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CAIR Condemns Biden’s Veto Of Palestine UN Membership. Says Security Council Should Be Reformed Or Abolished

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, last night condemned the Biden administration’s veto of a U.N. resolution that could have resulted in full United Nations membershi...

Jamaican government remains committed to getting reparations for slavery

A SENIOR Jamaican government minister has said the country remains committed to demanding reparations for slavery. Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, said the government will be seeking reparations for the...

Harry Lennix Brings August Wilson’s Legacy to Life in ‘How I Learned What I Learned’

To understand the gravity, privilege and importance of a play by August Wilson about August Wilson, imagine if Shakespeare had also written about Shakespeare.& That’s precisely what Chicago audiences will get when Wilson’s autobiogra...

Overtime: The same Tiger…Just a different bite

:10—Here’s a recap for you about Tiger “Eldrick” Woods, most likely the greatest golfer the world will ever know! Needless to say, a great number of you already know.& This is for the many of us who don’t have a clue about the golf world. :09—#1...

How a New Reparations Effort Changed an Expert’s Understanding of History

Don Tamaki was integral to getting redress for Japanese Americans. He says serving on a California task force transformed his view on racism in America. Don Tamaki and his colleagues who reopened the Korematsu v. United States case paved the way...

Gen-Z Will Save Us All, That’s Why They’re Being Censored

As the TikTok Ban makes its way to the US Senate, progressive organizations on college campuses advocating for Palestine are targets of a new resolution signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. Generation-Z, with higher rates of diversity, civic engagem...

National Black Maternal Health Week

CHARLOTTE, N.C.– The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement is focused on maternal health as cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of maternal death in the U.S. National spokesperson for Go Red for Women’s 2023 Class of Real Wo...

Allyson Felix and Tianna Madison on Tori Bowie’s death and Black maternal health care

Find the original audio here. Last year on April 23, Olympic gold medalist and world-champion American sprinter Tori Bowie was found dead in her Florida home at the age of 32. An autopsy found that the cause of death was complications related to ch...

Can New York, Facing Billions of Dollars in Budget Gaps, Afford Reparations?

As the clock begins ticking for New York’s reparations commission to create a report of recommendations to address what Governor Hochul calls the state’s “legacy of slavery” and its “lingering negative effects” on New Yorkers, one question will be w...

Michigan’s health care disparities stark for Black residents

Michigan has more severe racial disparities in its health care system than other Great Lakes states, with Black residents experiencing the poorest outcomes, a new national analysis shows. In a scorecard released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, Mi...