Author: Stefi Mar

Another Push for Reparations for Slavery and Black a Wall Street

Another Push for Reparations for Slavery and Black a Wall Street

Feb 18, 2025 | , , , , , ,

The growing movement for reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in America is receiving another jolt of energy.  Democratic Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Presley is revitalizing the work of the late Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee with the reintroduction of H. R. 40. The newly reintroduced bill would create a 15-member commission to study concrete solutions to the Black Wall Street Tulsa Massacre.

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American Heart Association Partners with the Black Press for Groundbreaking Black Health Symposium

American Heart Association Partners with the Black Press for Groundbreaking Black Health Symposium

Feb 18, 2025 | ,

For the first time, a major corporation has chosen to broadcast a significant health initiative exclusively through the Black Press of America. The American Heart Association (AHA) partnered with the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) to present “Changing the Future of Health for Black Communities: Public Health and Media Symposium,” a virtual event streamed live on NNPA’s YouTube channel as part of Black History Month. The NNPA is the trade association representing the more than 200 African-American-owned newspapers and media companies in the United States, which only known as are commonly known as the Black Press of America.

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Treated as Suspects, Not Patients: How Systemic Racism Harms Black Male Gun Violence Survivors

Treated as Suspects, Not Patients: How Systemic Racism Harms Black Male Gun Violence Survivors

Feb 18, 2025 | , , , ,

A disturbing new report reveals that Black men who survive gun violence are often treated as suspects rather than patients, exposing systemic racial biases in healthcare and law enforcement practices. The findings, compiled by Dr. Cherrell Green, a non-residential fellow at the Violence, Inequality, and Power Lab, examine the structural inequalities that shape how Black men experience trauma, recovery, and medical care.

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