By The Chicago Defender
According to the New York Times, Venus and Serena Williams have been awarded a wild card for the women’s doubles at Wimbledon 2026, the All England Club announced Tuesday (June 16), reuniting the most dominant doubles partnership in Grand Slam history on the grass where they built their legacy. Wimbledon begins June 29.
The sisters hold a...
By BlackPressUSA Newswire
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will open two companion exhibitions, “Revelation: A Journey into Abstraction” and “Reset: Abstraction Embodied in Design,” in The Rhimes Family Foundation Visual Arts Gallery. Together, the exhibitions explore how abstraction has shaped African American artistic expression...
By BlackPressUSA Newswire
By Staff Writer | The Michigan Chronicle
The Hart of Detroit Festival will return to Hart Plaza on Friday, June 19, bringing together thousands of residents and visitors for one of Detroit’s largest Juneteenth celebrations. Expected to attract thousands of attendees, the festival will transform Detroit’s riverfront into...
By BlackPressUSA Newswire
By Rev. Dr. Charles R. Watkins, Jr. | The Christian Recorder
Psalm 145:3 – NRSV – _Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and His greatness is unsearchable._
This psalm of David exalts the name of the Lord Most High and rejoices in the glorious splendor of...
by Adele Haeg
Brett Martone, RJ Mirabile, and Kyle Saunders arrived at Union Station at around 6:15 a.m.: “We’re considered late. We were supposed to get here at 4:00 or 5:00 a.m.,” Saunders said.
Tati Rivera on her way to the team’s championship parade.
Willie Darden II and his son, Willie Darden...
by Ariama C. Long
By ARIAMA C. LONG
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in May that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be...
By BlackPressUSA Newswire
By Staff Writer | The Michigan Chronicle
The Hart of Detroit Festival will return to Hart Plaza on Friday, June 19, bringing together...
by MATTHEW ALLEN
651 ARTS, one of Brooklyn’s preeminent organizations for African diasporic performing arts, is set to celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday, June 20, with...
by MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS
Save Harlem Now! (SHN!) recently celebrated their 11th anniversary with the landmarked, neo-Gothic Riverside Church as the setting for their third...
by BILL BARROW Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) whose district...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Bo Tefu, California Black Media
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on May 29 aimed at strengthening protections for California elections,...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Stacy M. Brown
Doctors across the United States say they are treating children for illnesses that routine vaccinations once made...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
Special to The Post
The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) condemns the continued gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)...
by Adele Haeg
Brett Martone, RJ Mirabile, and Kyle Saunders arrived at Union Station at around 6:15 a.m.: “We’re considered late. We were supposed to get here at 4:00 or...
by Paul Bass
An imam and a rabbi walk into a radio studio.
They talk about what their religions have in common.
They talk about the “relationship work” that goes into connecting...
by Dereen Shirnekhi
At the Coleman Brothers’ carnival at Sports Haven in June 2025. Credit: Sonia Ahmed file photo
The city’s parks commission voted reluctantly on Wednesday to allow a longtime...
by Maya McFadden
After a year-long teaching residency at Clinton Avenue School coupled with anaccelerated Master of Arts in Teaching program at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), Hilbania Papazahariou will step...
by TYRA WATTS
Juneteenth parade in Harlem, 2024. (Bill Moore photo)
Know your history: Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday in 2021, originated on June 19, 1865, in Galveston Bay, Texas,...
Tackling Childhood Hunger in New Haven
New Haven, CT –As the school year winds down, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (AKA) Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter (TEO) is winning praise for excelling in...
by Lisa Reisman
On a recent mid-June evening, a half-dozen servers, spiffily attired in starched white shirts and bowties, threaded through picnic tables covered in white tablecloths, and Lillian Reid...
by Adele Haeg
Major Justin Elicker, Tom Cavaliere, Director of Community Engagement for Tweed Airport, and Avports CEO Marc Ricks listen as a Ward 18 resident voices input about the...
by Maya McFadden
Roughly 42.5 percent of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) high school families — or 2,164 in total — have responded to the district’s bus opt-in survey, thereby...
by Laura Glesby
Of the 1,211 voters who cast ballots in a recent contested Democratic primary for state representative, 19 didn’t actually live in the district.
Those19 votes would not have...
by Adele Haeg
City police Officer Daniel Declet hopped his bike up onto a curb, pivoted, then biked fast toward a camera crew in front of the Fair Haven police...
by Lary Bloom
Saturday Night, June 13
By 7:30 p.m., Battell Chapel had reached its customary summer swelter.
The audience fanned itself with programs. Collars were loosened. Brows were dabbed. It was,...
by Ariama C. Long
By ARIAMA C. LONG
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in May that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would be at stadiums hosting World Cup...
By BlackPressUSA Newswire
By Staff Writer | The Michigan Chronicle
The Hart of Detroit Festival will return to Hart Plaza on Friday, June 19, bringing together...
by MATTHEW ALLEN
651 ARTS, one of Brooklyn’s preeminent organizations for African diasporic performing arts, is set to celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday, June 20, with...
by MICHAEL HENRY ADAMS
Save Harlem Now! (SHN!) recently celebrated their 11th anniversary with the landmarked, neo-Gothic Riverside Church as the setting for their third...
by BILL BARROW Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In 1965, Black Americans peacefully demonstrated for voting rights and were beaten by Alabama state troopers...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) whose district...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Bo Tefu, California Black Media
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on May 29 aimed at strengthening protections for California elections,...
By normanrich | Oakland Post
By Stacy M. Brown
Doctors across the United States say they are treating children for illnesses that routine vaccinations once made...