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Black Lives Matter
www.nytimes.com
1 week ago
Black Lives Matter

How Peer Pressure Affects Voting

Black Americans more likely to identify as Democrats when interviewed by Black interviewers
Black Americans have historically voted Democrat due to social pressure and behavioral norms
www.mediaite.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

As Racist as They Come': ABC News President Condemns Trump for Saying Black People Like Him Because He Got Indicted

Godwin condemns Trump's racist comments about Black people.
White House Press Secretary denounces Trump's divisive remarks.
www.mercurynews.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

Blow: The political perils of a Black-Jewish rift over the war in Gaza

The alliance between Black Americans and Jewish Americans is being tested by diverging views on the Israel-Hamas war.
This could potentially influence how both communities approach the upcoming elections.
www.mediaite.com
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

Harris Faulkner Challenges Co-Host in Awkward Exchange: Is That Your Polite Way of Saying That Blacks Only Matter' in Swing States?

Democrats' approval rating among Black Americans has dropped from 66% in 2020 to 47% in 2023.
Vice President Kamala Harris's comments about marijuana possession and Black voters were criticized on Outnumbered.
LGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

HIV still plagues Black Americans at alarming rates. Could AI be the key to more equitable care?

Job discrimination and structural stressors contribute to higher risk behavior for HIV in non-white communities.
New technologies and innovations offer solutions to bridge disparities in HIV incidences and increase uptake in preventative measures.
WSJ
2 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Young Black Americans Embrace the Stock Market

Young Black Americans are increasingly investing in the stock market.
Nearly 40% of Black Americans owned stocks in 2022, up from just under a third in 2016.
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MarTech
1 month ago
Marketing

American Black consumers: More diverse, demanding and reachable than ever | MarTech

America's Black population is becoming more diverse and includes a growing number of immigrants and their children.
Black Americans spend nearly 12 hours per day with media, with TV playing a significant role.
Social justice
Chicago Tribune
2 months ago
Social justice

Willie Wilson: Black Americans cannot wait hundreds of years for the wealth gap to close

The racial wealth gap between Black and white households has seen only incremental improvement since 1967.
Despite an increase in Black median wealth, it still falls behind the advances seen by other racial and ethnic groups.
New York Post
2 months ago
Social justice

Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

Black Americans still face inequities despite progress in racial equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is marked by the progress made in racial equality.
New York Post
2 months ago
Social justice

Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

Black Americans still face inequities despite progress in racial equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is marked by the progress made in racial equality.
www.theguardian.com
4 months ago
Social justice

Returning to the south: what can reverse migration' do for Black Americans?

New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues for Black Americans to return to the south to gain political power.
The HBO documentary 'South to Black Power' explores the reverse migration of Black Americans back to the south.
Blow's proposal is not about creating a Black utopia, but about giving Black people more say in their governance.
www.theguardian.com
4 months ago
Social justice

Returning to the south: what can reverse migration' do for Black Americans?

New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues for Black Americans to return to the south to gain political power.
The HBO documentary 'South to Black Power' explores the reverse migration of Black Americans back to the south.
Blow's proposal is not about creating a Black utopia, but about giving Black people more say in their governance.
The Atlantic
4 months ago
Social justice

How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction Alive

Black Americans during Reconstruction envisioned a new America that would safeguard Black dignity and claims of citizenship.
Black Reconstructionists helped reshape the American government and created new civic, religious, political, educational, and economic institutions.
These Reconstructionists shared an expansive vision of a compassionate nation with a true democratic ethos.
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New York Post
2 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Martin Luther King Jr.: The best of America

Black Americans still face inequities despite progress in racial equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is marked by the progress made in racial equality.
Health
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Health

Opinion | My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did'

Peripheral artery disease disproportionately affects Black Americans, who are less likely to receive effective treatment.
Treatment for peripheral artery disease should focus on managing the condition and preventing amputations.
Black Americans with peripheral artery disease have lower rates of limb salvage and higher hospitalization costs.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Health

Opinion | My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did'

