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What is going on with student loans and Black borrowers? A few weeks ago, for the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on long-term outcomes for student loan borrowers. The findings were also broken out results by race and ethnicity, and according to an analysis by the Center For American […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is pushing ahead on a $36.5 billion hurricane relief package that would give Puerto Rico a much-needed infusion of cash. The measure also would replenish rapidly dwindling emergency disaster accounts and provide $16 billion to permit the financially troubled federal flood insurance program to pay an influx of Harvey-related claims. […]
Here are 20 common myths that are associated with breast cancer.
Defending MEAC champion North Carolina Central’s 18-game conference winning streak and run of 11 consecutive home victories came to a screeching halt Saturday as Norfolk State held on for a 28-21 road win. The loss was the first for the Eagles (5-2, 2-1 MEAC), No. 3 in Black College polls and No. 25 in the […]
John Chavis is considered the first Black college student in America. Born free, he studied under with the president of what would later become Princeton University and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Chavis was born in either 1762 or 1763 to free parents in heavily debated places of origins that include North Carolina, […]
Fall is here and it’s time to think ahead to the holiday/vacation season, which feels like it’s on the way in about 5 minutes. It’s about time to consider your holiday pics on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. Surely, you don’t want to look crazy, or have anyone wonder who the old lady is who showed […]
Scorpios are people born between October 23 – November 21.
Justin Timberlake has finally been invited back to the Super Bowl halftime show, 14 years after the “wardrobe malfunction” with Janet Jackson cause a national controversy. The NFL announced Sunday night that Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl halftime show Feb. 4 in Minnesota. This will be the third time for Timberlake to perform at […]
Teresa White, Aflac’s first Black woman president, is using her journey to inspire Black girls.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was a spooky weekend at the box office for nearly everyone but Tyler Perry. Perry’s comedy sequel “Boo 2! A Madea Halloween” scared up a healthy $21.7 million in its first weekend in theaters, but the waters were rough for other new openers including the disaster epic “Geostorm,” the firefighter […]
Discriminated against in life, they were forgotten by their community in death, buried in unmarked graves in the back of the Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, Georgia. The final resting places of the 1,146 black souls who once lived and worked there were anonymous. Though loved ones may have initially marked the spots with a […]
Longtime soap opera star Kristoff St. John of The Young and The Restless star was hospitalized and placed under psychiatric evaluation after allegedly threatening to kill himself with a gun. Law enforcement sources say a woman, first identified as his ex-wife, Mia, called police Thursday evening and told them St. John had been sending her […]
