Daily Archives: April 4, 2023

The rebirth of golf at Florida’s oldest HBCU

By New York Amsterdam News The uniforms were the start. Black skorts and orange, purple, red and white polos with a glow-in-the-dark logo. The young women on the Edward Waters University golf team really, really liked that one-of-a-kind logo. The six asked their coach, Kelly Allen, if they could leave practice early. They wanted to

What’s in a name: do you own you?

By Teri Williams As the largest Black-owned bank in America and first Black-owned digital bank, OneUnited wants to make sure our community owns the brands we build. Many times, we do not take the necessary steps to secure the ownership of our name. Let’s say you have a great business and a great name. Do

The Moore Report: A Constitutional amendment for the rights of women: not added after all these years– why not?

By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Here is a question for you: why has the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) for women not been passed? What’s up with that? There was an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was proposed by the National Woman’s Party in 1923 (three years after White American women

Baltimore DPW launches training initiative for diverse, small businesses to compete as prime contractors in city

By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Mayor Brandon Scott and Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Jason Mitchell recently announced a new initiative to help minority- and women-owned small businesses compete as prime contractors with the city of Baltimore.  The two-phase DPW Unbundling Initiative will provide mentoring to local diverse businesses, which tend to

Four states where Black migration can strengthen Black political power

By Roger House In recent years, social policy researchers such as Brookings Institution have chronicled the trend of Black Americans’ migration from declining northern cities to the South. Less understood, however, is the political effect of coordinated movement between the southern states. This year, as voters in Louisiana and Mississippi gear up for elections, it

MLB videogame, The Show 23, breaks barrier with Negro League players

By Jonathan Landrum Jr., The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers

It’s time for banks to make good on their pledge to end fossil fuel financing

By Ben Jealous ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. It needs $8 to $10 billion to build 199 wells, hundreds of miles of road and pipelines, a processing plant, and an airstrip on 499