Category : News Talk

Survey: Help Reimagine News and Information in the Black Community

By Word In Black (WIB) – Malcolm X once said, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”...

Buyer beware: Unregulated ‘buy now, pay later’ loans can lead to greater debt and higher costs for you

By Sam Bourgi | Stacker (Stacker) – America’s debt addiction takes on a new twist—thanks to opaque, unregulated “buy now, pay later” loans that have swept retail in the past few years. There’s no single definitio...

End of Internet Subsidies Threatens Telehealth Access

By Sarah Jane Tribble | KFF Health News | Word In Black (WIB) – For Cindy Westman, $30 buys a week’s worth of gas to drive to medical appointments and run errands. It’s also how much she spent on her monthly internet bill before the fede...

Meet the Genius Behind Your Church’s Digital Donations

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – If you give digitally to your church, your favorite charity or nonprofit organization, then you know Wale Mafolasire. Maybe not by name, but his most favorite invention is something you ca...

Black maternal health: Addressing the national crisis

Too many women in America are dying or suffering severe complications to pregnancy, but Black women are seeing even higher risks of poor outcomes. Maternal deaths rose 40% in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to figures from the Centers f...

To succeed with health care AI, get rid of the black box

AMA News Wire To succeed with health care AI, get rid of the black box Apr 15, 2024 The use of augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—in health care is rapidly evolving, but experts say its growth and adoption c...

Milwaukee health program helps Black prostate cancer survivors

Helping Black prostate cancer survivors Participants and researchers share how it’s benefiting the community. MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee program is focusing on helping Black prostate cancer survivors successfully recover. All me...

Cleveland hosts its first Black Maternal Health Equity Summit

CLEVELAND — The Clinical Translational Science Collaborative at Case Western Reserve University hosted its first Black Maternal Health Equity Summit at Cleveland State University. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens delivered a keynote address and gave local...

Fathers making an impact on Black Maternal Health

TAMPA, Fla. — We’ve heard the devastating numbers from the Florida Department of Health that show Black women were almost four times more likely to have a pregnancy-related death compared to white women. The numbers from the Centers for Disease Cont...

O.J. Simpson’s trial forced us to talk about domestic violence. We’re not done yet.

The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman led to one of the country’s most watched legal cases: The football superstar O.J. Simpson stood accused of killing his ex-wife and Goldman in a trial that sparked widespread debate about...

Does Australia owe Fiji $75 billion reparations for historical blackbirding?

Image: iStock In 2023, an American economics firm, Brattle, provided its reparation calculations to a symposium on Transatlantic Slavery Reparations chaired by international judge Patrick Robinson. Brattle calculated that the USA and slave-trading E...

Wayne State University Honors Creation Of African American Studies Department And Student Protests That Birthed It 35 Years Ago

by Daniel Johnson April 14, 2024 The protest involved a number of students taking over the Helen Newberry Joy Library which led to the creation the Department of African-American...