Source: Reach Media Inc. / Reach Media Inc. MEMPHIS, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Radio One and Reach Media, the audio divisions of Urban One, Inc., joined forces with St. Jude to raise $1,553,247 nationally during the 17th annual St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Radiothon on Feb. 29 and March 1. Over the past 17 years, the Urban One partnership has helped the children and families of St. Jude by raising $22 […]
Here’s a question: Why are cops who have committed egregious acts of misconduct, including but not limited to beating Black people while they’re restrained and helpless, allowed by their departments to resign before they get fired? It’s bad enough that they pretty much have to kill a person on camera before they’re held criminally accountable (and sometimes not even then), but when police departments go out of their way to […]
Source: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty Congressman James E. Clyburn and other notable Black leaders were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. On Friday, President Biden named Clyburn and 18 others who “have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors,” the White House said in a press statement. Representative Jim […]
Source: Goodboy Picture Company / Getty The fight to end hair discrimination continues. According to CNN, Democrats are pushing to have the CROWN Act enforced on a federal level to ban discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle or hair texture. MORE: State Of The Union: Darryl George, Black Student Suspended Over Locs, Attends Biden’s Address CROWN, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, protects individuals […]
Source: Visual Vic / Getty The first historically Black college is headed to California this year. National College Resources (NCR) and Huston-Tillotson University partnered to bring two satellite campuses to the state. Read more details about this historic opportunity inside. This upcoming school year will be exciting for the sunshine state. NCR partners with Austin-based Huston-Tillotson University to establish two satellite campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles County. The […]
Source: moodboard / Getty The journey to motherhood and the experience of pregnancy should be one defined by joyous anticipation and dedicated care. But for far too many Black women in the U.S., the experience is often irreversibly marred by the structural and systemic racism in the industry that is to first do no harm. While this should come as no surprise given that the modern field of gynecology developed […]
Source: REACH Media / Reach Media Sybil’s Birthday Shout-Outs Designer, 27 Dule Hill, 49 Damon Dash, 53 Farrah Franklin, 43 (Member of Destiny’s Child) Willie Geist, 49 (Today Show, Morning Joe) James Brown, would have been 91 (passed in 2006) Sybil Wilkes Top 5 Stories for ‘What You Need To Know:’ May 3, 2024 The post Sybil Wilkes ‘What You Need To Know:’ The financial woes of FBI agents & […]
Source: Gary Coronado / Getty There’s a reason why there are so many people, especially Black people, who believe the entire system of policing in America needs to be thrown away. It’s not just about racist cops. And it’s certainly not about reducing the problem to “a few bad apples.” It’s about an entire rotten orchard full of police departments protecting cops from accountability, giving them a near-infinite benefit of […]
The Mayor-Elect earlier in her career with former US President, Bill Clinton Source: Liam McBurney – PA Images / Getty Councilor Lilian Seenoi-Barr is set to make history as the first Black mayor in Northern Ireland, but her historic appointment has drawn criticism from local politicians and controversial conspiracy theorists like David Icke and morally and financially bankrupt Alex Jones who, in just one of his ongoing vulgar rants–the he […]
