A 23-year-old Air Force airman’s family wants an explanation after he was shot to death in Florida, in yet another instance where police have killed a Black person minding his own business in his own home. The death of Roger
Dozens of Atlanta HBCU students, alumni and sympathizers declaring solidarity with protesters on college campuses across the nation made their displeasure known Wednesday — about the U.S. role favoring Israel in its war with Hamas, about President Joe Biden’s imminent
Kim Godwin, who only three years ago became the first Black woman to run a broadcast television news division, is out at ABC News. The timing seems peculiar, given that Godwin just signed a contract extension in February. Even amid
The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III has resigned as president and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, less than three months after his formal installation on Feb. 1. The news stunned the international human and civil rights organization. Haynes is
Veteran Emmy-nominated actress Jurnee Smollett, an NAACP Image Award winner, plays a mother named Dolores in her new film We Grown Now, which she also helped executive produce. It’s about two young boys who grow up in the 1990s in
The Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization on Friday, April 12, recognized outstanding alumni, faculty, students, and industry leaders whose service and leadership have positively impacted the Black community and the Institute more broadly at its annual Leaders & Legends Awards
O.J. Simpson, first celebrated as an All-American football hero and then, in some circles, for being acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman,has died at the age of 76 in Las
Another high-profile trial involving Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’ office, another sexual distraction. This time, it involves an investigator. Willis narrowly survived being booted from prosecuting former President Donald Trump in an ongoing Georgia election interference case because
Brylan Donaldson, Northwestern University’s associate director of innovation and new ventures, is on the cutting edge of AI technology and all its possibilities. He was a featured speaker at rolling out’s RIDE Conference in February, but the wisdom of his
In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) and technology are not just buzzwords but the backbone of innovation and progress, the insights from Munson Steed, Jamie Coleman and Arthur Bernier Jr. serve as a navigational compass for aspiring professionals and
Another Donald Trump swipe at Fani Willis has failed. The Fulton County District Attorney is proceeding with election interference charges against the former president and 14 co-defendants after a motion to dismiss the case on First Amendment grounds was shot
Dora Dantzler-Wright, with a commendable 36 years in long-term recovery, stands at the forefront of substance abuse treatment and recovery as the founder and executive director of the Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition (CRCC), Illinois’s pioneering recovery community organization. Her journey
Beyoncé’s country music album is drawing praise at even the highest ranks of society, including the government. Count none other than Vice President Kamala Harris among those lauding Queen Bey for taking her musical career where many never imagined it
Diversity, equity and inclusion — the idea that America should more accurately reflect its population — is under attack by conservatives everywhere, who wield “DEI” like it’s a curse word. To many conservatives, the knee-jerk reaction to any minority in
Louis Gossett Jr., who became the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and also won an Emmy for his role in the TV miniseries “Roots,” died early Friday morning The sad news was confirmed in a statement
Erskine “Chuck” Faush Jr., the namesake of a prominent Birmingham, Al, pastor, recently became the executive in residence at Miles College. He’s got a finger on the pulse of the digital economy that is and the one that’s coming, and
The tension in the YSL trial has been slowly building because everything in this case has finally reached a boiling point. Attorney Brian Steel, representing rapper Young Thug in a massive RICO case, has once again asked for a
Two months after a Black female administrator at a Missouri HBCU took her life — alleging in her last note that she had been the victim of her White male president’s “stigmatized bullying” — the school cleared the president of
The Young Thug YSL trial is bizarre. The sprawling RICO case in Fulton County Superior Court has been repeatedly delayed — first by the unprecedented 10 months it took to seat a jury, then by the holidays and a jailhouse
The Texas Women’s Empowerment Foundation (TWEF) along with its founder and visionary leader, Deavra Daughtry, and Reggie Van Lee, a philanthropist, successful business executive and arts advocate, will host the 20th Annual International Women’s Leadership Summit featuring renowned Supermodel and
