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Robert F. Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Frank Baker and William Pickard Top List of Black Donors to HBCUs

March 16, 2022 Carma Henry 0

A recent Washington Post story found that Black Americans donate a higher share of their wealth than their white counterparts – to the tune of around $11 billion each year. Given their cultural and educational importance to the Black community, HBCUs are the repository of much of these donations with a number of household names – and some you may not know – making big-dollar contributions to these institutions. […]

Newsflash

March 16, 2022 Carma Henry 0

There’s always going to be another election and you can leave a taste in folks’ mouths that will ensure that you never get to taste victory. There are some very worthy candidates who have offered themselves up for service. Think about it and then go and vote. […]

2020 Census Called ‘Worse Undercount’ in Decades as Bureau Misses Millions of Black people and Hispanics

March 16, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Robert L. Santos, the bureau’s director, displayed little regard for the undercount of minorities. He said the 2020 results were consistent with recent censuses. […]

Barack Obama Receives Outpouring of Love After Announcing Positive COVID Test

March 16, 2022 Carma Henry 0

“Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested negative. It’s a reminder to get vaccinated if you haven’t already, even as cases go down.” […]

5 Books Written by Black Authors That Are a Must Read for National Reading Month

March 10, 2022 Carma Henry 0

In honor of National Reading Month, here are five books you and your kids and teens should be reading this month, and these books just so happen to be written by Black authors too! […]

Autherine Lucy Foster, A Critical Figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 92

March 10, 2022 Carma Henry 0

Autherine Lucy Foster, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from historically Black Miles College in 1952, and whose legal battle with the University of Alabama concluded two years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, has died at 92. […]

Guy Reffitt, the first Jan. 6 rioter to stand for a criminal trial, is found guilty on five counts

March 10, 2022 Carma Henry 0

The first Jan. 6 defendant to take his case to trial was found guilty Tuesday of all charges related to his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. […]

Foot Soldiers Convene and Rededicate To Voting Rights, Freedom and Justice

March 9, 2022 Carma Henry 0

On Sunday March 6th, 2022, Federal, State, and local elected leaders joined with “Foot Soldiers” of the Civil Rights Movement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to underscore a heightened commitment to restore and expand voting rights for people of color and marginalized communities in the United States. […]

Three Former Minnesota Officers Who Watched George Floyd Die are Convicted

March 9, 2022 Carma Henry 0

On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s killing was captured on video by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier. What resulted was worldwide attention on police brutality, the general treatment of Black people in the U.S. and a “racial reckoning” that endured conversation and financial pledges of support toward equal rights. […]

Senate unanimously passes anti-lynching bill after century of failure

March 9, 2022 Carma Henry 0

The Senate on Monday unanimously passed legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts to pass such a measure. […]