Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor

Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor

Britta Lee is a graduate of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She is also a recent alumnus of Specs Howard School of Media Arts. Britta began her career as a writer at the Michigan Chronicle and has since expanded into the field of television reporting, digital media and video production. Before returning to Detroit to again work for Real Times Media, she was a television news reporter in Michigan's Upper Peninsula at WLUC-TV 6. She is happy to be home and doing what she loves-- reporting on issues that matter most to her community.

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s past and its potential future converged in the tiny town of Plains, as former President…

Featured 09.20.18

WASHINGTON (AP)—Insurgent Democratic women running for Congress are pushing the party to rethink its approach to politics if they retake…

Politics 09.20.18

Did the nation’s first Black president appease his rich and powerful Jewish donors by not attending Aretha Franklin’s funeral where…

09.18.18
Echoes of Anita Hill in #MeToo allegation against Kavanaugh

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh recall Anita Hill’s accusations against Clarence Thomas…
09.20.18
It’s time to make health a priority

As African-Americans in the United States of America we have a plethora of worries. Some of these worries are life…
09.18.18
State Rep. Jake Wheatley’s Health & Wellness Weekend

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09.17.18
Trump Rejects Official Puerto Rico Hurricane Death Toll

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected the official conclusion that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico…
09.17.18
AHA: Heart Disease Rates ‘Rising’ For Adults Under 40

Ask a young person about heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular disease, and they’ll refer you to the “old folks.”…
09.17.18
This Week In Black History

Week of September 12-18 September 12 1913—Track and field athletic legend Jesse Owens is born on this day in Oakville,…
09.17.18
South Carolina slave descendants used to riding out storms

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a potentially catastrophic Hurricane Florence steamed toward the Carolinas, Josh Dais watched the weather reports…
09.12.18
Florence poses a new threat for rural, struggling towns

PRINCEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — James Howell Jr. lost big two years ago when Hurricane Matthew swelled the Tar River, less…
09.12.18
Booker fuels 2020 talk with South Carolina Dem fundraiser

Fueling speculation about his White House ambitions, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker will headline a Democratic fundraiser in South Carolina,…
09.12.18
Former GOP Chair Steele says he knows identity of op-ed writer

Former Republican Party National Chairman Michael Steele goes on the record with NNPA Newswire and it turns out there are…
09.10.18
EXCLUSIVE: Cosby recording could prove comedian innocent

A source whom can only be identified as a ‘neutral’ Montgomery County Court official, claims a tape played in court…
09.10.18
VIEWPOINTS: For Black Women at Church, It’s More Than the Aretha Eulogy

DETROIT (AP) — A Black pastor’s controversial eulogy at Aretha Franklin’s funeral laid bare before the world what Black women…
09.18.18
Dallas officer in shooting to be charged with manslaughter

DALLAS (AP) — A white Dallas police officer who shot and killed her Black neighbor and later explained that she…
09.07.18