The month of April began with an ending. Each year, Oakwood University holds its homecoming weekend during the Easter holiday, so this year, the festivities that began on Thursday, March 29 with the 40th Annual […]
I can remember being a kid growing up in Birmingham, and how important the library was to me. We’d catch the bus near where I lived and spend the day downtown. We’d go to the […]
The Legislative Session has come to an end, but legislators won’t be the ones making the most important decision our government will make this year. The State Board of Education will make that decision in […]
April 10, 2018, marks one year since I unexpectedly became governor. With only three hours’ notice I was called on to lead. The tasks at hand were plentiful. We had to restore integrity to state […]
REPRINT FROM Blackamericaweb.com On last Wednesday, Concordia College announced that it will be closing its doors permanently at the end of this semester. Concordia, a private HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in Selma, Ala., has […]
John Amos Drake, Sr. celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at the Union Chapel M.B. Church Boone-Lacy Fellowship Hall. Approximately 400 guests attended this event of grandeur! These well-wishers included […]
“Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society […]
Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers counted the microbes […]
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