Category : News Talk

Black people are demanding reparations. It’s time to listen

Only when the West confronts its legacy of slavery with reparations can Black communities around the world be truly free, writes Richard Sudan [photo credit: Getty Images] The demand for reparations to atone for slavery and tackle the modern legacy...

Announcing AACCNJ Juneteenth Black Business Expo Essay Contest

The African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) is launching an essay contest for college students and high school seniors in connection with its upcoming Juneteenth Black Business Expo. The contest aims to engage students in a discus...

Olympia Development Announces Co-Developer Program for Three Detroit Properties

Olympia Development of Michigan is ramping up its development in the near future, and the company is giving local businesses the opportunity to take part in the action. Olympia issued a Co-Developer Request for Proposals (RFP) Wednesday, April 24. Th...

EEOC And Investors Support Hello Alice’s Grants For Black Entrepreneurs

Companies providing grants for Black entrepreneurs faced uncertainty and loss of financial support due to lawsuits filed challenging the premise of these grant programs. However, Hello Alice is standing strong, closing its Series C funding round....

Acclinate Empowers Black Maternal Health with AI-Powered Cultural Understanding

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Acclinate, a pioneer in health equity through technology and community engagement, has partnered with Quilt.AI, a company at the forefront of employing artificial intelligence (AI) to understand a...

Crook’s Lens: L.A.-Based Activist Remembers Capturing Black Freedom Struggle in Photos

Edward Henderson | California Black Media (CBM) – Photographs serve as historical records, framing both big moments and small ones. Those images evoke a range of emotions such as passion, sadness, joy, nostalgia and more, connecting us emot...

New health care teaching clinic opening in Oak Park

By Keyshawn Davis | Solving Sacramento About six years ago, Dr. William Sands, the director of special projects for University of the Pacific’s Pacific Health Care Collaborative, was tasked with finding a place to locate this new health educatio...

How gas prices have changed in Sacramento in the last week

By Stacker Canva (Stacker) – Fuel prices continued to rise through Monday. A gallon of regular gasoline hit an average of $3.68, up about 4 cents from a week earlier. Prices are now at their highest point so far this year, according...

Building a Bridge Between Faith and HR

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – From helping businesses with recruitment or workforce development, to aiding folks who need help tailoring their resumes and prepping for interviews, Hennither Gant has it covered. The Bal...

To Biden, Black Moms Matter. To Trump, Killing Roe Matters More

By Tonya Lewis Lee | Word In Black (WIB) – As the maternal mortality rate in America continues to spike, Black Maternal Health Week is an urgent call to action. American women are dying at a higher rate from pregnancy-related causes than in...

Middle-Aged Black Women’s Brain Function Preserved by Heart Health

American Heart Association Research Highlights: Middle-aged Black women with better heart health were less likely to show a decline in mental function compared with middle-aged Black women with worse heart health. In this study, heart health...

A controversy involving Verge revealed deep cracks in Sacramento’s art scene — and left many wondering why it had to go down like this

By Hannah Ross | Solving Sacramento The Sacramento arts scene may be on the brink of transformation. Since a pandemic that had threatened to gut local arts scenes globally, the community has worked tirelessly first to survive, and then to rebran...

Trump’s Partisan Spin on TikTok

Former President Donald Trump said he wants young voters to know that “Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.” But a TikTok ban enjoys broad bipartisan support in Congress. Trump himself tried to ban TikTok as president thr...

Listening to Black Men in California – California Health Care Foundation

The Listening to Black Californians study included hour-long interviews with 49 Black men, four focus groups of Black men with 26 total participants, and 1,235 male survey respondents. This study is notable for the large number and diversity of Blac...

A grassroots effort in Michigan is raising reparations — while the government lags

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: A grassroots reparations effort in Michigan is making progress where government-led attempts have stalled. Sophia Saliby of member station WKAR in East Lansing reports. SOPHIA SALIBY, BYLINE: 2020 was a turning point for Lansing,...