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Tyler Perry Warns of Erasure of Black History in Charged BET Awards Speech TMZ Source link

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Black Chamber is partnering with a local software company to launch a website highlighting Black businesses.Utahblackpages.com officially became an active site on Wednesday. The space offers resources on how to connect with local Black-owned businesses.“There’s been an outpouring of support from our local community to want to contribute and help out local black owned business,” said Karen Rodriguez, Marketing Chair and Director for the Utah Black Chamber.After the death of George Floyd and protest swept the country, many people in Utah have been eager to help uplift the local Black community.“Some of us…

The passing of the 14th and 15th amendments gave African Americans some hope for the future. Ratified in 1868, the 14th Amendment granted citizenship and “equal protection of the laws” to Black people, while the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race. In the end, the South rescinded the black codes, but the repeal of these restrictions didn’t significantly improve life for African Americans.“With the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments, there was a shift over to Jim Crow laws, which were kind of a perpetuation of the black codes,”…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at signaling his commitment to historically black colleges and universities, saying that those schools will be “an absolute priority for this White House.” HBCU presidents are hoping Congress will bolster Trump’s actions to strengthen the schools with dramatically increased funding in the upcoming federal budget. They are calling for $25 billion for infrastructure, college readiness, financial aid and other priorities. Under President Barack Obama’s administration, historically black colleges and universities received $4 billion over seven years. “The next step is the budget. You cannot have mission without money,” Thurgood…

“It’s a hoax,” Donald Trump said.“It’s just the flu,” my friend told me.“Black people can’t get it” was the rumor.These were the wrong and misleading statements that went through my head as I hung up the phone with my doctor confirming I had, indeed, tested positive for Covid-19.From the beginning, few, including me, treated this as the public health threat it actually was. I was loose with precautions, washing all the living moisture out of my hands, but not properly practicing social distancing.When I started paying attention to the local health department’s statistics, the numbers still didn’t look too daunting.…

Black Chamber of Arizona partners with City of Chandler to host Free National Black Business Month Summit on Aug. 1 City of Chandler (.gov) Source link

A Black woman said her neighbor put up a racist KKK flag on their window facing her home, according to local news. Je Donna Dinges, 57, is a resident in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, where she has lived for over a decade, Detroit Free Press reported. The newspaper reported that Dinges’ ex-husband saw the flag as he took out the garbage on Monday.  “I said, I know there’s not a klan sign in the window next door,” Dinges told FOX 2. “And I opened the curtains, and I looked, and sure enough, there was a klan sign in the window…

Tommie Daye Credit: Chris Juhn/MSR News St. Paul’s new hot spot There’s a new pizza shop in town. Tommie’s Pizza opened its doors in January as the Twin Cities’ only Black-owned pizza shop, and it’s sitting on prime real estate. Located near the corner of Selby Avenue and Snelling Avenue in Saint Paul, Tommie’s is situated within a vibrant, diverse neighborhood that is within walking distance of several colleges and not too far from the new Minnesota United Stadium (and its screaming soccer fans). In addition to pies and pizza-by-the-slice, Tommie’s Pizza also serves up grilled and baked wings, salads…

‘They know who to choose’Stacy Zinn spent her first four years with the Drug Enforcement Administration in El Paso, Texas, where she investigated Mexican cartels. She went on to work in Afghanistan and Peru pursuing narcoterrorists and cocaine traffickers. In 2014, the DEA transferred her to Montana and later placed her in charge of its offices in Billings, Great Falls, and Missoula.“When I was promoted and they said, ‘You’re going to Montana,’ I’m like, ‘Montana? Are there drugs in Montana?’” recalled Zinn, who retired from the DEA in October after 23 years. The state is sometimes referred to as “the last…

Nearly a century ago, Los Angeles leaders offered beachfront property to a prominent Black entrepreneur, Titus Alexander, to build a retreat for the city’s fast-growing African American population.Alexander envisioned opening a Black “amusement resort” on a coastal stretch near the southern tip of present-day Dockweiler State Beach, near the city of El Segundo. Los Angeles initially agreed in 1923 to lease 200 feet of city-owned beach to Alexander for 15 years. The land was part of a tract that the city purchased in 1892 for the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, which remains the city’s primary sewage treatment facility.El Segundo residents…