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Detroit Youth Leaders Grant $250,000 to Support Local Nonprofits This Holiday Season

2023-2024 Skillman President’s Youth Council, (Credit: Skillman Foundation) This holiday season, the Skillman Foundation President’s Youth Council, a dynamic group of Detroiters aged 13 to 23, made an impactful statement by awarding $250,000 in...

2024 in Review: 7 Questions for CAAASA – The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint

Dr. Adam Clark, president of the California Association of African American Administrators and Superintendents Association PHOTO: California Black Media By Edward Henderson, California Black Media The California Association of Afric...

Piquette Flats Transforms Detroit Landmark Into Affordable Workforce Housing

The city of Detroit just gained another milestone in its efforts to provide affordable housing that uplifts working families and honors the city’s historic roots. Piquette Flats, a newly completed adaptive reuse project, transforms a once-vacant indu...

Toward Solidarity: Reparations and Land Back on California’s Horizon – Non Profit News

Image credit: Liudmila Chernetska on iStock In the 1960s and ’70s, the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement (AIM)—two groups organizing against distinct yet interwoven histories of oppression—recognized their shared goals. They built an al...

Denise J Lewis Leads the Future of UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust

Denise J. Lewis takes the helm as the new Chairperson of the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust Board, stepping into a critical leadership role following the passing of founding member Robert Naftaly. Her appointment, effective immediately, marks a s...

FORCE Detroit Founder Alia Harvey Quinn to Step Down; Dujuan Zoe Kennedy to Take the Lead as New Executive Director

Alia Harvey Quinn, the visionary founder of FORCE Detroit, has announced that she will step down as Executive Director at the end of the year. Under her leadership, FORCE Detroit has become a national model for Community Violence Intervention (CVI),...

Rising Strong: JABS Gym Rebuilds and Reopens After Eastern Market Collapse

The partial collapse of the nearly century-old building at 2501 Russell Street in Detroit’s Eastern Market was a devastating blow to the heartbeat of a community. On September 16, 2023, when the southern walls of the building’s third and fourth floor...

Illegal black market weight loss drugs sold out of Mid-South home and clinics, drug task force says

MEDINA, Tenn. – More and more Americans are turning to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to lose weight and help with other health issues. As they become more popular, officials have a warning for anyone taking those medications: make sure they a...

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Hartford Organization Funds Mental Health Initiatives For Black Males

Hartford Foundation for Public Giving HARTFORD, CT — A city-based giving foundation has recently awarded funding to five area organizations to help Black males cope with mental health issues. This past spring, the Beta Iota Boulé Foundation and t...

Black lawmakers, activists blame racism for Daniel Penny’s acquittal: ‘This is the evil of White supremacy’

Lawmakers, activists and commentators argued that the acquittal of Marine veteran Daniel Penny Monday shows the United States is a racially unjust society. Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on a...

Residents Of Sacramento Housing Complex Live With Mold. Single Mother Fights For Repairs

By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Marcheri Smith has lived in public housing at Alder Grove for seven years. For the last three the single mom has endured mold in her bathroom because the maintenance crew for her complex refused to fix it.T...

Sacramento State Introduces Program To Support Foster And Unhoused Students

By Maureen Ojiambo | Special to The OBSERVERNext fall, Sacramento State will admit students who have experienced foster care and homelessness through the new Guardian Scholars Promise program.On Nov. 13, President Dr. Luke Wood said in a statement th...

2024 in Review: Seven Questions for Frontline Doulas

Edward Henderson | California Black MediaKhefri Riley (Facebook photo) co-founder of Frontline DoulasFrontline Doulas provides African American families in Los Angeles County non-medical professional perinatal services at no cost.This includes physi...

Black Faith Leaders Regroup to Strengthen Disappointed Voters

By Hamil R. Harris | Trice Edney WirePastor Jamal Harrison Bryant(TriceEdneyWire.com) – African-American faith leaders across the country are raising their voices in response to the results of the 2024 election with a mix of feelings in terms of how...