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Policewoman killed by colleague 'playing' with gun
A police officer in Paris died after her colleague shot her in the head, in what police union leader Christophe Crepin called "a tragedy due to a mistake in handling a loaded firearm."
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Spelman College Student Deanna Hayden Works to Raise Literacy Rates with “House of Knowledge” Project
It’s National Library Week, and at Spelman College a student is changing lives by improving a community’s literacy. Deanna Hayden, a junior Comparative Women’s Studies major, volunteers in an impoverished neighborhood in Atlanta, the West End community.
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Makers Nutrition Wins Five GOLDs honored in the 11th Annual 2019 Golden Bridge Awards®
Makers Nutrition wins seven 2019 Golden Bridge Awards® and will be honored at the 2019 Red Carpet Golden Bridge Awards Ceremony in San Francisco on Monday, October 28, 2019.
Makers Nutrition has earned seven awards in the Golden Bridge Awards® for their astounding private label programs, management, and customer service that serves the nutraceutical industry so well.
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Jamie Dimon: The stock market doesn't reflect Americans' pain
The stock market's huge run-up in recent months doesn't capture everyday Americans' pain. That's why the government and Big Business should act to help ease the burden on the least fortunate, said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, in an interview with CNN Business.
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Ernest “Ernie” Jackson, Jr. Obituary: “A Life of Community Service”
Ernest (Ernie) Jackson Jr., one of the pioneers of the historic Black radio movement in America and an award‐winning amateur photographer, recently made his heavenly transition.
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Jackson State University Selected as Recipient of Getty Images Grant to Uncover and Digitize Rarely Seen Imagery from its Archival Photographic Library
Jackson State University today announced it is one four recipients of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archive Grant for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), an initiative aimed at preserving and amplifying the invaluable visual history of HBCUs.
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AAF-Houston selects Audrey Gilbreath as winner of 2022 Living Legend Award
Founder/CEO of Gilbreath Communications is first African American selected for the award
Building a career legacy of persistence and achievement over more than 30 years certainly earns respect from your peers. One major example is Audrey J. Gilbreath, the recent 2022 winner of the American Advertising Federation-Houston’s Living Legend Award. Ms. Gilbreath is the 25th recipient of the Living Legend and the first African-American professional to win the honor from the 111-year-old AAF-H.
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10 years after the financial crisis, have we learned anything?
When John Taylor starts remembering the years leading up to the financial crisis, his fury wells up all over again.
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Get Ready For Trump's Team Of Wall Street Watchdogs
In the months ahead, Trump stands to name a wave of the nation's topmost banking regulators -- including new heads of the Federal Reserve, FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency when the terms of the current leaders expire.
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Continuing the Work: Rep. Thierry Brings Maternal Mortality Film to Houston
On Tuesday evening, February 20, 2018, State Rep. Shawn Thierry will host and moderate a discussion on the documentary screening of “Death By Delivery”, in partnership with Legacy Community Health, and Texas Southern University to address the maternal mortality crisis in Texas and nationwide.
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Ken Starr, independent counsel who pursued Clinton, dies
Kenneth Winston Starr, a former US solicitor general who gained worldwide fame in the 1990s as the independent counsel who doggedly investigated President Bill Clinton during a series of political scandals, has died. He was 76.
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Judge tells Manafort jury to keep deliberating after it asks about impact of not reaching verdict on one count
The judge in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort urged the jury Tuesday to keep deliberating after it asked what happens if it can't reach consensus on one of 18 counts.
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George Floyd's family members remember the man and what he stood for
The story of George Floyd has ignited a movement. But to his girlfriend, "Big Floyd" was the man she loved.
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Baltimore Police Doing 12-hour Shifts After Deadly Surge of Violence
The man was bleeding from his forehead when officers found the shooting victim as he lay dying on a waterfront road early Tuesday.
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Man Awarded $60K After Being Arrested for Refusing to Give Police His Name During Traffic Stop
Robert Mitchell, a Black man who filed a lawsuit against the Bakersfield Police Department for allegedly making an “unconstitutional arrest” on him during a traffic stop two years ago, has reached a settlement with the city of Bakersfield which agreed to pay him $60,000.
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This 1960s trailblazer of erotic pop art died just as she was finding fame
Throughout Evelyne Axell’s short but radical career, the Belgian artist revered the female body in psychedelic hues rendered in gleaming enamel. Nude women recline in acid green or cerulean blue fields under open skies; in one portrait, bodies and landscape become indistinguishable, with rings of colors forming the volume of a perm and tufts of grass the pubic hair.
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Holland America Line Group Cruise Program Helps Historically Black Colleges and Universities Raise Up to a Million Dollars for Charity
Qualified organizations receive donations up to $100 per stateroom with group bookings
Holland America Line’s Charity Group Cruise Program is aiming to help historically black colleges and universities raise one million dollars. For every group booking made by organizations that support HBCUs, Holland America Line will donate $50 per stateroom on seven- to 11-day cruises and $100 per stateroom on cruises 12 days or longer after the first five staterooms.
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Celebrate National Vodka Day with a Sip of Texas' First Sweet Potato Vodka
Award-Winning Black-Owned GO3 Vodka Celebrates History, Friendship, and Rich, Small Batch Flavor in Houston
Jubilee Spirits, a new Black-owned, Houston-based premium alcohol and spirit company, has brought a rare treat for vodka drinkers to market with General Orders No.3 (GO3) Vodka; Texas’ first craft distilled sweet potato vodka, blended and bottled in Houston.
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Cardi B defends Kylie Jenner's 'WAP' cameo, but there's history behind the anger
Kylie Jenner's cameo in the music video for Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's new hit, "WAP" has sparked enough backlash that a petition to have her removed has garnered thousands of signatures and motivated Cardi B to defend her.
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Chinese stocks having worst start to a year since 2016
China’s stock market had a rough 2023 and the rout has accelerated in the first few weeks of the new year, after Beijing dashed hopes that it might do more to support the struggling economy.
