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This City is Paying Out Reparations to Black Folks...Guess Who's Trying to Stop It
The Root· 5 days agoThree years ago, it was reported that the Evanston City Council voted to launch the first phase of a...
Axios San Francisco
Axios· 3 days agoBy the numbers: Black people constitute just 4.6% of San Francisco's 808,000 residents, according to Census data. From 1970 to 2010, the city's Black population fell 50% to fewer than 49,000 ...
‘A great man’: KCK bids fond farewell to civil rights activist, historian Chester Owens
The Kansas City Star· 3 days agoAfter 78 years in Kansas City, Kansas, locally renowned civil rights activist and historian Chester C. Owens Jr. is moving away. Before he does, though, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County ...
Conservative Group Sues City Of Evanston, Illinois, Over Reparations Program For Black Residents |...
Essence· 4 days agoA conservative activist group has filed a class action lawsuit against Evanston, Illinois’ reparations program, arguing that its race-based eligibility criteria make it unconstitutional. In ...
Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open.
The News-Times· 3 days agoDetranay Blankenship was 16 weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting. The 26-year-old first-time mom wasn’t sure what to expect during labor, but the team at MLK’s maternity ward ...
Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open.
U-T San Diego· 3 days agoDetranay Blankenship was 16 weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting. The days passed quickly, and soon she was 7 centimeters dilated at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital.
Conservative Group Tries to Halt Reparation Payments for Black Residents In a Chicago Suburb...
Atlanta Black Star· 4 days agoIn a historic move, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, launched a reparations program in 2021, the first of its kind in the nation, according to several reports. The program, approved ...
17 LA County hospitals closed their labor wards. Here’s one that fought to stay open
Los Angeles Daily News· 4 days agoDetranay Blankenship was 16 weeks pregnant when she found out she was expecting. The days passed...
Laws meant to keep different races apart still influence dating patterns, decades after being...
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 days agoStudies have found that all people on dating apps, regardless of their own race, are more likely to contact white people using the app. Until recently, some popular apps, including OkCupid, ...
Transportation planners: Having safer roads means confronting structural racism
The Elkhart Truth, Ind. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoELKHART — A national epidemic in pedestrian deaths on the road isn’t felt equally among all races, according to transportation planners drafting a regional safety framework. Catherine Girves ...