Tag: Black
Black Communities Affected By Opioids Have Been Mostly Ignored in Settlements
Opinion Black Communities Affected By Opioids Have Been Mostly Ignored in Settlements The settlements that have come out of opioid lawsuits should be going to communities affected most. This isn’t what’s happening for Black communities By Jerel Ezell After a troubling spike that began in 2019, the total number of drug overdose deaths dropped in…
String Theorists Say Black Holes Are Multidimensional String ‘Supermazes’
Black Holes May Be ‘Supermazes’ of Many-Dimensional Strings Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions By Clara Moskowitz edited by Jeanna Bryner Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these…
Russia and Ukraine Agree to Black Sea Cease-Fire: What to Know
Russia-Ukraine War It remains unclear if the commitments to stop attacks and ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea, which came with many caveats, would happen soon. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Constant Méheut Ivan Nechepurenko reported from Tbilisi, Georgia, and Constant Méheut from Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have said they are committed to cease…
Russia and Ukraine agree naval ceasefire in Black Sea
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a naval ceasefire in the Black Sea in separate deals with the US, after three days of peace talks in Saudi Arabia. Washington said all parties would continue working toward a “durable and lasting peace” in statements announcing the agreements, which would reopen an important trade route. They have…
Pentagon restores webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers and others after outcry
Tom Bowman The Pentagon has restored some of its webpages that highlighted Black veterans such as Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen and Vietnam-era Medal of Honor recipient Major Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers as well as the Navajo Code Talkers from World War II and the Japanese-American 442nd Combat Regiment. Two Defense Department officials not authorized…
City crews have begun painting over the ‘Black Lives Matter’ street mural in D.C.
By Ayana Archie Crews in Washington, D.C. have begun painting over the city’s “Black Lives Matter” street mural, a notable symbol of the 2020 protests against the killing of George Floyd, after a Republican bill targeting the mural threatened city funding. The phrase “Black Lives Matter” had been painted in June 2020 on the pavement…
New Mexico jury convicts former officer in fatal shooting of Black man at gas station
By The Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. — A former police officer was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man during a 2022 confrontation at a New Mexico gas station. Las Cruces police Officer Brad Lunsford’s verdict in a jury trial is the latest outcome in cases that…
Third Black Hawk crew member involved in deadly crash near DC airport identified
Tom Bowman The Army released the name of the third crew member of the Black Hawk helicopter that slammed into an American Airlines-affiliated flight above the Potomac River this week, killing 67 people. Captain Rebecca Lobach was 28 years old and a native of Durham, N.C. She was a distinguished military graduate from the University…
Helicopter black box recovered from Washington DC plane crash site
Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder – also known as the black box – from the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday. Emergency responders are planning to ramp up operations over the weekend to recover the debris from the site. There were…
Black boxes found as officials examine staffing shortage in DC plane crash
The black boxes for a commercial flight that crashed into a military helicopter in Washington DC have been located, as questions mount about staffing and other close calls at the airport where the plane was landing. Normally two people manage air traffic control for helicopters and airplanes flying in the area – one of the…
A Storm, a Spill and a Disaster for the Black Sea’s Beaches
Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm. By Nataliya Vasilyeva Reporting from Istanbul When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast in a hazmat suit just before New Year’s Eve, he was so overwhelmed…
Families’ relief as memorial unveiled to first world war black South African dead
Commonwealth War Graves Commission begins project to honour those who, unlike white counterparts, were never commemorated Elliot Malunga Delihlazo’s grandmother would say that her brother Bhesengile went to war and never came back. The family knew he had died in the first world war, but they never had a body to bury, only a memorial…
This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Undead Star
This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Star That Refuses to Die Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star passes too close to a…
Black boxes on crashed South Korean plane cut out before impact, inquiry finds
Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people, says transport ministry Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people, stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure at Muan airport, the…
Black men in England more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer, analysis shows
The diagnosis rate for black men was found to be 1.5 times higher and they were also 14% less likely to receive life-saving treatments Black men in England are more likely to be diagnosed with late-state prostate cancer than their white counterparts, while being less likely to receive life-saving treatment, analysis by the National Prostate…
Brisbane traffic congestion ranked 10th worst in world but experts question ‘black box’ analysis
Academics say traffic scorecard uses ‘rogue metric’ which may make Brisbane’s congestion appear as bad as Los Angeles and Jakarta Brisbane ranks among the world’s most congested cities – ahead of sprawling megacities like Bangkok and well in front of Sydney and Melbourne – according to a transport analytics report. “This is a rogue metric,”…
Head of Met’s Black Police Association accused of sending offensive messages in group chat
Charles Ehikioya was in chat where racist, misogynistic, homophobic and pornographic messages were shared, hearing told The Metropolitan police’s Black Police Association head was part of a group chat where “racist” jokes about east Asian people and a video mocking Katie Price’s disabled son, Harvey, were shared, a misconduct hearing was told. Insp Charles Ehikioya…
CNN goes on trial over its report alleging ‘black market’ for Afghan rescues
David Folkenflik After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, many people were desperate to flee the country. CNN reported that a security consultant was among those offering to evacuate them — for a price — as part of an investigation into claims of “black market” rescue operations. CNN’s story, which aired on…
Data extracted from first Jeju Air black box – ministry
Investigators have finished extracting data from one of the black boxes from the fated Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday, South Korea’s transport ministry has said. The data from the cockpit voice recorder will now be converted into an audio file, though authorities said it would take more time to access the data in…
South Korea plane crash investigators extract data from Jeju Air black box
Authorities hope for vital clues as contents of cockpit recorder are converted into audio format Investigators in South Korea have extracted data from one of two “black boxes” retrieved from a Jeju Air plane that crashed shortly after landing on Sunday, killing all but two of the 181 people aboard. The country’s deputy minister for…
South Korea plane crash investigators turn to black boxes in search for vital clues
Experts hope flight recorders will provide answers to key questions surrounding crash in which 179 died As investigators set to work unpicking the cause of Sunday’s devastating plane crash in South Korea, the black boxes carried on the plane will be of prime importance. One hundred and 79 people out of the 181 onboard died…
Australian bushfire smoke detected over Antarctica for first time since black summer
Particles recorded by scientists at the Chilean research station, the Profesor Julio Escudero Base, as recently as Sunday Smoke from bushfires in south-eastern Australia has been detected over Antarctica for the first time since the 2019-20 black summer fires. Scientists detected the smoke particles at the Profesor Julio Escudero Base, a Chilean research station on…
Should You Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula?
Flame Retardants in Black Plastic Spatulas Concern Scientists The scientists behind a popular study on the health effects of flame retardants in black plastic cooking utensils and toys made a calculation error but still say their revised findings are alarming By Lauren J. Young edited by Dean Visser Should you throw out your black plastic…