Category : News Talk

Serve and Protect? Not if Your Loved One’s Black and Missing

By Trina Reynolds-Tyler, Invisible Institute, and Sarah Conway, City Bureau | Word In Black This story is part four of Chicago Missing Persons, a two-year investigation by City Bureau and Invisible Institute, two Chicago-based nonprofit journalis...

Black Women Entrepreneurs Celebrated At The 28th Annual Outstanding Women Leaders Awards Gala

By Kaya Do-Khanh | Special to The OBSERVER Cassandra Walker Pye, president of Lucas Public Affairs, gave her acceptance speech for her Wise Woman award. Seth Patterson, OBSERVER. Hundreds of women dressed in black-tie apparel arrived for the 28...

New California bill aims to give teachers paid pregnancy leave

By Srishti Prabha | OBSERVER Staff Writer Lydiana Alfaro, a teacher in Natomas Unified School District, advocates for paid pregnancy as a recent mother. Standing with her are California Teachers Association representative Erika Jones, Assembly me...

Black Family Health & Wellness Expo taking place in Flint March 15

Written by Tanya Terry Flint Area Links, Incorporated and Hamilton Community Health Network will host a Black Family Wellness Expo from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, March 15. Attending families will have an opportunity to have their teeth examined; register f...

Black Kansas City stories to be presented to United Nations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – The Mayor’s Commission on Reparations hosted Howard Law Professor Justin Hansford during his listening tour across 40 cities in the United States for the Black Audit Report. Kansas City African Americans provided thei...

SPORTS HISTORY IN BLACK: Bubba Smith becomes first overall pick for NFL’s Colts

The late Bubba Smith, standing at 6’7”, was best known as Moses Hightower, the giant police officer with tremendous strength in the “Police Academy” movies. Bubba Smith, defensive end of the Baltimore Colts, is shown in 1972. Photo c...

Beyond Reparations for Tulsa’s Black Wall Street

Mar 15, 2024 More than 100 years ago, a violent white mob destroyed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing hundreds of people and destroying a prosperous community, including a district known as Black Wall Street. Descendants of t...

Black Family Wellness Expo in Flint to offer health screenings, education

FLINT, MI — Flint Area Links, Incorporated and Hamilton Community Health Network are hosting a Black Family Wellness Expo this week. The event is set from 1-4 p.m. Friday, March 15 at Hamilton’s main clinic, located at 2900 N. Saginaw St. in F...

Texas court ruling on minority business designation ripples across the nation

It’s a ruling reverberating across the country — even if the ramifications aren’t yet clear. A U.S. District Court judge in Texas last week ruled that a federal agency created to assist minority business owners could not use race as a deciding factor...

Northwestern student group likens Japanese internment reparations to modern-day calls for slavery reparations

A student group held an event at an Illinois university that discussed the past fight for reparations for Japanese Americans and tied it to current discussions about reparations for other groups. The Asian Pacific American Coalition (APAC) at North...

Victims of the Flint Water Crisis Are Still Waiting to Get Paid

This post was originally published on Word In Black By: Willy Blackmore In 2021, when a settlement between the state of Michigan and residents of Flint was approved, there was a sense that those who were affected by the water crisis were close to re...

Michiana Chronicles: Black maternal health

April: I’m here with Marchelle Pettit, a community doula and champion for Black maternal health and reproductive justice and we’re recognizing Women’s History Month by drawing attention to a national health crisis – especially acute in Indiana – Bla...