Category : News Talk

Price of Popular Diabetes Drugs Denies Low-Income Folks Access to Treatment

By Renuka Rayasam | KFF Health News (WIB) – For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to control their blood...

Is Black Church Music Slowly Disappearing?

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black Overview: A Black church congregation singing hymns like, “Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee” was once a regular feature of worship. But the rise of megachurches, contemporary Gospel and mo...

Biden-Harris Administration Propels Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Record $16 Billion Investment

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA(NNPA) – The Biden-Harris Administration has announced a historic milestone in federal funding and investments for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), surpassing a monumental $16 billion mark from fiscal year...

Ukraine’s allies are working on another option for financing aid

In addition to confiscating Russian assets or lending money to Kyiv using these assets, there is a third option – a so-called reparation loan. Under this approach, Ukraine could borrow money from its allies, including G7 members, and pledge its repa...

Confronting the mental health crisis among African American youth

The tragic story of Jamal Clay, a 19-year-old from Chicago, highlights a growing crisis in the African American community: the mental health of our youth. Jamal’s untimely death by suicide is a stark reminder of the urgent need to address mental hea...

Bipartisan U.S. House, Senate bills seek feasibility study of National Scenic Trail designation for Benton MacKaye Trail

A pair of bipartisan bills seeking to designate the almost-300-mile-long Benton MacKaye Trail in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina a National Scenic Trail have been introduced for the first time in both the...

Sacramento: NAACP Members Push Priorities at State Capitol

(CBM) – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People California-Hawaii State Conference (NAACP Cal/Hi State Conference) hosted its annual “Legislative Day” at the State Capitol and Capitol Annex Swing Space on May 20. The day of act...

What’s Next After California State Senate Passed Three Reparations Bills

by Daniel Johnson May 27, 2024 The bills are aimed at creating sources of funding for reparations for Black Californians. Three bills aimed at creating sources of fund...

The 2024 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix: Revving Up the Heart of Detroit

As the engines roar back to life on the streets of downtown Detroit for the 2024 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix, the city finds itself at the nexus of excitement and innovation. This year marks the second consecutive year the race will take place downt...

Prince George’s has the most new businesses of any Maryland county – what’s behind the surge?

By James Matheson Prince George’s County has long been considered the poor step-sibling of the Washington area’s more affluent and business-savvy counties. But that image is starting to change as the county becomes an increasingly attractive locatio...

Reparations Proposals OK’d by California Senate, Advance to California State Assembly

By Kayla Garcia-Pebdani SACRAMENTO, CA—The California State Senate last week appro...

Diddy in Crisis: Abuse Accusations and a Strange TV Appearance

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) – Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former head of security, Roger Bonds, revealed he witnessed the hip-hop mogul being violent toward women “four or five times,” expressing no surprise at the 2016 footage of Combs brutall...

On Memorial Day 2024: Guinness Designation Sheds Light on Untold Story of Black Civil War Soldiers

By Amber V. Smith | Trice Edney Wire Dr. Frank Smith, founding director, African American Civil War Memorial (TriceEdneyWire.com) – One of the nation’s most significant war memorials sits at the top of the U Street Corridor Metro exit in...

Tips to make a house or apartment safe and accessible for older adults living at home

By The Associated Press A grab bar next to the bathtub is shown in the recently remodeled home of Gene and Sallie Carr on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Hendersonville, N.C. An increasing number of Americans in their late 50s and older are staying in t...

Thousands still displaced as Marawi siege reparations fall short

MARAWI, Philippines – Thousands of displaced Marawi residents, affected by the five-month-long fighting between the government and the extremist Maute Group seven years ago, have yet to return and rebuild, and are still living miserably in villages...