Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump both see Black outreach as critical to winning in November. But their approaches differ in fundamental and revealing ways. As President Biden took the stage in Philadelphia on Wednesday to kick...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Williamena Kwapo | OBSERVER Staff Writer Sonya Bradley, Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Visit Sacramento. Russell Stiger, OBSERVER The field of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) took off& during the summer of 2020 foll...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media (CBM) – A delegation of youth and college students added a charitable touch when they participated in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Steve Madgwick | Stacker CL Shebley // Shutterstock (Stacker) – For many travelers across the U.S., the casino environment is a relaxing one for enjoying nights away from the day-to-day grind.& The casino scene can be mis...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Marybeth Bizjak | Solving Sacramento Here at Solving Sacramento, we like to look for the solvers — the people who see what’s wrong in their communities and say what can I do to fix it?& & What is it about solvers? Many start lookin...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Jay Cohen | The Associated Press FILE – In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York’s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Terry Spencer and Tara Copp | The Associated Press FILE – This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows Senior Airman Roger Fortson in a Dec. 24, 2019, photo. (U.S. Air Force via AP, File) (AP) – The fatal shooting of Roger Fo...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Joseph Williams | Word In Black (WIB) – When she arrived at the U.S. district courthouse in suburban Washington, D.C., for her sentencing hearing Tuesday, former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby faced the distinct possibility she could...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
The general election has put the government’s legislation for an Independent Football Regulator on hold. With both the Conservatives and Labour supporting the proposal, it should return to parliament regardless of who wins. This delay provides an ide...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
NEWPORT — Since the earliest colonial times, Rhode Islanders have had a reputation for idiosyncrasy, for doing things their own way, especially in politics. African-heritage Rhode Islanders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were no differen...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
ANGELA DAVIS raises her fist in a Black Power salute after being introduced by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17, 1972. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett) MAY 29 1854—Escaped slave...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
A conservative group claims in a class-action lawsuit against the city of Evanston that the city’s reparations program meant to repay historical wrongs against Black residents violates the U.S. Constitution. The nonprofit organization Judicial Watch...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
The 49th Annual Odunde Festival starts a week of events Sunday, June 2 and will culminate with one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country on June 9 around the area of 23rd and South Streets. City Representative Jazelle Jones...
7 months ago
By Terri Schlichenmeyer Don’t go into that room. Don’t start downstairs, there’s something down there you don’t want to meet. Don’t open that door. No, NO, don’t look inside the cabinet. You’ll scream and you’ll be sorry. Don’t go into the woods alon...
