Freedom Riders will visits sites in Mississippi and Alabama honoring the fallen voting right workers Momentum appears to be growing for the Freedom Riders for Voting Rights Never Forget, Never Again Pilgrimage in Mississippi on April 30 and in Alabama on May 1. Co-sponsoring organizations have grown to 17. According to Pilgrimage Coordinator, Attorney Faya [...]
By Jonathan P. Hicks, BET The father of Hadiya Pendleton said that the failure of the Senate to pass a measure that would expand background checks for gun purchasers was nothing short of an act of cowardice on the part of elected officials in Washington. “It’s very, very disappointing to know that it is going [...]
Greene County High School, Eutaw, AL, inducted 20 students into the Eunice Roland Outland Chapter of the National Honor Society on Friday, April 12, 2013. The chapter is named for the first African American to serve as principal of Greene County High School, formerly Eutaw High. Mrs. Outland organized the chapter during her tenure as [...]
The Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF) will conduct a Community Awareness Grant Seekers Workshop in Eutaw on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 5:00 p.m., at the William McKinley Branch Courthouse. Community organizations based in and serving BBCF’s 12-county service area must attend a grantseekers workshop to be eligible to apply for a grant. BBCF seeks [...]
At the regular meeting of the Greene County Board of Education, Superintendent Dr. Emma Louie gave an update on the progress at the new high school. According to Louie, the roofing, exterior sprinkle system and the exterior masonry work is 80% complete. “A lot of work is going on inside the building right now,” she [...]
AP: Baseball has scored a rare hit in Hollywood.The Jackie Robinson tale “42″ took in $27.3 million to claim the weekend box-office championship domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film has yet to open overseas, where the sport is a harder sell. Released by Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros., “42″ easily beat the domestic [...]
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget focuses on job creation, strengthening the middle class, and cutting the deficit. Those are the overall themes of the proposed budget, which seeks to reduce the deficit by $4 billion, President Obama sticks with his State of the Union promises [...]
By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) – When the U.S. Treasury Department approved a cultural trip to Cuba last week, it had no idea that those traveling included American pop superstar Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay-Z, according to people familiar with the four-day visit. The trip was handled according to a standard licensing procedure for [...]
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Like thousands of Black college students, Bethanie Fisher, a psychology major at Howard University depended heavily on the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students program that allows parents to borrow the full amount of college tuition and fees. During, the 2007-2008 school year, an estimated 33 percent [...]
Congresswoman Terri Sewell held her Congress in Your Community in Eutaw, Thursday, March 28, 2013 at the Greene County Nursing Home. This was part of Sewell’s seven day, 10 county tour in the 7th Congressional District she serves. She explained that it is important to keep the communities aware of and up to date on [...]
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