By Dana Hall McCain This is an opinion column. “We can’t afford that.” It’s a phrase I heard often growing up. Not because we were poor; my family was decidedly middle-class. But my parents knew that […]
By Leada Gore More than 8 million users of mobile payment app Cash App could be affected by a data breach, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. On Monday, Block, the financial service […]
By Trisha Powell Crain ACT scores for Alabama’s high school class of 2021 were down slightly, from 18.61 to 18.58 according to the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama. This is the fourth year in a row […]
By Mike Cason, Associated Press President Joe Biden has appointed Alabama State University President Quinton Ross to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The White House announced the 18 members […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke Shifting funds from the Department of Education to assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities experiencing sporadic bomb threats, several top officials in the Biden Administration spoke out. Over the last two […]
by CNN’s Clare Foran The Senate passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act of 2022 on Monday night by unanimous consent. The bill, which would make lynching a federal hate crime, now heads to President Joe […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent NNPA NEWSWIRE — The bureau estimated that the 2020 census incorrectly counted 18.8 million residents, double-counting some, wrongly including others, and missing others entirely, even as […]
BY AMIAH TAYLOR The House of Representatives passed legislation on Friday, March 18, in a vote of 235-189, that would ban hair related discrimination. The CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent The Supreme Court said it will reconsider race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The Monday, January 24, announcement could eliminate campus practices that have widely benefitted […]
By Alisha Ebrahimji, Holly Yan and Paul P. Murphy, CNN (CNN) A growing number of historically Black colleges and universities have had to lock down or postpone classes due to bomb threats on the first […]
Copyright © 2025 Speakin' Out News
