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Baltimore, Photo by Irina Sitnikova on Unsplash In a significant step towards promoting financial stability and addressing the racial wealth divide, five U.S. cities have been chosen to participate in the CityStart initiative, a program focused on developing strategies to help families and communities become more financially secure. The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative, has selected Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Indianapolis, […]

In a significant move towards economic justice, the city of Evanston, Illinois has recently transferred $17 million of its reparations fund to Liberty Bank and Trust, a Black-owned financial institution. According to a recent article in Essence, this transfer is being hailed as a "very, very big deal" by Robin Rue Simmons, the chair of Evanston's Reparations Committee. Evanston made history in 2019 by becoming the first city in the […]

A lethal injection gurney is seen at the at Nevada State Prison, a former penitentiary in Carson City, Nev., in 2022. Emily Najera for NPR Studies of the death penalty have long shown racial inequality in its application, but a new report has found the disparity extends inside the death chamber itself. In an analysis of the more than 1,400 lethal injection executions conducted in the U.S. since 1982, researchers […]

Photo by Melody Zimmerman on Unsplash Carvd N Stone (CNS), a Milwaukee-based news company and marketing agency, has announced that applications are now open for its third annual $1,000 Travel Writing Scholarship. The scholarship aims to support aspiring travel writers in Milwaukee. Applicants must be Milwaukee residents between the ages of 17 and 29 to be eligible. They must submit an 800-word essay on the theme: "What lessons have you […]