Peripheral artery disease disproportionately affects Black Americans, who are less likely to receive effective treatment.
Treatment for peripheral artery disease should focus on managing the condition and preventing amputations.
Black Americans with peripheral artery disease have lower rates of limb salvage and higher hospitalization costs.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Health

Opinion | My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did'

Peripheral artery disease disproportionately affects Black Americans, who are less likely to receive effective treatment.
Treatment for peripheral artery disease should focus on managing the condition and preventing amputations.
Black Americans with peripheral artery disease have lower rates of limb salvage and higher hospitalization costs.
www.npr.org
9 months ago
Health

Tori Bowie, an elite Olympic athlete, died of complications from childbirth

Tori Bowie, who captured gold as a sprinter in the Olympics and the world championships, died at age 32 from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.Matthias Hangst/Getty Images She was once the fastest woman in the world.So when Tori Bowie was found dead last month at just 32 years old, it rocked the sport of track and field.
time.com
1 year ago
Health

FDA Panel Backs Removal of Unproven Pregnancy Drug

WASHINGTON Federal health advisers have concluded that a drug intended to prevent premature births hasn't been shown to work, clearing the way for U.S. regulators to follow through on a long-delayed effort to get it off the market.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
Health

'Star Trek' legend's ashes will head to deep space on a Vulcan rocket

(CNN)The ashes of the late trailblazing "Star Trek" actor Nichelle Nichols will take flight when they are released into space from a Vulcan Centaur rocket by United Launch Alliance later this year.
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www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Medicine

Opinion | My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did'

Peripheral artery disease disproportionately affects Black Americans, who are less likely to receive effective treatment.
Treatment for peripheral artery disease should focus on managing the condition and preventing amputations.
Black Americans with peripheral artery disease have lower rates of limb salvage and higher hospitalization costs.
www.nytimes.com
4 months ago
Public health

Opinion | My Patient Did Not Have to Die the Way She Did'

Peripheral artery disease disproportionately affects Black Americans, who are less likely to receive effective treatment.
Treatment for peripheral artery disease should focus on managing the condition and preventing amputations.
Black Americans with peripheral artery disease have lower rates of limb salvage and higher hospitalization costs.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Public health

Covid Remained a Leading Cause of Death Among Americans in 2022

Covid was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States last year, dropping from its place as the third leading cause in 2020 and 2021, when virus fatalities were superseded only by heart disease and cancer, the National Center for Health Statistics reported on Thursday.Unintentional injuries a category that includes drug overdoses and car accidents were responsible for more deaths than Covid last year and were the nation's third leading cause of death.
www.theguardian.com
4 months ago
Black Lives Matter

Returning to the south: what can reverse migration' do for Black Americans?

New York Times columnist Charles Blow argues for Black Americans to return to the south to gain political power.
The HBO documentary 'South to Black Power' explores the reverse migration of Black Americans back to the south.
Blow's proposal is not about creating a Black utopia, but about giving Black people more say in their governance.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

Ahead of Juneteenth, congressional lawmakers again seek to remove exception for slavery from US Constitution

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.The Abolition Amendment was introduced on Wednesday ahead of Juneteenth the national holiday commemorating the end of slavery by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia.
Nieman Lab
1 year ago
Media industry

Indiana lands new support for local news - and Capital B's next newsroom

Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news startup for Black Americans, has announced plans to launch its second local newsroom in Gary, Indiana.Gary is a small city on Lake Michigan where 78% of the 68,000 residents are Black.Local news coverage there, residents have told Capital B, is often dominated by journalism from and about the much-larger city of Chicago just 25 miles away.
www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Girls

For Black Debutantes in Detroit, Cotillion Is More Than a Ball

In a heady swirl of bright white silk and lace, the young ladies of the Cotillion Society of Detroit Educational Foundation are presented as debutantes.The Society's annual ball is the culmination of eight months of etiquette lessons, leadership workshops, community service projects and cultural events.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Girls

