Category : Lifestyle

How Google’s AI Tech Is Transforming Sleep Health In Black Communities

Research has shown that Black adults experience higher rates of sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, insomnia, and irregular sleep patterns, more frequently than other demographic groups. Dr. Ivor Horn, Google’s Chief Health Equity Officer, is at...

‘He Can’t Walk’: Cop Tries to Pull Paralyzed Black Man Out Of Car In Video

Photo: Getty Images A viral TikTok shows a California police officer attempting to pull a Black man from his vehicle despite being told that “he can’t walk.” TikTok user Shante Butler accused the Stockton Police Department of mist...

Evanston Reparations Committee Announces Funds To Be Moved To America’s Largest Black-Owned Bank

by Sharelle Burt April 22, 2024 Let’s hope other reparation plans are activated in other cities! The Evanston Reparations Fund’s money will be held at Liberty Ba...

Wray & Nephew supports Black businesses

Jamaican rum brand Wray & Nephew has launched the third edition of its Wray Forward programme, which provides support and funding for Black-owned businesses in the UK. The initiative gives Black business owners tools to pitch their projects and...

Systemic racism, politics prevent Black expectant mothers from getting needed health care

Last week was Black Maternal Health Week, and Mother’s Day is just around the corner — a prefect time to focus on the fact that the critical health care an expectant mother needs remains unavailable for many. That’s especially true for Black mothers...

Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents

By Matt Brown | The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city re...

Young Ugandans tangle in the mud. They dream of becoming professional wrestlers

By Patrick Onen | The Associated Press Ugandan youths perform an amateur wrestling tangle in the soft mud in Kampala, Uganda Wednesday, March. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen) MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — In a forested area outside Uganda’s capital,...

Confronting disparities in Black maternal health

In 2019, I gave birth to my first child. As a first-time mother, I was anxious and afraid, but I was also excited and very well prepared. By the time I arrived at my hospital’s labor and delivery unit that morning, all illusions of a natural...

National Reparations Leaders Convene in Washington to Take Action

Human Rights and Self-Determination for Blacks (Afrodescendants) Pro-Black Convention of the Year Black folks are ready to take decisive action in the fight for Reparations. The time for deliberations and begging for justice has come to an end.”...

Advancing Equity and Reparations in California

Researcher and scholar Kerby Lynch visited Diablo Valley College on April 4 to discuss reparations for slavery — legislative changes that would seek to repair the economic, societal and psychological damages caused by systemic racism in the 400 years...

Columbine Mass Shooting 25 Years Later: American White Men And Their Lethal Love For Gunplay

By Rob Okun\PeaceVoice Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons Maybe there won’t be a copycat mass shooting to grotesquely mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999. But just as we can be certain there will be anoth...