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CareSource announces program to improve maternal health outcomes | The Crusader Newspaper Group

CareSource, a nationally recognized nonprofit health plan, announced a joint program with Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana’s Nurse-Family Partnership, a community health program that assists low-income, pregnant mothers by arranging home visits from registered nurses. CareSource has provided funding for the organization to hire a specially trained nurse to work with CareSource members enrolled […]

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Beginning in the 1970s, Barbara Smith broke new ground as a black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, and book publisher of women of color. She and her twin sister, Beverly Smith, were born on December 16, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio. Their mother, Hilda Smith, maternal grandmother, and a great aunt

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OpEd: D.C. Must Support At-Risk Students | Afro

D.C. Councilmembers are now reviewing the mayor’s budget, which included a three percent increase in school operating costs for D.C. Public Schools and the District’s public charter schools, each of which educate about half of all city public school

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Thousands Seek to Remove Lincoln Park Emancipation Memorial | Afro

A week later more than 5,400 people have joined in his mission to petition the U.S. National Park Service to eliminate the statue, which depicts a naked slave on his knees with broken chains looking up in adoration to President Abraham

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Homeless ‘Streets Team’ Starts Trash Clean-up in North Richmond

On Tuesday, June 16, the Shields Reid Neighborhood Council, Davis Chapel CME Church and Robert Rogers of Supervisor John Gioia’s office invited a homeless “Streets Team” to begin trash cleanup and organizing of the homeless encampment in North

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Opinion: Inglewood’s Choice to Quickly Close Elementary School Harms Children and Hurts Our Community

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The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People

For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, and needs to be

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Michael Jordan’s game worn jersey to sell for $500K | The Crusader Newspaper Group

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Blackface And Reported N-Word History Resurface Ahead Of Emmys Hosting Gig

Kimmel notably avoided the word “blackface” in his apology although he did admit to imitating a lot of Black celebrities including Snoop Dogg, Oprah Winfrey and former NBA player Karl

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(1982) Audre Lorde, “Learning from the 60s”

In February, 1982, Audre Lorde delivered the address, “Learning from the 60s” as part of the celebration of the Malcolm X weekend at Harvard University. Her presentation appears

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Teyana Taylor Remembers The Night She Got Pregnant: “It Was Going Down, I Felt It”

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