Category : News Talk

When Schools Failing to Act Leads to the Death of a Student

By Quintessa Williams | Word In Black(WIB) – When Kaleiah Jones, a Black teenager with a heart condition, collapsed in the hallway of her Norfolk, Virginia, high school in February, her odds for survival were good. Her schoolmates immediately called...

How to Budget When You Live Paycheck to Paycheck

By Laura Onyeneho | Houston Defender | Word In Black This post was originally published on Defender Network(WIB) – Living paycheck to paycheck is a financial situation where an individual or family’s income barely covers essential living expenses suc...

A civil rights icon’s childhood home will not be a museum after opposition from her descendants

By Jack Brook | The Associated PressSimone Haley, granddaughter of Oretha Castle Haley, challenges Laketa Smith, seated with Candice Henderson-Chandler, after speaking during a city council hearing regarding the dispute over her grandmother’s former...

Erykah Badu celebrated as fashion icon at CFDA Awards after years of pushing boundaries

By Beatrice Dupuy | The Associated Press Erykah Badu attends the CFDA Fashion Awards at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Erykah Badu was bestowed the fas...

Harris Rises, Trump Falls Among Black Men

By Richard Prince | Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Journal-isms(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Vice President Kamala Harris is gaining among Black male voters and Donald Trump’s appeal is declining, the NAACP said Monday, unveiling fresh survey inf...

Ithaca Common Council Approves $50,000 for Reparations Study

The Ithaca Common Council approved a budget amendment on Thursday allocating up to $50,000 for a reparations study focused on the city’s history of systemic racism and its impact on present-day inequities experienced by Black residents. First...

UK treads fine line on slavery legacy, while ruling out reparations

Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom — engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now — is not open to financial compensation, officials and analysts say. “I th...

Caribbean pushes Britain to talk reparations

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Mayor Foushee proclaims Carrboro Minority Enterprise Development Week

GOVERNMENT By Tyria BourdaCorrespondent Proclamation courtesy of Carrboro Town News By celebrating the accomplishments and achievements of minority-owned businesses, Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee proclaimed October 20th-26th as Minority Enterprise...

2024 General Election Results

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How Black-owned small businesses find support in smaller Massachusetts cities

Paris Alston: This is GBH is Morning Edition. Today kicks off the sixth annual Mass Black Expo at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Thousands of attendees are expected to go to panels and workshops focused on building Black wealth and hea...

VCU’s reparations project a year after its introduction

Molly Manning, Contributing Writer Project Gabriel: President’s Special Commission on Slavery and Justice released by VCU in September 2023 is an effort to “report, reconcile and heal the wounds caused by VCU’s historic ties to the institution of sl...

Greek Demands for WWII, Occupation Reparations Again Earn German ‘Nein’

Visiting German President Steinmeier and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held talks on international developments, the prospects of Greek-German relations, and bolstering the two countries relations within the EU framework. These international de...

Greek leaders tell German president a WWII reparations claim is very much alive

ATHENS, Greece — Greek leaders on Wednesday revived a long-standing demand for war reparations stemming from Nazi Germany’s World War II occupation of Greece, during a visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Steinmeier ruled o...

You may not know it, but Kamala Harris is a champion for entrepreneurs

Economic opportunity will be one of the biggest deciding factors for Americans headed to the polls next week. There is an obvious choice: Only one candidate has presented detailed and well-reasoned plans for American businesses and entrepreneurs. Bu...