For the Women of the Black Panther Party, Freedom Meant Survival

Free Breakfast for School Children.The Intercommunal Youth Institute.The People's Free Medical Clinics.The Free Ambulance Program.The Oakland Community School.Though the women who made up two-thirds of the Black Panther Party took part in rallies and voter registrations, newsrooms and grass-roots political campaigns, their most direct contributions have gone all but unheralded: the more than 60 Community Survival Programs that provided neglected Black Americans with life-sustaining meals, education and health care.
Eater Atlanta
2 years ago
Atlanta

Where to Celebrate Juneteenth This Year in Atlanta

Celebrated by Black Americans since the latter part of the 19th century, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.Sometimes referred to as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, June 19, 1865 marks the date Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare the end of enslavement there, despite the Emancipation Proclamation being issued two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln.
Eater Boston
4 years ago
Boston food

Take a Trip to the Past at These Excellent Boston-Area Diners

Where to eat the best greasy-spoon breakfast in and around Boston




Fancy, decadent breakfasts and brunches can be fun, but nothing beats the food at a good old greasy-spoon diner.Bonus points if that diner is housed in an O'Mahoney diner car.Here are 15 of the best Boston-area diners for classic comfort food and old-timey vibes.
Mission Local
9 months ago
Mission District

Stuff to do: Porchfest, Pride, Juneteenth

Documentary Film Festival
The 22nd annual documentary film festival kicked off on Thursday and goes until Sunday, June 11 online and in person at the Roxie Theater.Films from local artists include Sweetheart Deal, the story of four sex workers seeking to escape the throes of addiction with the help of a roadside healer in an RV, and Tony & Denise, a memoir and experimental documentary-memoir telling the story of transgender pioneer Denise D'Anne, who lived in the Mission until her death.
www.housingwire.com
9 months ago
Real estate

Median income earners can only afford 25% of current listings

It is no secret that housing inventory is low.As of June 2, there were 433,104 single family homes on the market nationwide, according to data from Altos Research.And while this situation is certainly far from ideal, according to a report published Thursday by the National Association of Realtors and Realtor.com, even with the existing level of homes available for sale, the housing affordability and inventory shortage issues wouldn't be so severe if there were enough homes for buyers at all income levels.
www.housingwire.com
9 months ago
Real estate

Chase Home Lending rolls out a 90-day rate lock option

In honor of National Homeownership Month, Chase Home Lending unveiled on Tuesday an upgraded suite of resources for homebuyers to assist in navigating the homebuying process and managing homeownership.One resource unveiled by Chase is Lock and Shop, which enables buyers to lock in their mortgage rate for 90 days without an upfront fee when using Chase Homebuyer Advantage.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US news

The Tangled Roots of Memorial Day and Why It's Celebrated

Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the United States and the unofficial start of summer; a day for cookouts, beach trips and auto races.But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America's war dead, begin?Here is a brief refresher: The holiday grew out of the Civil War, as Americans Northern, Southern, Black and white struggled to honor the staggering numbers of dead soldiers, at least 2 percent of the U.S. population at the time.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music explores the world of jazz to celebrates for Black History Month * Brooklyn Paper

This year, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music will honor Black History Month by showcasing the achievements by Black Americans, while also exploring and commemorating the historical struggles the community experienced.To celebrate this year's Black History Month, the BKCM will have two musical events - the Connection & Harmony: A Sing-Along Celebration of Black Musical Ideas and Interpretations on Friday, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. and History Through Music: Protest and Freedom Songs with Tahira Clayton on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

SUNY Downstate hosts talk on colonial legacy in neurosurgery * Brooklyn Paper

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University held a talk on the racist legacy left by the colonial mindset that continues to harm neurosurgical outcomes for Black communities, both in the United States and around the globe.Gathered at the Flatbush school's campus, SUNY Downstate's Division of Neurosurgery Chief Ernest Barthélemy, along with Claire Karekezi, a trained neurosurgeon currently practicing in Rwanda, gave their perspectives on the ways in which the history of colonialism has left major disparities in public health outcomes that disproportionately harm non-white citizens in western nations.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
NYC music

