Print newspapers providing trusted information for many African American communities
and last updated 2021-02-19 16:40:31-05
For many people of color, print newspapers are the most trusted voices in their communities.
âYou canât go into any other community and find papers like this,â said Maedella Stiger, who owns a barbershop in Denverâs historic black neighborhood of Five Points.
Stiger says all of the options for news these days, she still prefers print.
âYou pick up this paper for free and it tells you the story,â she said.
Blacked-owned newspapers have been reporting issues impacting communities of color for decades and Brother Jeff Frad is continuing that coverage.
Did you know these Connecticut actresses voiced Disney princesses?
Sarajane Sullivan
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In this film publicity image released by Disney, Princess Tiana, voiced by Anika Noni Rose, holds Prince Naveen, voiced by Bruno Campos, in a scene from the animated film, The Princess and the Frog. (AP Photo/Disney)AP
With tall pine trees, gurgling brooks, stunning waterfalls and quaint wildlife, sometimes Connecticut looks like the background for a Disney movie.
But for two girls, it really was.
Anika Noni Rose, voice of Princess Tiana for Disney’s “Princess and the Frog,” and Adriana Casselotti, voice of Snow White from the Disney movie of the same name, both called Connecticut home.
Spotlight on the News: Black History Month; Inside Detroit art exhibit and Andrea Isom s roundtable
WXYZ Detroit
and last updated 2021-02-21 10:34:58-05
WXYZ DETROIT â On Sunday, February 21, Spotlight on the News will focus its attention on Black History Month featuring two important topics: The Souls of Black Folk art exhibition at Detroit s Scarab Club and a candid and revealing roundtable with African American men from Southeast Michigan. Our guests will be Mariuca Rofick, Board President of the Scarab Club; MaryAnn Wilkinson, Executive Director, Scarab Club; Donna Jackson, Artist/Owner, DMJ Studio & Curator, Art Exhibition and roundtable reporter Andrea Isom of Channel 7 Action News. It s a preview you don t want to miss!
Mohawk Giants brought Hall of Fame-level talent to Schenectady
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Walter Johnson, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, had one of his greatest seasons in 1913, going 36-7.
But that fall, the Mohawk Colored Giants, a Black baseball team in Schenectady, added an unofficial loss to Johnson’s tally when he and an all-white team of major leaguers came to the city as part of a barnstorming tour.
Facing Johnson was Giants’ pitcher Frank Wickware, who possessed “one of the fastest fastballs of the era,” according to Steven Rice, a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Wickware was so confident that he would frequently belittle his opponents’ efforts by calling in his outfielders, reported a 1961 Schenectady Gazette article, “and there is no record that this bit of show-boating ever backfired.”
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