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Experts weigh in after Tulsa judge rejects reparations for 1921 massacre

‘A community was destroyed’: Experts weigh in after Tulsa judge rejects reparations for 1921 massacre | KFOR.com Oklahoma City...

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...

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?...

BOB BARR: The Racial Reparations Train Gathers Steam

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Killer Cerberus heatwave sweeping Europe turns heat maps black amid health alerts

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Cerberus heatwave is bringing temperatures to central and southern Europe that are so extrem...

Reparations push gains steam as communities nationwide consider payment plans — and not just for slavery

The left-wing campaign for cities, states and the federal government to pay reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and racism is gaining momentum as more communities across the country weigh payment proposals – including for historically opp...

Two Black Caucus Members to Serve in Top Assembly Leadership Roles

By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media L to R Assemblymember Isaac Bryan ( D-Los Angeles), & Assemblymember Lori Wilson ( D-Suisun)& (CBM) – After being sworn in as Speaker of the California Assembly last week, Assemblym...

Virginia court quashes false indictment of Black man lynched by mob in 1898

In front of a packed courtroom on Wednesday, a judge in Albemarle County, Virginia, overturned the indictment of a Black man who the court now believes was falsely accused of raping a white woman. John Henry James’s criminal record is now clear. But...

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’...

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...

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....

Most people believe they don’t see color–but only empirically proven ‘blinding’ policies can reduce discrimination in the labor market and criminal justice system

Justice is supposed to be blind, rendered without passion or prejudice, but women and people of color are being discriminated against by the systematic lack of “blinding”–the removal of irrelevant details such as a person’s name, race, and gender–in...

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...

Overdose deaths dropped last year in Allegheny County, though racial disparities persist

The Allegheny County Health Department reports the number of residents who fatally overdosed in 2022 was 689 — 30 fewer deaths compared to 2021. But while the overall overdose rate is down, officials report that deaths among Black residents increas...

Paul F. deLespinasse: Democrats shoot themselves in foot with ‘reparations’ rhetoric

Paul F. deLespinasse As a lifelong Republican until George W. Bush’s Iraq war drove me to register as a Democrat, I am in a strong position to write non-partisan commentaries. But I have never felt comfortable with either party, so I merely m...