Why should incarcerated people and their families be required to spend the little money they have on transfer fees, phone calls and electronic messages by Dexter Murray In a series of emails circulated during February 2022, which were overlaid with the red, green and yellow colors of the African freedom flag, the company JPay purported to “celebrate Black Read More…
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Entrepreneur Launches Directory to Help Locate Black Medical Professionals
Meet Marcia Paige, the founder and CEO of Melanin-RX.com, a comprehensive online directory that houses culturally competent doctors, medical professionals, and Black-owned businesses that are allied to the medical community. These include Doulas, Trichologists, Medical Staffing Agencies, Medical Suppliers, and Wellness Products to name a few. Her goal is to bridge the gap between sought-after Black Read More…
Young Black Female Navigator turns Sailing Tankers into a Travel Career
Nationwide — Capt. Sandy Campbell has circumnavigated the globe at the helm of the world’s largest gas tankers as a merchant mariner and seafarer. Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, she’s no stranger to taking on challenges and breaking down barriers. But today the young seafarer has traded her seat in the captain’s bridge for Read More…
Marijuana Reform
Marijuana Reform needs the M.O.R.E. Act., but what does that mean? At the start of this month a historic piece of legislation, the MORE (Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement) Act was passed for the second time in an effort to legalize cannabis, and although this is a great start, there are actions still needed in the Read More…
Freedom of Speech Vs. O.S.U.
An Ohio State University (OSU) student leader is facing criticism after saying that he’d “love” to live in a world if “Black people were taught that they are superior.” According to OSU’s student newspaper, The Lantern, On March 23, John Fuller, a junior, who was a member of the Ohio State University Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly Read More…
Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins
BY MICHAEL DIMOCK For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups. One lens often employed by researchers at the Center to understand these differences is that of generation. Generations provide the opportunity to look at Americans both by their place Read More…








