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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Amid calls to change the Splash Mountain theme park ride over its ties to “Song of the South,” the 1946 movie many view as racist, Disney officials said Thursday it was recasting the ride based on “The Princess and the Frog,” a 2009 Disney film with an African American female
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INGLEWOOD — Students at Morningside High School are leading a community dialogue about creating equal opportunities for success for Black and Latino students in the Inglewood Unified School
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Do Black Lives Matter On Every Block? The Contradiction Between Street Murals And Street Realities In Black America - Blavity
Just a few blocks away from Black Lives Matter Plaza lies Union Station, where dozens of tents line the streets, sheltering the city’s disproportionately Black homeless
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Milwaukee spiritual leaders host first ever ‘Sit-In for Change’
On Saturday, June 13, 2020, Souls to the Polls, an organization that unites ministers and their congregations in Milwaukee’s central city to strengthen the voting power of the Black community, hosted a “Sit-In for Change,” on the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr., and North
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Obama Helps Biden Raise Record $11 Million In Virtual Fundraiser
Former President Barack Obama rejoined Joe Biden for the first time in the 2020 election campaign cycle at a virtual fundraiser on Tuesday (June 23,) which brought in a record $11
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Minorities wanted for COVID-19 testing
In addition, sterilizing Native American women without their consent, and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, led to a justifiable fear and luck of trust by people of color regarding clinical trial participation in the
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OP ED: America Should Embrace Prison Returnees to Our Communities | Dallas Weekly
That tension between theory and policy is, sadly, beginning to emerge yet again in Washington, DC, where some community advocates have raised objections to plans for a new residential re-entry center that would provide temporary housing, job and skills training, substance-abuse counseling and other
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Tucson Police Chief Offers To Resign Over Man's Death In Officers' Custody
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EXCLUSIVE OP-ED: Time to Work Together to Strengthen Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Black Communities
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NASA’s Headquarters to be Renamed in Honor of its 1st Black Woman Engineer, “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson
NASA announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at
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WalletHub study ranks Texas at No. 8 for racial equity in education
A recent study found that school districts that have a high concentration of white students receive $23 billion more per year in funding than those that have a high concentration of non-white
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Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles
Yolanda Richardson officially assuming their roles Sacramento at at time when the state is implementing deep cuts to its fiscal year 2020-21 budget in response to the global COVID-19
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Rep. Maxine Waters Keynotes California Statewide Black Graduation
LOS ANGELES – 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
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Morehouse School of Medicine Awarded $40 Million Federal Grant to Fight COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) selected the Morehouse School of Medicine as the recipients of a $40 million initiative to combat the coronavirus outbreak in vulnerable
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Housing Authority steers $4.8 million to proposed apartments
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh [HACP] board voted, at its monthly meeting, to commit $4.8 million to four developers to help to finance 74 new subsidized
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House Democrats Push Toward Policing Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a policing overhaul collapsed in the Senate, House Democrats returned to Washington for a day heavy with emotion and symbolism to vote on their sweeping proposal to address the global outcry over the death of George Floyd and other Black
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Man in custody following fatal Trelawny crash
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Democrats block GOP police reform Bill in US Senate
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — US Senate Democrats blocked a closely watched police reform bill yesterday, arguing that the Republican measure introduced after George Floyd's killing by police does not go far
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Tina Knowles-Lawson Leads Call To Urge Lawmakers To Pass Legislation Addressing Voter Suppression In Black Communities - Blavity
Led by Tina Knowles-Lawson, the mothers of Black people lost to police violence have joined forces with other celebrities to sign a letter calling on congressional leaders to put their differences aside and take tangible steps in addressing some of the country's most pressing issues by the passing
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A Study Shows Uber and Lyft Charge More For Rides To Non-White Areas
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