Category : News Talk

Reparations Push in Brazil

Last year, public prosecutors started investigating Bank of Brazil’s historical links to the slave trade. The large, government-owned bank was founded in 1808. There are indeed links. For one, the bank’s largest shareholder at one point was José Be...

Sessions To Train Locals To Identify Mental Health Issues In Youth

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer The Living Room and the African American Suicide Prevention Project present a training session, “Youth Mental Health First Aid,” Saturday, March 9, and Saturday, March 23. The virtual sessions will t...

Gen-Z’s Worries Over Student Debt Could Impact the 2024 Election

By Bria Overs | Word In Black (WIB) – During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised sweeping action on student debt. His plan to cancel at least $10,000 of loans for anyone making less than $125,000 a year was popular with young...

Judge awards $9.56 in reparations for victims’ families

By ABC NEWS (Australia) Published : March 1, 2024 – 17:32...

Renowned Philosopher and Black Power Trailblazer Charles V. Hamilton, Dies at 94

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA Austin Cooper (L) with his mentor, Professor Charles V. Hamilton/Courtesy Austin Cooper (NNPA) – Austin Cooper recalled the first time he met Professor Charles V. Hamilton, a philosophical luminary and key archit...

Local Efforts To End Stigma

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer The stigma that persists around Black men and mental well-being has prompted several area efforts such as Cut to the Chase. Leaders say continued focus on Black men and mental health means continued...

Protecting Sacramento’s unhoused pet community

By Keyshawn Davis | Solving Sacramento Joseph Rival poses with his dog, Daggs, on his lap at the Safe Stay Homeless Community Shelter, Feb. 8 2024. (Photo by Keyshawn Davis) Seven months ago, Joseph Rival drove to California from Oregon with hi...

Another Downside of Book Bans? They Stunt Reading Ability

By Joseph Williams | Word In Black (WIB) – For years, as test scores fell and teachers fretted, educators and analysts rang the alarm: the U.S. is facing a grade-school reading crisis. If left unaddressed, they say, Black children could fal...

Stealing ‘Joy’

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Mychal Threets says the library was his second home growing up as a homeschooled child in Fairfield. Threets, who has shared his love of reading through viral social media posts, is leaving his job a...

Advocate Brings Lived Experience To The Circle

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Paul Moore attends weekly sessions with a counselor for his own mental health issues, but also finds it therapeutic to hold space for other Black men to learn how to manage their lives and the challe...

Seannelle Hawkins Joins NY Commission on Reparations: A Move Towards Racial Justice

Governor Kathy Hochul, alongside legislative leaders, recently announced the appointment of Seannelle Hawkins, president of the Urban League of Rochester, to the New York State commission dedicated to studying reparations and racial justice. This sig...