The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Felix had joined the Hear Her campaign to share her story and raise awareness about urgent warning signs that could indicate life-threatening complications during and in the year after pregnancy. Because of her bold and tireless work, Felix received the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) National Leadership Award for excellence and innovative leadership in Black America.
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Responding to the report of holdouts among NBA players who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke in no uncertain
Kamsi, like many across the country, spent the last school year in a virtual classroom interacting with other students and teachers only via a computer screen. Going back to in-person learning with potential restrictions only added to her anxiety.
A federal jury in New York convicted the R&B superstar –better known as R. Kelly – on multiple counts of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
California Democratic Rep. Karen Bass is gearing up to run for mayor of Los Angeles. At least that’s what sources close to the congresswoman are saying.
A Texas man pled guilty in federal court in Houston to defrauding the Small Business Administration (SBA) of more than $1.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the SBA under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Pamela Uba soared into history books on Sunday as the Emerald Isle’s first-ever Black female winner since its launch more than 70 years ago.
Music students at Morris Brown College, a historically Black university in downtown Atlanta, are judging a first-of-its-kind hip hop contest for currently incarcerated individuals in select State Department of Corrections facilities nationwide.
The HAVE Coalition stands in unity with the diverse assembly of civil rights leaders, US elected officials and human rights organizations who vehemently object to the inhumane and excessively cruel treatment of Haitian refugees by United States Customs and Border Control (CBP) along the US-Mexico border at Del Rio, TX. At a broader level, we also question, along with others, why the Biden-Harris administration is blatantly failing to meet the expectations it set regarding respect for the human rights and dignity of refugees. Last week’s images of CBP agents on horseback herding Haitians, as if they were cattle, traumatically triggers memories of an America thought to have been left behind after the US Civil War. President Biden–we must do better.
With all of that as the backdrop, Congress on Tuesday, September 28, prepares to vote on the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of Law (EQUAL) Act, which would eliminate the disparity in authorized sentencing offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine.