OPINION: The cool sounds of smooth jazz used to drive me insane, and yet now, I find myself turning to the Sirius XM station that plays it all day long … every day. Editor’s...

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A woman lives in a “safe” northeast Memphis neighborhood yet says her 18-year-old son was hogtied and pepper-sprayed by police several years ago – while she was with him.  In a terrible way, the...

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Yale’s Peabody Museum will exhibit nearly 30 of the invasive lanternflies Bobbi Wilson captured to protect her neighborhood. Yale University is showing support to a 9-year-old Black girl from New Jersey after a white...

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“We must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window,” Biden wrote. The Democratic Party on Saturday approved reordering its...

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The New Orleans bounce icon could soon become one of the Crescent City’s first Black hoteliers with the opening of Hotel Freedia. Big Freedia has big plans for this upcoming year. Aspiring to bring...

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Legal marijuana sales in Maryland to begin July 1 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland is working toward creating a recreational marijuana industry with greater social equity, lawmakers said Friday, with more licenses for minority-owned...

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Malawi in southern Africa especially is struggling with a cholera outbreak NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no “immediate access” to vaccines amid a...

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