Black History Books for Kids Ages 3 to 18
February 4, 2021When you’re a kid, there are so many things to learn. Someone has to teach you your A-B-Cs, and to count to a hundred. You have to learn to tie a knot and set the table and stay safe. And this month, you should learn more about Black History, and that can be fun with […]
Report: Former Chief Justice Beasley to Run for U.S. Senate in 2022
February 4, 2021If a report this week in the conservative Carolina Journal is to be believed, former N.C. Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, a Democrat, is preparing to announce a 2022 run for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, hoping to take the soon to be vacated seat of outgoing Republican Sen. Richard Burr. According to the Carolina […]
Celebrate Black History Month 2021
February 4, 2021Black History Month celebrations look different this year, as many events across the city are being held virtually. The story behind Black History Month starts more than half a century ago. It was created by noted Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the minister Jesse E. Moorland after they founded the Association for the Study […]
Remembering the Legacy of Hammerin’ Hank Aaron
January 28, 2021Baseball’s recognized home run king and an African American hero, Henry “Hank” Aaron, has died at the age of 86. Aaron, who broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record on April 8, 1974, was not just a baseball legend but a hero to superstars. “He’s the one man that I idolize more than myself,” the […]
COVID-19: Fewer people driving but more driving deaths
January 28, 2021As I was paying my car insurance, I noticed that my carrier said I had received an auto rate reduction of up to 10 percent because they expected fewer accidents as more customers were driving less during this pandemic. Now I certainly did appreciate that decrease in my rate but I wondered if there were […]
GOP continues voter suppression efforts nationwide
January 28, 2021If you were under any impression that the Republicans have ceased their voter suppression efforts after trying unsuccessfully to overturn the Nov. 2020 presidential election results, guess again. If anything, the fact that former Pres. Donald Trump decidedly lost to Democrat Joe Biden – in addition to the stunning victories by two Georgia Democrats earlier […]
Sherri Denese Jackson Foundation combats domestic violence
January 28, 2021Under a sea of purple balloons released in remembrance of the lives lost to domestic violence every year, and one yellow balloon, Portia Shipman recounted the story of the death of her friend, Sherri Denese Jackson. The yellow balloon is for Jackson. “Not only was she loving, smart and beautiful, she wasn’t like anyone I […]
Time to take charge of your health
January 21, 2021400,000 Americans have perished due to the COVID-19 virus. It is not a secret that the virus has laid bare the fact that many people of color are not as healthy as they perhaps should be. There are institutional changes in health care that must take place to correct inequities, but there are things that […]
Movie Review: Locked Down
January 21, 2021It may be 2021’s first viable COVID-themed movie. Hopefully it’s not the best audiences can expect. Anyone who has been locked down, pent up, frustrated and emotionally frayed will relate. Life with the virus has been hard and the light at the end of the tunnel is tiny. And so, British screenwriter Steven Knight (Oscar […]
Biden Urges Unity
January 21, 2021Two-thirds of the country gave a huge sigh of relief Wednesday morning as Joe Biden was sworn-in as the 46th President of the United States ending the four-year term of possibly the worst president of the United States – Donald J. Trump. January 20, 2021 was a cold and overcast Inauguration Day in Washington D.C., […]
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