NNPA NEWSWIRE — Walt Disney World’s support of the HBCU Week Foundation College Fair is part of an ongoing collaboration between the foundation and Disney on...
One year ago, on June 12, 2023, my husband of 35 years was picked up by a van at our house in Oakland. It was the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — From April 25th-27th, many collegiate football athletes will see their dreams of having their names called at the 2024 NFL Draft. The hard...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — On September 12, 1970, USC fullback Sam Cunningham and the USC Trojans routed the University of Alabama at Legion Field in Birmingham...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — After all the controversy that came with his decision to leave an HBCU, Jackson State University, Sanders remains a winner even after a...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — The Bruins lose their first game at home all year and are (6-4) overall. UCLA travels across town to play their rival...
By Donald Hunt For The Birmingham Times It’s always one of the biggest college football games of the season for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)....
By: Amber D. DoddSpecial to the AFRO adodd@afro.com Homecoming may be a longstanding tradition at all universities, but Howard University’s homecoming is like no other. From all...
A GoFundMe has been launched to support the 7-year-old son of a Richmond woman who was fatally shot at her workplace in Albany in an act...
The match that had people buzzing came last Friday, featuring Serena Williams, considered the best women’s player ever. Nearly 41-years old, a mother of a young...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Graduating in 2017, Nycorta Diaz Mabry Jr. went on to Davenport University on a full-ride football scholarship. While he had offers from some...
“I do consider myself having been born in 1970 to be the first generation to benefit from the Civil Rights Movement,” said Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson....
Jim Burch was also inducted into eight different halls of fame, including the CIAA John B. McLendon Jr. Hall of Fame (February 2019). To recognize the...
We grew up hearing family stories about life in the Carolinas from our parents and grandparents. My sister, Gwen Fortune-Blakely, has written her first children’s book,...
Oakland’s longshore and dock workers are the frontline essential workers for economic pandemic relief and supply-chain restoration.
Masking works. You can see it working. Vaccines work too, but we’re on the honor system for that. And people lie or show a fake vax...
Marvin Norman of Oakland and Antioch, California, died at the age of 55 after enduring a ferocious battle with COVID-19 for more than four months.
She was a retired teacher, serving in Oakland at Horace Mann Elementary School for over 20 years. She was a member of North Oakland Missionary Baptist...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Believe it or not, one of the fondest Magic City Classic memories for Tammy Alexander, PhD, is the night she almost called the police...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — It’s a game the city of Birmingham looks forward to every year. The Magic City Classic, which features Alabama State and Alabama Agriculture...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — At the start of the season, Mitchell High head football coach Nathan Cole had a message for his team. To go further than...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Pro Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann resigned as the University of Southern California’s athletic director after three years atop the program, USC...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Donnell Thompson and Ron Wooten, retired NFL players, are opening a chain of Checkers & Rally’s across Alabama and doing more than giving...
JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS — The National Football League season opened last week with a full slate of games. On the field, extraordinary athletes of all races...
THE AFRO — Health is a “lifestyle” for Visanthe Shiancoe. Regarded as the greatest NFL tight end, since Raymond Chester from Morgan State University, Shiancoe was notorious...
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