Black Voices: Money and Employment News from Across the Nation Nolan Wells should be preparing for his golden birthday next week. The promising young college athlete would have turned 19-years-old on August 19, 2026. He would likely be doing this while gearing up for the upcoming football season at Southwest Mississippi Community College where he was a wide receiver and business major. Instead, his parents, Christine and Elmore Wonsley, are traveling the country carrying the unbearable weight of a grieving mother and father demanding answers. As we have previously reported, Nolan Wells was an 18-year-old from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was…
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) – Marrisa Rawls can identify which herbs blend well together like lemon balm, orange peel and milky oats without much thought. That knowledge, she said, traces back to her Gullah Geechee grandparents in South Carolina.Rooted in family traditionRawls grew up sick. Born premature, she had underdeveloped lungs and digestive issues from birth. Her grandmother, Buella, and grandfather, Willie, served as her caretakers.“I was very sick when I was a kid. I was a preemie, so my lungs weren’t developed when I was born. I was born with a lot of digestive issues. So my grandma Buella and…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation By Rev. Betty Whitted Holley, Ph.D., President, Payne Theological Seminary There are moments in the life of an institution when partnership becomes more than cooperation—it becomes a declaration of possibility. Such a moment has arrived for Payne Theological Seminary and Edward Waters University, two historic institutions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Payne Theological Seminary and Edward Waters University have signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that creates new educational opportunities for students preparing to serve the Church and the world. Through this partnership, Payne students will have opportunities…
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Feature Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast. Woman in Bomi County, Liberia, holding a fannuh basket in August 2026 (all photos Bilphena Decontee Yahwon/Hyperallergic unless otherwise stated) This article is part of a series focusing on underrepresented craft histories, researched and written by the 2025 Craft Archive Fellows, and organized in collaboration with the Center for Craft.I first visited St. Helena Island off the South Carolina coast in 2021. Like Louisiana, it was one of the few places I had traveled in the United States where I could hear…
Black Voices: Money and Employment News from Across the Nation President Barack Obama has shared his annual summer reading list for 17 years, starting in 2009 shortly after taking office. The fun tradition, which has become a highly anticipated release for the season, has occurred almost every year into his post-presidency. Previous authors to make Obama’s coveted cut include Nigerian bestseller Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and beloved literary icon Toni Morrison. Obama’s 2026 Summer Reading List was just released and one of this year’s featured authors who also appeared at our ESSENCE Festival of Culture, Tayari Jones, topped the list! The…
HBCU News Spotlight: For Cameron Edge, the road to the role as starting quarterback for the Morgan football team has been a long one, winding from his Delaware high school to College Park to Ypsilanti, Michigan. Edge, who will lead the Bears in Saturday’s season opener against North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, said the path he took to get there was based on reliability and a commitment to putting his teammates first. “Consistency, being a team player, everybody looks at the quarterback, but you’ve got to be a team player, someone who’s selfless, helps guys out,” Edge said. Edge, a…
From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment By Hazel Trice Edney As the Trump Administration continues to deny the reality and community impact of climate change, Black mayors have united to protect African-Americans and other people of color, who are increasingly and disparately in danger across the nation. “Even though we have an administration that doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, we’re smart and we know that it is real,” says Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire. “People can see these storms…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights BALTIMORE (WBFF) — When Sonia Chase starred for Maryland women’s basketball in the late 1990s, the point guard became the first player in school history to get drafted in the WNBA and starred as a playmaker who could score, dish and swipe.Chase, a Baltimore native and McDonogh graduate, is now tapping into that background as the first president of the Baltimore expansion franchise of the UpShot League, a fledgling professional basketball organization.“From a point guard mentality, I just transition those characteristics as a sports executive,” she said. “I’m making the…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images Tristan Peters was hardly on anyone’s radar entering the season. A lefty-swinging 26-year-old center fielder playing for his fourth organization since being drafted in 2021, he didn’t land on any preseason top prospects list or even project to see much time in the majors, where in his brief career he’d gone 0-for-12. Yet Peters — whose résumé includes a stint with the Savannah Bananas in 2021, when they were a competitive collegiate summer league team instead of a barnstorming sensation — has become one of the season’s…