Memory Loss: Alzheimer’s in Black Communities

Memory Loss: Alzheimer’s in Black Communities

By Linda Nwoke, Exclusive to New Black Voices Alzheimer’s disease is among the top seven in the United States with no cure, and despite the introduction of exciting treatments that slow its progression, the absence of a cure has remained a challenge. Generally, any form of memory loss affects an individual’s daily activities and is […]

[Opinion] There’s Still Resistance to Black People Receiving Reparations, Despite Evidence That We Deserve Them

[Opinion] There’s Still Resistance to Black People Receiving Reparations, Despite Evidence That We Deserve Them

Assembly member Reginald Jones-Sawyer, a member of the California reparations task force, in Los Angeles, California, US, on Friday, May 5, 2023. California has been the most proactive state when it comes to organizing a reasonable plan to give Black people reparations for the harm that slavery has caused them for hundreds of years. The California Reparations Task Force has […]

Senator James Sanders Jr., Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, and Nearly 70 Elected Officials Call on Governor Kathy Hochul to Sign Reparations Commission Bill into Law to Begin the Path toward Justice for African Americans

Senator James Sanders Jr., Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, and Nearly 70 Elected Officials Call on Governor Kathy Hochul to Sign Reparations Commission Bill into Law to Begin the Path toward Justice for African Americans

 (New York, NY) Senator James Sanders Jr., Chair of the Senate Banks Committee, Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, Chair of The New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, and nearly 70 elected officials from around the state signed a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to sign the reparations commission bill into law. […]

Here’s Why Black Life Expectancy Dropped This Year

Here’s Why Black Life Expectancy Dropped This Year

By Amira Castilla, The Root Just when the United States started to close the gap between life expectancy rates amongst races, Covid-19 wrecked the chance. In an interview with CBS News in June 2022, Dr. Greg Roth at the University of Washington School of Medicine said that the gap between Black and white life expectancy […]

Racial Wealth Gaps are yet Another Thing the US and UK Have in Common

Racial Wealth Gaps are yet Another Thing the US and UK Have in Common

By Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation It’s an old saying that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language. But they are united by racial wealth gaps that formed at a similar time for related reasons. Black Britons of the “Windrush generation,” arriving in Britain from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1973, and […]

A Statue of a Trailblazing Black Educator Gets a Home in the U.S. Capitol, Replacing a Confederate General

Mary McLeod Bethune became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

A Statue of a Trailblazing Black Educator Gets a Home in the U.S. Capitol, Replacing a Confederate General

WASHINGTON DC, USA – AUGUST 5, 2016: Statue of Mary Jane McLeod Bethune – an American educator and civil rights activist known for starting a private school for African-American students in Florida. (Shutterstock) By The Associated Press, NBC News WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first […]

Many African American Last Names Hold Weight of Black History

“Choosing your surname gives you that power to say, ‘This is what I’m gonna be called from now on,’” explained genealogist Kenyatta Berry.

Many African American Last Names Hold Weight of Black History

By Julia Craven Oluale Kossula: That’s the name author Zora Neale Hurston used when she greeted Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade and the subject of her nonfiction book “Barracoon.” He was delighted at being addressed by the name his mother gave him, according to Hurston’s account of the hours […]

When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?

The 15th Amendment was supposed to guarantee Black men the right to vote, but exercising that right became another challenge.

When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?

Washington, D.C. | U.S.A. – Aug 28, 2021: March On for Voting Rights “Protect Voting Rights” (Shutterstock) By Sarah Pruitt, History In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the United States found itself in uncharted territory. With the Confederacy’s defeat, some 4 million enslaved Black men, women and children had been granted their freedom, […]