Category : News Talk

Trump Does the Harlem Fake

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump must think Black people are idiots. This...

Stephen A. Smith’s Non-Apology ‘Apology’

“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election. Stephen A. Smith has apologized for remarks last week...

‘In order for it to be a great America, there must be a great Black America’: VP Kamala Harris Visits Charles H. Wright Museum

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Detroit on Monday, bringing a transformative vision for the automotive industry’s future with an announcement of $100 million in funding. This significant investment will empower small and medium-sized auto manufa...

Judge Allows Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations Case to Proceed

An Oklahoma judge has ruled that the reparations lawsuit related to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can move forward, rejecting a motion to dismiss it. This decision comes as a significant development for the three centenarian survivors who were prese...

DTE Energy’s latest rate hike request draws the ire of State Attorney General

On the heels of DTE Energy filing for another rate increase with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) in late March 2024, this time to the tune of $456 million, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office has filed a notice of interventio...

Did California’s massive COVID homeless shelter program work? A new evaluation probes the results

BY MARISA KENDALL (CALMATTERS) – California’s massive effort to shelter homeless residents during the COVID-19 pandemic was a success, according to a new report that says the effort changed the state’s homeless services system for the bette...

Tragic death of Grant Union student after shooting at house party

(US MEDIA GROUP) – Tragedy struck the Sacramento community over the weekend when 18-year-old Jeremiah Walker, a student at Grant Union High School, was shot and killed at a house party in Natomas. According to Mervin Brookins, founder of Br...

The West Should Engage With Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

At the third session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, or PFPAD, held last month in Geneva, Switzerland, a group of nongovernmental organizations proposed the creation of an independent commission to investigate t...

The world agreed to a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After three decades of work, advocates for developing countries scored a major win at last year’s United Nations climate change conference in D...

Opinion: It’s time in CT to address mental health needs of Black boys and men

Growing up as young Black boys in the 80s, it was something you really just didn’t talk about. If you were sad or angry, you were told to just get over it. If something was bothering you, the response was often to just “tough it out.” Boys who cried...