By Janet McConnaughey, The Associated Press Mississippi streets became classrooms where civil rights activists and local historians were teachers for a university course about the civil rights movement, focusing on Mississippi. “Mississippi was ground zero for the movement,” Rebecca Tuuri, an associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, said Nov. 27. She said […]
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Shorter Shopping Season Means A More Intense Scramble
By Anne D’Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer The mad scramble between Thanksgiving and Christmas has begun — but with six fewer days. Black Friday once again kicks off the start of the holiday shopping season. But with it will be the shortest season since 2013 because Thanksgiving fell on the fourth Thursday in November — the latest […]
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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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Garth C. Reeves, Sr., Retired Publisher of The Miami Times’, Dies at 100
By Erick Johnson, the Chicago Crusader Garth C. Reeves, Sr., The Miami Times’ retired publisher who became the enduring patriarch of a family newspaper dynasty after decades of fighting the political establishment and while guiding the Black community through the city’s racial problems, died on Monday, November 25. He was 100. Garth C. Reeves, Sr. (Courtesy photo […]
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No Cash? Salvation Army Now Accepting Mobile Donations
By KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Carolyn Harper made her pitch for donations to the Salvation Army with a smile on her face and a bell in her hand, trying to convince shoppers along Chicago’s busy Michigan Avenue that there was “no line, no wait.” Despite her prodding, half a dozen people apologetically […]
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NNPA NEWSWIRE EXCLUSIVE: Bill Cosby Speaks from Prison
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia November 24, 2019 — Bill Cosby breaks his silence, granting his first exclusive interview since beginning his sentence at SCI-Phoenix, a maximum-security Pennsylvania penetentiary near Philadelphia. Today, in a special phone call with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com, Cosby said he’s spending his time helping to […]
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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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CBC Investigates Border
By Nyame-kye Kondo Special to the AFRO Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) made a trip to the Mexican border, Nov. 21, to investigate the treatment of African and Caribbean immigrants who are being held by American immigration and customs. The action is in response to the death of Cameroonian immigrant Nebane Abienwe, an […]
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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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Suit Seeks to Block Prosecutor From Excluding Black Jurors
By JEFF AMY Associated Press Four Black voters and a branch of the NAACP sued a Mississippi prosecutor on Monday, asking a federal judge to order him to stop excluding African Americans from juries. The lawsuit against District Attorney Doug Evans is an outgrowth of a case where the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a murder […]
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Black Women Kept Mail Flowing to WWII Troops
By WAYNE RISHER, The Daily Memphian undefined MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — FedEx honored Indiana Hunt-Martin, one of seven surviving members of a pioneering World War II unit of Black women, during its annual Veterans Day salute Friday, Nov. 8, at FedEx Express World Headquarters. Hunt-Martin, 97, was a private in the 6888th Central Postal Director […]
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Black Georgia Lawmakers to Push for State Hate Crimes Law
By The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Black lawmakers in Georgia said Thursday that they will push for a state hate crimes law after a White 16-year-old girl was accused of plotting to attack Black churchgoers. In a statement, the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus said it will push for a state hate crimes law “that […]
