Two Black women entrepreneurs are on a mission to eradicate the stigma surrounding mental health in the Black community and are making history in the process. According to NBC 15, Afiya Hooker and Joanna Johnson recently opened Mobile’s first Black-owned community mental health center. The center—dubbed Yin Yang Wellness Center—opened its doors in May. Aware…
“It no longer represents ALL of us. It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag,” Gray wrote Macy Gray is calling for the American flag to get a face lift. Just in time for Juneteenth, Gray wrote an opinion piece for Market Watch explaining why the American flag…
A Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy has been suspended for eight hours after he called a Black man “boy” and grabbed his throat during an encounter outside a hotel in, Dania Beach, Florida, in July 2017. Allen Floyd was holding his infant son during the exchange captured on Deputy James Cady’s body camera. “We all…
Each historically Black college and university embodies its own rich cultural and historical significance, and a new project will put the focus on preserving imagery that gives a lens into the legacies of these educational pillars. Getty Images is providing grants for the digitization of historic HBCU images. The $500,000 endowment is a collaborative initiative…
“Juneteenth is soooo lame,” tweeted Owens Azealia Banks is not impressed by Candace Owens’ Juneteenth comments. Many across the country are celebrating the news of Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, but not Owens. She took to Twitter to blast the holiday but Banks was not having it and quickly shot back on Friday. “Juneteenth is soooo…
The extent of the low vaccination rate is unclear because not all agencies keep track of who got their doses COVID-19 vaccination rates for police, fire and corrections employees in Los Angeles are significantly lower than the state’s average for other adults, raising concerns among medical ethicists and public safety leaders about whether unvaccinated first…
Black faculty at the University of North Carolina are past a state of weariness as many seek an exit path amid ongoing racial tensions, a campus advocacy group claims. Since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was denied tenure at Chapel Hill as she accepted a five-year contract for a professorship that usually comes with tenure, the…
Daniel Armani’s mother was having an epileptic seizure A 7-year-old Chicago boy has been honored and showered with gifts for helping save his mother by calling 911 and calmly providing information on her condition as she was suffering a seizure. Daniel Armani and his family got a tour Friday of the Engine 16 fire station…
Children, elderly people, the homeless and those with heart or kidney disease are most likely impacted by extreme temperatures As the summer heats up it’s the Black community that will be impacted the most. Arizona has reached record breaking temperatures this week and experts say the most vulnerable are at risk of death. Black people…
Democratic lawmakers have also called for the removal of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol in Nashville Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who passed his gravesite in a…
