The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion toward four electric power projects, including a connection to the Southeast for Texas’s isolated grid, it announced Thursday.
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– Recently UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, proudly unveiled its 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report. The report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs, commissioned by UNCF’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI), is a comprehensive, data-driven analysis highlighting the substantial contributions the nation’s 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) make to their students, local communities and the nation at large.
Hurricane season begins on June 1 and ends on November 30th. This is the peak of the season (mid-September to mid-October), when the chance of a…
The former players all hail from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the campaign touted their support to mark National Black Voter Day. The alums signed onto a letter praising Harris’s “integrity, values and demonstrated commitment to justice and equality of opportunity.”
Following President Biden’s meeting with victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 2021, Congressman Green joined the growing number of people across the country, including the family of Emmett Till, in calling for an investigation into the 1921 tragedy. The call reflects growing concern that the two remaining survivors of the Massacre, 109-year-old Lessie Benningfield Randle and 110-year-old Viola Fletcher, will not live to see justice.
The death toll across six states soared to 128 Monday, days after Helene made landfall in Florida as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane. Almost 2 million customers still don’t have power. And countless families have no idea whether their loved ones survived, as Helene’s rampage shredded communication infrastructure.
Despite attempts from hundreds of thousands of online petitioners, his attorney, the prosecutor, and even members of the victim’s family to commute his lethal injection, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court denied Williams’ clemency on Monday. On Tuesday, hours before his scheduled execution, the U.S. Supreme Court also declined to stop it. The court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would have granted Williams a stay, but the sum of the Supreme Court did not, and they offered no explanation for the decision, as is customary in emergency docket cases.
A half dozen unions issued endorsements, including Teamsters Local 79 — SW FL, Tampa, Teamsters Local 173 — Bradenton, Teamsters Local 385 — Orlando, Teamsters Local 512 — Jacksonville, Teamsters Local 769 — Miami and Teamsters Local 947 — Jacksonville.
Enterovirus D68 is part of a group of more than 100 non-polio enteroviruses. Many people who contract these common viruses have no symptoms or have mild cold like symptoms such as a runny nose.
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