Category : News Talk

Why Many Black Americans Feel Solidarity With Palestinians

In April 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois stepped onto the stage of the ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat in Midtown Manhattan. His beard was grizzled and he was still working out how to lecture through new dentures. In a word, he was old. During his long life,...

Reparations for slavery a top priority for new Commonwealth Secretary-General

THE NEWLY-appointed Commonwealth Secretary-General is promising a unified voice on reparations. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, leaders announced the selection of the Honourable Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, who i...

Black Women’s Health Imperative’s ‘ME Period’ Film Starring Tabitha And Choyce Brown Gets Real About Menstruation

Robin L. Marshall As an adolescent, talking about getting your period for the first time with your mom or the mother figure in your life has never been easy, but now, thankfully, there are a plethora of re...

Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick

Britain’s former colonies should be thankful for the legacy of empire, not demanding reparations, according to the Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick. In comments that were described by a Labour MP as “deeply offensive”, the former min...

Black Leaders, Political Orgs, Sound Alarm About Project 2025

Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey‌ ‌|‌ ‌California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌(CBM) – With the general elections just a few days away, Black organizations and leaders, including Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA-43), are sounding the alarm about Project 2025, the Heritage Fo...

Playing our future: Funding for the arts education is music to their ears

By Donna Apidone | Solving Sacramento“You’re human. You make music.”Tim Stanley, who leads the String Project at Sacramento State, believes everyone has music within them, but he understands that most people do not pursue music as a career. He is gra...

A playwright in Africa hopes to break the cultural silence on rape

By Moustapha Diallo | The Associated Press Oliva Ouedraogo performs in her own play “Queen” (known by its French name “Reine”) about rape and incest, at the Acte Sept cultural center in Bamako, Mali, on Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Seydou Camara)BAMAKO,...

Study Uncovers Disparities in Post-Surgical Pain Management for Black Patients

(WIB) – Black patients recovering from major surgery are less likely to receive multimodal analgesia, a pain management approach proven to reduce opioid dependence, according to new research presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2024 annual meeting in Ph...

Black Retirees Growing Older and Poorer: Next Year’s Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Lowest in 10 years

By Charlene Crowell | Trice Edney Wire (TriceEdneyWire.com) – As Americans live longer, the ability to remain financially independent is an ongoing struggle. Especially for Black and other people of color whose lifetime incomes are often lower than t...