Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Ā announced it is committing more than $21 million to pilot a professional training, mentorship, and capital funding program to help promote real estate developers of color. This two-year, parttime professional development program, which is free for participants, aims to teach real estate developers of color how to advance their careers. It also aims to lower the barriers these developers can face when bidding for affordable housing developments. The goal of the program is to increase the number of professional real estate developers of color who are focused on affordable housing and inclusive community building.
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Ā Ā Ā Ā Valeria Smith, 31, pleaded guilty in September 2019 for helping her dad cover up the murder of her stepmom, Jacquelyn Smith, Law & Crime reported at the time.
Ā Ā While the economy is gradually rebounding, a new poll found that some Black people are still struggling. According to the November Temperature Check Poll from Black to the Future Action Fund, 42 percent of Black adults described their financial situation as ābad.ā And one-third of respondents reported their financial situations have worsened.
Ā Ā Ā Ā A Democrat and noted voting rights advocate, Abrams lost to Kemp by just over one percentage point in their controversial 2018 battle. Her activism helped Democrats claim the majority in the U.S. Senate when Georgia Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff defeated Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the January 2021 runoff election.
āEvery day, I arrived at the White House complex knowing our work made a tangible difference for Americans. I am immensely grateful and will miss working for her and with all of you,ā Symone Sanders, Vice President Kamala Harrisā chief spokesperson and senior advisor wrote in a letter to Vice President Harrisā staff.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Poll after poll after poll shows that a majority among Americans considers the college-level academic study to be inherently divisive, but once you break those numbers down into demographics, they all show that the strong majority of those who have adopted CRT as their new resident Devil are overwhelmingly Republican and conservative and just as overwhelmingly caucasian. (Most of those polls also show that the majority of Americans donāt have even a remedial idea of what CRT is.)
Ā Ā Ā Ā A 13-year-old is accused of fatally shooting his 14-year-old sister during a botched gun trade. The mishap occurred as the brother was attempting to prevent someone from taking one of his self-manufactured firearms.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Researchers conducted by the national polling site,Ā CiviqsĀ revealed that 44 percent of Americans support the Black Lives Matter Movement, while 43 percent said they oppose the campaign.
Ā Ā Ā Ā During a sold-out celebration on Sunday, December 5, Miller-Perry, the trailblazing 2019 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, captured another high honor.
Frederick Isasi, the executive director of Families USA, called the Mississippi case ā known as Dobbs v. Jackson ā unconstitutional and an orchestrated attack on the ability of women to make their own decisions about their health and their reproductive freedom. āBy asking the Supreme Court to gut or even overturn Roe v Wade, it will deny women abortion services and fundamentally jeopardize the lives and health of women in the state,ā Isasi asserted.