Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation Edafe Okporo owns one of the 50 original gold-plated copies of James Baldwin’s award-winning novel “Go Tell it On the Mountain.” Credit: Courtesy photo by Nadira Jamerson By the time Edafe Okporo arrived in Harlem in 2016, James Baldwin had been gone nearly three decades. Growing up in Warri, Nigeria, Okporo had read the Harlem Renaissance writer’s work long before he’d walk Baldwin’s streets. “No matter where you go to, home is always where you feel safe and welcome — and home for Baldwin is always Harlem,” Okporo says. “I’ve been…
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Food & Beverage News: Insights, Safety, and Dining Trends Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: B&G Foods sold its Le Sueur brand of premium sweet peas, green beans and carrots to McCall Farms for an undisclosed amount, according to a Friday press release. B&G intends to use the proceeds from the sale for general corporate purposes. These include paying debt, purchasing assets “useful” in the company’s business and paying taxes, fees and expenses related to the sale. The Le Sueur deal marks the latest vegetable brand…
Black Arts & Culture Feature: Reviewed by Emma Desserault The Hauntingby Cate PeeblesTupelo PressJanuary 2025, 61 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1961209220 The Haunting by Cate Peebles is a genre-bending, intertextual piece that seeks to explore the intersection of horror and feminism. This review examines how Peebles uses intertextuality, structure, and imagery to expand the boundaries of the horror genre, while also acknowledging the moments where the collection’s ambitious nature occasionally fragments in its cohesiveness. Ultimately, this review argues that The Haunting is a bold, feminist reinvention of the horror genre, even as its expansiveness is occasionally strained. The Haunting takes the horror…
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Aging Well: Info & Insights for Senior Citizens and Caretakers Updated on: August 1, 2025/ 11: 38 PM EDT / CBS Information Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was captured Sunday on a household physical violence charge at the Seattle-Tacoma International Trip incurable, according to a police officers document managed CBS Info. The occasion occurred at a TSA checkpoint where Richardson, 25, and an individual got in a difference, according to the record outlined by the imprisoning cop. After viewing safety and security and safety video clip footage, polices located that Richardson apparently pushed the man, and he came under a neighboring…
Real Estate News & Market Insights: Are Home Prices Dropping? In a Fractured National Market, It Depends on Where You Live 33 of the top 50 metros experienced year-over-year price declines AUSTIN, Texas, July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The national market is cooling overall, but the pace and severity of the slowdown varies widely across regions, according to the latest Realtor.com® July Housing Trends Report. The South and West are shifting decisively in favor of buyers, with rising inventory, deeper price cuts, and longer time on market. In contrast, conditions in the Northeast and Midwest remain much tighter. Nationally, active listings rose…
HBCU News Spotlight: (JACKSON, Miss.) – Jackson State University has named Nicholas J. Hill, Ph.D., dean of the College of Business, effective August 1. A proud JSU alumnus, Hill returns to the university after an accomplished career in higher education. He previously served in several leadership roles at Jackson State and most recently as dean of the School of Business at Claflin University. “Dr. Hill’s homecoming is welcomed by the College of Business,” said Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniels, Ph.D., interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. “We are committed to preparing our students for the evolving workforce, building new…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward A federal jury in Florida has found Tesla to be partly liable for a fatal car crash that occurred in 2019 involving its self-driving feature Autopilot. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company must now pay $243 million in damages as a result of the judgment, multiple reports Friday said.Prosecutors filed charges back in 2022 alleging that the driver didn’t brake in time when approaching a T-intersection while driving his Tesla Model S with Autopilot active, and as a result killed two passengers in the car he collided with.A Tesla spokesperson told TechCrunch Friday…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday it is starting a “wind-down of its operations” and will cut most of its jobs by September. The move follows the passage of a federal package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which doesn’t include funding for CPB. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World You may have heard the adage that from the mouth of babes is usually the unvarnished truth. I was conscripted by friends to write on what is Saint Lucia and the wider Eastern Caribbean doing, and ought to do, in response to the policy initiatives of the Trump presidency. I asked the younger of my twin daughters how I should write such a topic and her suggestion was I “start with Trump. He is topical and attracts attention, whether he is right or wrong.” She is still just 11 and obviously wise…