Review: In Difficult Grace,' a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines

The cellist Seth Parker Woods presented an evening-long, multimedia program titled Difficult Grace Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall.It was the full staging's world premiere, but, as Woods remarked, he had premiered a nucleus version in February 2020 in Seattle; the coronavirus lockdown gave him the opportunity to rework his concept into its current form.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

Mable John, Soul Singer With a Star-Studded Resume, Dies at 91

She was one of the first female acts signed to Motown, and her career later intersected with Isaac Hayes and Ray Charles.But she eventually heeded a higher calling.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
New York City

The Last-Known Colored' School in Manhattan Will Become a Landmark

For years, New York City Department of Sanitation workers ate their lunch in a three-story yellow brick building on West 17th Street in Chelsea without knowing about its history: It was once a colored school that served Black Americans during racial segregation in New York City public schools.On Tuesday, city officials voted to designate the building, which had been known as Colored School No. 4, a protected landmark, and announced that they would provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate it.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

Ain't No Mo'' to Close on Broadway

Ain't No Mo', a raucously funny and provocative new Broadway play imagining that the United States tries to end racism by offering to send Black Americans to Africa, will close on Dec. 18, a little more than two weeks after opening.The play is the third show this fall to abruptly truncate its planned run based on poor ticket sales, following the musical KPOP and Gabriel Byrne's one-man show, Walking With Ghosts.
KQED
10 months ago
California

Allensworth Braces For Floods; '70s Band Fanny Reclaims Their Right To Rock | KQED

Back in the early 1900s, the town of Allensworth became the first California town founded, financed and governed by Black Americans.The fertile Tulare Lake region should've been a utopia for the Black doctors, professors and farmers who settled there.But historic power dynamics left them, and the Allensworth community today, on the losing side of many water and land use questions.
Eater Chicago
10 months ago
Chicago

In Little Italy, a Black-Owned Taqueria Offers a Little Soul

For seven years, Taylor Tacos has operated in various iterations, popping up at places like Dock's Fish in Bronzeville and the Hatchery in Garfield Park.Now Taylor and Maya Mason are celebrating a long-awaited victory lap with the opening of a permanent location in Little Italy where the spouses dispense food with a distinctive West Coast-meets-Chicago culinary style.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Construction resumes at Obama Presidential Center after noose found

Six days after officials say a noose was found at the Obama Presidential Center worksite on the South Side, the construction firm overseeing the project said work has restarted with "additional safety and security measures" in place."We will continue to provide assistance to the authorities regarding the ongoing investigation to identify the individual or individuals responsible for this horrific act," Lakeside Alliance, the construction team building the center, said in a news release Wednesday.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Britain's identity crisis - and ours

Sorting out my own grief over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, I feel some of what I imagine Frederick Douglass felt when he wrote his historic speech titled "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."
Eater Chicago
1 year ago
Chicago

Inside a James Beard Winner's Homage to Creole and Cajun Cooking on Chicago's South Side

This year, Erick Williams brought the James Beards to the South Side when the Oscars of the food world enjoyed a post-gala victory party in June at his restaurant Virtue.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
Music

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and tireless activist, dies aged 96

Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and wide-ranging activist, has died aged 96.The cause of death was congestive heart failure, his spokesman told the New York Times.As well as performing global hits such as Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), winning a Tony award for acting and appearing in numerous feature films, Belafonte spent his life fighting for a variety of causes.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Louisiana officer charged with killing of Alonzo Bagley has resigned from police department

The man charged in the shooting of an unarmed Black man last month has resigned from the Shreveport, Louisiana, police department.Former Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, resigned from the force late last week, according to Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux.Tyler had been on administrative leave since being charged with negligent homicide after the February 3 shooting death of Alonzo Bagley.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

White House says Biden's Super Bowl interview with Fox is off

(CNN)The White House says President Joe Biden will not sit down for an interview with Fox before the Super Bowl, ending a strange back and forth between the Biden administration and the television network with which it frequently spars.Earlier Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Fox had pulled the plug on the administration's proposal to give an interview with Fox Soul, a small streaming platform aimed at Black Americans.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Hundreds of newspapers drop Dilbert' comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams

