Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation In the courtroom, ambiguity is the enemy of justice. When legislators pass vague, far-reaching laws, they do more than sow confusion—they erode the integrity of the judicial process. When statutes are written without precision, judges are forced to guess at legislative intent, apply the law inconsistently, and preside over prosecutions that have no home in a just system like ours.That’s why it’s important to take a hard look at Louisiana’s Senate Bill 154, which criminalizes the possession and distribution of all kratom products—natural and synthetic alike—without distinction, without nuance, and…
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Game On: Latest in Gaming News, Reviews & Industry Buzz Move over, PCI Express 5.0! Micron has shipped the first PCI Express 6.0 SSD, ramping up read and write speeds to unprecedented levels. The bad news? It’s not for PCs. This week, Micron shipped the Micron 9650 SSD, the world’s first PCIe 6.0 SSD, designed for AI training and inference workloads. Unfortunately, those tasks take place in AI data centers, not home PCs. Micron will ship the drive in both a PRO (read-intensive) and MAX (write-intensive) configuration, with capacities ranging from 6.4TB to 30.72TB, depending on which flavor a customer…
Tech Trends & Innovation: The Latest in Tech News Songs of Love Foundation founder and president John Beltzer uses tools from the AI music platform Suno to create a personalized track for an older adult with dementia. Songs of Love Foundation hide caption toggle caption Songs of Love Foundation Logan Becker loves his song — it was written just for him. Logan has a rare connective tissue disorder, and in 2020, when he was 9, he received his personalized, upbeat anthem from the Songs of Love Foundation. For nearly 30 years, the nonprofit has worked with a deep bench of professional…
Empowering Black Entrepreneurship: Stories of Success, Strategy & Growth First, I must begin with a confession: I’ve never been a racing movie buff. Ford v Ferrari was a movie I could respect, but I didn’t love it. Days of Thunder is the only consolation I’ll admit to in this genre. But F1, under the direction of Joseph Kosinski, is an emotionally charged masterpiece. This is, hands down, the best racing film ever made, and cements the notion that at 61 years young, Brad Pitt is in the midst of his greatest career era. And if Damson Idris isn’t cast as…
Empowering Black Entrepreneurship: Stories of Success, Strategy & Growth Welcome to #BlackBusinessMonth and the sad reality for #WhitePrivilege is that there’s more Black wealth in the middle class than they want to report. Why did they burn down #Tulsa ? Racism. Why did they ban Black students from education? Racism. Why is it more expensive to buy property if you’re Black? Racism. If no one is coming to fix the brokenness, then why shouldn’t we at the very least tell folks about it? #NEWSINPROGRESS We spoke to @iletthegoodtimesroll #chiefvisionaryofficer @redeyemediagrp A media and educational research organization which owns the website…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent freezes in front of cameras, in conjunction with the comparatively advanced ages of the two presidential front-runners, has American voters thinking about politicians’ ages. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Presidents are getting older and older. Former President Donald Trump was the oldest person to assume office when he was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, and President Biden broke that record four years later. If either is elected again next year, at ages 78 and 81, respectively, they will be older than the previous record…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent freezes in front of cameras, in conjunction with the comparatively advanced ages of the two presidential front-runners, has American voters thinking about politicians’ ages. Drew Angerer / Getty Images Presidents are getting older and older. Former President Donald Trump was the oldest person to assume office when he was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, and President Biden broke that record four years later. If either is elected again next year, at ages 78 and 81, respectively, they will be older than the previous record…
City of Savannah: Official News, Events & Community Updates Launch Savannah Selects Second Cohort Program welcomes 14 local entrepreneurs to annual series SAVANNAH – The City of Savannah recently welcomed 14 local entrepreneurs into the second cohort of Launch Savannah, a comprehensive business accelerator program offered by the Economic Development Department in partnership with Start Up Savannah the Small Business Assistance Corporation. Launch Savannah is a 12-week intensive, in-person series designed to increase participants’ business knowledge and provide elevated business education experience. The program was developed in response to a recommendation from the City’s Racial Equity and Leadership (REAL)…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Last season, the FCS announced the addition of the HBCU National Player of the Year to its yearly list of awards along with the Walter Payton Award, Buck Buchanan Award, and Jerry Rice Award. South Carolina State quarterback Eric Phoenix was named the inaugural winner after leading South Carolina State to a MEAC title, posting a MEAC-leading 2,603 passing yards and 20 touchdowns. Featured on this year’s award watch list are 19 players from the MEAC and SWAC, including each conference’s respective Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year. Hampton…
Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights GLENVILLE, Ga. (WSAV) — In his 26th season of eligibility, 31 years after his NFL career ended, Glennville High School alumnus Sterling Sharpe will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Sterling will join his younger brother Shannon as the only pair of brothers enshrined. After graduating from Glenville High School, Sterling left for Columbia, South Carolina to play for the South Carolina Gamecocks in college. He shined for South Carolina, setting all-time records for receiving and touchdowns in program history on the way to being…