March 1, 2015

The Voice of the Black Community

SC State fights to stay open

The only 100 percent state-funded historically black college and university in South Carolina is fighting to keep its doors open.

NC child poverty rate would double without intervention

North Carolina has numerous programs that aim to improve the lives of children and their families living in poverty.

Some faith leaders victimize rape survivors again

Simone Oliver had always been called, as they say in the religious community.

Trojans run past Lions for title

VSU forward Tiffanie Adair.

OPINION

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Time to bring back some help for low-wage workers

contributed by: Chris Fitzsimon, Policy Watch

Half the states in the country currently provide help for their low-wage workers with a state Earned Income Tax Credit patterned after the federal EITC that former

New study fills in the gap on black girls

contributed by: Priscilla Ocen, NNPA

When asked what her teachers think of her and her peers, one black girl responded, “They like, can’t be trusted, or they are loud and rowdy, ghetto, and