by Cherie S. White | Feb 26, 2025
In modern times, despite poor record-keeping and erased histories, it has been revealed that enslaved African-Americans contributed far more than free labor to this country.A slave, Jo Anderson, is largely credited as the co-inventor of the McCormick mechanical...
by Cherie S. White | Feb 26, 2025
Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, has joined the national campaign to end period poverty. Many women and girls experience period poverty and are unable to purchase the menstrual products they need, causing some to stay home from school and work. The...
by Cherie S. White | Feb 25, 2025
Did you know that the key to getting a good night’s rest begins hours before your head hits the pillow? What you do as soon as you rise in the morning has a tremendous effect on how well you rest at night. Food, drink, your mental state, it all matters. Things to do...
by Cherie S. White | Feb 25, 2025
Louis E. Lomax’s contributions to journalism are both noteworthy and historic. Beyond introducing much of white America to the unflinching Blackness of Nation Of Islam spokesperson Malcolm X, Lomax was the first Black man to work as a television journalist.Born August...
by Cherie S. White | Feb 25, 2025
The USDA has reopened the 1890 Scholars Program after suspending it for several days. The program was suspended as part of President Trump’s efforts to cut federal funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The USDA has reopened the application...
