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Black News Oct 15, 2026Black-Owned Food Co-op In Detroit Receives $25K Grant As Community Support Drives Sales
Detroit People’s Food Co-op, a Black-led, community-owned grocery business, is seeing a surge in community support after asking shoppers and local organizations to help it navigate financial challenges.
Black News Oct 15, 2026The Reparations Report: Analyzing the $14 Trillion Wealth Gap, Historical Land Loss, and the Week in Restorative Justice
A deep data analysis into the U.S. racial wealth divide, the compounding toll of 16 million acres in Black agricultural land loss, California’s econometric harms modeling, and the weekly news recap from London’s UK Reparations Conference to federal H.R. 40 debates.
Black News Oct 14, 2026Reparations Advocates Celebrate as Newsom Signs Corporate Slavery Disclosure Bill
Does Gavin Newsom just sit around all day thinking up new ways to drive companies out of California?
Black News Oct 14, 2026At 2819 Church, Faith Is Personal. So Is the Gratitude.
Philip Anthony Mitchell left behind a troubled past to build one of Atlanta’s fastest-growing Black churches.
Black News Oct 13, 2026Reparations activists celebrate ‘important victory’ after Newsom signs first-ever corpo…
California advocacy groups are celebrating a “big, important victory” in their push for state-level reparations after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation bill requiring large corporations to investigate and disclose historical ties to chattel slavery.
Black News Oct 13, 2026New California law requires companies to disclose past profits from slavery
Companies with more than $100 million in annual worldwide gross receipts will be required to search their records and submit sworn disclosures about slavery-related transactions.
Black News Oct 13, 2026New York Expands Free College For Adults
New Yorkers looking to switch careers without taking on more student debt could soon have a new path to professional growth.