Dillard University outranks others in black physics grads
Dillard University campus on Gentilly Blvd in New Orleans. PHOTO COURTESY OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press One of the smallest historically …
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EDITOR’S ADDRESS: Black Music is More Than a Sound
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Miss Black Texas 2016 says she was wrongfully arrested
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMERCE, Texas – An East Texas police chief is on leave pending investigation after he was accused of wrongfully arresting Miss …
White Maryland student to appear in stabbing of black man
Sean Christopher Urbanski, The Alleged Killer, left, and Richard Collins III, right. PHOTOS COURTESY OF COED.COM By JESSICA GRESKO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press COLLEGE …
Harvard’s Traci Green victorious
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com BOSTON, Mass. – Making history is not new to Traci Green. Ten years ago, she became the …
Week in Review
Stephen Colbert PHOTO COURTESY OF FLIPBOARD FCC: NO PUNISHMENT FOR LATE-NIGHT HOST OVER COLBERT’S TRUMP JOKE NEW YORK – There will be no fine for …
Archaeologists seek downed WWII Tuskegee Airman’s plane
The Tuskegee Airmen flew missions in Europe during WWII. Airman Capt. Lawrence Dickson, with the 332nd Fighter Group of the 100th Fighter Squadron crashed on …
Church builds bridges to save lives
William E. Cooper Jr. (left). Top right: Maude Vereen today at age 85 and below in 1958 as a rookie police officer. PHOTOS COURTESY OF …
Report: Lincoln police increasingly pull over black drivers
PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. – A report from the Nebraska Crime Commission says that the disproportionate percentage of black drivers pulled …
Death rate of blacks drops 25 percent
Leading causes of death have been reduced, but blacks still more likely to die younger PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control …