Category : News Talk

How gas prices have changed in Sacramento in the last week

By Stacker Canva (Stacker) – Fuel prices continued to rise through Monday. A gallon of regular gasoline hit an average of $3.68, up about 4 cents from a week earlier. Prices are now at their highest point so far this year, according...

Building a Bridge Between Faith and HR

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – From helping businesses with recruitment or workforce development, to aiding folks who need help tailoring their resumes and prepping for interviews, Hennither Gant has it covered. The Bal...

To Biden, Black Moms Matter. To Trump, Killing Roe Matters More

By Tonya Lewis Lee | Word In Black (WIB) – As the maternal mortality rate in America continues to spike, Black Maternal Health Week is an urgent call to action. American women are dying at a higher rate from pregnancy-related causes than in...

Middle-Aged Black Women’s Brain Function Preserved by Heart Health

American Heart Association Research Highlights: Middle-aged Black women with better heart health were less likely to show a decline in mental function compared with middle-aged Black women with worse heart health. In this study, heart health...

A controversy involving Verge revealed deep cracks in Sacramento’s art scene — and left many wondering why it had to go down like this

By Hannah Ross | Solving Sacramento The Sacramento arts scene may be on the brink of transformation. Since a pandemic that had threatened to gut local arts scenes globally, the community has worked tirelessly first to survive, and then to rebran...

Trump’s Partisan Spin on TikTok

Former President Donald Trump said he wants young voters to know that “Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.” But a TikTok ban enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress. Trump himself tried to ban TikTok as president thr...

Listening to Black Men in California – California Health Care Foundation

The Listening to Black Californians study included hour-long interviews with 49 Black men, four focus groups of Black men with 26 total participants, and 1,235 male survey respondents. This study is notable for the large number and diversity of Blac...

A grassroots effort in Michigan is raising reparations — while the government lags

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: A grassroots reparations effort in Michigan is making progress where government-led attempts have stalled. Sophia Saliby of member station WKAR in East Lansing reports. SOPHIA SALIBY, BYLINE: 2020 was a turning point for Lansing,...

Asheville, Buncombe reparations effort has two months to wrap up recommendations

The historic, first-of-its-kind Community Reparations Commission is barreling toward a deadline for making recommendations to repair damage caused by public and private systemic racism. At last night’s meeting, the 25-member commission was split on...

Parks in Downtown Detroit Gear Up for ‘Draft Day in the D’ Festivities

The upcoming Draft Day in the D event by Downtown Detroit Partnership promises to be a thrilling three-day celebration with something for everyone. Taking place from April 25th to 27th, this football extravaganza will be held at some of Downtown Detr...

Big Sean, Detroit Youth Choir, and Bazzi to Headline NFL Draft Concert Series

Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling recording artist, and Detroit-native Big Sean will headline opening night of the 2024 NFL Draft Concert Series in downtown Detroit on April 25. Along with Big Sean, other headliners for the April 25-27 NFL Dra...

Black-Owned Businesses Are Helping Expand On Raleigh’s Economic Development

by Sharelle Burt April 23, 2024 Let’s pack up and move to Raleigh! Business in North Carolina is finally bouncing back after taking a hit during the COVID-19 pan...

The Case for Reparations: Not for Slavery but for Everything Else Since

David Horowitz describes himself as a “lifelong civil rights activist,” though he’s recently only concerned himself with the rights of white people. Horowitz is a mentor to Stephen Miller, one of the authors of the Trump immigration policy featuring...

USDA lifts PACA reparations on Texas business

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Prometo Produce Corp., BB #:297837 satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $15,400 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving...

Biden to deliver commencement speech at Atlanta HBCU Morehouse

President Biden will deliver the commencement speech at the Morehouse College commencement in Atlanta this May and leaders there are ecstatic. “The invitation to President Biden was extended last September, and we are deeply honored that he...