Category : News Talk

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promises To Pay Black Farmers $5B In Reparations, Despite Unconstitutional Ruling

by Sharelle Burt May 24, 2024 Black farmers – -who make up 1.4% of the country’s farmers — have continued to fight against discriminatory practices both current...

Chicago suburb faces federal class action over reparations program

In The News | May 24, 2024 From Courthouse News: Six people filed a federal class action against the Chicago suburb of Evanston on Wednesday, hoping to scrap the racial component of a local program meant to address historic racia...

Utah’s first Black-owned brewery moving to Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah’s first Black-owned craft brewery is leaving southwestern Utah and moving to Salt Lake City. Policy Kings Brewery is owned and operated by Deandre and Sara Ridgel. The husband-and-wife duo opened Cedar City’s only craft b...

Lawsuit challenges Evanston’s first-of-its-kind reparations program

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A federal lawsuit alleges that Evanston’s reparations program is unconstitutional. The lawsuit challenges the race-based eligibility requirement of the reparations program, which it says violates the Equal Protection Clause of the...

Bridging the Gap: Sacramento’s Community Engagement Team Empowers Black Businesses

By Christine Shelby | OBSERVER Staff Writer A lesser-known city initiative launched in 2019 is playing a part in addressing the distinct challenges underserved communities face. Led by Lynette Hall, the Community Engagement Team works to support...

Calif. moves bills for reparations as RFK Jr. pitches payments for Black farmers

[LAUREN TAYLOR] THE TOPIC OF REPARATIONS IS BACK IN THE HEADLINES THIS WEEK. FROM COAST-TO-COAST LAWMAKERS ARE LOOKING AT THE SENSITIVE ISSUE AND HEARING FROM MEMBERS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. AND ONE LONG-SHOT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS BETTING – IT’L...

Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes for homeless Californians. A year later, none have opened

By Marisa Kendall (CALMATTERS) – In March 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before a crowd in Sacramento’s Cal Expo event center and made a promise: He’d send 1,200 tiny homes to shelter homeless residents in the capital city and three other place...

Posts Misleadingly Link Town Clerk’s Case to 2020 Presidential Election

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take A Michigan town clerk pleaded no contest in 2023 to a charge of misconduct in office. Social media posts misleadingly highlight her case to push the false narrative tha...

‘Time To Elevate’

Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer An interactive stage play that brought awareness of as well as solutions to the devastation plaguing the Black community played to two capacity crowds of 200 people at the Guild Theater in Oak Park on May...

Black AF Art Auction Showcases Local Talent

Williamena Kwapo | OBSERVER Staff Writer On the corner of K and 16th streets in Sacramento sits an art gallery filled with 40 works of vibrant, multifaceted, eclectic art. The sign reads “Black AF Art Auction.” Each piece in the gallery was creat...

Trump, Allies Misrepresent FBI Order on Document Search at Mar-a-Lago

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take FBI agents who searched for classified documents held by former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 followed standard protocol. But Trump supporters and social...

Reparations package clears California’s state Senate. What would the bills do?

California lawmakers’ years-long effort to establish reparations for Black residents took a step forward this week after a package of proposals cleared the state Senate. The three bills would create agencies and funding sources to begin compensatin...

Evanston Race-Based Reparations For Housing Discrimination Faces Constitutional Challenge

EVANSTON, IL — More than three years after aldermen approved a plan to distribute cash to Black residents and their descendants, a conservative legal nonprofit filed a class action lawsuit arguing that Evanston’s municipal reparations program...

Democrats are putting ‘progressive prosecutors’ on trial

Remember how the campaign for progressive prosecutors started: As political arbitrage. Unless an incumbent was beset by scandals, the more than 2,000 local elections for district attorneys and county prosecutors were fairly low-profile and low-cost...

What to do about mental health crisis among Black males

Amid a mental health crisis affecting both younger and adult Black males, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research held a daylong symposium on May 13 to have critical conversations untangling the complexities of the problem an...