Category : News Talk

Bounce’s new sitcom ‘Mind Your Business’ follows Chicago’s Williams family’s party-throwing exploits

(US MEDIA GROUP) – The Williams family is known for throwing the biggest and most memorable parties in Chicago. From weddings to birthdays, they have created a name for themselves in the event planning business. But behind the scenes, things a...

Black America reacts to Trump guilty verdict: ‘No one is above the law’

NEW YORK — On Thursday, a Manhattan Criminal Court jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records to advance his performance in the 2016 White House race. Here are reactions from prominent Black organizati...

It’s The 103 Anniversary Of The Tulsa Race Massacre: Here’s What You Should Know About The Continued Fight For Reparations

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images= This month marks the 103rd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst instance of racial violence in this country. The two remaining survivors, 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Ra...

New Mexico’s nuclear downwinders have a week to convince Congress on reparations

A nuclear bomb test described in the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer last year exposed southern New Mexicans to radiation that lingered for generations leading to cancers and other health problems. The blast, set off in 1945 in a then-reported unpopu...

California Vs. Hate Campaign: One Year In, Civil Rights Department Shares Wins, Goals

Antonio‌ ‌Ray‌ ‌Harvey‌ ‌|‌ ‌California‌ ‌Black‌ ‌Media‌ (CBM) – Last week, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) shared the results of its California vs Hate campaign, including its online reporting tool and telephone hotline, one y...

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: LeBron James leads the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals

LeBron James has been called “The Chosen One” since he was a junior in highschool. Many who scouted him said that he was a physical marvel standing at 6’8” and that his basketball IQ was out of this world. Fast forward to after he was drafted first o...

Bye-Bye, DEI

By Williamena Kwapo | OBSERVER Staff Writer Regina Lawless, former DEI expert at Meta and author of “ “Do You: A Journey of Success, Loss, and Learning to Live a More Meaningful Life.” Courtesy photo from Regina Lawless Once a Diversity Equity...

Tennessee lawmakers to address Black Dems in Florida

Tennessee State Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones will be the guest speakers at the Democratic Black Caucus...

Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says

By Carla K. Johnson | The Associated Press FILE – Marijuana plants are displayed at a shop in San Francisco, Monday, March 20, 2023. Daily and near-daily marijuana use is now more common than similar levels of high-frequency drinking in the...

Mental Health Awareness Month: Shattering Myths as Black Suicide Rates Climb

For a long time, conventional wisdom held that suicide wasn’t something Black people did, that ending one’s own life was “a white thing.” And to be sure, data backs that up; even as recently as 2018, the overall suicide rate for Black Americans was...

Black Hawk County Health News: Urgent Call to Address Rising PTSD Rates in US Colleges

In this article, Dr. Shelandra Bell, DO, Family Medicine, shares her expert insights of the findings and provides Iowa residents with evidence-based recommendations for protecting their health. Why This Matters to You: There is a growing mental hea...

REPORT: Donald Trump used the N-word about a contestant on ‘The Apprentice’

‘Nowhere close to where we need to be’: Shortage of Black therapists in Cincinnati worries health experts

FAIRFIELD, Ohio — The bed was her safe space. Ashley Glass used to crawl under the covers, forget about her issues and try to sleep. She did this all the time — even if it wasn’t dark outside. She didn’t think much about it. Because she did it to su...

Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker and Michelle L. Price | The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifyi...

Trump’s Repeated Claims on His New York Hush Money Trial

Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty by a jury in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to conceal election law violations after buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels, shortly before the 201...