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[NEW YORK] Catherine Green Is Keeping The Arts In East NY
Catherine Green is using her passion for the arts to bring new opportunities to residents of the East New York community and beautify the neighborhood with the grand opening of the new Arts East New York headquarters.
View MoreBroward County’s First African American School Board Member, Dr. Kathleen Cooper Wright…
Broward County’s first African American School Board member, the late Dr. Kathleen Cooper Wright, honored with statue unveiling ceremony.
View More[NORFOLK] Nine-Year-Old Spreads Joy To Other Girls
A story that made the national evening news surrounds the kindness of a 9-year-old local girl. Gianni Graham, of Norfolk, decided, last Christmas, that she wanted every girl who was in foster care or shelters to have a doll as her personal friend. Her goal was to collect 1000 Barbie dolls and distribute them to agencies that assist girls needing a “friend.” Donors from all over the world liked what Gianni was doing and lent support by sending dolls to her “Every Doll Deserves a Doll” campaign.
View More[VIRGINIA] Va. Black History Sites Among Highway Markers
African-American achievement in civil rights and Black historical sacred sites were represented well when the Virginia Department of Historic Resources recently approved new state historical highway markers.
View More[BOSTON] New Organization Aims to Fight Mass. Income Inequality
A $15 minimum wage, paid family and medical leave and a public higher education system that enables students to graduate debt-free are among the goals of Fair Shot, a new organization that launched Monday in Massachusetts.
View MoreBoston Public Schools Receive $25m from GE to Build Career Pipelines for Students
Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Boston Public Schools Committee Chair Michael O’Neill attended General Electric’s (GE) celebration, which detailed their relocation to Boston and future investments. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced that GE will invest $25 million in Boston Public Schools.
View More[CHICAGO] Chicago Teachers Union Rally Unites Thousands: Signs of the Times
An overwhelming display of organizational manpower was in effect around the city on Friday, April 1 when the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) executed a one-day strike that began with the union addressing its concerns about ongoing contract talks with Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool.
View More[WASHINGTON, D.C.] Unlawful Home Foreclosures Rally Aims to Stop Predatory Seizures
It is not uncommon in the District to find investors surveying neighborhoods for abandoned, dilapidated, or empty houses.
View More[TEXAS] Irma, Irma, Irma: How A Brazos County Commissioner Totally Sold Out Her Black Constituents
In yet another blatant example of racial insensitivity, Brazos County Commissioners have issued a proclamation this past Tuesday declaring April as “Confederate History and Heritage Month.”
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