Category : News Talk

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Supporting Black-Owned Businesses at Mackinac Policy Conference

Spring is a time for new beginnings, and every May, we come together to discuss new ideas, solutions, and innovations at the Mackinac Policy Conference. May is also small business month, and at the conference, one key topic of discussion will be how...

Few Wisconsin restaurants are Black-owned. A Milwaukee incubator aims to change that.

Only 2 percent of restaurants in Wisconsin are owned by Black entrepreneurs, according to the latest estimates of the National Restaurant Association. But one Milwaukee business is aiming to change that dynamic. Turning Tables calls itself a “food i...

Candidates for Delaware’s next governor weigh in on Black maternal health, food deserts

Four candidates for Delaware’s next governor weighed in on a variety of topics during a gubernatorial forum Monday hosted by the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League at Canaan Baptist Church in New Castle. The debate was moderated by Kerwin Gaines,...

Sen. Steve Bradford: “The Time is Right” to Run for Lieutenant Gov.

Antonio‌& ‌Ray‌& ‌Harvey‌& ‌|‌& ‌California‌& ‌Black‌& ‌Media‌ Senator Steve Bradford& (CBM) – California State Sen. Steven& Bradford& (D-Inglewood), 64, says the “time is right” and he is “up to the c...

70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn’t

By Annie Ma | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional. On paper, that decision — the fabled& Brown v. Board of Education, tau...

AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

By John Seewer, Reese Dunklin and Taylor Stevens | The Associated Press This combination of images from body-camera videos shows police encounters with, top row from left, Jeffrey Melvin in Colorado in 2018, Johnathan Binkley in Tennessee in 2019...

MLB Needs to Help Young Black Kids Love Baseball Again

By Zachary W. Carter | New York Amsterdam News | Word In Black (WIB) – I read with dismay an article entitled “Harlem Little League faces steep registration decline as 35th season looms,” in the Amsterdam News, both because of the evident l...

After a Child’s Death, California Weighs Rules for Phys Ed During Extreme Weather

By Samantha Young | KFF Health News | Special to the OBSERVER LAKE ELSINORE — Yahushua Robinson was an energetic boy who jumped and danced his way through life. Then, a physical education teacher instructed the 12-year-old to run outside on a day...

Community Choir Offers Songs and Scholarships for College Students

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – When the audience gathers at Grace United Methodist Church for the annual Spring concert of the Community Concert Choir of Baltimore (CCCB), they will hear the music of the church sung by...

Fishers say next case vs China should focus on reparations for WPS damage

MANILA, Philippines — A fisherfolk group has urged that the next legal action against China seek reparations for the destruction of the marine environment and resources in the West Philippine Sea following reports of giant clam harvesting in Panatag...

Government compensation for slavery? NJ may lead in answering that question

NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) — In just over a month, on Juneteenth, a preliminary report will release one of the country’s most comprehensive analyses of reparations, ways to compensate for economic, legal, and political inequities resulting from slavery, J...

RFK Jr. vows to give black farmers $5 BILLION in reparations

By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:05 EDT, 20 May 2024 | Updated: 21:12 EDT, 20 May 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a campaign promise to black farmers that will give them $5 billion in reparations should he win...

RFK Jr. says he would give black farmers $5B in reparations –…

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he will support giving black farmers $5 billion in reparations once in office — throwing his weight behind a provision in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan that was struck down b...

Opinion: Here’s a Way to Make Health Care Safer for Black Mothers

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Black Bostonians demand more than $15billion in slavery reparations

The Boston People’s Reparations Commission met on Saturday Reverend Kevin Peterson said ‘every life is incalculable’ so $15M is ‘not enough’ By Isabelle Stanley For Dailymail.Com Published: 16:57 EDT, 20 May 2024...