October 17th, 2019018By Glenn Ellis
(TriceEdneyWire.com)
As summer becomes a faint memory for most of us, winter is just around the corner. This year’s Farmer’s Almanac has a sobering forecast for winter 2019-2020: “Get ready for shivers, snowflakes, and slush! Big chills and strong storms will bring heavy rain and sleet, not to mention piles of...
October 17th, 2019036By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – I had the opportunity to speak for the closing session at the meeting of the World Conference of Mayors that was held at Tuskegee University in Alabama a few days ago. I have attended an untold number of conferences in my life, but this one was like no other. It was the most...
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq.
(TriceEdneyWire.com)
I had the opportunity to speak for the closing session at the meeting of the World Conference of Mayors that was held at Tuskegee University in Alabama a few days ago. I have attended an untold number of conferences in my life, but this one was like no other. It was the most...
October 3rd, 201906By Glenn Ellis
TriceEdneyWire.com
Are you, like millions of Americans, in a rut of being unhealthy, rundown, overweight, and unmotivated, and can’t seem to break the cycle? It could be depression.
Depression is a serious mental health condition which causes extreme sadness and can have a negative effect on your motivation, behavior,...
September 26th, 2019042By Rosaland Tyler
Associate Editor
New Journal and Guide
Drive about 68 miles away from the landmark Door of No Return on Goree Island in Senegal to Accra, the capital of Ghana, and you will see an increasing number of young African Americans who call it home.
The point is some young African Americans are going back to where they...
September 5th, 2019034By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
In August 2018, the National Newspaper Publishers Association began a series on the transatlantic slave trade.
The series started in conjunction with the annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance. With the observance of the first African landing in America,...
August 29th, 2019040TriceEdneyWire.com
On Sunday, the New York Times unveiled “The 1619 Project,” a journalistic series in the Sunday magazine that seeks to tell the “unvarnished truth” about slavery and its impact on America’s history. In 1619, just 12 years after the founding of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, the...
August 22nd, 2019058By Wornie Reed, Ph.D
Four hundred years ago, Africans were brought to Jamestown. Of course, they were not the first Africans to arrive in what is now the United States.
There were others, including Estevanico (1500-1539), known variously as Estaban de Dorantes, Esteban the Moor, and Little Esteban. He was a slave known as the first...
July 11th, 2019041By Wornie Reed, Ph.D
In politics, African-Americans are often asked to take the shadow for the substance. They are led to believe impressions over actions and appearance over facts. Practitioners of this art play friendly with Black folks, while at the same time they push policies that are detrimental to Blacks.
Recent attention to Joe...
May 23rd, 2019027TriceEdneyWire.com
The entire lifespan of most African Americans is consumed by efforts to overcome obstacles, inequality, and in many cases, institutional racism.
The most difficult point in this most tiring journey is often the end-of-life. For the disproportionate number of us is when death is accompanied by the dilemmas around how...
