Category : News Talk

Conference sheds light on healthcare disparities for Black women

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Black women are at a disproportionate rate of having unfair treatment with it comes to medical issues. That includes high infant mortality rates and even struggles to get proper health insurance coverage from providers. A loca...

Sacramento inches closer to implementing reparations

Any sensible American should adopt an unambiguous moral judgment against slavery. Chattel slavery was a sinful impediment to human progress and a stain upon our nation. Almost two centuries after the institution of race-based slavery was abolished,...

Black Owned Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

This year, explore Black owned Mother’s Day gift ideas from GOODEE. GOODEE is a leading curated, marketplace of the world’s most coveted and collectable products that promote good design, ethical sourcing, and positive social impact. GOODEE founders,...

Historic Michigan Central Train Station Set for Grand Opening in Detroit’s Corktown Neighborhood

Michigan Central on Tuesday unveiled plans for the grand reopening of the historic Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, revealing a star-studded opening night concert and a 10-day open house. During a present...

Katt Williams Takes on Reparations and Hunter Biden in Live Netflix Special

INGLEWOOD, California—Given a live global platform Saturday night by Netflix, Katt Williams closed out an electric hour of comedy punctuated by multiple audio/visual cues with a call for the United States to pay out reparations for enslaving generati...

Imani Tafari-Ama

There were no drum rolls or blaring bells to mark Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s pronouncement late in the day on Tuesday, April 23, that his country must apologise and assume its outstanding responsibility for colonial crimes commit...

Climate reparations

The climate change crisis is not a future possibility but a present reality. From floods in Europe, droughts in Africa and, most recently, heavy rainfall in Dubai, the rapidly changing climate is already affecting millions of people around the w...

Black youth face multiple barriers accessing mental health care, experts say

Black youth in Canada face multiple barriers in getting access to mental health services — and health-care providers can make the situation more difficult, experts say. The Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario is holding a conference in Toronto...

Detroit’s Public Transit Triumphs During Record-Breaking NFL Draft Week

Last week, Detroit was packed with activity as the NFL Draft attracted huge numbers of visitors, significantly boosting the use of the city’s public transit systems. The Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan reported extr...

Black entrepreneurs still struggle to access financing in Arizona, nationwide, study says

In Arizona and across the country, Black business owners still lag in access to financing and capital to grow their businesses, a new study from the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity shows. According to the study, about 40 percent of Black-owned b...

Q&A on H5N1 Bird Flu

On March 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that avian influenza had been detected in American dairy cattle. On April 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported that the agency had detected genetic material from the bird flu vi...

Pope Francis: ‘Rediscover the practice of reparation to the Sacred Heart ‘

Meeting with participants in a conference organized in Rome on the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the apparitions and subsequent devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pope Francis calls for a rediscovery of this Christian practice of re...

Black youth face multiple barriers in accessing mental health care, experts say

The need for environmental justice reparations in Omaha

The freeway that bifurcated North Omaha was marketed as an infrastructure development that would benefit all of Omaha. However, it solidified segregation, dramatically decreased Black homeownership and led to the amplification of environmental injus...

Report: Black Women Doctors are Underrepresented in Health Care Sector

By Emil Guillermo How the nation’s first College of Ethnic studies came about, bringing together Latino, African American and Asian American disciplines may offer some clues as to how to ease the current turmoil on American college campuses over the...