Extension also provided for withholding and estimated income tax filings and payments ANNAPOLIS, Md. (January 6, 2021) – Comptroller Peter Franchot today announced that his agency has extended filing and payment deadlines for certain Maryland business taxes and quarterly estimated income tax returns and payments that would be due in January, February and March 2021 […]
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Posted inLIFE & STYLE
Op-Ed: People of color need healthier food
By Molly Cottrill, Charles McGee In this time of racial reckoning, the likes of which our nation has not seen since the 1960s, one reconciliatory step is often overlooked: increasing the ability of people of color to obtain healthy food. The novel coronavirus does not discriminate, but it sadly reflects and exacerbates centuries of systemic racism […]
Posted inHBCU
New Program Aims to Empower Black Women to Lead the Fight Against Tobacco and Vaping Use
Black Women’s Health Imperative Launches Anti-Tobacco and Vaping Program at Seven HBCU Campuses with Support of the Robert Wood Johnson The Two Organizations Collaborate with an Innovative New Program, Aimed at Empowering Black Women Leaders to Lead the Fight Against Tobacco and Vaping Use Washington, DC, November 03, 2020 –(PR.com)– Black Women’s Health Imperative (BWHI) […]
Posted inD.C. Community
Election Fervor Spurs D.C. Group to Push for Representation
Advocates of the push for D.C. statehood say it became more urgent this summer after federal forces were used to confront protests of racially motivated police violence. (Wikimedia Commons) By Diane Bernard, Maryland News Connection WASHINGTON — The 2020 election season saw 35 U.S. Senate races, but one jurisdiction still has no representation in Congress […]
Posted inNational News, NEWS
Word In Black: Voting With A Purpose
As early voting continues to shatter records, amid a surge in domestic pandemic infections, the Black press as well as African American political experts and leaders are warning the electorate to remain vigilant because voter suppression is alive, well, and in plain view. “We can’t take anything for granted,” said Elinor Tatum, publisher of […]
Posted inNational News
Analysis: Voter suppression never went away. The tactics just changed.
In this April 14, 1964, file photo, a man holds a Confederate flag at right, as demonstrators, including one carrying a sign saying: “More than 300,000 Negroes are Denied Vote in Ala”, protest in front of an Indianapolis hotel. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File) Making voting harder is about grabbing even more disproportionate power and delaying […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
DNC Launches Ad Campaign in Black Newspapers Across 5 Battleground States
On the first National Black Voter Day, Sept. 18, the Democratic National Committee launched a print ad campaign calling out Donald Trump’s failed pandemic response and directing readers to IWillVote.com — the DNC’s newly updated voter participation website. The ads will run in five African American-owned community newspapers: The Westside Gazette (in Fort Lauderdale, Florida), […]
Posted inNEWS
National Black Voter Day: A Call to Ensure That Black Voters Are Heard
Sen. Kamala Harris By Kamala Harris Today, we celebrate our country’s first-ever National Black Voter Day — an effort to make sure that Black voters make their voices heard at the polls this year. It reflects an undeniable truth: that while Black Americans were long prohibited from exercising our fundamental right to vote, few have […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
American Connections Media Outreach: Baltimore Native Serves Aboard USS Ronald Reagan during Exercise Valiant Shield 2020
Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Hall (Courtesy Photo) By The Navy Office Of Community Outreach PHILIPPINE SEA (NNS) – Baltimore native and Hilltop High School graduate Tyler Hall is serving aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during Exercise Valiant Shield, Sept. 14-25. Exercise participants include USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), USS America (LHA 6), USS […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
LMA’s Center for Journalism Funding Names 16 Participants in First Lab Cohort
Local Media Association today named 16 news organizations that will participate in the first six-month lab from its Center for Journalism Funding. The Center for Journalism Funding, operated by LMA with support from the Google News Initiative, aims to strengthen the understanding and capabilities of local news organizations regarding fundraising programs and working with philanthropic organizations to […]
Posted inCoronavirus
The Silver Lining in COVID-19’s Dark Clouds
This article was originally published in the National Urban League’s 2020 State of Black America. Authored by – DR. LISA COOPER James F. Fries Professor of Medicine; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Health Equity, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Nursing & Bloomberg School of Public Health Many people were caught off guard as we witnessed rising […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Black People Are More Likely To Die of COVID-19 Than Any Other Group in the U.S.
It’s not a donation if we paid for it. Gilead says it will “give away” 1.5 million doses of remdesivir, one of the only treatments that has been shown to significantly improve outcomes in severe cases of COVID-19.2 But the fact is that Gilead has received tens of millions of public dollars from the government […]