Category : News Talk

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

My first luxury: a Tiffany necklace

Shopping for designer goods is about more than beauty, workmanship and cost. It’s an emotional experience that often comes with a personal story. In this series, women recall a singular piece and a moment in their journey into luxury. Westchest...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

My Word | US is obligated pay reparations

The word of the year is reparation. Its meaning is to repair a wrong, to compensate the wronged entity to help make right that wrong. Is there any reparation that can ever make right what has been done to those that are called black in this country?...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

The Dangerous Groundswell for Black Reparations

Recent months have witnessed well organized efforts to institute multiple reparation programs to undo wrongs done to Black Americans over the tangled course of this nation’s history. These claims fail on both legal and moral grounds. Let’...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

Taxes on the Wealthy Could Fund Reparations

The Supreme Court‘s latest attempt at forcing “colorblindness” in a society marked by racial inequality led it to gut affirmative action in higher education. But there’s still much that can be done to bridge racial economic in...

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

Museum Examines Life, Activism of Angela Davis

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Museums are known as places that showcase beautiful things and artifacts that have withstood the test of time. Often that means alabaster statues and still life from a European perspective....

Lifestyle / News Talk - 2 months ago

Last Call To Have Black History Documented

By Jared D. Childress | OBSERVER Staff Writer Patricia Jones Penn of St. Andrews AME Church with historian and project consultant Carson Anderson. St. Andrews is the oldest Black congregation on the West Coast, he says. Jared D. Childress, OBSERV...