Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights SOUTH BEND, IND. (June 23, 2025) – National youth development organization First Tee is proud to announce its 2025 National Championship will take place June 23-26 at the University of Notre Dame’s Warren Golf Course. Now in its fifth year, the First Tee National Championship brings together 48 of the organization’s top male and female players from across the country for a 54-hole stroke play event designed to provide participants with the opportunity to compete at a high level while demonstrating the values they have developed through the First Tee program.The…
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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care At BWHI, our policy work is guided by a principle instilled by our founder, Byllye Avery: Black women deserve to influence policy– especially health policy. We belong at the table, making decisions about health insurance coverage, workforce training, and provider reimbursement, as well as decisions that influence social determinants of health. We recognize that Black women and girls often experience different, and disproportionate, health outcomes from the laws and policies that govern the communities we live, work, and play. That’s why BWHI is committed to elevating policy positions, partnerships, programs, and…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do.Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down.It’s just the sort of question biologists regularly assess in lab experiments,…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education New and more defined cursive standards were recently added to the 2025-2026 school year for state standards. GEORGIA, USA — Is cursive making a comeback in Georgia? Well, sort of, it’s actually evolving. Here’s what we found. New and more defined cursive standards were recently added to the 2025-2026 school year for state standards. It states that students must learn how to read and write in cursive for third, fourth and fifth grades. As the new standards were added, a packet provides instructional guidance and resources for teaching cursive. This shift reflects Georgia’s renewed commitment…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia This is a developing story. Updates will be released as made available.Update #2 (4:15 p.m.): The National Weather Service, Peachtree City, has released information on Facebook regarding the possible meteor spotted over multiple states today.”It appears that either a meteor or space junk crossed the skies of north GA just before 12:30pm,” the service posted. “Numerous reports of an earthquake came in shortly after followed by sightings and video of a flash across the sky seen as far away as Macon and Upstate South Carolina. That earthquake you felt was the result of the…
Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection There are races you run for time or a goal, and then there are races you run for the experience. The Midnight Sun Marathon in Tromsø, Norway, falls firmly into the latter. It had been on my “run it” list for over a decade. I’d already checked Norway off my #MoniqueRuns50 country goal with a stop in Oslo, so this race was all about the experience. So how does a girl who hates the cold end up running through what looked and felt like winter…in the middle of summer? Let me explain. Recommended Post:…
Global Black Voices: News from around the World Katz says Israel has ‘green light’ from US to attack Iran again if Tehran makes ‘progress’ with its nuclear programme.Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said that his country wanted to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the recent 12-day war between the two sides that ended this week with a ceasefire. Katz said on Thursday that Israel would not have needed permission from the United States to kill Khamenei, appearing to refute previous media reports that Washington vetoed the assassination. “We wanted to eliminate Khamenei, but there was no…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation Source: Kevin Hagen / Getty A new decision from the ultraconservative SCOTUS majority involving Medicaid dealt another blow to reproductive rights in a decision that could set the stage for states to defund Planned Parenthood. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the federal law at issue does not allow Medicaid recipients the right to sue to enforce their choice of provider. According to the ultraconservative majority, Medicaid recipients do have a right under federal law to choose their own provider. But…
Scientific research study & Expedition: Discover the World Via Research Study and Modern Technology Within an hour of obtaining a covid inoculation in November 2020, Utah preschool instructor Brianne Dressen really felt pins and needles with her arm or legs. In the professional odyssey that followed, she experienced double vision, persistent a sick stomach, mind haze, and comprehensive powerlessness. When a mountain climber, she happened a lazy-bones. Although Dressen’s indications were uncommon due to the fact that period of numerous countless covid shots, they prevailed sufficient to attract the emphasis of a National Institutes of Wellness and wellness neuroscientist called…
Politics Today: News, Analysis & Debate Across the Spectrum Vogue will be seeking a head of editorial content at American Vogue. On Thursday, Anna Wintour, the 75-year-old chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director, Vogue, told staffers that she will be seeking a new head of editorial content at American Vogue. As chief content officer, Wintour oversees every brand globally, including Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Glamour, Bon Appetit, Tatler, World of Interiors, Allure and others, with the exception of The New Yorker, which is overseen by David Remnick. Wintour became editor in chief…