HBCU News Spotlight: Bowie State University’s Japan partnership just got official funding — and students across multiple disciplines are about to benefit. Bowie State University received a $10,000 planning grant from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission to develop a new institutional partnership and expand global engagement opportunities for students. The Bowie State University Japan partnership will support the university’s efforts to collaborate with the Commission’s Summer Institute while strengthening academic and cultural exchanges between the United States and Japan. Moreover, it builds directly on a foundation that Bowie State has been quietly constructing for years. A Relationship That Started in 2022…
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Tech Trends & Innovation: The Latest in Tech News Summary created by Smart Answers AIIn summary:Security researchers discovered a macOS vulnerability that allows silent replacement of trusted app executables with malicious versions, though Apple doesn’t consider it a security issue.Macworld reports the exploit requires significant attacker access or extensive social engineering, making practical attacks extremely difficult to execute.The findings reinforce Mac security best practices: use the App Store, buy directly from developers, and avoid suspicious downloads from unknown sources. A report by security developers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk explains a new bug found in macOS that sounds scary.…
Game On: Latest in Gaming News, Reviews & Industry Buzz No one really loves Sony’s decision to kill physical PlayStation discs in January 2028, but there is data that backs up the company’s plan. Sega’s president understands the choice and the numbers, but he says the company remains committed to producing physical media despite the push to an all-digital future. In a recent interview with Famitsu (that was translated by Eurogamer), Sega president Shuji Utsumi spoke about how the company needs to be “more digitally conscious and become more global.” For Sega, “digitalization” is an important part of the company’s…
Business Briefing: Economic Updates and Industry Insights The former “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega on Thursday described pressure from executives at CBS News to insert what she said was political bias into three segments that aired earlier this year.Ms. Vega was among three of the show’s correspondents to be fired this spring and is now the third to go public with claims of executives’ interfering in the show’s reporting. Similar accusations were made by the former correspondents Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi.“I’ve gone head-to-head with editors for 25 years in this business,” Ms. Vega, 49, said Thursday, according to a…
Fresh from the Kitchen: Recipes & Food Inspiration These Sticky Orange Chicken Wings are everything you want in the perfect appetizer—crispy, juicy chicken wings coated in a glossy sweet and spicy orange glaze that”s bursting with fresh citrus flavor. Seasoned with a savory blend of herbs and spices before being baked to golden perfection, the wings are tossed in a homemade honey orange sauce made with freshly squeezed oranges, orange marmalade, garlic, butter, and just the right amount of heat for an irresistible sticky finish. Gluten-free, Freezer, + Make Ahead options! Can I be honest, ya’ll? These Spicy Orange Chicken…
Black Arts & Culture Feature: Reviewed by Tula Francesca of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poemsedited by Naoko FujimotoTupelo PressJune 2026, 83 pages, Paperback, ISBN-13: 978-1961209572 “Tell me all the rumors you have heard” – Naoko Fujimoto’s new book of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets is a tactile, juicy pleasure. Juicy might seem an odd word to apply to a sophisticated layering of multiple renderings and contextual frameworks of ancient waka poetry. But through Fujimoto’s arresting haibun paragraphs, interpretive and spacious translations, and visual/graphic pieces that stand on their own right, these 20 women poets, and the…
Food & Beverage News: Insights, Safety, and Dining Trends Welcome to this week’s Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for food and beverage manufacturing leaders. This week, we’re covering: A ransomware attack forced Coca-Cola to halt all US production at Fairlife this week. The full scope of the breach is still unknown, and the food and ag sector has absorbed roughly 205 ransomware attacks in 2026 alone. The 2026 Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell has produced 1,644 confirmed cases and 94 hospitalizations. IFPA is calling it a failure of end-to-end traceability and pushing…
Glow & Grow: Black Beauty, Haircare, and Skincare Tips 🔊“Stop waiting for permission.” That’s the advice I would give to any woman. For much of my life, I believed becoming a good woman meant becoming a smaller one. Not smaller in spirit, but in quieter, less noticeable ways. I learned to soften my opinions before sharing them, downplay my accomplishments before anyone else could, and explain my ambitions as though they needed to justify the space they occupied. No one ever handed me a rulebook. The expectations were far more subtle than that. Over time, I simply absorbed the idea…
Faith & Reflection: Voices from the Black Church and Beyond Due to our sinful nature, it takes an effort to choose right over wrong; to do good instead of evil. The easy way is the way of the natural man—always bent toward evil. I remember complaining to my mother when I was a girl that I was tired of being good! It took a lot of energy, and often brought ridicule from friends. Perhaps this is why our words of wisdom for today caught my eye. See what you notice. Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to…
Voices, Votes & Vision: The Latest in Politics & Public Policy In 1999, Deborah Gregory debuted her young adult series “Cheetah Girls,” following five teenage girls from diverse backgrounds in New York City as they chase their music dreams while navigating high school drama. In 2003, Disney premiered the first movie adaptation of Gregory’s series starring Raven Symoné as Galleria, Adrienne Bailon-Houghton as Chanel, Sabrina Bryan as Dorinda, Kiely Williams as Aqua, Lynn Whitfield as Galleria’s mother, and more. Fast forward over 20 years, and Disney has announced plans to revive the hit series with “The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen,”…