Category : News Talk

UPMC Aims to Improve Black Maternal Health Care – UPMC & Pitt Health Sciences News Blog

Every year, Black Maternal Health week is held from April 11th to April 17th. In recognition of this week, in April 2024, UPMC held a Birthing While Black Community Listening Session for community members and patients, as well as a Mommy & Me Ex...

Reparations as “seed capital for the nation that we are becoming”

Here is a simple, solemn promise to you: by the time you read Heather McGhee’s vision for racial reparations below, you will never think of the issue the same way. McGhee is an author, activist, and policy wonk. We last spoke to her in 2021, rig...

A Change Of Heart

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer As a community-minded health care provider, Aron King is used to disseminating information to the public. King furthered that outreach by co-creating the Barbershop Project, which raised awareness of...

Weekly Outings With The OBSERVER

By Nicholas Ibarra | OBSERVER Staff Writer All listed events, and more, can be viewed online on The OBSERVER’s community events calendar at SacObserver.com. Be sure to submit your events two weeks in advance to have the chance to be featured on t...

Autism in the Black Community: Moving From Awareness to Acceptance

This post was originally published on Afro(WIB) – April is National Autism Acceptance Month. It is a month set aside to celebrate the contributions and diversity within the community made up of individuals on the autism spectrum. Nearly 36 years ago...

Creating a Spiritual Home in Digital Pews at South Church Baltimore

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – In the heart of Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood, a once-traditional church is charting a new path, embracing the digital age, and welcoming a diverse flock of worshippers — both onlin...

A Step Forward, But Miles to Go: Highlighting Black Maternal Health Challenges

According to a new report from the CDC, the United States has recorded a significant decline in maternal mortality rates, with 2022 figures showing a decrease from 22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, down sharply from 32.9 in 2021. This improvemen...

The Sofia launches jazz series — with shows booked through December

By Cathy Cassinos | Solving Sacramento Jacam Manricks is the curator and a performer behind a new jazz series at The Sofia in Sacramento, which launched in April. (Photo courtesy of The Sofia) In his new jazz series at The Sofia, saxman and edu...

Biden-Harris Administration Unveils Ambitious Plans to Strengthen Teaching Profession Ahead of Teacher Appreciation Week

By Stacy M. Brown | NNPA (NNPA) – Ahead of Teacher Appreciation Week, the Biden-Harris Administration has unveiled comprehensive initiatives to bolster the teaching profession and support schools nationwide. The initiatives include calling...

Evanston Reparations Committee collaborates with Liberty Bank to boost Black homeownership and generational health

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Another One of RFK Jr.’s Staffers Revealed to a Be Raging Scumbag

Yet another Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign worker is in trouble, but this time for a very serious reason: allegedly choking and punching a woman. Trent Pool, a paid ballot-access consultant on the campaign, was charged Saturday with criminal obstr...

Black Hawk County Health Alert: New Mammogram Guidelines for Women. Start at 40. Doctor Explains

#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } In this article, Dr. Puja Uppal, Family Medicine, shares her expert insights of the f...

Victims of Slavery in Ecuador Should Receive Reparations

An operator works to obtain abaca fiber on a plantation in northwest Ecuador. For decades, many families had to work in conditions of modern slavery on these plantations, and UN human rights experts encourage the Ecuadorian justice system to establis...

Senators hear from experts about Black maternal health crisis

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Doctors gave senators a diagnosis: mothers and minority communities need healthcare support. “One maternal death is too many,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said. “In America today, we have the highest maternal mortality rate a...

Black-owned business bus tour rolls through West Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — The first ‘Black-Owned Businesses Bus Tour’ was created to coincide with the 2024 National Small Business Week. It was a collaboration between The Enterprise Center, Urban Affairs Coalition, Cha...