’s yearlong wait to try to block an alumni group from using the institution’s founder’s name as the reason the school has lost its latest appeal.

For 33 years, from 1987 to 2020, this discrepancy amounted to approximately $1.3 billion, according to the complaint. Despite both universities being the only public land-grant…

      An employee at the Dubuque Hempstead High School in Iowa has been placed on leave after calling a Black student the N-word.

  In 1932, Roy was born on April 27th in Talladega, Alabama, the second of 11 sisters and brothers. He was raised and educated in Anderson, Indiana by his loving Mother. Roy whole heartedly, truly adored and loved his mother, Ms. Mozell Bledsoe Young.