Category : News Talk

Antarctic Ice Loss Is Significant, Contrary to Claims

SciCheck Digest Antarctica is losing ice mass to the ocean, contributing to global sea level rise. But a popular video misrepresented work focused on Antarctic ice shelves — which float in the sea at the edges of the continent — to incorrectly su...

Evanston’s reparations program, meant to attack discrimination, is accused of being discriminatory

News that a conservative nonprofit legal group is challenging Evanston, Illinois’ groundbreaking reparations program got me thinking about the many attempts to redress the wrongs of systemic racism through monetary compensation. Americans have a...

Trump’s Latest False Claim About the U.S.-China Trade Deficit

The total U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and services in 2023 was about $252 billion, the lowest it has been in 14 years. Former President Donald Trump was way off when he falsely claimed that the U.S.-China trade gap is about four times as...

Gaza Tunnel Photo Mislabeled on Social Media

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take A photo taken in January shows a large tunnel under Gaza’s northern border with Israel, reportedly used in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. But recent social media pos...

Black Entrepreneur/ Holistic Health Coach Launches 3 New Apps to Help Beat Diabetes Naturally

Pilot Program Offers Coaching For $0 Out of Pocket Utilizing New Revolutionary Apps Nationwide — Meet David Hebb, an African American Holistic Health & Wellness Practitioner and the founder of Healisticly, a pilot program that utilizes revoluti...

This Trump VP candidate came to Philly and said Black families were stronger during the Jim Crow era. Now Rep. Byron Daniels is in trouble in D.C.

In his struggle to fend off the furor he caused after suggesting Black people were better off under Jim Crow segregation at an event in Philadelphia aimed at helping the GOP reach Black voters, a frustrated U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) told CN...

Right-Wing Hater Group Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Chicago Subu

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Carolyn Cole / Getty In today’s episode of Black People Can’t Have Nice Things Because The Beneficiaries Of White Supremacy Can’t Mind Their Own Business, a Chicago suburb is being sued for becoming America’...

Historic Reparations Program for Black Residents In Chicago Suburb Under Attack In Lawsuit Filed By Conservative Group Claiming It’s Discriminatory, Goes Against ‘Our Color-blind Constitution’

In a historic move, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, launched a reparations program in 2021, the first of its kind in the nation, according to several reports. The program, approved by the Evanston City Council, offers $25,000 payments to B...

Man shoots woman with flare gun

Police in Athens have arrested a man who they say shot a woman with a flare gun Wednesday. Preston Drury was charged with reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault in the incident. Police responded to a call of shots fired a...

Sacramento, UC Davis Partner On Black Reparations Research

Kate Washington | Special To The OBSERVER What could reparations for Black Sacramentans look like? History graduate students at UC Davis are trying to answer that question by investigating past discrimination against the Black community in Sac...

Cape Verde President Suggests Diplomatic Corridors for Conversations About Colonial Reparation

Cape Verde’s President, Jose Maria Neves, emphasized the need for governments to discuss colonial reparations, despite the rise of right-wing populism making public debate challenging. He highlighted the growth of extremist, xenophobic, and anti-imm...

Are Black voters deserting Biden?

Despite current worries among Democrats about parts of their coalition’s less than enthusiastic support for President Biden’s re-election, history suggests those concerns may not be warranted. A recent in-depth Pew survey shows that about one in fi...

City Sued Over Reparations Payments to Black Residents

Reparations Now (Getty) *Evanston, Illinois is the first city to fund reparations to Black residents after leaders announced in 2019 plans to provide $10 million over the next 10 years. According to an ABC News report, reparations of as much as $25,0...

Why increasing penalties for assaulting ER workers is dividing California Democrats

By Ryan Sabalow (CALMATTERS) – Before becoming a member of the California Assembly, Freddie Rodriguez spent 30 years as an emergency medical technician in the San Gabriel Valley. He’s wheeled untold numbers of patients on gurneys into hospital...

Sacramento sees significant drop in overall homeless population, but accuracy of count questioned

(US MEDIA GROUP) – According to the latest point-in-time count released by the city of Sacramento, there has been a significant decrease in the number of homeless individuals living on the streets. The count, conducted in January of this year,...