Category : Lifestyle

World Athletics Survey: Three-Quarters Of Athletes Directly Impacted By Climate Change

Photos: World Athletics Three-quarters (75%) of our sport’s athletes perceive a direct negative impact on their health and performance due to climate change with 85% expressing that the sport of athletics has experienced adverse consequences, accord...

Victoria Monét Closes Jaguar Tour With Emotional Show For Hometown Crowd

By Callie J. Lawson-Freeman | Special to The OBSERVER Singer Victoria Monet performs onstage during her “The Jaguar” tour at Buckhead Theatre on September 19, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Courtesy of Chanel Moye Victoria Monét’s voice floated over...

Health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge

Nov 29 (Reuters) – Health insurers Cigna (CI.N) and Humana (HUM.N) are in talks for a merger, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies are discussing a stock-and-cash deal that could...

Chrisean Rock Partners With Hollywood Unlocked In Health Initiative

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman November 29, 2023 Chrisean Rock is the first celebrity advocate for Hollywood Unlocked’s new health initiative, Healthcare Unlocked. Chris...

Uganda: Arrests Of “Balaalo Must Go” Advocates Denounced By Ugandan Lawmakers

By Black Star Correspondent Photo#1: Ugandan lawmaker Betty Aol Ocan standing outside Burcoro CPS, talking to Betty Ocwee, who is inside the cell. Photo#2: Standing outside Burcoro police cell, extreme left is Okot Amos, the MP for Agago North, secon...

I Faced Death by Incarceration. The UN Heard My Plea to Abolish Life Sentences.

Part of the Series The Road to Abolition Decades ago, most people had never even heard the term “death by incarceration,” the racially discriminatory and cruel practice commonly known as life imprisonment. Now in 2023, the United Nations has co...

(BPRW) Baptist Health Orthopedic Complex hosted a facility tour with local media | Black PR Wire, Inc.

(BPRW) Baptist Health Orthopedic Complex hosted a facility tour with local media Black Media in Miami received a tour of the new state-of-the-art complex in Miami Gardens. (Black PR Wire) Baptist Health, the sports medicine provider for the Miami D...

Texas A&M University System enrollment increase tops in Texas

BRYAN, COLLEGE, STATION, Texas — The 11 universities in The Texas A&M University System added more students than any other public university system in the state this year, according to fresh data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board...

Florida Lawmaker Wants a Constitutional Amendment to Permanently Ban Possibility of Reparations in State

The resolution comes amid a wider push by Florida Republicans to whitewash the history of slavery in the U.S. A Florida lawmaker has introduced a constitutional amendment that would forbid any state or local government from being able to distri...

Who is Patrick Clark? The ‘pioneer of the American bistro’ who broke barriers for Black chefs

The late Chef Patrick Clark teaching students at Madison Park Vocational High School in 1997....

5 Ways To Help Black Founders Gain More Venture Capital Dollars Amid Funding Decline

by Jeffrey McKinney November 29, 2023 Black founders continue to not get much love from the industry pertaning to obtaining venture capital funding. New data shows ven...

Florida Republican Senator Proposes Bill Banning State From Paying Reparations

by Sharelle Burt November 29, 2023 The revisionists are still trying it. A Republican senator from Florida is doing all he can to ensure the state doesn’t pay reparat...

Bitcoin Vs Ethereum: A Tale of Two Titans In The Cryptocurrency World

Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons Cryptocurrency, the digital currency that has taken the financial world by storm, has led to the creation of thousands of different coins and tokens. Among them Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum come at the top...

How New Orleans’ Duncan Plaza, once the ‘back of town,’ became today’s land-swap target

A possible city/state land swap at Duncan Plaza could pave the way for a new City Hall and Civil District Court to be built in downtown New Orleans. If the plan succeeds, it would write the next chapter in a story that goes back nearly a century,...

Driving Impact And Equity Through Criminal Record Expungement

In this Q&A, Eliza Roady, Sorenson Impact Institute Managing Director of Impact Investing, talks with Noella Sudbury, Founder and CEO of Rasa Legal, about the immediate and transformative impacts of helping people expunge their criminal records...