From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment Happy January Music Monday and MLK Day here at Good Black News! It’s your friend and selector, your sonic chauffeur, your groove conductor, Marlon, back again. I’m delighted to offer up this first of likely 12 GBN collections of the year. This is an “afroclectic” collection of tracks released in 2024. It is more than half a day of excellent music to provide the soundtrack to your Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. (You might be like me, and also taking 10 minutes of meditation at 12 Pm PST, in honor of legendary…
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Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights PHILADELPHIA — Under the lights at Lincoln Financial Field — the same field where DeSean Jackson and Michael Vick once connected as Philadelphia Eagles teammates — Jackson’s Delaware State Hornets beat Norfolk State 27-20. The win was one of their biggest victories of the modern era. The win was symbolic on multiple levels: for DeSean Jackson, it marked a statement moment in his debut season as a collegiate head coach, and for Michael Vick, it was a reminder of the rebuilding challenge ahead in his first year leading Norfolk State. It…
Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care (NEXSTAR) – Nearly 590,000 bottles of blood pressure drugs have been recalled over concerns that they may contain a potentially carcinogenic chemical that exceeds the “acceptable intake limit.” The medications affected by the recall — prazosin hydrochloride — were recalled earlier this month by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA (which initiated its recall on Oct. 7) and Amerisource Health Services (Oct. 26). Enforcement reports published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration indicate the capsules may contain nitrosamine impurities above the “Carcinogenic Potency Categorization Approach (CPCA)” limit. According to the FDA, N-nitrosamine impurities are a…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Google posted new October builds for its entire Pixel line-up today, from the Pixel 7 up through the new Pixel 10 series. They haven’t said what these builds are for just yet, so we’ll assume they are to address a serious bug or two. Because look, we are expecting a November patch by the middle of next week, so there must be something serious enough going on here for Google to send a new build this late in a month. The new updates simply change the build numbers on global and Japan…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Renewing the tax would raise about $1.5 billion, but some voters say they don’t trust how the district would spend the money GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia’s largest school district has a large pool of funds to keep it running thanks to an education special purpose local options sales tax, or ESPLOST. It has been in place since 1997 and has gotten voter approval half a dozen times to fund Gwinnett County Public Schools. This time around, the school district said renewal of the penny sales tax would raise around $1.5 billion. Kathleen…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Marcus Robinson listens intently at his Racial Justice Act hearing in 2012.The News & Observer, Shawn Rocco/AP Photo In 1994, Marcus Robinson, who is black, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1991 killing of Erik Tornblom, a white teenager, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. He spent nearly 20 years on death row, but in 2012 his sentence was changed to life without a chance of parole. He was one of four death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by a judge who found that racial discrimination had…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates SAVANNAH – The City of Savannah will host an open house event to gather public input on the Vision Zero Program’s 37th Street Corridor Traffic Safety Project on Monday, Nov. 3 at the Bull Street Library. Attendees can drop-in to learn more about the project and participate in an interactive budget simulation to share priorities for the project. An online survey will also be launched on Nov. 3 to accompany the open house via the project’s webpage at savannahga.gov/37th. The Vision Zero Program, which operates under the City’s Transportation Services Department,…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Lamar Jackson’s return to the Baltimore Ravens couldn’t have gone much better. The former MVP threw four touchdown passes to lead a 28-6 rout of the Miami Dolphins on “Thursday Night Football.” Jackson had missed the last four games with a hamstring injury, watching from the sidelines as Baltimore slid into a rut. After last week’s win moved the Ravens to 2-6, head coach John Harbaugh confirmed Jackson would be back for Week 9 – and he delivered. While he didn’t test that hamstring too…
Fresh from the Food Preparation Location: Recipes & Food Concepts Dive to Dish Greek chicken loaded bell peppers are loaded with a mouthwatering rice, feta and covered with mozzarella. Tips of lemon and all-natural herbs exist in every bite for a terrific member of the family dinner meal that’s not too hefty. Recipe Highlights Specifically just how do they taste: These Greek chicken loaded bell peppers have an incredibly emphasizing preference lots of thanks to the tips of lemon and oregano. The rice is great smelling with touches of garlic and oregano. The chicken is shredded poultry yet everything is…
Faith & Reflection: Voices from the Black Church and Beyond WASHINGTON (RNS) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats joined faith leaders on Thursday (Oct. 30) to pray and speak against the dangers of health care cuts and allowing government assistance programs to expire during the ongoing government shutdown. “We will not retreat, and we will use every nonviolent tool at our disposal to call this nation, this Congress, to stop all of this partisan fighting and get down to the business of the people,” said the Rev. William Barber II, a prominent social justice activist, at a…