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Florida’s new standards on Black history curriculum are creating outrage
Middle school students in Mayade Ersoff’s Miami-Dade social studies class learn about the history of slavery in America through art.
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NFL Super Wild Card Monday: Bills vs. Steelers expected to go ahead despite Weather Conditions
We’ve had plenty of excitement so far through four games of ‘Super Wild Card Weekend’ – and we’ve still got two more to go.
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Job One for Biden at the convention: Relevance
Concentrate on a few clear goals. Assume voters know less about your candidate than you think they do. Biography trumps policy, but the gold standard is marrying the two. Personal glimpses are more valuable than political testimonials. And always look forward.
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Protest Options: A List of Links to Petitions, Donations, Resources and Education
education/">Good Black News Protest is powerful – so much so, it is listed as a right in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. But when marching is not an option, there are other ways to keep fighting for justice.
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A Texas pastor welcomed a death row inmate into his church and is set to pray over him at his execution
Once a month, Pastor Dana Moore gets into his car and drives 300 miles across Texas to Livingston, where he walks into a state prison, takes off his belt and shoes and is ushered through a metal detector before stepping through metal gates that clang shut behind him.
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Colorado funeral home owners accused of mishandling 190 bodies charged with Covid-19 relief loan fraud, officials say
The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of mishandling nearly 200 sets of human remains are now facing charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining more than $880,000 in Covid-19 relief funds and using it for personal expenses like trips and jewelry, federal prosecutors said.
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UMHB Fall Commencement 2021
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor held commencement services for the Fall 2021 semester on Friday, Dec. 3, at the Bell County Expo Center. This was the university's 165th graduating class, and a total of 417 students were awarded degrees, including 333 baccalaureate degrees, 45 master's degrees, and 39 doctoral degrees.
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Melania Trump Kicks Off 139th Annual Easter Egg Roll
Eggs are rolling -- nearly 18,000 of them -- Monday at the White House.
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Melania Trump Kicks Off 139th Annual Easter Egg Roll
First lady Melania Trump, hosting the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, kicked off the event alongside President Donald Trump, calling it a "wonderful tradition."
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As Trump's condition makes headlines, America's pandemic is getting worse
The extraordinary attention generated by President Donald Trump's fight with Covid-19 has obscured an alarming turn in a pandemic that is showing signs of accelerating as colder weather approaches, with 2,000 new America deaths recorded since he was diagnosed.
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Houston Chamber Choir Announces Diverse 2018-2019 Season, “Art & Soul”
Houston Chamber Choir is pleased to announce its 23rd season, “Art and Soul,” with a diverse and compelling repertoire featuring exciting guest artists and scholars. For the 2018-2019 season, the Chamber Choir performs with the Kinder HSPVA Chorale and director Shannon Carter, the Parker Elementary School Advanced Chorus and director Marianna Parnas-Simpson, guest artist Kim Nazarian of New York Voices, Musiqa, Apollo Chamber Players and University of Houston scholar and author Dr. Jeffrey Sposato.
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Supreme Court justices take much more than 15 minutes to consider Andy Warhol's silkscreens of Prince
The Supreme Court took a rare foray into the world of visual arts Wednesday, exploring the delicate intersection between an artist's freedom to borrow from existing works and the dry confines of copyright law in a case that has the global art world on edge.
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Black men say they feel ignored by politicians. A historic Senate face-off between two Black men isn't helping
Aaron Bethea says he has voted election after election for US presidents, governors and senators -- and yet those lawmakers have done little to nothing to improve life for him, his family or his community.
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Biden says in Poland that the stakes of Ukraine war go well beyond its borders
President Joe Biden told American troops on a deterrence mission near the border with Ukraine that the consequences of the raging conflict 50 miles away could extend around the world.
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The Health Museum Celebrates Donate Life Month in April 2024
Learn about Giving the Gift of Life!
Did you know that more than 10,000 Texans are awaiting a life-saving organ transplant and only 60% of adults in Texas are registered organ donors?
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A Donald Trump-endorsed Candidate Just Might Lose in Alabama Today
By just after 8 a.m. ET Tuesday, President Trump had already tweeted his support for Sen. Luther Strange's candidacy in Alabama twice. "Big day in Alabama. Vote for Luther Strange, he will be great!," said Trump in one tweet. Strange, appointed by then Gov. Robert Bentley (R) to replace now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, faces a serious fight today in the form of Roy Moore, a controversial ex-chief justice of the state's highest court, and Rep. Mo Brooks.
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Judge Finds Michelle Carter Guilty of Manslaughter In Texting Suicide Case
In a case that hinged largely on a teenage couple's intimate text messages, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the 2014 death of her boyfriend, who poisoned himself by inhaling carbon monoxide in his pickup truck, a Massachusetts judge ruled.
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United Passenger David Dao Swung Fists Violently, Officers' Reports Say
The United Airlines passenger who was left bloodied and bruised after being forcibly removed from a flight earlier this month was swinging his arms, his hands balled into fists, as officers from the Chicago Department of Aviation tried to pull him out of his seat, according to incident reports from the officers involved.
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Philando Castile's Family Reaches $3 Million Settlement with City of St. Anthony
The family of Philando Castile, who was shot and killed last year by a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer, has reached a $3 million settlement with the city, according to a statement from the city and lawyers for the family.
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Deadly Kansas Shooting: A Senseless Crime and a Friend Lost
The body of an Indian tech worker shot dead in a Kansas bar last week was due to be repatriated to his family in Hyderabad Monday as investigators sought to determine if it was a hate crime.
