In the hour before polls closed on election day in Georgia, the international ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta was decked out in red, white, and blue balloons and signs campaigning for Keisha Lance Bottoms for the next Governor of Georgia. In the hours that followed, the election results showed that the former Atlanta mayor had won the Democratic governor’s primary.
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Elijah Winslett, a trumpeter from Huntsville, Alabama, won the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Seventh District Talent Hunt competition, grabbing a First-Place trophy and a $1,800 scholarship award. The event was part of the 89th Annual Seventh District Meeting held on March 27 in Cobb County.
Nearly 40 percent of Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease by 2030 will be Black or Latino, a reality that places communities already burdened by health disparities at the center of one of the nation’s most urgent medical challenges. The projection arrives as a new campaign, AlzInColor, seeks to bring brain health conversations out of the shadows and into the homes, churches, clinics of Black and Latino neighborhoods across the country.
An effort to limit federal homeless funding to locales embracing Trump Administration policies on sanctuary cities has triggered a lawsuit from homeless advocates.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Jones-Harrell outlined her top priorities: increasing female representation on the force, enhancing community engagement, and securing state accreditation for the department.
Kobe Williams, 27, and her infant sons, Khyzier and Khazmir, died while sheltering in their trailer home in Thomson, Georgia, during Hurricane Helene.
No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King is remembered for his masterful oratorical skills, most memorably in his “I Have a Dream” speech.
The Atlanta Voice was the first to report Trump’s bond agreement.
A hurricane warning has been issued for areas near Florida’s Atlantic coast from Boca Raton to the Flagler – Volusia County line, and remains in effect for the northwest Bahamas, including Grand Bahama Island. This means hurricane conditions are expected in these areas.
Julia Mae Troutman Cherry, a retired teacher, organizational activist, church mother, and business owner who took over Florida’s largest Black-owned media company in 2004 after the death of her husband, died on Sunday, April 24, at her Daytona Beach home. She was 94.