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Black Activists Demand Tax Write-Off in Latest Reparations Move

Elgin Nelson In the latest battle for reparations, Black activists have coined a new strategy in the form of huge tax breaks for African-Americans. The focus on tax breaks for blacks comes after momentum behind the reparations movement has started...

Asst. U.S. Health Secretary stops by Black Family Wellness Expo in Gifford

GIFFORD — Cheryl Campbell wants youth to know that they shouldn’t feel ashamed for seeking help if they’re having a mental health crisis. Campbell, who recalled being bullied as a young girl, said her way of escaping the hurtful taunts from school pe...

UN Chiefs Urge Reparations Action for African Descendants

The United Nations Experts and UN leaders exchanged views about the best ways forward, centred on this year’s theme, A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People...

UN leaders galvanize action for reparations for people of African descent

Experts and UN leaders exchanged views about the best ways forward, centred on this year’s theme, A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. While the decade ends in 2...

With Prop. 1 passage, Gavin Newsom again changes how Californians with mental illness get help

BY JOCELYN WIENER | CALMATTERS (CALMATTERS) – After days of uncertainty, the results are finally in: Californians, by a slim majority, have voted to throw their support behind Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to overhaul how the state care...

California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When Hunter Morgan bought an optometry practice in Southern California three years ago, one of the first things he did was start seeing patients who use Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program for low-incom...

Maryland legislator, council members push to provide slavery reparations

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (7News) — One need not look far in Prince George’s County to find reminders that enslaved people toiled there. The Belair Mansion in Bowie, Maryland, was the site of the Belair Plantation, a horse farm entirely dep...

Culture Vulture Bobbi Althoff Pays Funny Marco $50K For ‘Putting Her On.’ Is This Reparations?

On a new episode of Funny Marco’s popular web series “Open Thoughts,” the comedian and host welcomed renowned culture vulture and podcasting personality Bobbi Althoff. To the shock of many—including Marco himself—Althoff dumped a bag full...

Italian-American leader in Chicago protests proposal to rename Columbus Drive after Barack Obama

A City Council member wants to rename Columbus Drive in downtown Chicago after former President Barack Obama, but an Italian American civic leader wants the street to be left alone.At Wednesday's City Council meeting, Ald. Lamont Robinson (4th) intro...