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In a shocking turn of events, the Clark Atlanta Panthers will be looking for a new head coach. following the announcement of current head coach Teddy Keaton’s departure after just two seasons. Clark Atlanta finished the 2025 season with a 3-7 overall record, including a 2-6 conference record. Keaton was hired by Clark Atlanta in February 2024 after a five-season stint with the recently revamped Allen Yellow Jackets football program. In his first season as the head coach of the Panthers, he turned the team from an 0-10 record the year before to a 7-3 record. Qualified in the SIAC…

Howard University head football coach Larry Scott Leaving the Bison program to join the Auburn University coaching staff marks a major transition for one of the most visible programs in HBCU football. The move comes as Auburn continues to finalize its roster ahead of next season and Howard prepares for another leadership change. Howard University. Scott, who has been at the helm at Howard since 2020, has helped raise the Bison’s national profile during his tenure, guiding the program through competitive seasons that have consistently kept Howard in the national HBCU football conversation. Larry Scott’s move from Howard to the…

Alabama’s Black lawmakers could nearly be wiped out by a single US Supreme Court ruling, report warns AL.com Source link

Some members of a prominent charity for the Canadian Black business community are calling for its board of directors to resign and for a third-party audit after discovering the non-profit paid two former board members’ companies at least $1.5 million for services while they were on the board or CEO of the charity. CBC Toronto obtained dozens of pages of internal records concerning the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) — including invoices and transaction records — which show the non-profit did not disclose more than $800,000 of that spending as related party transactions to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Any payments…

— Atlanta Mutual weekly bulletin, Oct. 23, 1920In 1905, just four decades removed from the end of the Civil War, Atlanta was a city where Black citizens were still an oppressed underclass, though a few had been able to carve out a bit of success and stability. Revs. James Bryant and J.A. Hopkins’ options for a messiah who fit their criteria were few.Alonzo Herndon was a barber by trade, not a savior. The son of a white slave owner and an enslaved woman, Herndon was born in 1858 about 45 miles east of Atlanta. He worked as a sharecropper as…

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Our Story & Why We Exist We are a Black nonprofit community media platform employing innovative digital and community-building strategies to engage Gen Z and Millennials across the midwest. Our primary areas of focus are education, justice, business, arts & culture, and technology. Reaching over 50 million people and growing our social media audience to over 75,000 followers since we launched in 2021, we’ve created a new model for reaching Black people and Gen Z. We were birthed from the ashes of the 2020 uprisings. As Black people, as young people, as organizers and abolitionists, it became glaringly apparent during…

Grain silos sit along the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana. The company Greenfield Louisiana plans on installing 54 silos and a conveyor structure almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty. Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Image Group/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Image Group/Getty Images Grain silos sit along the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana. The company Greenfield Louisiana plans on installing 54 silos and a conveyor structure almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty. Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Image Group/Getty Images Joy Banner, 42, stands at the edge of her hometown of Wallace, La.,…

RACINE, Wis. — From clothing and purses to jewelry and skincare, along with sweet and savory treats — the Be Plush Collective strives to have something in store for everyone. What You Need To Know Yolanda Coleman started the Be Plush Collective to help other women succeed  There’s five women buisness owners in the collective   Four of the five women have gone through a cancer journey  Their goal is to inspire other women hoping to own a business  Yolanda Coleman is one of five business owners in the boutique. She opened the store in 2021 to help women succeed.  “There [are] so many…

Maria L. Baldwin, the first president of LWCS and first Black person appointed principal of a public school in New England. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE LWCS The League of Women for Community Service is a Black women’s service organization operating throughout the city to provide and sustain resources for the Black community. Organized under Maria L. Baldwin’s steadfast leadership and initially headquartered at 428 Massachusetts Ave., the LWCS was incorporated in 1920 to undertake charitable, civic, educational and social work for the benefit of the community. A youth group stands in front of the headquarters of the League of Women…