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Young Black Professionals, HBCU Students Join Movement for Homeownership, Financial Education
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The housing crisis that caused more than nine million people to suffer foreclosure and even homelessness due to the economic slump across the U. S. 10 years ago, has now fully recovered for everyone – except people of color – especially African-Americans. “Black people are moving into homeownership at a much slower rate…
Read MorePrestige Prep Academy Looking for a Few Good Men…And Others
By Barney Blakeney From the beginning Prestige Preparatory Academy has struggled to survive. Since opening to serve boys in grades K-5 in 2016, making the school successful has been a challenge. At the root of its struggles are issues of enrollment, says Principal Joyce H. Coleman. But her vision of a school to serve young…
Read MoreWe Should Focus On Violence In Communities To Draw A Bead On School Gun Violence
By Barney Blakeney Since the February 14 mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, students across America have staged protests calling for changes that would protect them from further gun violence. I asked two local veterans in law enforcement their thoughts. As conversations that include gun control and who best can protect…
Read MoreLoíza: The Heart of Puerto Rico’s Black Culture
By Tatyana Hopkins, NNPA Newswire Special Correspondent/The Washington Informer Samuel Lind’s two-story wooden home functions as an art gallery and studio. When he’s at home, visitors can view his overwhelming collection of work, which ranges from colorful cartoonish posters for local festivals, to life-like paintings of Black women, to serious life-sized clay and bronze statues…
Read MoreLinda Brown, Plaintiff in Landmark School Desegregation Case, Has Died
By Frederick H. Lowe Special from NorthStarNewsToday.com (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Linda Brown, the named plaintiff in the 1954 landmark civil rights case “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka” in which the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the nation’s public schools to desegregate, has died. Ms. Brown died Sunday, March 25, in Topeka, Kansas, where she was…
Read MoreAfter Hurricane Maria, Schools Across Puerto Rico Recover Slowly
By Tatyana Hopkins, NNPA Newswire Special Correspondent LOÍZA, Puerto Rico—Thousands of students in Puerto Rico have settled back into classrooms after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island in September, knocking out electricity to the island and closing all of its 1,100 schools. But, reopening the schools once used as shelters and community centers in the…
Read MoreHoward Student, Dallas Native Experiences Healthcare in Puerto Rico, firsthand, during Alternative Spring Break
By Tatyana Hopkins, NNPA Newswire Special Correspondent MANATI, Puerto Rico—Howard University student Dara Freeman, was in pain, crazy pain, the kind that most people will never experience. Freeman, 20, had been hit with a migraine headache. The pain is excruciating, so severe that it has caused high-profile athletes, like basketball stars Dwyane Wade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar…
Read MoreClaflin Researchers Helping Close the Gap in Health Disparities Associated with HPV
By Gloria S. McCutcheon and Samina N. Assanie-Shivji Henrietta Lacks is an unsung hero in medical research. We celebrate her life during Black History Month. She and her family were poor, and worked on a tobacco farm in the South as had her slave ancestors. Her cells were taken by researchers/scientists in 1951 at Johns…
Read MoreHoward University Students Head to Puerto Rico During Spring Break to Aid Recovery Efforts
By Tatyana Hopkins, NNPA Special Correspondent WASHINGTON—When Oluwakanyinsola Adebola signed up to do community service as part of Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break, she knew she wouldn’t be joining her classmates and thousands of other college students who use their week off to party and play in the sun and surf of Jamaica or Aruba…
Read MoreStudents Across Nation March for Gun Control
By Amiyah King (Trice Edney News Wire/Howard University News Service) – Tens of thousands of high school students across America were marked with an unexcused absence Wednesday, but everyone knew where they were. In the Washington area, high school students from DC. Public Schools and from public schools in Maryland marched to the Capitol and…
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