Category : News Talk

Black Hawk College to host health care career fair Oct. 17

Looking for a job in health care? Local health care employers will be recruiting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, at Black Hawk College. The Health Care Career Fair will run 2 hours in the Health Sciences Center at the college’s Quad-Cities...

St. Louis Reparations Commission recommends grants and policy reforms in final report

The St. Louis Reparations Commission released its final report Tuesday outlining the deep history of chattel slavery and systemic discrimination in St. Louis and how its continued impact on Black residents has created disparities in housing, educatio...

Abortion isn’t on the ballot in California, but state candidates can’t stop talking about it

By Alexei Koseff (CALMATTERS) – A campaign spot flooding TV airwaves in the Sacramento region this election season warns that the incumbent Republican Assemblymember is “backed by anti-abortion extremists” who “know he’ll back their dangerous,...

Fayetteville council considers reparations resolution

Tonight, the Fayetteville City Council is set to vote on a reparations resolution for African Americans. Councilmember DeAndre Jones introduced the measure and drafted it with the help of community activist Lowell Taylor. The resolution is to train...

Harris pledges to legalize marijuana as centerpiece of her policy targeting African-Americans

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Meme Rehashes Old, False Claim That J6 Committee Destroyed Evidence

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take The House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issued a more than 800-page report presenting and analyzing the evidence about wha...

Dine for a Cause: ‘Let’s Do Dinner Detroit’ Returns to Support Families and Celebrate Culinary Excellence

Detroit is about to embark on a culinary journey with a purpose. “Let’s Do Dinner Detroit,” presented by Stella Artois, returns for its second year from October 20-27. This week-long event brings together over 25 of Detroit’s finest restaurants, offe...

David Lammy is mad to have flirted with reparations

As spokesman for the Caribbean Community (Caricom) of 20 countries, Dr Hilary Beckles has long campaigned for Britain to make amends for slavery by paying reparations to the former colonies of the West Indies. One politician that Beckles has always...

Obama applauds Harris plan to give Black businesses 1 million forgivable loans

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former President Barack Obama on Monday applauded Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to offer 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, claiming the move will help these individuals “build wealth.” The Harris campaign a...

Are African American Males Really Embracing Trump?

Let me begin by stating that I am not an African American. So what qualifies me to write this post? I am a retired teacher from Brooklyn, New York, home to America’s second-largest African-American community after Chicago. I taught in predominately...

“Poor health is detracting from growth”: Dame Carol Black

The event, which took place at the ABI’s head office in London, kicked off with Rebecca Ward, assistant director, head of protection and health, ABI, speaking about the importance of mental health as well as partnerships to reduce the healthc...

Venezuela demands historic reparations from London for exploited Caribbean countries

President Maduro during his programm, “Con Maduro+”, October 14, 2024 Photo: VTV Caracas, October 15 (RHC)– The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, on his program “Con Maduro+”, expressed his support for the c...

Central African Republic reparations: what victims say about first payments

“For the first time in the history of the Central African Republic, a reparation measure ordered by a court has been implemented for the direct benefit of victims who were civil parties,” wrote the information unit of the Special Criminal Court (SCC...

On Your November Ballot: Prop 35 Would Make an Existing Tax on Managed Health Care Plans Permanent

Edward Henderson | California Black Media(CBM) – Prop 35 would make the state pay doctors more money for treating patients who are covered by Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federal program Medicaid, and fund other health care services, i...

Starmer rejects slavery reparations bid ahead of Commonwealth summit

Your support helps us to tell the story This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support a...