Newspapers across the country dropped the Dilbert comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a hate group and suggesting that White people should get the hell away from them.The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Why the zip-a-dee-doo-dah' lyric is so controversial and why Disneyland has removed it

Disneyland has removed the zip-a-dee-doo-dah lyric played during its park parades because it comes from a movie that has been criticized for racist portrayals of Black Americans.The lyric initially appeared in the Magic Happens parade when it debuted in March 2020.The parade recently returned after a nearly three-year hiatus because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Family of unarmed Black man sues the Louisiana officer who killed him while waiting for release of body-camera video

The family of an unarmed Black man who was shot and killed by a Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the officer.The lawsuit filed Saturday in the Western District of Louisiana alleges the officer violated Alonzo Bagley's Fourth Amendment rights.Bagley, 43, was shot and killed earlier this month after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex, Louisiana State Police said in a statement.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Public health

US maternal mortality is more than ten times higher than in Australia. Why? | Moira Donegan

America is in a maternal health crisis.According to new CDC data released this week, the rate of maternal mortality defined as deaths during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth rose by 40% in 2021.At a rate of 33 deaths for every 100,000 live births, 1,205 women died of maternal causes that year.
News
1 year ago
Public health

Epidemiologist Tamarra James-Todd receives Alice Hamilton Award

November 22, 2022 - Women's reproductive health is harmed by endocrine-disrupting chemicals known as plasticizers that are used in consumer products ranging from cosmetics to food packaging to plastics.Not only that, but there are differences in exposure patterns that relate to race and ethnicity; for example, studies have shown that Black Americans and Mexican Americans have higher concentrations of these toxic chemicals in their bodies.
time.com
1 year ago
Wellness

Americans Were Killed by Guns in 2021 at the Highest Rate in 30 Years

In 2021, Americans were killed by guns at the highest rate in 30 years, according to an analysis of federal data that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers published on Oct. 6.
KQED
1 year ago
Healthcare

Life Expectancy in the US Continues to Drop, Driven by COVID-19 | KQED

Life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2021, for the second year in a row.It was the biggest drop in almost 100 years.In 2019, someone born in the U.S. had a life expectancy of nearly 80 years.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Science

Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from COVID-19.In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden won't do Super Bowl interview amid feud with Fox

This much we know: President Biden won't be doing a Super Bowl interview with Fox before the big game on Sunday.The conservative-leaning network and the White House pointed fingers at one another Friday over who is to blame for pulling the plug on the traditional sit-down before the kickoff of the Philadelphia Eagles showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

DeSantis Wants to Defund Florida Colleges That Have Programs on Diversity

The Florida governor described lessons on equity and inclusion as "political window dressing" in a statement on Tuesday.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a press conference to announce the Moving Florida Forward initiative at the SunTrax Test Facility in Auburndale, Florida, on January 30, 2023.Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that he plans to ask the state legislature to revoke funds from public colleges in the state if they offer lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

80 Percent of US Voters Want Government to Enact Paid Family and Medical Leave

A whopping 80% of voters in the United States want the federal government to create a paid family and medical leave program, according to a new survey released Friday.In addition, over half (51%) of voters - including 65% of Democrats, 58% of Black Americans, and 61% of Hispanic Americans - would be more motivated to vote in the upcoming midterm elections if Congress supported the passage of a national paid family and medical leave program, the poll found.A majority (52%) of voters - including 68% of Democrats, 57% of Black Americans, and 61% of Hispanic Americans - would be more likely to vote for a candidate who publicly supports paid family and medical leave, according to the survey.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

California bill would ban police dogs from arrests and crowd control, citing racial trauma

Two California lawmakers have introduced a bill that would ban the use of police canines for arrests, apprehensions and crowd control, saying officers have long targeted and brutalized Americans of color with police dogs.Assemblymembers Corey Jackson (D-Perris) and Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) introduced AB 742 to "end a deeply racialized and harmful practice that has been a mainstay in America's history of racial bias and violence against Black Americans and people of color," according to a news release.
Brooklyn Paper
1 year ago
Brooklyn

