A family is mourning the death of a couple from Maryland who died during a trip of a lifetime – and now they are pleading with the government of Saudi Arabia to help them find where their loved ones are buried.
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Four years after a racist encounter with a so-called “Karen,” Christian Cooper has earned the ultimate payback: a Daytime Emmy Award for his passionate love of birdwatching. The racially charged incident, which took place in 2020, not only spotlighted systemic racial issues but also paved the way for Cooper’s extraordinary success.
Our blood should boil when a white man likens the prosecution of 34-time felon Donald Trump to the injustices experienced by Black people under Jim Crow
Joy Bramble’s tireless efforts have not only transformed The Baltimore Times from a monthly publication into an indispensable newspaper for its readers but have also inspired a new generation of community leaders.
In “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People,” Tiya Miles—a professor of history at Harvard University and MacArthur Fellowship recipient—draws on a plethora of sources, such as newspaper accounts, dictated letters and the experiences of enslaved women in an elegant, evocative, and empathetic account of Harriet Tubman’s “faith journey.”
He would have taken any job here that paid the bills. What Bakewell didn’t envision was that the one he got — a community organizing gig — would set him on a path to power, as a civil rights leader, a property developer, a business tycoon and publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s legendary Black newspaper.
The southeast of Louisiana, dubbed “Cancer Alley,” is historically known for the proximity of toxic factory plants to its majority Black community resulting in decades of serious health issues and cancer diagnoses. Well, a new study says the conditions are even worse than we thought.
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Messiah Williams is one of the youngest Black men in North Carolina State University’s
Lenora Howze, Executive/Advertising Director for the 131- year- old AFRO-American Newspapers welcomes Bobby Henry, Sr., chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) at BWI. Henry, Publisher of the Westside Gazette in Fort Lauderdale, Florida., is in Baltimore for NNPA’s Annual Convention on June 19-22.