Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
As I walked through the hallowed halls of the California State Capitol, a palpable sense of history and urgency filled the air. The California Legislative Black Caucus was about to unveil a groundbreaking package of 14 reparations bills, aimed squa...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
How much do you know about social security? MassMutual recently gave a social security true/false quiz to 1,500 individuals ages 55 through 65. According to the results, 65 percent of people either failed or got a D grade, 18 percent of respondent...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
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Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Salmon in the Classroom: A Unique Wildlife Education Initiative, Fueled by Michigan Wildlife Council, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and Real Times Media By Lynzee Mychael, Multimedia Journalist Envision vibrant urban classrooms, alive wit...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
For Black History Month, we’re honoring some outstanding Black women entrepreneurs. Black women continue to lead the startup charge. Since right before the Covid pandemic began, there’s been a 70% increase in the number of new Black-women-owned small...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a significant boost to Michigan’s water infrastructure with an allocation of more than $177 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda. This funding...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
On Tuesday (Feb. 20), Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the City of Chicago is suing six oil and gas corporations and their largest trade association for deceiving Chicago consumers about the climate dangers associated with their products.& F...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
From Black PR Wire The New York Amsterdam News (AmNews), one of America’s oldest and most influential Black newspapers continues its unfolding renaissance with the hiring of distinguished journalist and author Aaron Foley as our new News Editor. Fole...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Black-owned AI ed-tech company Skilldora has joined forces with African American billionaire Dr. Michael V. Roberts to offer its platform and AI Instructor-led courses to students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Roberts is t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Jeanine Valrie Logan is working to open a birth center inside a former church on Chicago’s South Side, where there’s a dearth of options to have a baby. Valrie Logan is a Black midwife. She envisions three rooms in the birth center where people can...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Therapists share why Black men are resistant to therapy and how to change it. ATLANTA — Therapists in Atlanta are talking about a disparity in the mental health field. A study from the American Psychological Association shows that Black therapis...
9 months ago
Photos courtesy of Lentheus Chaney February is national Heart Month As the surgical technician rolled my hospital bed into the frigid operating room, my uneasiness grew, and my mind raced with questions about how and why this was happening aga...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Members of California’s Legislative Black Caucus on Wednesday will detail a package of 14 reparations bills they are introducing to right historic wrongs carried out against the Black community. The bills are meant to...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Imagine the transformative power of a conversation. Now, consider the impact of those conversations when they tackle some of the most profound issues facing our society: mental health and racism. This is the vision behind a groundbreaking initiativ...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Joel Austin spends his days talking to Black fathers about how to become the parents they aspire to be at Daddy University Inc., a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that he founded two decades ago. In recent years, Austin has noticed that Black fathers...
