Category: African Americans

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Why Black-Owned Businesses Can’t Afford to Be Invisible to AI

Many people use AI tools to search for products and services instead of search engines. If Black-owned businesses aren’t easy for AI to find, they end up losing potential customers. Let AI help you gain the trust of people who are considering your business for the first time so your brand can grow.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Insurance redlining means two identical drivers pay different prices

Insurance redlining happens when the address on your policy shapes your rate more than your record behind the wheel. Companies build prices from personal details like your neighborhood and credit, not just your driving history. The result: two drivers with identical records can pay far different premiums, and the steeper bill usually falls on Black neighborhoods.

16th Street Baptist Church
African Americans
News Observed

Historic Black Churches Can Apply for Up to $500,000 by September 11

The National Trust’s Preserving Black Churches program is accepting applications through September 11, 2026, offering grants of $50,000 to $500,000 for repairs, planning, and long-term sustainability at historically Black churches nationwide.

US Dept of Labor
African Americans
News Observed

Black Women’s Unemployment Rate Fell. The Reality Behind It Didn’t

Black unemployment is the highest of any group in the country, yet one number moved the ‘right’ way this year. The improvement is a statistical illusion — and understanding why reveals both who got pushed out of the workforce and what Black women are building instead.

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African Americans
News Observed

Gary’s Blackout Is a Storm Repair, Not a National Grid Collapse

A viral claim ties Gary, Indiana’s two-week power outage to a supposed 18-month nationwide blackout. The outage is real and NIPSCO’s response deserves scrutiny — but the 18-month figure comes from a 2014 sabotage scenario that has nothing to do with this storm.

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African Americans
News Observed

One in Three U.S. Counties Now Has Nowhere to Give Birth

A 2026 March of Dimes report finds 34.6% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts, with at least 96 labor and delivery units closed since January 2024 — and research shows the closures fall hardest on hospitals serving Medicaid patients and Black families, including in Kern County and the Antelope Valley.

African Americans
Kathleen Untalan

Beyond the prison walls: Three formerly incarcerated family members share stories of trauma, survival, and reentry at Bakersfield Black August event

After spending 32 years behind prison walls, Brian Keith Stafford was finally free. Someone took him shopping, and amid all the things he had to relearn about the outside world, he noticed something that most people would probably never give a second thought- the underwear came in different colors. In shock, he called his mother saying, “Mama, they got different colors underwear.”

African Americans
Stefi Mar

Rights & Rituals: Black Women and the Sage We Breathe

1Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

African Americans
Stefi Mar

“Sickle Cell Warriors” Urge Gov. Newsom to Sustain Critical Patient-Care Funding

Representatives of the Cayenne Wellness Center, a leading advocate for California’s sickle cell community, delivered a petition with more than 1,000 signatures to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office on Aug. 14. The petition calls on state leaders to provide $15 million over the next three years to support care for people living with the genetic disorder.

History of The National Urban League posterboards at the 2025 National Urban League Conference
African Americans
News Observed

Urban League Report: 567,000 Black Men Lost Jobs Since November

The National Urban League’s 50th State of Black America report says hundreds of thousands of Black men and women have lost jobs since late 2025 — losses the organization estimates cost Black America about $87 billion in income.

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African Americans
News Observed

Black August: The Prison-Born Observance Most of America Never Learned

Each August, communities from Oakland to the East Coast mark a commemoration that began in 1979 among incarcerated men at San Quentin — a tradition rooted in the deaths of George and Jonathan Jackson, and in a history that remains fiercely contested.

Memphis skyline from the air
African Americans
News Observed

Federal task force agents have shot seven people in Memphis, four fatally

Agents attached to the Memphis Safe Task Force have shot seven people since the operation began, killing four men in roughly two months — a pattern covered heavily by local outlets but only in brief national bursts, according to reporting by the Tennessee Lookout.

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African Americans
News Observed

Chicago Police Stops Plummet, But Black Drivers Still Targeted Most

Chicago police reported roughly 225,000 traffic stops in 2025 — less than half the 2023 total — yet Black and Latino drivers are still pulled over at far higher rates than white drivers, and new reporting shows more than half of all stops went unrecorded.