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Black Male Enrollment Declines in Med Schools

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By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) The number of Black males applying to medical school is lower than it was three decades ago, raising concerns about the United States’ future ability to have […]

Terrence Howard in Court Trying to Undo Divorce Agreement

August 7, 2026 admin 0

ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terrence Howard agreed to a 2012 divorce settlement with his ex-wife after she threatened to leak details about his sex life, his attorney said at a […]

New College Prep, Tuition-Free, Single Gender School for Girls Opens This Fall

August 7, 2026 admin 0

A Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Sneak Peek Offered On-Site Pre-Enrollment and Behind-the Scene Tours of Virtue Academy’s New Campus. Following the first-year success of Valor Academy of Leadership for boys, PROFECTUS Learning Systems is preparing […]

Ball-Lacy Seeks to Launch Reality Show Highlighting Blacks in STEM

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By Harry Colbert Jr. Let’s face it: reality television is not doing Black people any favors. Often, the prevailing image of Black people in almost every reality show is one of dysfunction, savagery and […]

More Evidence That Southern Cooking Boosts Heart Risk

August 7, 2026 admin 0

If your dinner plate often includes fried chicken, gravy-smothered liver, buttered rolls and sweet tea — your heart may not find it so tasty. Eating a Southern-style diet is associated with an increased risk of […]

We Must Do More to Close Achievement Gap

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist Thousands of pages have been written about the achievement gap – the fact that White kids score higher than either Black or Latino kids who sometimes sit right next to […]

Where Cotton was King, Racism is still King

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By Susan Hagen University of Rochester White Southerners who live today in former slavery strongholds, a region known as the Cotton Belt, are more likely to express negative attitudes toward blacks than their fellow Southerners. […]

Bishop T.D. Jakes: LGBT Community Should Receive Respect and Equal Protection

August 7, 2026 admin 0

Bishop T.D. Jakes thinks it is “absolutely” possible for the LGBT and black communities to coexist. Jakes, who joined HuffPost Live on Monday, opened up to host Marc Lamont-Hill about his thoughts on the relationship […]

A Vision for Ferguson, Baltimore, L.A. and Everywhere

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By Gloria Walton (AMERICAN FORUM) – This month, the nation will acknowledge two political milestones. On Aug. 9, we mark the one-year anniversary of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Two days later, we mark the […]

Corrine Brown Files Lawsuit to Protect Her District

August 7, 2026 admin 0

By Brandon Larrabee, The News Service of Florida Changes to a proposed map of Florida’s 27 congressional districts emerged this week, a day before key hearings in the House and Senate about how to comply […]