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Morehouse School of Medicine Awarded $40 Million Federal Grant to Fight COVID-19 Free Press of Jacksonville
by Dana Givens – The spread of COVID-19 has severely impacted marginalized and underserved communities. In numerous cities like New Orleans and Milwaukee, Black neighborhoods saw increasingly high rates of cases due to pre-existing conditions and a lingering history of racial discrimination in the
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One North Carolina City Council Approves Reparations – Sort Of - Voice and Viewpoint
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Lost in the aftermath of the demonstrations stemming from the police killing of George Floyd and the pandemic is the issue of reparations for African Americans. Asheville, a North Carolina city where Black people make up just 11 percent of the
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Betsy DeVos Sued for Illegally Trying to Transfer Pandemic Relief Funds from Public to Private Schools
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Alex Brandon/AP, Getty/eccolo74 A billionaire bureaucrat who runs the nations federal-level education funding agency is being sued again for what media reports are calling unlawful activity. The District of Columbia (D.C.) and a number of Democratic states have
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Memphis-based, HBCU Receives Largest Beneficial Endowment in the School’s 158-Year History
LeMoyne-Owen College, the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Memphis, Tennessee, has been named the beneficiary of an endowment of $40 million, one of the largest gifts to any HBCU and the largest for the school in its 158-year history. The endowment was created from assets
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Morehouse College president responds to criticisms regarding gift from Netflix CEO | The Atlanta Voice
A generous donation of $120 million to historically Black institutions Morehouse College, Spelman College and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin has sparked much criticism from HBCU students who feel their institutions are excluded from such
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Urban One To Host Voting Virtual Town Hall with 97.9 The Beat | Dallas Weekly
Urban One's Dallas station KBFB-FM will host a “Voting Virtual Town Hall” on Sunday, July 26th, 2020 at 6pm on 97.9 The Beat’s Facebook page in order to discuss the importance of voting, the impact of the recent COVID-19 surge in Texas, and the expectations for the upcoming academic school
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Rep. Maxine Waters Keynotes California Statewide Black Graduation - Los Angeles Sentinel
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) served as the virtual keynote speaker for more than 2,500 African American graduates from 24 colleges across the state of California on Friday, June 19. The virtual graduation was organized by students and one of the founders of Brunch 2 Bomb, Adrienne Reed, as
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RCOE Chief Academic Officer, Cynthia Glover Woods, Appointed to State Board of Education - Black Voice News
On Monday, July 6, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of inland area resident Cynthia Glover Woods of Eastvale to the State Board of Education (BOE). Highly respected and recognized for her educational acumen, Glover Woods has served as Chief Academic Officer with the
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Head Start students can access learning at home in July
To help our youngest students continue learning, the MPS Head Start program is now offering summer activities available at home. For the month of July, families can help their children learn through Google Classroom. Children ages 3 and 4 who were enrolled in Head Start in spring will have
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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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Hampton U. to Follow Online Format in the Fall
Hampton University President William Harvey announced his school will follow a remote-classes format this fall after initially aiming to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying the situation "has changed drastically."
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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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OP ED: America Should Embrace Prison Returnees to Our Communities | Dallas Weekly
I am pleased to work and live in our nation’s capital. Washington, DC is a city on the move progressively even amidst the continued existence of the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is one emerging issue in the District of Columbia that in my long career in the field of civil and human rights that I am
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5 running for Mayor of Eutaw Municipal election candidates set for August 25th
July 21, 2020 was the deadline to qualify to run for mayor and city council positions in upcoming Municipal Elections in Greene County towns. The election is set for August 25, 2020. There will be contested elections in Eutaw and Forkland, while in Boligee and Union only the current incumbents
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Dr. Billy C. Hawkins to be 1st Black President at Talladega College to have Building Named in his Honor
Talladega College will hold a naming ceremony for the Dr. Billy C. Hawkins Student Activity Center on August 14, 2020. The newly constructed 47,000-square-foot student center/arena will be the firs…
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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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Five arrested at SOS protest at State Capitol for ‘defacing public property’ for painting ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Expand Medicaid’ in street in front of Capitol
By: John Zippert,Co-Publisher The City of Montgomery issued warrants for five participants in the Thursday, July 16, 2020, SOS protest on the steps of the State Capitol. The five were involved in spray painting the words “Black Lives Matter” and “Expand Medicaid” in the street in front of the State
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Our HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again.
Today America has 101 HBCUs located in 19 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These institutions had to overcome tremendous obstacles just to come into existence. They are adversity-hardened and time-tested. Working together, and working with willing partners in both
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Mississippi Votes To Remove Confederate Symbol From State Flag
This week the Mississippi state legislature passed a historic vote to remove the Confederate symbol from its state flag as the last state to still feature the image as its state symbol.
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In the news: Marvin Loiseau - The Bay State Banner
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology has named Marvin Loiseau to serve as the school’s dean of academics. The post In the news: Marvin Loiseau appeared first on The Bay State Banner.
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El Camino College President Dena P. Maloney Announces Retirement - Los Angeles Sentinel
2020-21 academic year will mark the final year of her presidency
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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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Sandra Walker is candidate for Mayor of Eutaw
I, Sandra Walker, introduce myself as a candidate for Mayor of the City of Eutaw, Alabama. I have dedicated my life to helping and serving others. As a child, I dreamed of a life that was conducive to loving and treating others as I wanted to be treated; to extend help to the needy and […]
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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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How Can Working Parents Still Teach Their Kids at Home Fall? — The Sacramento Observer
OPINION (CBM) - Last Friday, Gov. Newsom held a press briefing to announce his “Pandemic Plan for Learning and Safe Schools.” Although his plan offers clear guidance on when and how schools should reopen, it doesn’t answer some pressing questions. The governor’s plan incorporates the California
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Teens to be honored at drive-by parade for Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program on Monday - North Dallas Gazette
While the COVID-19 pandemic is preventing the traditional end-of-summer luncheon celebrating the Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program, a drive-by parade will take its place honoring the hard-working Plano teens who participated this extraordinary summer. The parade will be Monday, July 27, at 11
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Student Finds Voice Amid Bias — The Sacramento Observer
Monet Cook is heading to Howard University, but her high school experience isn’t one she’ll soon forget. The 18-year-old is among a group of girls talking about racism they experienced as students at St. Francis, a local Catholic private, college preparatory school near Sacramento State. It was at
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New California rules mean most schools will start online - Black News Channel
By JOCELYN GECKER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press/ BNC Contributor  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With the first day of school just weeks away in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out sweeping new rules Friday that all but ensure most of the state's K-12 schools serving 6.7 million students will not
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Here Are the 4 Options for Parents of BCS students
By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times With the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 health pandemic, Birmingham City Schools (BCS) is offering students, teachers and parents four different learning options for the upcoming school year, which begins August 24. Parents can begin registering students
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Toni Morrison The Pieces I Am American Masters Documentary Airs on PBS Tonight, June 23 (WATCH TRAILER)
Pulitzer Prize winner, prolific author and professor Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers and critics on an exploration of the powerful themes she confronted throughout her literary career …
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