By S. A. Miller, Soul Perspectives We are living in a unique time in the United States. Over the last ten years or so, we have been witnessing what I call Black Woman Excellence (BWE). While we extol the emergence of Black Girl Magic, Black women are affecting U. S. society in so many ways, that it has gone beyond magic and has become a profile in excellence. Black women are excelling in many areas including Science and Technology, the Judiciary, Government and Politics, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Education, Entertainment, Medicine,…
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Funding from National Telecommunications and Information Administration will allow MSM to examine relationship between digital health equity and increased access to technology Atlanta, Georgia – March 22, 2023 – Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has received a $4.2 million dollar grant to understand the impact increasing technological access and literacy will have on digital health equity. This project encompasses the work of Morehouse School of Medicine’s Office of Academic Programs & Affiliations, Undergraduate Medical Education, Office of Digital Technology, Office for Educational Outreach & Health Careers Pipeline Initiatives, and the…
#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests (Social Justice Book, Civil Rights Photography Book) by artist, photographer, cultural anthropologist Sheila Pree Bright The fight for equality continues from 1960 to now. Combining portraits of past and present social justice activists with documentary images from recent protests throughout the United States, #1960Now sheds light on the parallels between the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Shelia Pree Bright’s striking black-and-white photographs capture the courage and conviction of 1960s elder statesmen and…
Special to the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) By Steven N. Larkin On a cool star-studded evening at the Arden Theater Company, one of Philadelphia’s premier theaters, hosted the Blues Babe 16th Foundation Anniversary. The Blues Babe Foundation (BBF) is the brainchild of soulful sultry (sensuous) singer / poet, Jill Scott. The life she has lived has inspired her to help young children make dreams happen through education and the arts. The evening began with a lobby full of Scott’s colleagues, the Board of Directors for BBF, kids and many…
![From The Inquirer Vault - Editorial from July 27, 2963 by former Inquirer Editor Charles A. Black.Black, Charles A., editor. “Free, White and 36.” The Atlanta Inquirer [Atlanta], Volume 3, Number 50 ed., 27 July 1963, p. 1.](https://i0.wp.com/atlinq.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/cdn/uploads/2023/03/1963-07-27_Page_01B-Rev.jpg?fit=1920%2C1716&ssl=1)
An Editorial Free, White And 36 U. S. Fifth District Congressman Charles L. Weltner was elected to Congress with very strong Negro support. He has greatly disappointed Negro voters by his opposition to most of the important parts of President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bills. To add insult to injury, Mr. Weltner released his negative views on Civil Rights to the press shortly after the President made his historic Civil Rights speech, that was so heartwarming and encouraging to Negroes and other fair-minded Americans. In a meeting of white and Negro…
Activist and Former Atlanta Inquirer Editor (1962 – 1965) Honored with City of Atlanta Proclamation On Monday, March 20, 2023, Charles A. Black was honored by the City of Atlanta for his outstanding work as a Civil Rights activist, historian and actor. Most of us have seen a distinguished man on television, in commercials, stage plays and in film by the name of Charles A. Black. The quintessential actor, for over thirty years, is one of the founders of the Atlanta Student Movement which sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While…
