Category : News Talk

Education Champion Dr. Colette Harris-Mathews Seeks Los Rios Board Seat

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff WriterEducation champion Dr. Colette Harris-Mathews is campaigning to join the Los Rios Community College District Board of Trustees. She looks to fill the Area 5 seat, being vacated by longtime trustee Pam Hay...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Project 2025 Will Assault Black People First; then Everybody Else

By Barrington M. Salmon | Trice Edney Wire(TriceEdneyWire.com) – If Donald Trump becomes president again, African-Americans stand to lose the most. But so do women, other Black people, brown folks and immigrants – documented and undocumented.Th...

Single Motherhood: A Growing Trend Among Black Women, But at What Cost?

(WIB) – These days, more people are embracing the idea of single motherhood. Black celebrities like supermodel Naomi Campbell and television personality Eboni K. Williams embrace single motherhood and often make it look effortless and empowering.Ca...

Can This HBCU High School Help Black Student Achievement?

By Quintessa Williams | Word In Black(WIB) – In a historic move for education, New York City will see the launch of its first-ever HBCU Early College Prep High School in September 2025. The school, set to open in Southeast Queens, represents an innov...

Where Do Folks Leaving Traditional Church Go?

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black(WIB) – With “The Day God Saw Me as Black” and Unfit Christian, Thomas is pushing the boundaries of what faith communities can look like.Danyelle Thomas is a church girl —& born and bre...

The gross injustice of slavery reparations

Commonwealth leaders concluded last week’s summit in Samoa by announcing that Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. UK prime minister Keir Starmer had tried to refocus the summit around ‘future-facing’...

A Statewide Preview: Black Candidates on Your Nov. 5 Gen Election Ballot

Joe W. Bowers Jr. |& California Black Media& (CBM) – As the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election approaches, a number of Black candidates are running for positions in the United States Congress, the State Senate, and the State Assembly. If ele...

Consumers to Receive $48 Million After Home Renter’s Abuse Case

By Charlene Crowell | Trice Edney Wire(TriceEdneyWire.com) – The nation’s largest corporate landlord for single-family home rentals was recently fined $48 million by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for years-long financial abuses of tenants....

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

You could be mistaken for thinking that reparations are some wacky idea that have never been tried before. Listening to the debate about them in Britain, it’s almost as if the Caribbean nations of the Commonwealth are asking for something unpreceden...

New report calls for community-level reparations to address fallout from War on Drugs on Chicago’s South Side

CHICAGO (CBS) — A new report issued Tuesday offers a glimpse into framework for community-level reparations that would address the negative impact the War on Drugs had on neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. The report follows a two-ye...

Report finds South Side residents want to see reparations for descendants of slaves

CHICAGO (WLS) — The Chicago Urban League released a new report Tuesday on community reparations for descendants of slaves on Chicago’s South Side. Hundreds of interviews with Chicagoans and hundreds of years of American history brought...

Trump, Vance Opted Out of Oregon’s Voter Guide, Contrary to Online Claims of ‘Voter Fraud’

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, declined to submit candidate statements for Oregon’s voter information pamphlet, according to t...

Black Student Leaders Organize Reparations Summit

The Atlanta University Center in Atlanta, Georgia, will host a National N’Daba (Great Gathering) Reparations Summit on November 1-2, 2024, in collaboration with 100 Black students and young leaders. Within the current Complete Reparations Movement,...

Florida’s 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance Misunderstands, Distorts Existing Science

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. An abundance of evidence indicates the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and work well to protect against severe disease. But last month, the state of Florida issued updated...

After Helene, Asheville suspends boards, commissions until 2025. City Council not affected

ASHEVILLE – As residents continue to recover from the devastating damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene, the city of Asheville has suspended all advisory and quasi-judicial boards staffed by city employees and council committees until Jan....