Art Exhibit Highlights Black Comic Book Artists

NEWSWIRE-The Society of Illustrators has announced a dynamic new installation coming to the museum that delves between the pages of comic books and explores the artists’ process. “The Artist’s Experience: From Brotherman to Batman” on display from June 15 through October 29, 2022. The exhibit celebrates some of the top African-American artists in the comic book industry, and was co-curated by renowned culture journalist and writer Karama Horne (Marvel’s Protectors of Wakanda:

New Orleans Starbucks store 1st in Louisiana to vote union

FILE - Pro-union pins sit on display, Dec. 9, 2021. Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans are the first of the coffee giant's locations in Louisiana to unionize, voting 11-1 in favor of joining a union on Friday and Saturday, June 3-4, 2022. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File) Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans voted to form a union, becoming the first of the coffee giant’s locations

3 dead, 11 wounded in downtown Philadelphia shooting

Philadelphia Police investigators work the scene of a fatal overnight shooting on South Street in Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Perez) Gunfire killed three people and wounded at least 11 others in a popular downtown Philadelphia entertainment district late Saturday night, authorities said. Police officers were patrolling the area on South Street in downtown Philadelphia when they heard multiple gunshots and witnessed several suspects firing into a large

The Democrats Were Wrong

To be denied something to which you were entitled is a great form of injustice. For many Black Americans having to live in a time where you were denied your Constitutional right to vote seems unfathomable. That's because for many younger Black Americans, not voting has always been a choice -- not a mandate. For months, we all heard Democrats tell blatant lies that Republican efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat through

In Georgia, 2 Black candidates to compete for Senate seat

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JEFF AMY This combination of two separate photos shows Herschel Walker in Atlanta, May 24, 2022, left, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., in Washington, Jan. 18, 2022, right. Walker will represent the Republican Party in its efforts to unseat Warnock in the November 2022 election. (AP Photo) Wayne Black was one of the few African Americans in the crowd as about 100 people gathered recently at

Monkeypox is no joke

By DR. JOYNICOLE MARTINEZ, Staff Writer This electron microscopic image depicts a monkeypox virion.CDC/ CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH A rare disease called monkeypox, a much less severe cousin of smallpox, is spreading around the world into places it usually never touches. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 250 cases have been reported in at least 16 countries including a confirmed US case in a man in Massachusetts, and

Police face questions over response to Texas school shooting

By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT A family pays their respects next to crosses bearing the names of Tuesday's shooting victims at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Law enforcement authorities faced mounting questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman

Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be pricey, long and ugly

By JEFF AMY This combination image shows Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Atlanta, left, and Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams on Dec. 16, 2021, in Decatur, Ga. The governor's race in Georgia between Republican incumbent Kemp and Democratic challenger Abrams promises to be a brutal battle that will further amp up the state's charged political environment. (AP Photo)  Georgia voters didn’t get much of a break

Texas governor: 15 killed in school shooting; gunman dead

Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing 14 children, one teacher and injuring others, Gov. Greg Abbott said, and the gunman was dead.  It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the shocking attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut,

Buffalo shooting’s wounds need a strong salve, residents say

FILE - Children walk hand in hand in a street near the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Long before an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist inflicted terror at a Buffalo supermarket, the city's Black neighborhoods, like many others around the nation, had been dealing with wounds that are generations old. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Shenaya Ann Washington and a close friend cleared