Category: Education, Featured News, State/National News, Top Stories
Update: Cornell Student Charged in Alleged Racially-Based Attack Apologizes
By Staff – (Update, Sept. 21) – Nineteen-year-old John Greenwood, a white Cornell student charged with beating a black...
Thousands of Celebrities, Luminaries and Ordinary People Bid Dick Gregory Farewell
By Barrington Salmon – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Several thousand mourners packed into a Landover, Md. church listened as...
Bias Against Hiring African-Americans Hasn’t Budged
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Rates of discrimination against African Americans in field experiments of hiring did not decline from 1990 to...
Former St. Louis Police Officer Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Man
By Staff – A former St. Louis police officer was cleared of first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a black man...
Mayor Lovely Warren Wins Democratic Primary
By Staff – Incumbent Mayor Lovely Warren won the Democratic primary race for mayor by a large margin Tuesday evening,...
Africa’s Floods Largely Unnoticed Despite High Death Toll
(TriceEdneyWire.com/GIN) – “Floods in Africa in August killed 25 times more people than Hurricane Harvey did.” That was the headline...
Former President Barack Obama Assails President Trump’s Reversal of DACA
For the first time since leaving the White House in January, former President Barack Obama has issued a full statement in response to an...
Mississippi Courthouse Keeps Emmett Till’s Memory Alive
By Frederick H. Lowe – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The Emmett Till Interpretive Center, which was founded to keep alive the...
Mayor Warren: City to Demolish 175 Vacant Properties
By Staff – Mayor Lovely Warren has announced the city will demolish 175 vacant and blighted properties by the end of the...
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: Experts Estimate More than 260,000 Hate Incidents Per Year
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Hate in America has become commonplace. A presidential candidate wins election after denigrating Muslims,...
