By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The conditions at Mississippi’s Parchman prison makes it one of the worst detention facilities in the world, according to reform advocates and human rights organizations. Death and violence are rampant, many inmates are without beds, and electricity, plumbing, and fundamental human rights are absent. At the […]
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Why Heart Health is Important For Women With Diabetes
BlackPressUSA If you have diabetes, you have a higher-than-average risk of having a heart attack or a stroke. While men and women generally have similar rates of Type 2 diabetes, women are twice as likely to have heart disease. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S., killing […]
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Film Review: In Fabric
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic She thought she was simply buying a sexy red dress, off the rack. But when that frock came home with her, so did the supernatural. Writer/director Peter Strickland had a wicked vision in mind when he created this campy horror film, which has a style that is […]
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Meet The Pioneering Queens of Hip-Hop
By The Birmingham Times Quite naturally, when discussing the pioneering women of hip-hop, the names of DJ Spinderella (Deidre Roper) of Salt-N-Pepa and MC Lyte (Lana Michelle Moorer) come to mind, as they did when The Birmingham Times interviewed some of the Magic City’s female DJs. Women have always been integral to hip-hop, dating to […]
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How to Help a Caregiver During National Family Caregivers Month
By BlackPressUSA November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. The Alzheimer’s Association is recognizing and honoring the more than 15 million people across the U.S. who are currently caring for a person living with Alzheimer’s, including the 588,000 Alzheimer’s caregivers here in Illinois. According to a recent Alzheimer’s Association survey, […]
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Blacks in Metro Areas across the Country are Dying of Opioid Addiction at Increasing and Alarming Rates
By S.E. Williams, Contributor, Black Voice News via BPUSA Middle-aged Blacks are experiencing a concerning rise in opioid deaths from manufactured fentanyl mixed with other drugs. Although all racial, ethnic and age groups saw significant increases in opioid-and synthetic opioid-involved overdose deaths between 2015 and 2017, death rates among Blacks in large metropolitan areas is […]
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Bloomberg: ‘I apologize!’
By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News via BPUSA Was it Trump? Was it Obama? Nope. The surprise visitor last Sunday to the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn was former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Not until the mega church’s Senior Pastor, the Rev. A. R. Bernard, introduced him to the crowded pews, was anyone aware it […]
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As Bill Cosby Awaits Appeal, Support for His Release Grows
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia More than a year has passed since Bill Cosby began a three-to-10-year sentence at a maximum-security prison near Philadelphia following his conviction on charges of aggravated indecent assault. Throughout two trials – the first ending in a hung jury in 2017 and the second in 2018 that […]
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Can Baltimore Obtain Justice?
By Nisa Islam Muhammad, Staff Writer, The Final Call via BPUSA @nisaislam Crooked cops are what Baltimore States Attorney Marilyn Mosby has come fact-to-face with. She recently asked courts to throw out nearly 800 criminal cases handled by 25 city police officers, saying she had reason to distrust more than a dozen cops in addition […]
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Cummings’ Widow Expected to Run for His House Seat: Report
By WI Web Staff via BPUSA Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings, is expected to run for her husband’s House seat, according to a Fox News report. Cummings, who was up for reelection in 2020, died Thursday due to long-term health complications. He was 68. Rockeymoore Cummings, chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, […]
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Salon Owner Looks to Help White Parents With Black Hair Care
By SAFIYA CHARLES, Montgomery Advertiser MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Some of the most distinct memories that Black women recall of their childhood involve hair. Many can remember sitting between their mother’s, aunt’s and grandmother’s legs, determined fingers working to nourish their scalp and the teeth of a comb edging through their hair. If you sat […]
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New Jersey Seminary to Pay $27 Million in Reparations for Ties to Slavery
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The Princeton Theological Seminary, in Princeton, NJ, has set aside $27 million to pay reparations for its ties to slavery. Among the institutions of higher education, the more than two-hundred-year-old Seminary joined Rutgers and Princeton Universities to publicly disclose their ties to the slave trade. However, neither […]