According to latest data, more than 63% of Americans now live on paycheck to paycheck, which is actually an improvement over the 65% in 2020 and the 64% reached earlier this year.
The report, which runs 500 pages, will be the first government-commissioned study on harms against the African American community since the 1968 Kerner Commission report ordered by President Lyndon Johnson, task force Chair Kamilah Moore said.
Rather she is a wife, sister, daughter, special friend, remarkable woman, stepmom, mother-in-law, niece or mom-to-be, she is the woman we will be cherishing tomorrow, Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8, 2022.
Even within the African American communities defined as middle class or upper-middle-class, there are still inadequacies, particularly in the black indigenous and people of color communities in the United States.
The PitchBLACK Awards ceremony, on April 28 will celebrate Black media storytellers by honoring the past (Trailblazer Award), the present (Forum Awards) and the future (Nonso Christian Ugbode Award). The ceremony’s keynote speaker is award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble and The Way I See It”).
This past weekend, a protest and candlelight vigil were held in Patrick’s memory; hundreds of Grand Rapids residents showed up, and Peter’s translator, a local pastor named Israel Siku, got a few of the marchers to re-create the incident as he’d viewed it in police footage. “It was an execution style,” he exclaimed, formulating a clear image of a cop holding Patrick on the ground, face down, and shooting him through the back of the head.
During the 1950s and 60s, human testing was heavily prevalent in St. Louis, Missouri. Top scientists in laboratories from famous universities and the government collaborated to develop these radioactive experiments to be dispersed in the air.
But according to our man at St Louis NAACP, the excitement is building. There is a new category of cannabis licenses that will be reserved for small businesses.
As a result of a traffic accident, it was a struggle and a hint of frustration just to avoid the mammoth Lake Pontchartrain. Yet, after it was cleared, I wind up passing right under it on I-10 East heading back into the business district of New Orleans.
He and his group member Christopher “Kid” Reid, formed a group, calling themselves Fresh Force. At the time, the two would begin to make parody songs off of hit records such as Run DMC My Adidas.
Baba Deal founded the African Heritage Dance Center and taught in numerous elementary & secondary schools
across the country. He was masterful as a teacher and shared his talents in a plethora of settings including
instructional classes, seminars, masterclasses, and lecture demonstrations for art centers, dance studios, theaters, colleges, universities, and other cultural and educational venues.
The stage at the Dome at America’s Center is set for the Stones concert. That concert launches their 13-date tour. It will be the band’s first St. Louis show since 2006 when they performed at the Savvis Center, now known as Enterprise Center.
BBQ, BAND and BEER is what they are promoting this great event as. The 6th annual Q in the Lou is taking place October 1-3, 2021 in Kiener Plaza. That is a weekend of succulent delicacy and stomach filling fun.
We are still straddling the fences with the pandemic, but the show must go on. And even though masks, vaccinations and social distancing are still in effect, the economy must be saved and we have got to keep pushing full steam ahead safely.
