Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Prairie View A&M head coach Tremaine Jackson has no problem breaking from tradition — especially when it comes to opening the season against Texas Southern. For years, the Panthers and Tigers had opened their seasons against one another, making the matchup one of the most familiar traditions in HBCU football. But with the teams no longer meeting to begin the season for the first time since 2018, Jackson believes the change is overdue. “I totally understand the reasoning on why both teams played so early, but that’s not the reason…
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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care In the wake of a controversial executive order that shrinks the number of universally recommended vaccines for children, HHS is asking the public to weigh in on whether three categories used in federal vaccine recommendations are adequate. The three categories up for discussion are routine, risk-based, and shared clinical decision-making. The agency is seeking input on whether it should implement additional or different categories. The request for information posted to the Federal Register asks whether the currently used categories “convey meaningful differences in the strength of the evidence, the magnitude of…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward The amount of gas-fired power in development for data centers in the US has nearly doubled in less than a year, new research released Tuesday shows. The findings illustrate just how heavily tech companies are relying on building private fossil fuel plants to power data centers—and how fast artificial intelligence’s energy demand has grown.Global Energy Monitor, a research firm, has been tracking gas-powered projects that have been announced, are in development, or are under construction in the US. In January, the group found that there were 97 gigawatts of gas projects in…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Family caregiving is one of the most widespread yet under-recognized forms of support in the world. It refers to the unpaid care that relatives—spouses, adult children, siblings, grandparents, or even close friends who function like family—provide to someone living with chronic illness, disability, cognitive decline, or age-related frailty. Unlike professional home-health aides or nursing-home staff, family caregivers step into the role out of love, duty, or necessity, often with little training and even less formal recognition. The Scale of the Role In the United States alone, tens of millions of people serve as…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World Trinidad and Tobago’s soca icon Machel Montano is being celebrated by the Brooklyn Public Library in a special exhibition highlighting his more than four decades of influence on Caribbean music and culture.“Journey of a Soca King: The Exhibition” opened on August 22 at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library and will remain on display through September 12. The exhibition was created in partnership with the Machel Montano Foundation for Greatness and features memorabilia from Montano’s celebrated career, including performance costumes, trophies and vinyl records. The exhibition also offers visitors an opportunity to engage…
Health Watch: Wellness, Research & Healthy Living Tips Traditional Chinese exercises such as tai chi can offer wide-ranging benefits for people with musculoskeletal disorders, improving physical function, pain, mental health, sleep quality and bone mineral density, according to the largest review of its kind.More than 1.7bn people have musculoskeletal conditions worldwide. While prevalence varies by age and diagnosis, people of all ages in every country and every continent are affected.Musculoskeletal conditions significantly limit mobility and dexterity, leading to early retirement from work, lower levels of wellbeing and reduced ability to participate in society. They are also the leading contributor to…
Game On: Sports News, Highlights & Commentary It looks like RJ Luis will get to play at LSU after all. Luis was granted a preliminary injunction Monday that will allow him to play for the Tigers this season, according to NOLA.com’s Toyloy Brown. The decision was granted by Judge Ronald Johnson in Baton Rouge. AdvertisementLuis spent three seasons playing in college previously, first at UMass and then two seasons for Rick Pitino at St. John’s. He averaged 18.2 points per game during the 2024-25 campaign with the Red Storm and was named the Big East Player of the Year, and then went…
Tech Trends & Innovation: The Latest in Tech News On Saturday, PC Tom Clough, 38, and PC Matthew Blades, 37, died when a Volkswagen Passat, which officers had been pursuing until seconds before, collided with their marked armed response car on the A66 near Middlesbrough.All five of the Passat’s occupants – Saddington, Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Jacob Matusiak, 23, Theo Rae, 17, and Cole Robert Worthy, 17 – also died.A video posted on the TikTok account believed to belong to Saddington in March 2025 showed him and four other young people involved in what appears to be a police pursuit.…
Game On: Latest in Gaming News, Reviews & Industry Buzz CD Projekt Red has posted a quick update about The Witcher 4, narrowing down the release date for its upcoming RPG sequel. “This is our biggest, boldest, and most ambitious game to date,” says CD Projekt Red joint-CEO Michal Nowakowski, shortly before confirming the studio is “targeting” a release date in 2028. Bear in mind, then, that this could always slip. “I know it’s a bit of a wait, and you’d love to play it sooner–but let the team cook. It will be worth the wait,” he says. He gives…