Letitia Wright did the damn thing this year.
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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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Can an African Pride-Themed Crosswalk Help Reduce Violence? A Durham Activist Thinks So | Atlanta Black Star
A local activist is looking to address the violence plaguing a Durham, N.C., community in a new and unique way.
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Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women | The New York Times
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, and what they revealed in 2018 about how power is gained and thwarted.
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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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3 Films We’re Excited to See Developed From The Black List | Colorlines
The annual list compiles entertainment executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays of the year.
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Richard Overton, World War II veteran and America’s oldest man, dies at 112 | The Washington Post
Richard Overton was in his mid-30s when he began serving in World War II. It was perhaps the most important thing he did with his life, but it was far from the last.
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Affirmative Action Shouldn’t Be About Diversity | The Atlantic
It should be about reparations—not about the supposedly unique perspectives that minorities would offer white students.
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Shutdown to cut office overseeing federal food stamps by 95% | The Philadelphia Tribune
Eligible households will still receive monthly SNAP benefits for January. But other domestic nutrition assistance programs such as the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, WIC, and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations will only be operational based on available resources.
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