Baltimore–Open Society Institute-Baltimore will support 13 community-based events and projects marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising in 2015. Proposals were selected from among dozens submitted in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) announced in February. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the proposed […]
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Time Sensitive: Virtual Event for High School Seniors
High School to College Using Quarantine Time To Effectively Prepare Attention all Media Outlets: On May 5 at 6:00 pm Eastern Time, author and speaker Duncan Kirkwood will be doing a FREE virtual motivational talk for high school seniors via Zoom. There are only 500 spots available and there will between 30 – 40 schools represented across […]
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A 1st: US Study Finds Gilead Drug Works Against Coronavirus
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer For the first time, a major study suggests that an experimental drug works against the new coronavirus, and U.S. government officials said Wednesday that they would work to make it available to appropriate patients as quickly as possible. In a study of 1,063 patients sick enough to be hospitalized, Gilead […]
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America First Meets Global Pandemic, Testing Trump Worldview
By MICHAEL TACKETT and JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press When terrorists struck the United States on Sept. 11, Nicholas Burns was the U.S. ambassador to NATO, and one memory still stands out: how swiftly America’s allies invoked Article Five of the organization’s charter, that an attack on one member was an attack on all. It was […]
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Puerto Rico Officials Face Outrage Over School Food Crisis
By DÁNICA COTO, Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has failed to tap into millions of federal dollars set aside for the island as a growing number of unemployed parents struggle to feed their children in a U.S. territory where nearly 70% of public school students are poor. The roughly […]
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Activists Paint Enormous “Protect Amazon Workers” Mural On Street In Front of CEO Jeff Bezos’ DC Home
UPDATE: Today, a team of activists with La ColectiVA and ShutDownDC painted a mural on the street in front of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ DC home. The mural read “PROTECT AMAZON WORKERS” in massive letters stretching from curb to curb. Nine people in front of Bezos’ mansion in DC used non-toxic paint to write “Protect […]
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Jim Clyburn Speaks to Black America on COVID-19: Saving and Empowering Black Lives
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia BREAKING NEWS: Washington, DC, April 28, 2020 — National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., will engage Democratic Party Majority Whip Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) in an exclusive interview streamed live on Facebook at facebook.com/blackpressusa at 1 p.m., Eastern Time, Thursday, April […]
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Chancellor’s Letter-Reopening Fall 2020
NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY www.ncat.edu A LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITY and A CONSTITUENT INSTITUTION of THE UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA April 29, 2020 Aggie Family, As we learned last week, the State of North Carolina’s stay-at-home order has been extended until at least May 8. We were also informed that public schools around the […]
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Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Launch of Census Dashboard
Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Launch of Census Dashboard New online tool part of City’s comprehensive efforts to increase Census response rate BALTIMORE, MD. — Today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced the launch of a new dashboard developed by the Baltimore City Planning Department to track the City’s Census response rate by census […]
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Nurses Union Endorses the Medical Supply Transparency and Delivery Act
Nurses Union Endorses the Medical Supply Transparency and Delivery Act NNU applauds announcement of legislation to increase national production of personal protective equipment National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union of registered nurses in the United States, applauds Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on the announcement […]
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Op-Ed: Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Cutoffs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Janell Byrd Chichester Many people are struggling to pay their mortgage, rent, or utility bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While government relief options are being quickly adopted and revised, relief measures do not always offer the protections that many Americans assume they do. They often come with strings attached or work in unanticipated […]
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African Americans High COVID-19 Mortality Rates: Is This Due To A Lack Of Vitamin D?
By Clarke Illmatical The sky is falling, and Black folks are dying. In the United States, African Americans are reported as having the highest number of COVID-19 deaths, based on ethnicity. Our surgeon general says we are smoking and doing too many drugs. Others believe that socioeconomic factors are the issue because African Americans have […]