Voters Decide Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Every year, advocates spend untold sums of money encouraging Americans to register and vote. Outreach material to voters often includes references to the sacrifices our ancestors made so that future generations could vote. Mailers, door knockers and other literature also reference how bad things will become if voters…
Experts say communities nationwide are still learning how deadly heat can be. Temperatures barely climbed into the 90s and only for a couple of days. But the discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility this month left the city looking for answers to questions that were supposed to be…
Founded in 2015, HBCU SpringComing aims to preserve the Black college experience and promote alumni support. An event to bring together graduates of historically black colleges and universities is being held in Alabama this weekend. HBCU SpringComing opened on Friday in Birmingham and continues through Sunday. The event has been in New York the past…
A Michigan man is facing a hate crime charge after he harassed and hurled racial slurs at Black shoppers at a mall outside of Detroit. According to reports, Jason Edward Lucas, a white man, approached two patrons at the Westborn Market in Dearborn on May 13 and launched the verbal attack. He followed the pair…
The City Council approved the two settlements Thursday. The Minneapolis City Council has approved $1.2 million in legal settlements with two people injured by police during protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers two years ago. The settlements with St. Paul resident Virgil Lee Jackson Jr. and Nashville freelance photographer…
Singer Ray J wished his daughter Melody a happy fourth birthday on Instagram with a picture and video montage on May 23, and fans noted Melody’s strong resemblance to both his mother and his wife. The “Melody” singer set the montage to Stevie Wonder‘s “Happy Birthday” and captioned the post, “My everything!!! My heart, my…
Houston residents honor George Floyd. Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty On the second anniversary of his murder, Houston unveiled a statue of George Floyd in a park in his hometown. Entrepreneur and philanthropist Dannette Davis, of Kay Davis Associates, donated $110,000 for the statue titled, “A Conversation with George.” The statue was created by sculptor Adrienne Rison-Isom…
LyDyra Lyte, 23, received a graduation present she won’t soon forget as, her brother, who is on deployment, made a shocking surprise return home to see his sister graduate at her commencement ceremony on May 7. LyDyra Lyte of Southfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, is still filled with emotion after her brother, LaDaryl Lyte,…
The fundraiser far surpassed its initial goal of $10,000 to support the children of late teacher Irma Garcia. Over $2.5 million has been raised through a GoFundMe campaign to support the children of a teacher who died in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting which took the lives of 19 elementary school students and two…
The funeral for 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield — the oldest of the 10 Black people who were killed — included a speech by Vice President Kamala Harris. Saturday marked the last funeral for victims of a racist attack on Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, with a service that became a call to action and an…
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