Category : Lifestyle

Yeah! This California City Council Greenlights Reparations for Displaced Black and Latino Families

As talk of reparations for the descendants of slaves continues to be a hot-button issue around the country, some Black and Latino families in Palm Springs, Calif., who lost their homes decades ago, are preparing to receive a multi-million dolla...

APSA Oral History Project: Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series –

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color, the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Ann...

Kosovo Accused of Resisting Reparations for KLA War Victims

A court in The Hague trying Kosovo Albanian former guerrilla fighters has begun issuing compensation orders for their victims, but getting hold of the money is proving difficult. Serbeze Haxhiaj, November 15, 2024 Kosovo Liberation Army...

Palm Springs OKs $5.9 Million in Reparations for Black and Latino Families Whose Homes the City Burned

The city will also fund a $1 million small business program aimed at “empowering local business initiatives for marginalized communities.” This agreement comes years after the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors group, created by former resident Pearl...

How to Watch Tonight’s Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight

Mike Tyson hits Jake Paul during the formal weigh-in for Friday’s fight (Photo Credit: AP via freemalaysiatoday.com under CC BY 4.0). Everybody is talking about it; somehow, it’s shaping up to be the circus we can’t look away from. Mike T...

New study tackles racism’s aging effects

A group of researchers from Rutgers and Michigan State Universities have launched a major study to examine the long-term effects of structural racism on cognitive aging, physical decline and frailty — particularly in Black Americans.A five-year grant...

Strange shift in US politics

US president-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14. | Agence France-Press/Getty Images/Joe Raedle THE Republican red colour h...

Queens District 28 City Council Candidate Latoya LeGrand Meets With Senior Veteran Constituents At Robert Couche Senior Center

By Edwin Freeman for Black Star News Photos: Edwin Freeman Queens, NY – Earlier this week, Latoya LeGrand, the City Council candidate for District 28 in Queens, visited the Robert Couche Senior Center to hear directly from her senior cit...

The 2024 presidential election motivated me to have a birthday do-over

At the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater Pointe in Time Emerald GalaToday marks a week since my birthday.& Its occurrence is a tremendous blessing. Because all around us are reminders about the fragility of life. To that end, my brother, who always makes a...

Fewer kids are going to California public schools. Is there a right way to close campuses?

By Carolyn Jones | CALMatters When the superintendent in San Francisco Unified proposed closing schools recently, parents launched a prolonged — and successful — protest. The uproar may have died down for now, but the issue is likely to erupt at sch...

VP Records: Reggae Star Jah9’s New Single “Match” Will Be Out November 22

By VP Records Photos: VP Records Reggae artist Jah9 is set to release her highly anticipated single, “Match,” on November 22 via VP Records. Building on her previous release, “Open Heart,” this new song continues her playful, feminine, and ma...

Do You Know the Health Legacy your Family Left You?

You probably know that our community is affected disproportionally by many chronic health conditions like heart disease (stroke), diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, glaucoma, sickle cell anemia, and mental health as the stress we suffer due to...

New Maternal Health Fund Aims to Support Black Louisiana Parents

Editor’s note: Carrie Murphy was previously a doula with Birthmark. What if every Black parent in Louisiana had the support they needed for a healthy, happy pregnancy and childbirth? For one organization, that’s not just a rhetorical question—it’s...

Do Mores And Values Matter Anymore In The United States Of America?

James B. Ewers Jr. Ed.D. Do what you want to do are lyrics from a song many years ago. It kind of speaks to having a loose code of standards and behaviors. This looseness of mind, body and soul has creeped into our America in my view. Thankfully, man...

Clinical Trials Aren’t Diverse Enough. Here’s Why

Clinical trials are essential for developing new medical treatments, but historically they have lacked diverse representation. In a recent discussion with the Cobb Institute’s Dr. Christina Stephens, Dr. Priscilla Pemu and Tesheia Harris, chie...