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Johnny Gill to Perform at UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball December 19

Atlanta, GA – Corporate Executives Shan Cooper and Jack Sawyer are the honorary co-chairs of the 32nd Annual UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball. The formal affair, UNCF’s signature fundraising gala and premier social event of the holiday season, will be held on Saturday, December 19, 2015, 6:30 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. […]

Director, Stepp Stewart’s, “A Soulful Christmas Holiday Musical” Starts Dec 4 at Porter Sanford Performing Arts Center

Atlanta, GA – Emmy Nominated – Producer, /Director/Choreographer/Songwriter and Play-write Stepp Stewart’s “A Soulful Christmas” The Holiday Spectacular Musical Stage Production, returns to the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center, 3181 Rainbow Drive, Decatur, GA for the third year running Friday, December 4-Sunday, December 6. Mr. Stewart has created a musical event for […]

Trice Edney Communications and Trice Edney News Wire Open Satellite Office in Howard School of Communications

Washington, D. C. – Trice Edney Communications, LLC and Trice Edney News Wire, founded five years ago by award winning veteran journalist Hazel Trice Edney, has opened a satellite office in the Howard University School of Communications. The new office is located in the CERRC (Communications Entrepreneurship Research and Resource Center), Room 108, 525 Bryant […]

Do Black Votes Matter to Donald Trump?

By David A. Graham (The Atlantic) – “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” So Donald Trump claimed back in 2011. But his bravado induces renewed skepticism this week. Last Wednesday, Trump announced that he’d hold a press conference on Monday to announce his endorsement by […]

Why Hillary Clinton Will do More for Black People than Obama – By Michael Eric Dyson

(The New Republic) – There is good reason to be skeptical about Hillary Clinton and race. It’s never been anything explicit, necessarily, but she has sinned in the realm of signification, the place where innuendo and plausible deniability live. Let us start with her first presidential campaign in 2008, and the infamous “3 a.m. phone […]

State of Black Cincinnati: African American leaders demand change over stark disparities

African American leaders in Cincinnati and all over Ohio are demanding change after an Urban League report detailed wide disparities in wealth, health and justice between black and white residents

As many African-American see it, there are 2 Ben Carsons

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson’s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both […]

Newsone.com Exclusive: Black Scholar Explains Why African-Americans Should Vote Republican

By Lynette Holloway – Kiron Skinner,  director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and surrogate to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, tells NewsOne that African-Americans should look beyond the rhetoric and consider voting Republican in 2016. She is also a foreign […]