Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights The Chicago White Sox drew 30,029 for a City Connect Hawaiian shirt giveaway and a baseball game Saturday at Rate Field, while the Savannah Bananas sold out Wrigley Field with a dance-off/exhibition baseball game and the WNBA held its All-Star Game at the United Center. Street festivals from Pilsen to Wicker Park, the Wrigleyville Mustache Crawl, a Karol G concert at Soldier Field and the usual Saturday night shenanigans made for a busy night in the city, and led to some gridlock on the Drive and expressways as well. We…
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From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment The Secret Between Us opens in select theaters this Friday, April 3, 2026, arriving just in time for Easter Weekend with a powerful story centered on family, betrayal, and forgiveness. Starring Michael Jai White, Lisa Arrindell, Victoria Rowell, and Karen Abercrombie, the film follows Jack, a respected man whose life begins to unravel when a son from a long-hidden affair resurfaces. As buried secrets come to light, Jack and his estranged son Torrance are forced to confront painful truths, unresolved resentment, and their shared search for redemption—while new secrets threaten to deepen…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Commissioner Sonja Stills said HBCU leaders remain cautious about federal NIL legislation, emphasizing that any proposal must protect institutions as much as student-athletes while preserving the traditional college athletics model. Speaking on HBCUNightly at MEAC Football Media Day, Stills clarified that the previously discussed SCORE Act is no longer under consideration, noting that a new proposal — commonly referred to as the Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) — has taken its place and remains a work in progress. “Unfortunately, the SCORE Act is dead,” Stills told host…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care This isn’t just a bad year for measles. It looks to be the start of a bad era. Confirmed measles cases just hit a 35-year high, and it’s only July. Together with last year, the number of cases has exceeded the combined total over the previous 25 years. The vast majority of cases stem from domestic outbreaks fueled by low rates of vaccination—and rates are declining. For the first time in a quarter century, the U.S. no longer meets a main criterion for having eliminated measles as a public health threat.…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Humans discovered the first exoplanet in 1992 and have since found approximately 6,000 other planets from outside our solar system. Not once have those researchers found a moon orbiting any of those planets, however. That may have changed with the recent discovery of the first moon-like object in another solar system. The findings were published in a recent study. Kevin Hoy, lead author of the study and PhD student at the Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, says that this potential moon, known as CD-35 2722 B, orbits a brown dwarf instead of a…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education July 24, 2026 The Brunswick News Gordon Jackson reports that unemployment rates across the state increased in June, even as the labor force grew in half the regional commission districts in Georgia. The increase in unemployment was not unexpected, said Georgia Labor Commissioner Barbara Rivera Holmes. July 24, 2026 Georgia Trend – Exclusive! Jeffrey Humphreys reports, despite a backdrop of spiking oil prices and the recent retreat from the globalization of markets, Savannah’s prospects for economic growth are very good for many reasons. Significant economic development project announcements will provide a…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia “Unguarded Hopes and Feelings”, 30×40, Eugene V Byrd III. Photo by Noah Washington/The Atlanta Voice This past week, The Supermarket hosted “City Bleed No More: Revive,” an art exhibition running through tomorrow, June 26, spotlighting local artists whose work grapples with Atlanta’s economic and social divides while honoring the city’s civil rights legacy. The exhibition, presented by HWPL Georgia, is the second installment of the “City Bleed No More” series and the latest piece of the organization’s “Peach State to Peace State” campaign, a multiyear push toward community revitalization backed by resolutions and…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection The room is dim in the good kind of way — moody, low-lit, built for long conversations rather than seeing and being seen from across the room. Dining booths are deep and plush, upholstered in a rich blue that leans more nostalgic than trendy, like the space was pulled from another decade and set down carefully in this one. A stage sits front and center, no small detail tucked into a corner, and whoever’s playing that night is doing it in full view — close enough to a jazz club with a kitchen…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World St. Vincent Deputy Commissioner of police Trevor Bailey and Voices host Jomo Thomas, last Monday engaged in a pointed discussion regarding the state of police-public relations and the necessity of accountability within the force.Thomas argued that while citizens desire a relationship with law enforcement and seek redress when victimized, they often perceive the police as an occupying or aggressive force rather than a protective one. He further claimed that the police force has lost its focus on serving the community, partly because it has evolved into an employment agency over the last…
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