Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Remember how the campaign for progressive prosecutors started: As political arbitrage. Unless an incumbent was beset by scandals, the more than 2,000 local elections for district attorneys and county prosecutors were fairly low-profile and low-cost...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Amid a mental health crisis affecting both younger and adult Black males, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research held a daylong symposium on May 13 to have critical conversations untangling the complexities of the problem an...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
General Convention’s Racial Truth-Telling, Reckoning & Healing committees heard testimony on May 23 on three proposed resolutions: the commitment to reparations, increasing the number of people of color in church positions, and the establishmen...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Photo Credit: Movement Festival (movementfestival.com) Every Memorial Day weekend, Detroit pulses with the electrifying beats of Movement Electronic Music Festival, transforming the city into a global techno mecca where thousands of music aficionados...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Gov. Andy Beshear declared Juneteenth — a day that commemorates African Americans’ many contributions and long struggle for freedom, justice and equality — as a state Executive Branch holiday to give thanks in the commonwealth. Franklin County Judg...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 08:12 EDT, 24 May 2024 | Updated: 08:16 EDT, 24 May 2024 Members of Philadelphia’s new slavery reparations commission talked up their mission at a launch...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Isiah Thomas was one of the greatest point guards in NBA history. He was not the biggest guy, standing at only 6 feet tall, but his presence was that of a giant on the floor. Thomas helped lead the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back titles over his...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
David Mastio May 24, 2024 at 6:07 AM Justin Lane/Pool via USA Today Network Joe Biden has improved his pitch to Black voters over the years. When he was running against Mitt Romney as Barack Obama’s vice president, our current preside...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Descendants of Evanston residents file federal class action suit against reparations program Evanston descendants file class-action suit over reparations program...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
California State Senator Steven Bradford, right, and Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, left, at a reparations meeting in San Diego on Jan. 28, 2023. Photo by Ariana Drehsler for CalMatters California lawmakers voted to offer an official apolo...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Joseph Williams | Word In Black (WIB) – In 2020, when millions of people worldwide took to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd, a small school district in northwestern Virginia — an area that gave safe haven to Confederate...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By KFF Health News (WIB) – Raymond Llano carries a plastic bag with everything he owns in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, and the flattened cardboard box he uses as a bed under his arm as he waits in line for lunch at Glide Memoria...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently reported that its membership numbers are poised to match those before the pandemic caused by COVID-19—growth that seems to reflect...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
By Keyshawn Davis | Solving Sacramento CLTRE, a nonprofit creating pathways for economic development and homeownership in underserved communities, has secured a new site for affordable housing and retail development on Del Paso Boulevard in Nort...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 7 months ago
Donald Trump rolled the dice on a campaign stop in deepest Democratic New York Thursday seeking to woo Black and Latino voters whose support for Joe Biden has shown signs of faltering. The event, in the Bronx where the Republican was trounced in 202...
