Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights Sisters Across America tournament players (photos: facebook/@sistersacrossamerica)Sisters Across America, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women through golf, successfully hosted the 2025 Sisters Across America Invitational at Reunion Resort & Golf Club in Reunion, Florida, May 15-18. Drawing 102 golfers from across the United States, the annual sisterhood event blended competition, camaraderie, and mentorship. The highly anticipated event was played on two legendary courses—the Jack Nicklaus Course and the Arnold Palmer Course—offering an unforgettable golfing experience. The weekend began with a welcoming Meet and Greet featuring a pasta buffet, golf bingo,…
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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care (The Hill) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer recommend that “healthy” children and pregnant women receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. The controversial announcement backtracks on the current CDC guidance that calls for annual COVID boosters for everyone aged 6 months and older. Public health and infectious disease experts said they were surprised and confused about the move, and questioned why the HHS did not offer any reasoning for its decision. Here’s what to know…
Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Companies must have a minimum of 5 IT employees. Companies must have a minimum of 100 total employees worldwide. In most cases, we prefer to have the parent company, rather than subsidiaries or affiliates, apply for the Best Places to Work in IT list. However, a subsidiary or affiliate may be eligible, providing that it stands out as a separate entity from the parent company, with separate business functions, IT leadership and so on. A subsidiary may also be eligible to apply separately if its parent company is a holding company. In…
From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Last week, on May 23rd, Jean Renee Byrd was on her way to see her daughter walk across the stage at her high school graduation, but collapsed just 200 feet from making it inside the school, wrote her family in a GoFundMe campaign. Byrd’s passing came as a shock to her family, who had just celebrated her youngest son’s graduation ceremony from middle school three days prior, per the GoFundMe campaign. According to WXII, a television station based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Marquan Matthews, Byrd’s son, who is also the creator of…
Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Your Support Keeps Us StrongThe Atlanta Voice has stood as a pillar of truth, empowerment, and advocacy in Metro Atlanta for six decades. As we celebrate our 60th anniversary, we invite you to invest in independent journalism that serves YOU. Every dollar fuels our mission to keep our stories alive. Cassandra Ingram Atlanta [Cassandra spoke, specifically on the case of Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, a Georgia teen who was erroneously arrested by police for a traffic stop and then turned over to ICE. Her parents brought her to the US illegally at the age…
Black Voices: News, Culture & Community from Across the Nation An Unforgettable Evening of Collaboration, Confidence, and Community Nationwide — Five young and up-and-coming African American entrepreneurs from the Washington, DC area will host a groundbreaking event called the Gen Z Network Mixer on Saturday, June 7th. They are 18-year-old Inia Brown, 19-year-old Heaven Jones, 19-year-old Aniya Belk, 19-year-old Lyric Johnson, and 22-year-old Chase Sellars. All of them are real estate professionals and business strategists. They describe their event as being designed by Gen Z, for Gen Z. Set at the scenic and stylish National Harbor, this mixer will connect…
Style Spotlight: Looks, Trends & Fashion Inspiration It can feel exhausting, overwhelming, and sometimes frustrating to think you need to buy new clothes every season. The belief that what you currently own is out of style or not trendy leads to unnecessary spending. If you find yourself purchasing an entirely new wardrobe each season, you are likely wasting your money. It’s not necessary to do this. While adding a few new pieces here and there is expected, a large shopping haul is far from what you need to improve your style.If this speaks to you, it’s time to return to…
Black Arts & Culture Feature: Hold Me CloseThe unique power and complexity of the relationship between two Queer Black womxn, Corinne and Tiana, is explored as they navigate the cycles of life’s joys and challenges together in the home they share. Using audio they self-recorded daily over the course of a season, the film intimately captures their love through elegantly composed tableaus of domestic life, shot on Super 16mm film, paired with searingly personal documentary audio. It bears witness to the distinct nature of their bond.ImmutableStudents from the Washington Urban Debate League navigate the challenges of daily life while striving…
Black History & Cultural Viewpoints: The song “Permit’s Go bananas” was the lead track on Royal prince’s 1984 cd, Purple Rainfall. The cd, in addition the soundtrack for the movie Purple Rain, marketed over 25 million duplicates around the world and is simply among the very popular cds of perpetuity. The verses consist of words, “We’re all gon na pass away,” that came from a reliable message in the track. Royal prince talked about that the song he developed pertained to belief and defeating the evil one. “As I composed it, ‘Permit’s Go bananas’ had to do with God and…
Aging Well: Info & Insights for Elders and Caretakers A Practical Overview for Households to Identify Financing Solutions for Home Therapy Amongst one of the most normal and unforeseen problems developing seniors and their member of the family manage is understanding that their enduring therapy insurance policy protection (LTCI) does not cover whatever. While LTCI is a crucial economic safeguard , intends generally consist of daily or life time caps, removal durations, or constraints on the type of therapy covered. This can leave member of the family that are insurance policy owners rushing to fill financial areas– regularly while dealing…