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., […]
Take a Virtual Trip to Kenya
January 14, 2021With the pandemic badly hamstringing travel plans for so many people, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) would like to take Black America on a trip to Kenya – at least digitally. Destination: The World. Until medical science gets a real stranglehold on the coronavirus, we invite you to explore from the safety of your […]
Tucker, Winters Earn MEAC Weekly Honors
January 14, 2021NORFOLK, VA. – Two North Carolina A&T women’s basketball players received Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) weekly honors. Senior forward Deja Winters was named co-player of the week. Freshman guard D’Mya Tucker was named the defensive player of the week. Winters won her second weekly award in her career. Tucker won her first. The MEAC named […]
Get your COVID vaccine. Be proactive. Protect yourself and your family
January 14, 2021As I start to write this article, the number of Americans that have died from COVID-19 now tops 370,000, a number that I cannot wrap my brain around and truly causes me intense pain. We are losing 3,000 people a day. We are hearing across the country that hospital capacity is at its limit. We […]
U.S. Rep. Alma Adams: ‘It was frightening’
January 14, 2021“We could have all been blown up. This could have been much, much worse.” To Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12), what could have been on the afternoon of January 6, 2021 is chilling enough. But what did happen when a predominately White pro-Trump mob of thousands attacked the U.S. Capitol, seeking to either delay or stop […]
Aggie guards return to help defeat SCSU
January 7, 2021ORANGEBURG, S.C. – The North Carolina A&T men’s basketball team is getting healthy just in time to start the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) schedule. Three of their guards returned to the lineup for the Aggies’ 97-86 win over S.C. State Saturday afternoon at the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center. Senior guard Tyler Maye, named third-team preseason All-MEAC, […]
Sedition: Pro Trump Mob Storms Capitol Building
January 7, 2021WASHINGTON, D.C. – At Peacemaker press time, Wednesday afternoon (January 6), chaos and confusion broke loose at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. as thousands of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an attempt to interfere with the certification of Electoral College votes. Such certification is a tradition which seals […]
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