SUNRISE JUNE 17, 1937-SUNSET JUNE 30, 2020 By Charles Moseley It’s been often said, “Leaders are born not made.” Every so often, an individual comes along…
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The deadly Fourth of July weekend in Chicago’s Black neighborhoods had residents questioning the city’s failed strategy of putting 1,200 additional officers on the street.
Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday requiring all schools to open in the fall and laying out the requirements that districts must meet to offer any sort of nontraditional remote instruction in addition to their in-person option.
Digital ballot images are automatically created by digital voting equipment for all ballots, whether submitted by vote-by-mail, during early voting, on election day or provisionally. The lawsuit asks digital ballot images be preserved for 22 months as required by federal and state law and be treated as public records available for inspection and production under such laws.
“Why, for instance, are African Americans more likely to die from the virus than other races? Our study controls for patients’ income, weight, diabetic status, and whether or not they’re smokers,” wrote Knittel in the study. “We must examine other possibilities, such as systemic racism that impacts African Americans’ quality of insurance, hospitals, and healthcare, or other underlying health conditions that are not in the model, and then urge policymakers to look at other ways to solve the problem.”
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and the Meals on Wheels program provided by the Miami-Dade County Community Action and Human Services Department partnered to help 200 Miami-Dade homebound disabled residents in Little Haiti and North Miami stock up on emergency food supplies to prepare for hurricane season.
If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November.
Born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jimmy’s story is the definition of ‘Home Grown’. However, it didn’t start out on a bed of roses. You would never know that The Lippman Youth Shelter was a part of this confident, caring, energetic, people person who greets you with the warmest smile and charisma of today.
“The work ahead of us will not be easy. The COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to have a disproportionate impact on democratic participation for communities of color who have been harmed most deeply by the health and economic crisis and who will encounter greater barriers to voter participation given the new risks of voting in person on Election Day.”
Amid all the tangible change happening in America along racial lines, there is one transformation that may not be as immediately visible to the naked eye — the ongoing “browning” of this nation’s citizens. While it has already been reported that white people were edging toward living in a country in which they would not be the majority, new data shows that may happen a lot sooner than expected.