By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor The new Texas bill, SB7, mandates that you can vote with gun permit but not student ID, no online voter registration,
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Martha White, a Black woman whose actions helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts in Louisiana’s capital city, has died. She was 99. White
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Joe Biden led a remembrance Tuesday of one of the nation’s darkest — and long suppressed — moments of racial violence, marking the 100th
By TAYLOR AUSTIN BIG TEX CIRCLE WITH TOWER BUILDING IN BACKGROUND Hello, hola, bonjour, nǐn hǎo, ciao, konnichiwa, guten tag, howdy. The State Fair of Texas is known for celebrating
By Aaron Morrison TULSA, Okla. (AP) — On a recent Sunday, Ernestine Alpha Gibbs returned to Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church. Not her body. She had left this
On Friday, May 7, 2021, the children of Eva Partee McMillan hosted their mother’s 100th birthday party in pandemic protocol style to over 100 guests. The celebration was
By LINDSEY TANNER The inseparable sisters always stood out — identical twins from Twinsburg, Ohio, whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks,
By AMANDA LEE MYERS LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited
