Category : Lifestyle

Challenges Beyond Finances Lead to Black Business Closures

By Bria Overs Originally appeared in Word in Black The Harris family knew it had a great business idea that spoke directly to the needs of communities of color. Their plan — to create a monthly package of niche products that were better and mo...

Republican Congressman George Santos Expelled Amidst Scandal and Charges of Fraud

By Stacy M. BrownNNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia GOP Rep. George Santos of New York has become the third congressman in the last 50 years to be expelled from the chamber. Santos, who has faced allegations of lies, frau...

COMMENTARY: Apology for Japanese American Internment Prompts Equal Response to Injustices Against Black Californians

By Carla Thomas BWOPA (Black Women Organized for Political Action) hosted the Ella Hill Hutch Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Sequoyah Country Club in the East Oakland hills. In honor of trailblazing activist Ella Hill Hutch, the event brought the...

What we know about Mayor Adams and the FBI probe

By Ariama C. LongReport for America Corps Member / Amsterdam News Staff New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been in the hot seat for the last few weeks as a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe, mostly into his 2021 mayoral campaign donations, ra...

Grant Pacers Stampede Rocklin Thunder 41-14

By Mark Haynes | Special To The OBSERVER Russell Stiger Jr., OBSERVER It was blistering cold in Rocklin, California, on Friday night, accompanied by rain and a ton of traffic, but the only thing that mattered was the high school football game b...

Closing Rikers: NYCLU Submits Legal Brief Supporting Federal Takeover Of Rikers Island

Photos: YouTube Screenshots NEW YORK – Friday, the New York Civil Liberties Union submitted an amicus brief in support of federal receivership at Rikers Island. In the brief, the NYCLU argues that receivership is consistent with the ultimate goal...

Allyson Felix addresses Black maternal health on ‘Meet the Press’

On “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” Allyson Felix called for more implicit bias training and policy change to address Black maternal health. Felix, an 11-time Olympic sprint medalist who retired last year, said she didn’t know what preeclampsia...

‘Germany has legal obligation to genocide reparations’

German researcher Karina Theurer says Germany has a legal obligation to engage in direct negotiations on reparations for its colonial atrocities. Theurer in her recently published research paper ‘Minimum Legal Standards in Reparation Processes for...

Child Killing: Shouldn’t We Have Human Empathy, Forgiveness For The Worst Of Us?

By Robert C. Koehler Photos: YouTube Screenshots . . . Why do I feel the urge to stroke the crime as though it were my child, to cup my hands around the horror and prevent it from going out? These words are a fragment of a poem I wrote a nearly a q...

Business People: Lillian Otieno to lead state Emerging Farmers Office

OF NOTE Lillian Otieno The Minnesota Department of Agriculture announced that Lillian Otieno will lead the department’s Emerging Farmers Office as its first director. Otieno most recently served as coordinator for the Emerging Farmers program since 2...

Sixteen days of activism: bringing awareness to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

By Wayne Campbell “Violence against women is a horrific violation of human rights, a public health crisis, and a major obstacle to sustainable development. Let’s build a world that refuses to tolerate violence against women anywhere, and in any...

Texas Woman Creates Groundbreaking HBCU Doll Line

In 2020, Brooke Hart Jones embarked on a mission to find dolls representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) for a friend’s birthday gift. She discovered a void in the market and decided to take matters into her own hands b...

Oregon’s Avel Gordly on shaping the state’s future Black leaders

Gordly-Burch Center for Black Leadership and Civic Engagement named for her and sister PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — When it comes to political pioneers in Oregon, Avel Gordly is one of the top names on the list. A Portland native, Gordly became the f...

The Israel-Hamas conflict continues…and the beat goes on

By Art Jones Thinking about this “war” matter a bit more, I had to ask: “Who stands to benefit from the present conflict?” The answer: Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrup-Grumman and many more companies– all of which will ben...

Roadmap Of Hamas’ Attack Plans: Israel’s Intelligence Failure Is Worse Than We Thought

By Mel Gurtov Photos: YouTube Screenshots Turns out that over a year before the Hamas attack, Israeli intelligence secured multiple documentation that gave a detailed account on what Hamas would do Oct. 7. But the Israelis discounted the plan as bei...