Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights The Savannah Steel pulled off what is believed to be the first trade in Upshot League history yesterday, before losing their sixth straight contest today. Read the full article on the original site
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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care MONTREAL — Geographic atrophy (GA) had a similar response to the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan (Syfovre) whether concurrent with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) or alone, data from a retina clinical network showed. Compared with pretreatment status, the rate of GA progression, reflected in loss of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), slowed by 23% in eyes with GA alone and 40% in eyes with concurrent nAMD. Photoreceptor (PR) loss also slowed in both types of eyes, but eyes with nAMD had numerically greater protection (-58% vs -41%). Eyes that progressed more rapidly in…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Steven Bartlett is one of the most influential media entrepreneurs of his generation. The Black British entrepreneur, investor, and podcaster founded Social Chain in 2014, building a social media agency that was far ahead of its time. Rather than relying solely on paid advertising, the company owned much of the distribution behind its campaigns. While traditional agencies purchased space on platforms they did not control, Social Chain operated a vast network of social media pages that, at its peak, reached more than 400 million followers. Bartlett stepped down from Social Chain in…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education The MEAC-SWAC Challenge ESPN partnership just got a major long-term extension — and HBCU football’s national stage has never looked more secure. ESPN Events and the SWAC announced a six-year agreement Wednesday in Atlanta, extending the conference’s participation in both the Cricket MEAC-SWAC Challenge and the Cricket Celebration Bowl through 2032. The announcement came during a press conference at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, where coaches, athletic directors, band directors, and conference officials gathered to preview the August 29 season opener between Howard University and Alabama A&M University. Moreover, a MEAC extension…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Clayton County Public Schools coordinating supervisor Calleb Obumba first met Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt through a minority youth violence prevention program. On Saturday, Wyatt shared many of the same lessons he learned from Obumba in high school during his first free youth football camp and the second annual back-to-school bash at Towers High School in Decatur. “It’s for the younger generation,” Wyatt said about the purpose of hosting the camp. “All you see on the news is young kids killing, robbing, or just doing bad things. Camps like this help…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection For Black travelers visiting South Florida, Miami International Airport [MIA] offers a deeper Caribbean and Latin American network and stronger lounge access, while Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport [FLL] provides easier navigation and a quicker transfer to Port Everglades. Spirit Airlines’ May 2026 shutdown also means FLL is no longer automatically the region’s budget-airline choice. Miami International Airport brings together American Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue close to central Miami, while Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport serves Broward County with JetBlue, Southwest, and Frontier among its key carriers. FLL sits roughly 30 miles north of central…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World African states must protect their citizens from xenophobia and discrimination in South Africa Barrister Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin of Cameroon. PHOTO/UGC. By Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin Recent reports of xenophobic violence targeting Africans, including Cameroonians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, have once again raised serious concerns about the protection of African citizens within their own continent. The continued silence and apparent lack of decisive response from several African governments, including Cameroon, is both troubling and disappointing. As a Cameroonian, it is difficult to understand why stronger diplomatic measures have not…
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Health Watch: Wellness, Research & Healthy Living Tips BUNIA, Congo — At least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers have been recorded during Congo’s Ebola outbreak as safety fears restrict the response in the worst-affected region, authorities said Saturday. Many health workers and other frontline workers in Ituri province have also gone on strike over unpaid salaries, further complicating response efforts in what’s been declared the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. So far 2,181 cases have been recorded, including 864 deaths.The Bundibugyo virus responsible for this outbreak is less common than others that cause Ebola disease, and there…
Business Insights: Global Markets, Strategy & Economic Trends The owners of Madison Square Garden have filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired magazine, claiming an article it published this month had manufactured a “false narrative” that the company was tracking the L.G.B.T.Q. community for “discriminatory purposes.”The article, published on July 9 and titled “Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities,” describes an internal “talent database” maintained by the Madison Entertainment Corporation that contains information about roughly 40,000 V.I.P. guests from the business, tech, entertainment and sports worlds who frequent the arena in Midtown Manhattan.The database also includes information about…