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Judith B. Craven

Judith B. Craven, M.D. was President of United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast. Under Dr. Craven’s leadership as President, The United Way of The Texas Gulf Coast won the first National Award for diversity from the United Way of America. Previously, Craven served as Vice President for Multicultural Affairs for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and served as Committee on Diversity Chair for the University of Texas Board of Regents.

Craven has received numerous awards and honors, including the NAACP VIP Award for Community Service, Houston’s “Thirty Most Influential Black Women” Award and induction into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Marchers Demonstrate at Georgia Capitol To Demand Criminal Justice and Voting RIghts Reforms
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While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate impact on minority communities is unmistakable and points to a deeper crisis of racial disparities in health care that have persisted long before the onset of this
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Africa: Protests Lead Brands to Speak Out Against Racism. but Will They Act?
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Virginia city removes 176-year-old slave auction block
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Berkshire Bank’s Virtual Townhall Series “Reimagining America” Raises Critical Questions About the Economic Future of African American and Hispanic Communities
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Richmond rids itself of another statue | Dallas Weekly
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Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, adding it to the list of Old South monuments removed or damaged around the U.S. in the wake of George
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OP-ED: Racial divide of coronavirus is real, so are innovations that can help
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I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass
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A FOCUS ON VOTING –
Volusia County races will include county chair; council district seats 2, 3 and 4; sheriff; property appraiser; county clerk; and supervisor of
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