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ACCRA, GHANA —  Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture. “When I was 10 years old, I was supposed to come to Ghana with him,” she said. A day earlier, she had marked 10 years since her father’s death. Though he was a Pan-Africanist who dreamed of visiting Ghana, he never made it here. Bowers and her husband, Damon Smith, however, are among the 524 diaspora members, mostly Black Americans, who were…

Food trucks have evolved over the past decade from a trendy culinary phenomenon to a staple of urban life across the country. Vibrant food truck scenes now surround cities such as Los Angeles and Houston. It was once thought that Atlanta would be next in line, but boundless red tape and restrictions stood in the way. Now, a new bill might ease at least one of these challenges.  On May 5, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law HB 1443, which will go into effect at the beginning of next year. The bill is supposed to pave a way for mobile…

Black Community in Manhattan, Kansas, Seeks to Raise $1.7M to Restore a Historic Black Church BlackNews.com Source link

La La Anthony Enjoying Now and Later® (Courtesy Photo) Now and Later® candy with its bold flavors, hard-to-soft chew, and long-lasting eating experience recognizes that with the hustle of the daily grind, there is a benefit in taking a much-needed pause for self-care. In continued support of go-getters and changemakers in the Black community, the brand is launching ‘Pause Now, Hustle Later’ in partnership with media personality, entrepreneur, and candy lover La La Anthony, to spotlight five emerging black-owned businesses in the self-care space and to encourage fans to take a pause NOW, so that they can reset and reenergize…

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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting at WHRO. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The Virginia legislature has approved creating a statewide commission to investigate the role of public colleges and universities in displacing Black communities. The legislature’s action represents a milestone for the budding national movement to seek compensation for families dispossessed by university expansion. It follows a 2023 series by ProPublica and the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO, which showed that universities nationwide have…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting at WHRO. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The Virginia legislature has approved creating a statewide commission to investigate the role of public colleges and universities in displacing Black communities. The legislature’s action represents a milestone for the budding national movement to seek compensation for families dispossessed by university expansion. It follows a 2023 series by ProPublica and the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO, which showed that universities nationwide have…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Black Hills Energy announced Tuesday that it will serve its first customer for its new electric rate option for blockchain in Wyoming. Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power Company/Black Hills Energy’s Blockchain Interruptible Service Tariff recently signed a five-year service agreement with a crypto mining company for up to 45 megawatts of electric service, with a possible expansion up to 75 megawatts, a Black Hills Energy news release said. The company will begin operating in Cheyenne at the North Range Business Park, and, come fourth quarter, the crypto mining facility will be one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the region, the…

Black History Month has come to mean more to me than ever before since having kids, but my passion for diving deeper into the stories of my people became a daily practice after the 2020 Black Lives Matter marches. As America began to acknowledge the plight of the African-American experience the last 400 years in this country, there was an awakening and understanding that I had never observed before, collective grief and an unlearning that began to take place. Tash Haynes My journey toward Black Liberation took a sharp turn in those moments of 2020. I sought to find ways…

Social Security Beneficiaries Will Receive Early Payment Due To Labor Day Black Enterprise Source link