Category : News Talk

Detroit Native Earns HBCU Basketball All-American and All-Star Honors

Wayne Memorial High School graduate and Detroit-born Rashad Williams was named to the D1 Men’s HBCU Second Team All-American Team today after posting a superb season as a member of the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions. As a graduate student with seni...

Poland demands compensation from Germany

Poland and Germany are still haunted by their difficult past. Eighty-five years after the German invasion of Poland triggered the start of World War II, the question of whether Germany should pay reparations to its neighbor is back on the agenda. ...

Buoyed by membership gains, insurer Highmark Health swings into the black in 2023

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Howard and coach Kenny Blakeney ready for NCAA First Four after MEAC tournament win

The Dr. Chika Oriuwa Award advances Black health

Mar 19, 2024 Chika Oriuwa served as an ambassador with Temerty Medicine’s Black Student Application Program and was named valedictorian — the first Black woman to become Temerty Medicine’s sole valedictorian. Photo by Christie Vuong. Chika Oriuw...

PERSPECTIVE: The attacks on DEI are costing the country trillions

The assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is not only bad for our economy but is also both racist and shortsighted. Let me be clear: dismantling DEI initiatives will have significant economic consequences for our nation. DEI represents...

SciCheck Staffer Talks About Combatting Health Misinformation on Social Media

Kate Yandell, a SciCheck staff writer, appeared on the CBS News affiliate in Philadelphia to discuss the dangers of health misinformation on social media platforms. Stephanie Stahl, a health reporter for CBS News Philadelphia, interviewed Yandell...

U.S. Court of Appeals dismisses case against Sacramento for violating unhoused community’s rights

SACRAMENTO (US MEDIA GROUP) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a case brought by advocates for the unhoused community against the city and county of Sacramento on Monday. The decision was issued by three judges on Frid...

Opinion: California apologies, reparations would improve our state’s karma

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Legislators in the California State Capitol have proposed two bills offering an apology for the state’s legacy of slavery and compensation to African Americans who lost property due to discriminatory policies....

National Kidney Month: Black Health in Crisis

(AURN News) – In observance of National Kidney Month, Black Health Matters and the National Kidney Foundation have united forces to bring the pressing issue of kidney health within the African American community to the forefront. According to the Na...

Opinion: My family’s land was stolen from the Lakota. Can reparations make it right?

There’s a place in South Dakota, about 25 miles north of Wall Drug, that some locals still call “Jew Flats.” More than 100 years ago, the United States gave my great-great grandparents and their children, cousins and friends, around 30 Jewish famili...

California vs. Hate Resource Line is Entering Second Year of Service

By McKenzie Jackson/California Black Media (CBM) – The California vs. Hate Resource Line, established to assist victims of hate crimes and hate incidents in the Golden State, received 823 calls from 79% of California’s 58 counties during it...

Reparations: Special Criminal Court opts for pragmatism

As the Special Criminal Court (SCC) enters the second year of its second five-year mandate, the UN-backed hybrid tribunal based in Bangui is preparing to pass the reparations test. Like the Court, the amounts are modest, the victims repaired few, an...

Fentanyl Crisis Is Main Topic At District Attorney Thien Ho’s Town Hall

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Sacramento County district attorney Thien Ho discusses the increasing fentanyl deaths in Sacramento County at a town hall in Elk Grove on Feb. 27. Robert J. Hansen, OBSERVER From 2021 to date, over 80...

Research Article – An African Union-Caribbean Community alliance in the global reparations movement: promises, perils, and pitfalls

[These are two excerpts from an article in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.] Introduction Hilary Beckles (Citation2019) argues that the reparations movement is the most significant political tide of the 21st centur...