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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In yet another indication that Black America was being left behind by the country’s economic recovery, the jobs report for August showed that Black unemployment last month rate surged while joblessness for every other group fell.
A former district attorney has been charged with misconduct in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man fatally shot last year by two white men while jogging in a Georgia neighborhood.
Roughly 1,000 schools nationwide have already shut down in-person classes at some point for the fall semester amid surges in COVID-19 cases and battles over mask mandates, according to a data tracker.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open “Reckoning with Remembrance: History, Injustice and the Murder of Emmett Till” as a monthlong display of the bullet-ridden sign that was placed by the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in remembrance of Emmett Till through Oct. 5.
At least three major banks have decided to opt out of a new process for getting Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven directly by the Small Business Administration, The Intercept has learned, leaving their small business customers with no other recourse if the banks refuse to forgive loans or drag out the process.
Hurricane Ida Devastates Louisiana and Mississippi
The brigade commander over the Al Isha unit, Nawazuddin Haqqani, bragged in an interview with Zenger News that his unit is using U.S.-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive U.S.-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or worked with Indian intelligence. Those who try to deny or minimize their role will find themselves contradicted by the detailed computer records.
Yet, I have never felt as close to the memory of Stacy than I felt when I visited the monument to him at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice which was built by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama.
The biggest inequality affected Black infants, who had more than twice the White infant mortality rate. In 2019, almost 3,600 more Black babies died before their first birthday.