'Brooklyn is Africa' exhibit opens at Borough Hall * Brooklyn Paper

Borough President Antonio Reynoso celebrated the return of the "Brooklyn is Africa" art exhibit at Borough Hall, which opened on Feb. 29 as a way of honoring the rich history of Black Brooklynites throughout Kings County.In partnership with the Cultural Museum of African Art, this year's exhibit showcases a select few of the rare and historical African art and artifacts from famed collector Eric Edwards - and tells the story of "Survival + Persistence = Resistance."
BK Reader
1 year ago
Brooklyn

BKR'S Weekend Event Picks: 10/14 - 10/16 - BK Reader

In case you didn't know, BK Reader has the 411 on what's poppin in Brooklyn: THE best, the flyest and the most robust events calendar in Kings County!
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

New age author Marianne Williamson announces new 2024 Democratic presidential run

New age self-help author Marianne Williamson says she will run for the Democratic 2024 presidential nomination, adding her quirky spiritualism to the mix as the first official challenger to President Biden from within his party."We are not living in easy times," Williamson said in a statement.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: The 'Dilbert' artist's downfall, triggered by a reckless commentary

Ah, Dilbert, we hardly knew ya.Scott Adams, creator of the popular "Dilbert" comic strip, has faced a backlash of cancellations after a tirade on his YouTube livestream in which he described Black people as members of "a hate group" from which white people should "get away."
www.kvue.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Marianne Williamson becomes Democratic primary's 1st Biden challenger

WASHINGTON Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.Williamson is formally kicking off her campaign with an event in Washington on Saturday.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Williamson becomes first Biden challenger in 2024 primary

By Will Weissert | Associated Press WASHINGTON Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.
english.elpais.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Williamson becomes Democratic primary's first Biden challenger

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson speaks in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 9, 2020.Andrew Harnik (AP) Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson, who brought quirky spiritualism to the 2020 presidential race, has announced she's running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party's nomination in 2024.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US news

U.S. Sues Exxon Mobil Over Nooses Found at Louisiana Refinery

The federal government filed an employment discrimination lawsuit in Louisiana on Thursday against Exxon Mobil after investigating a Black employee's complaint that nooses had been found at a Baton Rouge, La., refinery complex.The lawsuit said that the company created a hostile work environment for the employee, Milferd McGhee, and other workers by failing to implement measures to remedy and prevent harassment after five nooses were found at the complex between April 2016 and December 2020.
San Francisco Bay Times
1 year ago
SF LGBT

Black History Month Closing Ceremony - San Francisco Bay Times

"Homecoming" was the theme of the closing ceremony for Black History Month, hosted by California State Controller Malia Cohen, City Supervisor Shamann Walton, and Mayor London Breed, held in the rotunda at San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, February 26.A large crowded attended, including other elected officials, city administrators, entertainers, and members of the public.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

A Mass. newspaper is leaving its 'Dilbert' space blank to protest racism

Local "The Sun Chronicle will not provide a platform for a racist," the newspaper's executive editor said.Readers of The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro opened their newspapers Monday to find a blank space where the usual "Dilbert" comic strip once ran.It wasn't a printing error; the newspaper announced earlier this week that it has opted to stop publishing "Dilbert" following racist remarks by Scott Adams, the comic's creator.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

A classic, tragic account of American incarceration

Books "The Other Side of Prospect," by Nicholas Dawidoff, tells the story of how a manifestly not-guilty 16-year-old confessed to the murder-robbery of an elderly Black man in the Newhallville neighborhood of New Haven, Conn."The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City"
By Nicholas Dawidoff
Norton.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Slavery rejected in some, not all, states where on ballot

Local The measures approved Tuesday curtail the use of prison labor in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont.Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state rejected the move.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Books

