Category : News Talk

Without progress for reparations, California’s apology for slavery is disingenuous

California and its leaders continue to misunderstand what is needed to reconcile with its history of enabling slavery and racial discrimination. Newsom, who already showed his performative nature by vetoing substantive reparations bills, signed into...

Commentary – A Cautionary Tale for Cash-Strapped CA School Districts: Vallejo City Unified Pays Off $60M Loan

Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media& OPINION (CBM) – Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD) has repaid its $60 million state loan, ending 20 years of state oversight that began in 2004. The loan, caused by severe financial mism...

Winning in Corporate America: Black MBA Assoc. Event to Offer Insights

McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media(CBM) – Black professionals and business leaders will discuss challenges and share insights on how to spearhead positive change in their communities and workplaces at the National Black MBA Association’s...

A landmark fund for climate reparations is beginning to languish

At the annual United Nations climate conference in Dubai last year, the world’s countries launched a long-awaited fund for global climate reparations. This so-called loss and damage fund, which is supposed to compensate developing countries for the...

Senior Moments: Black Seniors Find Vitality Through Dance, Community

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff WriterGetting on a crowded light rail train bound for Cosumnes River College, an older gentleman, aided by a cane, is offered a seat by a woman in her late 40s. The man declines, thanking the much younger woman...

Navigating America’s Civic Hellhole After a Felony Conviction

By Gwen McKinney | Word In Black In many states, people convicted of felonies are sentenced to a kind of civic death penalty, permanently losing their right to vote.(WIB) – Only in America…Only two states (Maine and Vermont) do not impose votin...

Succession Plans Are a Must for Black Organization’s Survival

By Aswad Walker | Houston Defender | Word In BlackThis& post& was originally published on& Defender NetworkCredit: Taylor Grote/Unsplash(WIB) – If one of the greatest, most influential Black organizations of the past 100 years can f...

Kim Porter’s children say she didn’t write bestselling memoir about Diddy

By Kaitlyn Huamani | The Associated Press FILE – Sean “P. Diddy” Combs directs photographers as they sing “Happy Birthday,” to him as his date Kim Porter, left, listens, after Combs arrived for his 35th birthday celebration at Cipriani on Wall...

Jared Goff’s Perfect Game, Detroit’s Potent Offense Lead Lions to 42-29 Win Over Seahawks on Monday Night Football

Image Courtesy of the Detroit Lions Jared Goff threw a perfect game with no incompletions, setting an NFL record for most passes without an incompletion to finish a game. Amon-Ra St. Brown threw a touchdown pass and caught one, too. David Montgomery...

Trump, Vance Wrong About ‘Illegal Immigrant Murderers’

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In campaign appearances over the weekend in the swing state of Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, falsely accused Vice President Kamala...

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book compares Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the public intellectual whose writing has sparked national conversations about reparations and race in the United States, has written a book indicting Israel for its mistreatment of Palestinians and occupation of their territory....

In Focus SoCal: California reparations bills; Paralympian returns home

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have helped Black families reclaim or receive compensation for land that was seized unfairly by the government. This was a blow to a key part of a package of reparations bills that the California Legislativ...

Here’s Why LA’s Top Law Enforcement Official Wants to Ban the Death Penalty

By District Attorney George Gascón | Word In Black(WIB) – The execution of Marcellus Williams serves as a stark reminder of the injustices of the death penalty. Today, as we reflect and mourn this death, we must consider the facts of the final hours...

Newsom signs reparations bill, including state apology for slavery

The headliner bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom requires officials to sign and display a plaque in the state Capitol that includes the following: “The State of California apologizes for perpetuating the harms African Americans faced by having i...

Dikembe Mutombo, an NBA Hall of Fame player and tireless advocate for basketball, dies at 58 from brain cancer

Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain cancer, the league announced. He was 58. His family revealed two years ago t...