Women’s History: Vision & Light

Los Angeles Community College District Commits to 100 Percent Clean, Renewable Energy - Los Angeles Sentinel

On July 8, 2020, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees signed the Clean Energy and Sustainability Resolution committing the community college district to eliminate carbon-based electricity consumption by 2030 and replace all other carbon-based energy use with

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$200,000 Matching Gift Challenge for #ConnectMilwaukee Issued by Burke Foundation and Zilber Family Foundation - Milwaukee Community Journal

The MPS Foundation is announcing a major matching-gift fundraising challenge issued by the Zilber Family Foundation and the Burke Foundation. The foundations will match up $200,000 in donations to the #ConnectMilwaukee fundraising campaign, meaning a donation of $10 turns into $20, $500 becomes

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

COVID-19 Update

As of June 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM Alabama had 26,914 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 784 deaths Greene County had 135 confirmed cases with 5 deaths Sumter County had 264 cases with 11 deaths Hale County had 237 cases with 15 deaths

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Georgia's largest school district won't have in-person start | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s largest school district has become the latest to move to all-remote learning to start the school year. Gwinnett County Superintendent Alvin Wilbanks announced Monday that the 180,000-student district in suburban Atlanta will not offer in-person classes when it begins instruction on

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Edward Waters College Commits to Paying Eligible Students' Costs for the 2020-2021 Academic Year - Free Press of Jacksonville

By Alex Wilson – Reporter, Jacksonville Business Journal - In an effort to ease the financial burden for students, Edward Waters College has committed to paying the balances of eligible returning students for Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. [...]

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Academic Research Moms Group Launches Scholarship Fund In Partnership with The HBCU Foundation & Meharry Medical College | Dallas Weekly

The ARM Fund for Medical and Research Trainee Moms Sets $60,000 Goal In Support of Scholarships for post-undergraduate Research Moms A group of women scientists in medical research and academics aptly named Academic Research Moms, or ARM, decided to act in support of Black science and medical

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Schools reopening a ‘collaborative effort’ – Daytona Times

THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters on Wednesday the Florida Department of Education should not dictate local school-district decisions, even though the department issued an emergency order that says schools must reopen in August unless health officials say

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Source: Daytona Times

- Black Voice News

In the first week of June, a food services employee in the El Centro Elementary School District in Imperial County tested positive for the coronavirus. By early July, about a dozen nutrition and transportation workers had been infected. The positive test result briefly halted the meals distribution

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

McDonalds USA launches $500,000 scholarship fund for HBCU students amidst COVID-19 | Atlanta Daily World

McDonalds USA today announced the launch of its $500,000 Black Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of COVID-19. Facilitated by Thurgood Marshall College Fund

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WalletHub study ranks Texas at No. 8 for racial equity in education - North Dallas Gazette

By Adam McCann Financial Writer It’s been decades since the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, though it took years for schools to actually adopt that ruling. Now, no one can be denied enrollment in a school due to the color of

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Georgia Provost: 'We need a Black Agenda!' | Afram News

"Right now, we as Black people need to get us an agenda and we need to discuss all of these disparities that we have in the Black community; education, healthcare and clinics, employment, parks for the youth, food, housing, economic development and the list goes on and on," Georgia Provost said.

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

COVID-19

As of July 22, 2020 at 10:20 AMAlabama had 70,413 confirmed cases of coronavirus,(14,000 more than last week) with 1,325 deaths (189 more than last week)Greene County had 224 confirmed cases, 23 more cases than last week, with 9 deathsSumter Co. had 325 cases with 13 deathsHale Co. had 402 cases

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Digital Divide Regarding Students’ Academic Progress

As schools across the country prepare for a blend of online and in-person learning during this fall’s reopening processes, a new analysis shows that 1 in 3 Black, Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native students not only lack high-speed home internet access, but are more likely than their White

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Source: The Washington Informer

Morehouse School of Medicine Joins New Effort to Battle COVID-19

A new $40 million initiative aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic among ethnic minorities and rural and socially vulnerable communities involves a newly created partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health and the Morehouse School of Medicine

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Source: The Washington Informer

Mary Trump Tells It All - Even Donald Trump's Degree Is A Fraud. - ThyBlackMan

Mary Trump writes that Trump even paid someone to take the SAT tests for him to help him get into the University of Pennsylvania. Trump was "worried that his grade point average, which put him far from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted."