Sisters behind US's first Black food book store share their five essential reads

For sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport, every month is a good time to read about Black food.As the owners of Brooklyn's BEM | books & more, the country's first book store to focus on the topic, the two sisters are regularly curating works that narrate and elevate stories and memories about Black food.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

A U.S. federal agency is suing Exxon after 5 nooses were found at a Louisiana complex

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, said it was suing ExxonMobil after several nooses were discovered at the company's complex in Baton Rouge, La.The EEOC said ExxonMobil failed to take action after a Black employee discovered a noose at his work station at the chemical plant in January 2020.
Brooklyn Eagle
1 year ago
Writing

The brief but shining life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, a poet who gave dignity to the Black experience

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century.He was the first Black American to make a living as a writer and was seminal in the start of the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance.
News
1 year ago
Public health

Gun violence researchers at Harvard Chan School receive largest-ever grant

January 25, 2023 - Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have received a five-year, $5 million grant to support research on firearm injuries and deaths.The grant, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be a vital tool in advancing research on gun violence prevention in the U.S. The field has been substantially underfunded in recent years due to both restricted federal funding and charitable foundations' reluctance to enter the politically-charged debate about firearms, according to David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard Chan School and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC).
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | It's Our Fault If Some Climate Protesters Go Too Far

'Tis the season for environmental protests, as this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference - better known as COP27 - gets underway in Egypt.That raises an age-old question: Even when the cause is righteous, how far are protesters allowed to go?This week, demonstrators belonging to the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) glued themselves to a highway in Berlin, blocking traffic.
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1 year ago
Law

Black prison exonerees outpace white counterparts, study says

Innocent Black people are significantly more likely to face wrongful convictions than innocent white people, a September report by the National Registry of Exonerations found, highlighting the stark racial disparities Black Americans continue to battle within the U.S. justice system.
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1 year ago
Arts

Q&A: Author Boyah J. Farah reflects on being Black in America

And for a while it was when he rode his bike down the quiet streets of his Boston-suburb, past smiling neighbors with their perfectly manicured lawns.
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I want them to feel that freedom of a highway.
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1 year ago
NYC music

Review: Songs That Defy the Quotidian Nature of Evil'

Songs in Flight, a new cycle by the composer Shawn Okpebholo, with texts chosen by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, a poet and associate professor at Duke University, had its premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on Thursday.With an opening set by the singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens, the concert found uncommon power in the humble format of folk and art songs.
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1 year ago
NYC music

Review: Davone Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point

No one could accuse Davone Tines of lacking ambition.On Thursday night, this bass-baritone made his Carnegie Hall debut in the intimate Weill Recital Hall, presenting a highly personal, carefully curated program with the pianist Adam Nielsen called Recital No. 1: MASS.Touching on Bach, spirituals and contemporary art music, the concert was a compelling reconceptualization of the recital format from an artist who molded his warm, strong voice like clay in a bracingly vulnerable, honest performance.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC music

Review: Musicians of Color Reclaim Control in a White Space

In "Everything Rises," the violinist Jennifer Koh and the bass-baritone Davóne Tines recount their complicated relationships with classical music.
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1 year ago
Arts

Banned Books: Author Ashley Hope Perez on finding humanity in the 'darkness'

This discussion with Ashley Hope Perez is part of a series of interviews with  and essays by  authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. Ashley Hope Perez is the author of the award-winning Out of Darkness, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. in recent years.
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1 year ago
Arts

Dave Chappelle monologue disappoints on 'Saturday Night Live'

Dave Chappelle tried to walk a difficult line on "Saturday Night Live" this week.Matt Petit/A.M.P.A.S via Getty Images No one walks a rhetorical tightrope as deftly as Dave Chappelle.That thought nagged at me while watching Chappelle's widely-anticipated appearance last night on Saturday Night Live, where his guest-hosting stints after major electoral events have become something of a tradition.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

44 Local Organizations Stand Against SFPD's Killer Robots

EFF is announcing a letter signed by 44 community groups who stand united in opposition to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors authorizing the San Francisco Police Department to deploy deadly force with remote-control robots.The signers include racial justice groups, civil rights and civil liberties organizations, LGBTQ organizations, and labor unions.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Wine

