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Op-ed: 90 years later, Social Security still delivers for Alabama Yellowhammer News Source link

Image Image Credit Alex Slitz – FIFA / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Atlanta skyline Today (Feb. 24), leading Black-owned multimedia company REVOLT announced its first headquarters and studio business, RBN Studios. With the addition of RBN, located in the heart of midtown Atlanta, Georgia, REVOLT is expanding into a full-service production operation. From news and opinion to talk shows and specials that address social justice issues, RBN Studios will focus on creating original content that resonates with the Black community. “The Black perspective has been deliberately hidden from the world for too long. With RBN Studios, we will…

“I live in a constant state of terror. I exist in this town my guard constantly raised,” KT Turner wrote in her viral Facebook post. MOSCOW, Idaho — The population of Moscow, Idaho, is 90% white, according to July 2019 estimates from the United States Census Bureau. Only 1.2% of the city’s population is Black, based on the same estimates. KT Turner is attending the University of Idaho in Moscow to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree in theater arts, with a concentration in directing. A recent post from Turner in Pantsuit Nation, an activist group on Facebook with…

Juneteenth fest at 18th & Vine celebrates African American culture Kansas City Star Source link

Editor’s Note: Each issue in February will contain a story from this four-part series on the life and times of those African-Americans who made La Jolla their home in the Village’s early days. We hope you find it as interesting and informative as we did bringing it to you. La Jolla’s Black Pioneers. Part 1: The brief rise of the town’s African-American community » Charles Wood arrived in La Jolla in 1919 with his wife, Adeline, who was the niece of the wealthiest African-American woman in town: Henrietta VanHorn-DeBose. One of 27 siblings, he only completed his education up to…

Maine now has the nation’s largest racial disparity in coronavirus cases, with statistics showing that members of the state’s small but growing Black communities are contracting COVID-19 at a rate more than 20 times that of white residents. Maine has among the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the country on a per-capita basis. But the picture is dramatically different for Black residents, a growing number of whom are recent immigrants with lower incomes, more limited access to health care and less job security even before the pandemic. And this is no statistical anomaly caused by Maine’s small minority population.  …

Bart Pfankuch investigative reporter and content director bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org HOT SPRINGS, S.D. – Patrick Richards grew up near this Southern Black Hills city and has now – at age 43 – returned to settle down and raise a family.He and his wife, Alison, were living in Las Vegas until recently when they decided the Hot Springs area would be a better place to raise their 3-year-old son, Dexter, and any other siblings who may come along.And yet, the couple thinks the city could be improved and be even more accommodating to young parents – and health nuts – like themselves if…

From: the Black Cultural Center In celebration of Black History Month (BHM) 2023, Virginia Tech, the Black Cultural Center (BCC), and a wide array of campus partners and programs honor the achievements of Black people and showcase the diversity of the Black community with programs and events throughout the month of February. The theme for this year’s BHM is History and Traditions: Being Black in America.  Event details are subject to change. For the most current infomation, please visit the BCC’s Black History Month calendar.  Should you have questions, reach out to the Director of the Black Cultural Center, Kimberly Clark. Source…

More Americans See Daily Drinking As Dangerous, Gallup Poll Finds Black Enterprise Source link

If you were one of the hundreds of people celebrating Juneteenth during Anchorage’s downtown festivities this month, you likely ran across Jasmin Smith. Smith is an entrepreneur, and was the coordinator for the Juneteenth celebration. Earlier this month, Smith was named a finalist by national Black media network theGRIO for their inaugural Hero award. The award spotlights African-Americans across the country who work on improving the Black community and uplifting their culture.As a Black woman in a state with a relatively small Black community, Smith told Alaska Public Media’s Wesley Early that she was surprised by her nomination.Jasmin Smith: When I…