(CNN)Protests flared up across the country this weekend, two months after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis catalyzed a nationwide reckoning over race and policing. From Portland to Seattle to Louisville, Kentucky, protesters took to the streets, as the nation honored the […]
By Victor Omondi For many decades, there was a fence separating the black cemeteries from the white in the East Texas town of Mineola. But finally, the fence has been brought down. On Wednesday, in a historic moment, crews started digging up the chain-link […]
By Viviane Faver An organizational health assessment of a sample of 30 Black-led dance companies from across the United States, called THE BLACK REPORT, was released yesterday by The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD). The association did a survey, collecting financial and organizational […]
By Victor Omondi People of color have been exempted from a mandatory mask order in an Oregon county following concerns of racial profiling, the county officials reported. This comes after multiple counties in Oregon implemented face-covering measures to slow the spread of Coronavirus. […]
By Joséphine Li Upcoming COVID Conversations on Facebook Live Thursday, July 30, 12:00 PM EST Thursday, August 20, 12:00 PM EST Citizens Committee for New York City (CitizensNYC) is an organization that seeks to help improve the quality of life for New Yorkers, especially […]
The San Francisco Police Commission within the San Francisco Police Department has passed a resolution ordering every district station to put up a Black Lives Matter sign within 30 days, according to NBC Bay Area. The controversial move has faced criticism from the San Francisco Police Officers […]
(Photo credits: Getty Images) By Dereck Major OPINION—Some COVID-19 vaccines are showing positive signs of working, leading many to wonder who should get first access to a vaccine. According to MarketWatch, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials and an outside advisory committee are […]
By Joséphine Li Systemic poverty affects around 140 million people nationwide. Thus, in an effort to fight the systemic racial injustice that’s embedded in workplaces and society within the service industry, thousands of union workers decided to participate in a massive, full-day Strike for Black […]
The UK security minister James Brokenshire has said Britain is “more than 95%” sure that Russian state-sponsored hackers targeted UK, US and Canadian organisations involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine. Brokenshire said the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterparts in the […]
Andrea Hart-This initiative will engage the public in designing new interpretive programming at historic Joseph Lloyd Manor to reflect the multiple perspectives that shaped the house’s history starting with Jupiter Hammon, the first published African American writer in the United States who lived, wrote, […]
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