NOBLEMEN MEMBERS—In front, Rev. Michael Smith, Harold Denson and Judge Kevin Cooper Jr. In back, Lee Kirkwood, Shawn Hall, Shawn Hall, Kevin Cooper, Sheldon...
DR. MARGARET LARKINS-PETTIGREW
As February comes to an end and we wrap-up another monthlong celebration of Black excellence-the many contributions of Black people to this...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Black athletes are earning college degrees at record rates, and it's pushing the overall graduation rate higher and higher.
On Wednesday, the...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ The WNBA once again leads all professional sports leagues in hiring women and minorities for coaching and front-office positions.
The league...
For the Week of Aug. 3-9
August 3
1928—The Atlanta Daily World begins publication as the first Black daily newspaper in modern times. It was founded...
Demetrius Broadnax The community is asking for individuals to come forward with information on the shooting that left a mother and a former Mister African American Junior King dead, and several others injured at a private club in Homewood on Oct. 20. Jasmine Morris, 21, of Penn Hills, and Demetrius Broadnax, 27, of Monroeville, were both found shot to death in the lower level of the Diverse Banquet Club in the 7100 block of Kelly Street.
As 2013 rapidly approaches its end, the year’s homicides continue to move closer to meeting the high total of 2012, which was 96 lives. Thus far in 2013, as of the end of October, there have been 78 homicides, 55 of them being our young Black brothers and sisters. It is no longer those living the “street life” who are getting caught up, but innocent individuals who were merely at the wrong place at the wrong time when someone else took it upon themselves to decide when to end their lives.
REX CRAWLEY The last thing Dr. Rex Crawley ever contemplated he’d have to worry about while in the process of getting his doctoral degree at Ohio State University was cancer. His mind was on courses, his thesis, but not being diagnosed with the big C. But in 1995, while at school, he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a cancer that starts in the lymphocytes, which are in the lymph nodes and other lymphoid tissue, such as the spleen and bone marrow. After being diagnosed, he weighed his treatment options and decided to have a bone marrow transplant, which left him in remission for more than 12 years. Then in 2011 he was re-diagnosed with NHL. The news of the return of the disease left him “surprised and devastated.” He underwent a grueling regimen of chemotherapy, which put him back in remission.
