Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
“I grew up here, my kids played golf out here, and there was this core group of people that had a real passion that we can’t let it go away,” said Gorham. “As you can see now it was worth saving, I think we have a premier event place in East Texas.”...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Imagine walking down the streets of Baltimore, Brooklyn, or Hartford, where art and health converge in a vibrant display of color and community. This is the reality Vaseline is creating with its innovative Mended Murals Campaign, a project that tra...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Professor Dame Carol Black is to head up the taskforce that will produce a voluntary occupational health framework for employers this summer, the government has announced. The taskforce, which is meeting for the first time today, intends to devise a...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Editor’s note: This article is part of Just Security’s series on reparation mechanisms in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, experts estimate that it will cost nearly half a trillion...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
A New York philanthropist who donated $3 million to the last three living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre called on other wealthy white Americans to contribute to reparations, citing the lack of action from states and the federal government...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
As I walked through the hallowed halls of the California State Capitol, a palpable sense of history and urgency filled the air. The California Legislative Black Caucus was about to unveil a groundbreaking package of 14 reparations bills, aimed squa...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
How much do you know about social security? MassMutual recently gave a social security true/false quiz to 1,500 individuals ages 55 through 65. According to the results, 65 percent of people either failed or got a D grade, 18 percent of respondent...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
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Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Salmon in the Classroom: A Unique Wildlife Education Initiative, Fueled by Michigan Wildlife Council, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Real Times Media By Lynzee Mychael, Multimedia Journalist Envision vibrant urban classrooms, alive wit...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
For Black History Month, we’re honoring some outstanding Black women entrepreneurs. Black women continue to lead the startup charge. Since right before the Covid pandemic began, there’s been a 70% increase in the number of new Black-women-owned small...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a significant boost to Michigan’s water infrastructure with an allocation of more than $177 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda. This funding...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
On Tuesday (Feb. 20), Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the City of Chicago is suing six oil and gas corporations and their largest trade association for deceiving Chicago consumers about the climate dangers associated with their products.& F...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
From Black PR Wire The New York Amsterdam News (AmNews), one of America’s oldest and most influential Black newspapers continues its unfolding renaissance with the hiring of distinguished journalist and author Aaron Foley as our new News Editor. Fole...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Black-owned AI ed-tech company Skilldora has joined forces with African American billionaire Dr. Michael V. Roberts to offer its platform and AI Instructor-led courses to students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Roberts is t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Jeanine Valrie Logan is working to open a birth center inside a former church on Chicago’s South Side, where there’s a dearth of options to have a baby. Valrie Logan is a Black midwife. She envisions three rooms in the birth center where people can...
