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At least 80 MARTA bus drivers called in sick Monday morning.
Fair Fight Adds Religious Congregations as Plaintiffs to Federal Lawsuit
African-American Women with HIV Often Overlooked, Under-supported
FedEx Launches Seventh Annual Small Business Grant Contest
VIEWPOINTS: UGA Teaching Assistant Shouldn’t Pay for Pointing out Racism
NAACP Restructures to Advance Advocacy Strategy
Is School Choice the Black Choice? Keeping it 100 for Atlanta Students
“Salary History Box” Requirement Banned on City of Atlanta Applications
Westside Future Fund Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors
The Beasley Allen Firm and The CK Hoffler Firm filed a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors on behalf of the City of Flint, Michigan, alleging the marketing of these drugs in Flint contributed to the creation of the opioid epidemic, a public health and safety crisis in the City. Responding to the opioid crisis […]
When new construction projects break ground across the United States, they regularly encounter archaeological materials. Those materials can represent the last surviving trace of the lives lived by the people who made them; and all too often, those materials turn out to be from cemeteries and burial grounds used by segregated and enslaved African-American communities. […]
When new construction projects break ground across the United States, they regularly encounter archaeological materials. Those materials can represent the…
Artimus Cunningham, an English major from Sycamore, IL, has been named as a 2019 Luard Morse Scholar. The sophomore was one of three HBCU students selected for the prestigious English-Speaking Union Luard Morse Scholarship. The winners will receive a $25,000 award to pay for a semester of study abroad in the United Kingdom during the […]
The nation’s most prominent civil rights organization announced over the weekend during its annual national board meeting in New York, a strategic restructuring which better positions the organization to lead the critical policy advocacy and social justice work needed to ensure the rights of all people. The group also signed series of memoranda of understanding […]
FedEx Corp. announced the launch of its seventh annual Small Business Grant Contest. This year, the contest offers grants and services to ten U.S. based small businesses, distributing a collective prize pool of $220,500—the largest sum since the contest was established in 2012. In addition to the grants, winners will also receive an additional dollar […]
Aspiring entrepreneurs take note: You don’t need millions from angel investors or venture capitalists to launch your own business. Instead, a small cash pot and the right attitude can get you on the right track. At least that’s according to entrepreneurs polled recently by Kabbage, a financial services and data platform serving small businesses. More […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise, who has been blamed for the country’s economic woes by the opponents. With more rallies planned in the coming days, the standoff has plunged the country into political chaos. Source: AlJazeera English
On Feb. 28, 2019 at 5 p.m., the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library will host a program and panel discussion about the life and work of Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III, including a special viewing of his collection. The theme of the event is “Sba: Reclaiming African Futures.” Confirmed panelists include Dr. Elletta […]
Inner City Urban: Vine City, a photographic exhibition by Rose Smith, is currently on display at the Auburn Avenue Research…
An African-American teaching assistant at the University of Georgia continues to face a backlash for his social media posts about “fighting” white people. Among the statements by philosophy doctoral student Irami Osei-Frimpong that led some UGA graduates to threaten to withhold donations: “…some white people may have to die for black communities to be made […]
The financial crisis of 2009, the worst since the Great Depression, was hard on all Americans. But arguably no group felt its sting more than African-Americans, who were already the most economically and financially vulnerable segment of the population going into it. Even today, a decade since the Great Recession hit, blacks still haven’t fully […]
From left to right: Toya Tolson, Shawnte’ Spriggs, Sophia Harrison, Marcella Wright and Deborah Dyson. These women are aging with HIV, sometimes with other diseases and always with other challenges. Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had […]
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