As Black students shifted from the classroom to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, harsher disciplinary measures that had been carried out against them at school followed them home. Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Southern Poverty Law Center via NNPA (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Isaiah Elliott was suspended from seventh grade for holding […]
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Ludacris and Queen Latifah to star in upcoming Netflix thriller
Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges (Photo credit: Splash News) By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris Rolling Out via NNPA Ludacris is preparing for his next box office smash, Fast & Furious 9. The movie will be released on June 25 and it has just been announced that he will be joining fellow rapper-turned-thespian, Queen Latifah, in the upcoming Netflix […]
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SCLC joins lawsuit against State of Georgia for voting restrictions
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Is Joining A Lawsuit Against the State of Georgia For Passing A Bill to Restrict Voting. ATLANTA TRIBUNE – With the lawsuit, the SCLC, co-founded and first led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., joins the litigation filed by The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, The […]
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Chicago Cubs hire its first African American PA announcer.
Jeremiah Paprocki, a senior at the University of Illinois- Chicago, is the new voice at Wrigley Field. (Photo Credit: Twitter @Jtheannouncer) CHICAGO DEFENDER – While attending high school at the Chicago International Charter School-Northtown Academy, Jeremiah Paprocki started reading announcements that led to working his way up to PA duties for various high school games […]
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Taraji P. Henson cast in beloved ‘Annie Live!’
By Terry Shropshire Rolling Out via NNPA (NNPA Newswire) — Taraji P. Henson has secured the role of a lifetime. The Oscar-nominated actress and former “Empire” star has been cast to play the antagonist role of Miss Hannigan in the TV adaptation of one of the most beloved plays in the history of Broadway, “Annie […]
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Phylicia Rashad returning to Broadway
Phylicia Rashad (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / lev radin) By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris Rolling Out (NNPA Newswire) — With COVID-19 restrictions fading away, Phylicia Rashad is returning to Broadway in December and will star in Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Skeleton Crew.”Written by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Skeleton Crew” will begin previews on Tuesday, Dec. […]
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Traveling Black’ captures experiences of Blacks during their journeys in the U.S.
By Glenn C. Altschuler Special to the Florida Courier (NNPA Newswire) – “Personal liberty consists in the power of locomotion, of changing situation, or removing one’s person to whatever places one’s inclination may direct, without restraint,” Supreme Court Justice John Marshal Harlan declared in 1883. “But of what value is this right of locomotion if […]
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Still no George Floyd police reform bill
May 25 came and passed with no sign that Congress would mark that day, the first anniversary of the George Floyd murder, with the passage of the police reform bill in his name. (Courtesy Photo) By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Writer The Hutchinson Report via NNPA May 25 came and passed with no sign that […]
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NNPA Joins with Black and Latino law enforcement organizations to oppose the Washington, DC city council’s ban on menthol cigarettes
A recent 700-page report from the U.S. Surgeon General on smoking cessation examines the health impact of bans in the context of smoking cessation. One of the report’s less-publicized conclusions is that there is not enough evidence to conclude that banning menthol cigarettes would cause more people to quit smoking. By NNPA Washington, DC via […]
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We are coming’: Poor People’s Campaign to march against Manchin and obstructionism in West Virginia
Manchin’s positions are “wrong, constitutionally inconsistent, historically inaccurate, morally indefensible, economically insane, and politically unacceptable,” said the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. By BRETT WILKINS, CommonDreams Staff Writer Outraged by Joe Manchin’s obstruction of Democratic efforts to protect and expand voting rights and end the Senate filibuster, the faith-led Poor People’s Campaign has announced […]
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Juneteenth honors Black ancestors’ dream of freedom, relevant today
Participants dance in the ocean as they celebrate during the annual Juneteenth Wade In on June 19, 2020, on Tybee Island. Juneteenth is a celebration of the day Union Soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, with the news that the war had ended and enslaved people were free. JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS via NNPA […]
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Tiffany Haddish to embody Florence Griffith Joyner in upcoming biopic
Tiffany Haddish is about to put her comedic talents to the side and reveal her athleticism to portray Olympic champion Florence Griffith Joyner in an upcoming biopic. (Image source: Instagram-@tiffanyhaddish) By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris Rolling Out (NNPA Newswire) – Tiffany Haddish is about to put her comedic talents to the side and reveal her athleticism […]