Month: March 2020

     Forty-five’s hostility to poor people is reflected in reductions in Medicaid, food stamps, and the CHIP program, which provides health care for poor children. And while he is starving poor people, he insists on preserving the 2017 tax cuts that mostly benefitted the wealthy. I’m not surprised that “forty-five” maintains his hostility to the poor. We’ve seen this in the previous budgets that he’s presented to Congress.

A coalition of Florida and national voting rights advocates urged Florida Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee, Bay County Supervisor of Elections Mark Andersen, and other Florida officials to expand voting access for African American and low-wealth voters in Panama City ahead of the March 17, 2020 Presidential Preference Primary Election. The groups’ letter identifies serious racial disparities in Early Voting access in Panama City, as well as other barriers to voting access for African American and low-wealth voters, many of whom continue to face difficulties recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, which made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane on October 10, 2018.

    To pull together photographs, videos, and audio records he collected for this performance, Rose interviewed researchers and activists including Michael ‘Quess’ Moore, who co-founded Take ‘Em Down NOLA; Maxine Crump, CEO of Dialogue on Race-Louisiana; Chris Tyson, president of Build Baton Rouge, Jason Perkins, Ph.D., professors Eva Baham and Lori Martin; LSU history chairman Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Ph.D.; Southern University law professor Angela Allen-Bell; historian Thomas Durant, and many others, he said.

The Office of Economic and Small Business Development (OESBD) announced today that it will host its 5th annual Broward and Beyond Business (BBB) Conference on May 1st at the Signature Grand in Davie. The conference theme this year is “We’re on the Move” highlighting Broward’s progress towards a world-class inter-modal transportation system and investments in the expansion of our convention center, seaport and airport which provide unprecedented opportunities for Broward’s business community. Register Early! 

Counting Young Children in the 2020 Census

     The original concept and name of Whoamentoring Works was conceptualized by Founder and President, Dr. K. Kymrae Hill.  The concept derives firstly from her innate passion for women empowerment and philanthropy, but later through her doctoral studies and her dissertation research findings, she found that there is an imperative need for stronger mentoring and empowering programs for women specifically.  The name “Whoamentoring Works” was also thoughtfully created.  

Canada is paying tribute to an all-Black hockey league that thrived long before the NHL became part of national lore.

     “We are very proud to see how beautifully this community garden has developed,” said Nguyen Tran, CRA Director. “Thanks to Chris Reesor of the Fruitful Field and David Miller, the assistant garden manager, our residents are learning the principles of organic farming and gardening, while creating a food source not only for themselves, but for the community.”

Stand Up and Be Counted – Make Black Count – Be Powerful

SANDERS LABEL PROBLEM