Category : News Talk

Whitney Houston’s Iconic South Africa Concert to Be Released in First-Ever Live Album and Concert Film

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA(NNPA) – Whitney Houston fans around the world are in for a rare treat as Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston and Primary Wave Music, brings Whitney Houston: The Concert...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Addressing Racial Disparities in Detection, Treatment, and Outcomes

By Ahndrea Blue | The Seattle Medium | Word In BlackThis& post& was originally published on& Seattle MediumCredit: Susan G. Komen 3-Day/Unsplash(WIB) – Each October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a compelling reminder of the prog...

To my distant cousin Justin Welby: our family’s slavery history is truly awful. Let’s be open about it

I don’t know my newfound cousin Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury. We’re not close, in any sense. But we do have a mutual great-great-great-grandfather: Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, who died in 1838. He is five generations back on Welby...

Britain Rules Out Discussing Slavery Reparations at Commonwealth Summit

Britain has confirmed that reparations for the transatlantic slave trade will not be part of its formal agenda at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, despite increasing calls for dialogue on the issue. This development was...

South Carolina to build first monument to an African American. Meet Robert Smalls

BEAUFORT, S.C. – South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a d...

All Black Anton Lienert-Brown opens up on mental health challenges

Anton Lienert-Brown is an All Black, and a very popular one at that. With 79 Test caps to his name, and the responsibility of serving as a vice-captain for this weekend’s Test in Japan, it seems Lienert-Brown is living what many in New Zealand would...

Anti-Harris Ad Misleads on Enforcement of ‘Jessica’s Law’ in California

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. A misleading TV ad from a pro-Donald Trump super PAC claims that, as the attorney general of California, Vice President Kamala Harris “ignored” a state law and “all...

Q&A on the 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons. On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug A...

False Comparison of Kid Rock’s and Taylor Swift’s Hurricane Support

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take As disaster relief efforts continue in the areas affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, a Facebook post makes the false claim that Kid Rock has made “14 trips...

Trump denigrates Harris as ‘lazy,’ invoking a racist trope against Black people

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday called his Democratic opponent Kamala Harris “lazy,” criticizing the vice president with a word long used to demean Black people in racist te...

Keir Starmer faces slavery reparations demands at Commonwealth summit

Labour MPs including Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Clive Lewis have urged their leader to take up the cause. No 10 has already indicated that it will not bow to demands for reparations, despite growing pressure, with a spokesman saying: “Just to be clear, r...

After ‘egregious’ misconduct, a high-ranking California prison official wasn’t fired

By Cayla Mihalovich (CALMATTERS) – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation allowed a high-ranking administrator to return to work despite findings of “egregious misconduct” against a subordinate, according to a rare standal...

Sacramento Mayoral Candidate Cofer’s Plan For A Safer, More Inclusive City

By OBSERVER Newsroom Name: DR. FLOJAUNE “FLO” COFEROccupation: Public health professionalList the top 3 issues you plan to address along with possible solutions.1. Housing and homelessness: Our first priority must be putting people on a path to stab...

Reparations measures stall across US, but advocates undeterred By Reuters

(Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals. The setback last month followed turmoil at Harvard ov...

Reparations measures stall across US, but advocates undeterred

By Michela Moscufo (Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals. The setback last month followed t...