Caucus pushes to raise the age for buying tobacco to 21
PHOTO COURTESY OF TWITTER The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland is concerned about the toll smoking has taken on the African-American community and is leading …
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A Solution to Your Mother and Daughter Relationship Problems
Do you have a problem with your mother and daughter’s relationship? If you answered yes, who created the problem? When you ask the mother she …
GROUPS OPPOSE PLANTATION EXHIBIT COMING TO DETROIT MUSEUM
PHOTO COURTESY OF WORLD HISTORY DETROIT (AP) – A coalition of community groups is opposing a planned Thomas Jefferson Monticello plantation exhibit coming to Detroit. …
FBI DATABASE TO TRACK DEADLY ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE
WASHINGTON – The federal government is launching a national database that will track when law enforcement officers use deadly force. The FBI national database is …
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, …
U.S. coal consumption drops to lowest level since 1979
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are consuming less coal in 2018 than at any time since Jimmy Carter’s presidency, …
‘Art Blues Soul’ festival lifted black Miami during Art Basel
PHOTO COURTESY OF AHCAC Miami – More than 725 attendees from Miami to Switzerland participated throughout the day as The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center …
Wrapping up the holidays in an environmentally sustainable way
For many of us, wrapping gifts is even more fun than giving them. But each year, we throw away miles and miles of wrapping paper, …
United Way of Broward showed veterans thanks
PHOTOS COURTESY MISSION UNITED FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The United Way of Broward County’s MISSION UNITED distributed more than 250 Thanksgiving dinner boxes to Broward …
The Urban launches ‘Welcome to the Afrofuture,’ in Overtown
Black PR Wire PHOTOS COURTESY OF URBAN PHILANTROPIES, INC. Miami, Fla. – Urban Philanthropies’ new venture The Urban is launching and hosting the highly anticipated …