CARIBBEAT: 'Pop Pairings' consultants blend food, wine, and jazz

Guyana-born Erwin Caesar, owner of Brooklyn's owner 333 Lounge, has catered to Mayor de Blasio, then-Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and other high-profile customers in the past.But lately he's reaching out to - and expanding the perspective - of everyday folks by coupling with the "Pop Pairings" wine consultant firm, who promote winemakers of color with jazz music performances.
MarTech
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Kanye West too much even for Musk's Twitter | MarTech

Elon Musk announced Friday, by tweet of course, that the account of Kanye West, now known as Ye, has been suspended.Whether or not the suspension is temporary was not clear.This followed a now-deleted tweet from the rapper reported to have contained an image of a swastika inside a Star of David.According to the Twitter CEO, the post infringed the platform's rule against incitement to violence, thus indicating that there are boundaries to free speech even under the new Twitter regime.
ProFootballTalk
1 year ago
Dallas Cowboys

Jerry Jones is grilled about 1957 photo, and his more recent hiring practices - ProFootballTalk

The day before Thanksgiving, the Washington Post published a lengthy story regarding Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, his historic hiring practices, and his unique ability to influence the change that, no matter how hard the NFL tries, it just can't engineer.The article drew the most attention for the fact that it shed light on a photograph of a 14-year-old Jones among a group that was crowding around the entrance to North Little Rock High School as six Black students tried to enter, in September 1957.
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1 year ago
Photography

Opinion | My Teenage Years With the Black Panthers

In 2017, my mother died in Berkeley, Calif.When our family was preparing to sell the house, a long-forgotten collection of negative strips was found, revealing photographs I had made as a teenager during the turbulent 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area.With these aged strips of film my mother had tucked away for half a century, fragmented pieces of my memory have been returned to me like broken artifacts that now can be mended back together for revisiting.
BuzzFeed
1 year ago
Parenting

Parents And Kids Who Grew Up In Mixed-Race Families Are Sharing What They Wish Others Knew

As someone who is mixed race, I've noticed that there exists some interest in mixed-race families.Sometimes, it's a shallow fascination - how many TikToks can go viral because mixed-race users show old photos of their parents?- or ignorant (and intrusive) questions.Other times, there's a genuine curiosity about what it's like and what people should understand about the mixed-race identity.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Parenting

Opinion | A Language Test That Stigmatizes Black Children

It can be hard not to notice that a suspiciously large number of children, of seemingly normal human linguistic capacity, are officially designated as language impaired.
Brownstoner
1 year ago
Brooklyn real estate

Plaque Honors Black Women Who Fought for Voting Rights

The yellow shedding trees of Cuyler Gore Park in Fort Greene matched the clothing of many of the people gathered to the unveil of the first National Votes for Women Trail historical plaque in New York City on Saturday.
kvue.com
1 year ago
Austin

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A brief history of Hispanics in Central Texas

The rich history of Hispanic Latinos in the Austin area is the story of tragedy and triumph, of rampant discrimination and of a growing political power.
BBC Sport
1 year ago
Soccer (FIFA)

Vinicius Jr hits back at 'racist' celebration critic

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior says "the happiness of a black Brazilian in Europe" is behind criticism of his goal celebrations.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Queen Latifah's End of the Road Is a Horror Movie about MAGA Country

End of the Road, starring Queen Latifah (Brenda) and Ludacris (Chris), has received a lot of bad reviews.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Multnomah County Renews Effort to Ban Flavored Nicotine Products

Multnomah County renewed its effort to ban flavored nicotine products, including flavored vape liquid and menthol cigarettes, this week.
Medium
1 year ago
Graphic design

Red Water: the body as a logo

Historians believe that over 100,000 Black Americans escaped the corporation of slavery before the Civil War.
Nytimes
1 year ago
NYC food

Food Insecurity for Families With Children Reached Two-Decade Low in 2021

The decline can be attributed to an expansion of government assistance for families and children.
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