By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black This time of year, social media feeds are flooded with teachers posting lists of supplies they need for their classrooms and asking for the public’s help to ensure students have everything from art supplies and calculators to books and reading bean bags. #ClearTheList, as the hashtag goes, along with […]
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#WordinBlack: Here’s why Black kids need Black books
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black While browsing the gift shop at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, librarian Kathy Lester watched a young Black girl grab a book and run up to her parents. Holding it up to them, the girl told them she’d read it at school, and it was […]
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#WordinBlack: Boosting adult literacy rates in the Black community
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black While at the library making copies one day in 2018, Gregory Hill looked up and saw a sign that read “Adult Literacy Center: Read, Learn Help.” At 65 years old, he thought his chances of fulfilling his lifelong dream of learning to read and write were “pretty slim.” That […]
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Mason Makes Money Fund allows children the opportunity to be entrepreneurs
By Kara Thompson, Special to the AFRO When Candace Okin was laid off from her job in 2019, it was a hard financial time for her. But she wanted to make sure she rose to the occasion to the best of her ability, in order to be a role model for her son. Through this […]
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The Decision Project educates and dispels organ donation myths among the black community
By Mylika Scatliffe, AFRO Women’s Health Writer Ieesha Johnson wants to empower the Black community to make informed choices and decisions about organ donation. Maryland has more than 2,500 people waiting for organ donations– and 44 percent of them are Black. In 2016 she discovered that while only 9 percent of the Baltimore residents in […]
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Russian judge sentences WNBA’s Griner to 9 years in prison
By JIM HEINTZ, Associated Press KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — A judge in Russia convicted American basketball star Brittney Griner of drug possession and smuggling Thursday and sentenced her to nine years in prison. for drug possession and smuggling. Judge Anna Sotnikova said the time Griner has served in custody since her arrest in February would […]
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Ayesha Curry, Big Freedia and Chef Lorena Garcia Team Up with No Kid Hungry to Help Kids Get Free Summer Meals
Text ‘FOOD’ or ‘COMIDA’ to 304-304 to find free summer meals for kids; Awareness is critical as kids could miss out on 95 Million meals this summer WASHINGTON – All kids deserve a happy, healthy summer, but as communities continue to struggle with the effects of the pandemic, millions of children are at risk of […]
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Constellation Accepting Applications for 2022 E2 Energy to Educate Grant Program
Grants have provided nearly $5 million to date for STEM education and research programs, reaching nearly 250,000 students nationwide BALTIMORE — Constellation (NASDAQ: CEG), the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and a leading supplier of energy products and services, announced today it is now accepting applications for its 2022 E2 Energy to Educate grant […]
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Some schools hit hard by virus make few changes for new year
By Sharon Lurye and Collin Binkley, The Associated Press As a new school year approaches, COVID-19 infections are again on the rise, fueled by highly transmissible variants, filling families with dread. They fear the return of a pandemic scourge: outbreaks that sideline large numbers of teachers, close school buildings and force students back into remote […]
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#FaithWorks: Seeing What We’ve Never Seen Before
By Marnita Coleman, Special to the AFRO We checked in with the Rev. Myeskia Coger Watson, the illustrious former pastor of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, who candidly shared what’s been going on recently in her world. She was installed, January, 2019, as the first female pastor of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church in Baltimore, and launched […]
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Greysteel senior associate launches internal professional network to increase Black representation and retention incommercial real estate
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com Real estate has long had a diversity problem. The industry has perpetually been white- and male-dominated, with minority populations comprising just 28 percent of all real estate professions. Representation is even worse in commercial real estate, in which only 3 percent of professions […]
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Brandon Calloway police beating and why we run
by Aswad Walker, defendernetwork.com Brandon Calloway, we feel your pain. Those cop car lights came on after you allegedly ran a stop sign (not a violent crime, by the way), and you panicked and ran. Bruh. We feel you. And if you’re reading these words, and are unfamiliar with the brutal ass-whipping Oakland, Tennessee police put on Calloway […]
