Category : News Talk

Healthier Hearts in Middle Age Help Black Women’s Brains Stay Strong

Key Takeaways Better heart health is associated with a sharper aging mind for middle-aged Black women Black women in worse heart health experienced a 10% decrease in their mental processing over two decades White women did not have a similar...

At Annapolis Film Festival, new documentary shows side of nuclear test ‘Oppenheimer’ did not tell

They thought they were playing with warm snow. In the summer of 1945, a dance troupe of young girls from El Paso, Texas had made their way to the mountains of Ruidoso, New Mexico, where their instructor would host camps once the Texas heat became unb...

The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) Will Hurt African American and Other Minority Owned Newspapers

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. | NNPA (NNPA) – California state legislators are pushing legislation that would enrich huge legacy media corporations at the expense of independent, minority-owned newspapers who serve their individual communi...

NAWBO-CA To Host 2024 Propel Conference For Women In Business

By Williamena Kwapo | OBSERVER Staff Writer The National Association of Women Business Owners, California (NAWBO-CA), is set to hold the Propel 2024 Conference in Sacramento.& The event, themed “Elevate, Transform, Advocate,”...

To Stop Fentanyl Deaths, Knocking on Doors and Handing Out Overdose Kits

By Nicole Leonard | WHYY | KFF Health News | Word In Black (WIB) – On a narrow street lined with row houses and an auto body shop in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Marsella Elie climbs a home’s front steps and knocks har...

A Builder Of Dreams

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Two Sacramento State students were sharing their stories about being foster youth when the marching band began playing and United Way surprised them and eight other students with a $60,000 check at the...

Key moments in the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest abortion case that could change how women get care

By Amanda Seitz, Rebecca Boone and Mark Sherman | The Associated Press Dueling protests were taking place outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The court was hearing arguments Wednesday over whether state abortion bans enacted after its s...

Reparations to be paid to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Ukraine

The first reparation payments are to be made in the next few weeks to survivors of wartime rape by Russian soldiers during the invasion of Ukraine, in a move that Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, called “an important step towards restoring justi...

NFL Star Sauce Gardner Gifts 25 Detroit PAL Youth with Microsoft Surface Laptops

Photo Credit: Detroit PAL Sauce Gardner, a prominent name in the world of American football who once played for Detroit PAL Youth Football and later became a Pro Bowl New York Jet cornerback, surprised his hometown with an unexpected act of kindness...

Detroit Breaks Day-One NFL Draft Attendance Record with 275,000-Plus Spectators

The passion of football fans knows no bounds, and it’s evident in the way that more than 275,000 people packed into downtown Detroit Thursday night, April 25, to break the NFL’s single-day draft attendance record. The previous record was...

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: The NFL Draft and quarterback dreams

The quarterback position has been drafted the most times at number one overall in the NFLDraft. Each time, each team was hoping the quarterback they drafted would change theirfortune. Sometimes, it works out, as it did for the Indianapolis Colts when...

Lawsuit Filed Against City, Officers In Knife-Wielding Man’s Shooting Death On Light Rail

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer The father of a man who was shot and killed by police on a Regional Transit light rail in August is suing the city and two officers for failing to use de-escalation tactics. On Aug. 15, Sacramento po...

NFL Drafts Prospects Flaunt Their Style on the Red Carpet at the Fox Theatre in Detroit

On a night where just 13 NFL prospects showed up to attend the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit, the pre-show red carpet attend was a star-studded affair, as soon-to-be pro football players were dressed to the nines for thousands of fans and media members....

PERSPECTIVE: Remembering late playwright August Wilson on his birthday

Playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer on Oct. 2, 2005, in Seattle. He was 60, and the “theater’s poet of Black America” was experiencing a rising celebrity. His work gave voice to 100 years of Black history and struggle.&...

How California Dems Are Finding Workarounds to Cash Payment Race Reparations

Experts say the proposals may be unconstitutional California state senator Steven Bradford (R) (Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) California Democrats are finding ways to make reparations to black descendants of slaves that don’t include dire...