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Black folks who want to grill July 4 and stay woke -- honor Tuskegee instead

We have been in quarantining, social distancing and ignoring the reality of the COVID-19 threat (depending on what state you live in and where you get your information) for roughly 110 days. Ironically, about the same number of days since Breonna Taylor was killed in her own home by police officers

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Source: theGrio

Mary Trump Reveals Pres. Trump Paid Someone To Take His SATs

President Donald Trump's niece's new tell-all book about the Trump family reveals that the president paid someone to take the SATs for him.

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Learning Black History Year-Round - Jesse B. Blayton Sr. - The Voice of Black Atlanta

From a small brick building located two blocks from what is now The King Center boomed a voice for Black Atlanta: Jesse B. Blayton Sr. a professor at Clark Atlanta University. It was 1949, and radio was the most popular medium of mass communication for the Black community. Blayton

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HBCUs Concerned About Survival Amid Pandemic

The schools had also been left to wonder whether they could survive if the virus leads to a prolonged decrease in enrollment, particularly when some students were grieving for parents who had died from the virus.

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Source: The Washington Informer

Newswire: Racism is a Public Health Issue

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from NorthStarNewsToday.com(TriceEdneyWire.com) Several leading medical organizations have said racism is a public health issue and that police brutality must stop.The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and the American College of

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Online Classes - Milwaukee Community Journal

The Milwaukee Urban League and the Milwaukee Area Technical College are offering a GED and Healthcare customer services certificate program. Online class begins July 8 and ends August 28. Financial assistance is available. For more information, contact Maura Fitzgerald, mfitzgerald@tmul.org or

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Partnership yields on-campus health services for LOC students - TSDMemphis.com

As LeMoyne-Owen College prepares to start its fall semester in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the college announced Wednesday (July 22) a significant health-care partnership with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. The three-year partnership means the 158-year-old college will have on-campus

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

TSTA: Governor in too big a hurry to reopen schools while pandemic is still raging | East Texas Review

Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria issued the following statement on school openings: “When schools are reopened, the governor and the Texas Education Agency must require, among other things, that all students, employees and anyone visiting a school have a mask available and

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Source: East Texas Review | The Community Paper Everyone Should Read

Literary spotlight: What to read while you wait – Daytona Times

Editor’s note: Donna Gray-Banks is the author of Ila’s Diamonds I, II and III and the host of “A F.R.E.S.H. Conversation’’ on Joy 106.3 FM. BY DONNA M. GRAY-BANKS SPECIAL TO THE DAYTONA TIMES As we continue to live safe and stay in place, here are more authors and their books you might want to

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Source: Daytona Times

Free virtual summer camp starts July 13! Weekly activities for ages 7-12! - Dallas Post Tribune

Dallas Park and Recreation is offering a FREE live virtual camp for ages 7-12! Click here to see our promo video! Camp times are 1-3 p.m. Monday-Thursday starting July 13 to August 13. Space is limited to 75 participants! Sign up for all five weeks today! Click on the picture above or go to

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Carr’s Candor

Dr. Nicole Carr, Pinellas County School Board Member By Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D., Contributor PINELLAS COUNTY On June 11, President Maria Scruggs and the NAACP hosted a virtual community discussion entitled the “Hidden Faces of Racism” with one 120 participants. Presenters from law

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

PJ Pattersons My Political Journey wins prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award | New York Carib News

The University of the West Indies Press (UWI Press) is pleased to announce that one of its published books, My Political Journey: Jamaica’s Sixth Prime Minister by PJ Patterson, has won a Next Generation Indie Book Award—the ‘Memoirs (Career)’ category for 2020.

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Source: The New York Carib News

NAACP Sues U.S. Education Secretary Over COVID-19 School Money

The coronavirus pandemic has focused the nation’s attention on the essential role public schools play in families and communities’ lives. The NAACP said it’s also exposed severe racial inequalities that continue to plague the country’s education system and disadvantaged students of color. Rather

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Source: The Washington Informer

Rufus King seniors earn full rides to Notre Dame, including QuestBridge match

Congratulations to Rufus King International School seniors Jordan Anderson, who will attend the University of Notre Dame as a Quest- Bridge scholar, and David Akinsanya, also heading for Notre Dame on a full-ride scholarship. Both recently celebrated their graduations from King and are beginning to

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

MPS recommends remote learning to start school year

Plan to be presented to school board Thursday On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Keith Posley recommended no in-person classes to start the 2020-2021 school year. MPS has outlined three instructional model scenarios and a three-phase return model that begins with

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

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