By Joseph Williams, Word In Black It’s something we do from our first moments of life until the moment we die. We do it some 17,000 times a day, without having to think about it. In fact, you’re doing it — breathing — right now, while reading this very sentence. Yet wellness expert Zee Clarke
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO Contributing Editor, dbailey@afro.com The G.I. Restoration Act of 2023, introduced in Congress this year by Assistant Democratic Leader Jim D. Clyburn (D-SC-6) and Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA), aims to change life in America for Black descendants of World War II veterans who were denied the benefits of the original G.I. Bill
By Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn The United States has long been described as a nation of ideas. The founding fathers wrote that “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence…mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” This closing line of the Declaration of Independence underscored
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Nope” star Keke Palmer alleges in civil court documents that she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, with whom she shares a son. The filing this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court included a request for a domestic violence restraining order
By Laura Williamson, American Heart Association News undefined People who live in neighborhoods that were subjected to the historical practice of “redlining” may be less likely to receive lifesaving care from a bystander during a cardiac arrest than people in other neighborhoods, new research suggests. The greater the amount of redlining, the lower the likelihood
By Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg and Ayanna Alexander, The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People in Mississippi’s largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on the day the state was deciding its most competitive governor’s race
Suella Braverman, a divisive figure seen as a champion of the hard right, had accused London’s police force of bias in an incendiary opinion article not signed off by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Airstrikes hit two facilities in eastern Syria, most likely killing or injuring Iran-backed militia personnel. The United States has blamed such groups for recent attacks against its troops.
Speeches by the Chinese leader show how he was bracing for an intensifying rivalry with the United States from early in his rule.
The National Unity Government of Myanmar, formed as an alternative to the junta that orchestrated a 2021 coup, has to battle global apathy and ignorance as it struggles for recognition.