The Mississippi State Conference NAACP (MS NAACP) is calling for the continued investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Willie Andrew Jones, Jr., an African American man whose body was discovered hanging from a tree in the front yard of a Scott County, Miss., residence in February of this year. MS NAACP has joined the Jones and Townsend families to request a full examination of the facts by the FBI.
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A drug combination aimed at preventing transmission of HIV from a pregnant woman to her fetus likely does not increase the risk for preterm birth and early infant death, according to a re-analysis of two studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. The research appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.
As proposed by School Board Member Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, District 2, during yesterday’s regular meeting, the Miami-Dade School Board honored the Haitian American Nurses Association of Florida, Inc. (HANA).
Broward Education Foundation honored donors in the community for their support of the Stoneman Douglas Victims’ Fund during the BEF is MSD Strong Benefit Dinner presented by BrightStar Credit Union.
Two Prongs of a Pitchfork
We’re all familiar with the popular proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” As a 21st century society, this still holds true, literally and figuratively. For non-millennials, who grew up in a vastly different era, there is a nostalgic mindset that a diverse community of inspiring people interacting with children has a positive and sustained life-changing impact on their developme
The presidents of the LDS Church and the NAACP stood together Thursday for the first time and called for an end to prejudice and greater racial and ethnic harmony during a historic news conference at the Church Administration Building near Temple Square.
Podcast creators Changa and Franklin released the podcast on the birthday of the leader Malcolm X as a tribute and hoping to bring new life to the national conversation on race.
Black Mothers forum helps Arizona students succeed
Detroit entrepreneur Nailah Ellis-Brown is defying the odds. At the age of 20, she started her hand-crafted tea business during the height of the Great Recession in one of the hardest hit cities in America. She should have failed. Instead, today Ellis-Brown’s business is thriving – she has her own beverage manufacturing plant and has just inked a deal that will test her family recipe for Jamaican Sweet Tea in every Sam’s Club location in the country beginning on May 16.