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President Biden Calls for End to Systemic Racism During CBCF Conference
The awards closed out the week-long Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. […]
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‘Engines Of Opportunity’: The White House Celebrates HBCU Week
The significance of historically Black colleges and universities throughout the country spans far beyond the realm of education. The institutions serve as cornerstones of Black culture and have produced scholars who have been at the forefront of transformative change. President Joe Biden’s administration recently unveiled an initiative centered on celebrating the rich legacies of HBCUs. […]
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Suicide Rates are soaring for Black people during the pandemic
World Suicide Prevention Day is a hard day to commemorate, especially if you have personally lost someone from suicide. Last year during the pandemic, medical officials worried that COVID-19 would have a serious impact on people’s mental health. With months of isolation, millions of deaths and economic hardship resulting in a heartbreaking number of job losses, experts warned of suicide rates skyrocketing. […]
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Senator Cory Booker (D-NY), Environmental Justice Advocate, Proud to Receive NNPA Leadership Award
Sen. Booker, who served two terms as Newark mayor before his election to the Senate, will receive the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) National Leadership Award for excellence and innovative leadership in Black America. Drs. James Hildreth and Ebony Hilton, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Missouri), and Olympic record-setter Allyson Felix also will receive National Leadership Awards from the NNPA, the trade association of more than 230 African American-owned newspapers and media companies. […]
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NNPA Honors Dr. Ebony Hilton with National Leadership Award
As a practicing physician at the University of Virginia – Charlottesville, Dr. Hilton has continued advocating for underserved and marginalized populations. Her efforts have received recognition from the National Medical Association and the National Minority Quality Forum as one of the top 40 under 40 Leaders in Health Care award recipients. […]
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Proudly Separate But, Per Funding, Profoundly Unequal
Seen in isolation, recent problems at HBCUs, Medgar Evers College in New York City and Barber-Scotia College in North Carolina can be easily viewed within the context of the problems all higher education students are having with see-sawing enrollment and continuing pandemic problems. And if you wanted to add the conflict that Nikole Hannah-Jones had with the Board of Trustees at the predominately white University of North Carolina, that could be just seen as a rogue board controlled by political conservatives. So, it can be easy to write race out of this dialogue, or at least downplay it. […]
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Tuskegee Vibes: Study finds invermectin makes men sterile as unproven COVID-19 Drug Forced on Inmates
Tuskegee Vibes: Study finds invermectin makes men sterile as unproven COVID-19 Drug Forced on Inmates […]
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Firefighter Roderick Lewis Was There, and in Ways, He Still is Remembering 9/11
Even now, the pain of that day lies just below the surface for retired New York City firefighter Rodney Lewis. As Lewis recalled the sights, smells, sounds and horror of Sept. 11, 2001, tears accompanied those memories even as he sat in the comfortable Queens, N.Y., home he shares with his wife. […]
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Attica 50: How The U.S. Government’s Lies About Prison Uprising Fueled Lingering Mistrust Of The System
A half-century after one of the worst prison riots in American history, mistrust of the system lingers — especially by Black and brown people — in part because of the lies that the federal government told about the circumstances leading to what later became known as the Attica Prison Uprising. […]
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Clyburn Chronicles Episode with Nlihc President and CEO Diane Yentel
The pandemic shed light on something many in our country already knew – America is in the midst of a severe housing crisis. Today, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn released his latest Clyburn Chronicles podcast focusing on this issue and the path forward with National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) President and CEO Diane Yentel. […]