By Drew Taylor | WIAT A 15-year-old boy who grew up in the Birmingham suburbs is receiving critical attention for his star-making turn as part of the ensemble cast being terrorized by one of the more iconic cinematic monsters of the last decade. Blake Cameron James has been acting ever since he was a student […]
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www.rocketcitynow.com WASHINGTON — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has given historically Black colleges and universities hundreds of millions of dollars this fall, continuing a years long wave of record-breaking support for the typically underfunded campuses. Scott has donated more than $700 million to over a dozen HBCUs since the start of the current school year, including $38 million […]
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By Brandon Henry AFRO Intern For Lisa Johnson, Valerie Fraling and Tiffany Ann Wingate, breast cancer awareness isn’t just a phrase made up of buzzwords– it’s a reminder of their battles with breast cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that “Black people have a lower overall 5-year cancer survival rate than […]
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Fugees rapper Pras Michel was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for illegally directing millions in foreign funds to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign and related crimes, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent and witness tampering, charges he plans to appeal.
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AFRO CEO and publisher Dr. Frances Murphy (Toni) Draper condemns the president’s public insult of a female reporter, arguing that such demeaning language mirrors patterns of emotional abuse, fuels misogyny and racism, endangers women—especially women journalists—and normalizes harmful behavior across society. She urges leaders and communities to call out abusive conduct, teach respect, and model accountability.
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