Walmart heirs promote charter schools in Black community | The Philadelphia Tribune

Sally Ho, The Philadelphia Tribune [dropcap]Amid[/dropcap] fierce debate over whether charter schools are good for Black students, the heirs to the Walmart company fortune have been working to make inroads with advocates and influential leaders in the Black community. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Walton family, as the leading supporter of America’s charter school movement, is spreading […]

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DMC, March of Dimes and the Detroit Health Department Address Premature Birth Report Card | Michigan Chronicle

Patreice A. Massey , Michigan Chronicle [dropcap]Experts[/dropcap] from the Detroit Medical Center, Wayne County Health Department and the March of Dimes gathered on Thursday, Nov. 1, at Hutzel Women’s Hospital to address the serious issue regarding the preponderance of premature births in the city. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] According to the 2018 Premature Birth Report Card from […]

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Watch Night Service in the Black Church in America: 150 Years After the Emancipation Proclamation | Huffpost

“Watch Night Service” in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31, 1862 during the Civil War, free and freed blacks living in the Union States gathered at churches and/or other safe spaces, while thousands of their enslaved black sisters and brothers stood, knelt and prayed on plantations and other slave holding sites in America — waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation into law.

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South Jersey Black church being turned into museum honoring Harriet Tubman | New York Amsterdam News

Cyril Josh Barker, New York Amsterdam News A previously unknown portrait of Harriet Tubman. Library of Congress. Featured Image [dropcap]Reports[/dropcap] indicate that a church in Cape May, N.J., is being transformed into a museum honoring abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Macedonia Baptist Church is converting the next-door home of its late […]

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