Author: Savannah Herald

From Hollywood to Home: Black Voices in Entertainment The first proper “Avengers: Doomsday” trailer is finally here — though it remains a bit light on the movie’s plot. After releasing multiple short teasers to promote its upcoming superhero crossover, Marvel Studios on Monday unveiled its official trailer for “Doomsday.” The new clip shows Thor (Chris Hemsworth) taking on the mysterious Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.), reuniting with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and trying to persuade various superhero teams — including the Avengers, the New Avengers (a.k.a. the Thunderbolts) and the Fantastic Four — to join forces. “Something’s coming,” says a…

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Black Athletes in the Spotlight: HBCU Sports & Local Highlights The road to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship once again runs through South Carolina State. The defending conference champions were selected as the preseason favorite Monday, collecting five of the nine first-place votes in the MEAC’s annual preseason poll of head coaches and sports information directors. But while the Bulldogs enter 2026 atop the conference, the voting suggests the race for the title could be one of the league’s most competitive in recent memory. Delaware State earns respect under DeSean Jackson Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the preseason poll is…

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Wellness That Matters: Black Health News & Community Care Spouses of people with dementia had a higher risk of developing dementia themselves, a study of nearly 1 million people showed.The relationship between spousal dementia and subsequent risk was broadly similar in women and men.Younger people had higher relative risks, but older age groups experienced greater absolute risk differences. Spouses of people with dementia had a higher risk of developing dementia themselves, a matched cohort study of nearly 1 million married people in Taiwan showed. Compared with unexposed spouses, both husbands and wives of dementia patients had a higher risk of…

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Tomorrow’s Tech, Today: Innovation That Moves Us Forward Oxygen, the element that sustains nearly all multicellular life on Earth, is disappearing from the world’s aquatic ecosystems. In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The paper, published June 30 in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, argues that aquatic deoxygenation should be added to the Planetary Boundaries framework. First introduced by a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists in 2009, the framework identifies nine ways that humanity is pushing crucial processes that maintain Earth’s stability and resilience past their limits. They are…

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From Campus to Classroom: Stories That Shape Education Last Updated on July 13, 2026 Homecoming season, all in one place. 🎓 Okay, real talk — you already know the drill. The good hotels book up two to three months out. Flights spike the second a date drops. And by the time your school “officially” posts homecoming week, somebody in the group chat has already found the good Airbnb without you. 👀 So we built this HBCU homecoming schedule 2026 to fix that. One list. Every confirmed 2026 HBCU homecoming date, organized by month, updated weekly as more schools lock theirs…

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Stay Informed: Latest News from Across Georgia Residents are still concerned about ongoing sanitation issues at a Buckhead apartment complex, touted as the “pinnacle of sophisticated living,” days after owners cleared dozens of bags of overflowing trash and abandoned furniture from the grounds at Gramercy at Buckhead. Residents say the viral video that revealed the unkempt grounds and untreated pool only shows a fraction of the maintenance problems at the luxury apartment community. On July 15, an Instagram video posted by atlscoop featured footage of an algae-filled community pool and a litany of trash bags in the parking lot, around…

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Black Travelers: Explore Culture, Adventure & Connection A new report shares information about where bed bugs are most common in the United States that would make most travelers’ skin crawl. Think about it: You go on vacation and involuntarily become subject to many travelers’ worst fears — a bed bug infestation. You might see the creepy crawlies, feel their bites, or realize that you’ve unknowingly brought the invaders to your home after your trip. Regardless of how their presence is revealed, dealing with the pesky blood-sucking parasites is often unnerving and a major hassle. In a report released earlier this month,…

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Global Black Voices: News from around the World Education summit focuses on effective leadership By Neil Armstrong Educators were encouraged to lead effectively at a Fireside Chat at the Jamaica Diaspora Taskforce Action Network (JDTAN) 11th Annual Education Summit held at York University, July 6-10, which attracted more than 170 educators from the Caribbean, many from Jamaica. From left – Gervan Fearon, Colleen Russell-Rawlins, Mary Anne Chambers and Canute Lawrence Under the theme, “Resilience – The Imperative,” the conversation was moderated by Canute Lawrence, a teacher at the Toronto District School Board, with panelists Mary Anne Chambers, chancellor of the…

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Science & Exploration: Explore the World Through Research and Development Earlier today I establish you a challenge concerning maintaining homes cool in a heatwave. Right here it is again with the remedy. Think of a space with a set of curtains. When the Sunlight is shining, its energy comes with the home windows where it is absorbed by the curtains. The drapes get hotter and hotter until they get to a temperature level at which they are emitting as much heat as they soak up. The curtains emit 50 per cent of this warmth back towards the home window, and…

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Health Watch: Wellness, Research & Healthy Living Tips Walt Odets, a psychologist whose work with gay men in the Bay Area at the height of the AIDS epidemic led him to write a book on a nearly taboo topic, the survivor’s guilt and depression experienced by men who were not infected with H.I.V., died on July 5 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 79.The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his companion, Armen Davoudian, said.Mr. Odets’s 1995 book, “In the Shadow of the Epidemic: Being H.I.V.-Negative in the Age of AIDS,” appeared more than a decade into the…

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