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Timeline of Black Americans killed by police: 2014-2022

George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer two years ago on May 25, 2020.

NBA picks, best bets: Expect Celtics to claim control of Eastern finals vs. Heat; take the under in Game 5

Picking Eastern Conference finals games is frustrating because it essentially boils down to trying to evaluate which injuries matter more while knowing that any time, we might found out that a player we'd previously expected to play is actually sitting out

Macy’s Wins Over Underserved Market: Black Sororities

“We know when we see our stuff,” said Baker-Woods, who at one point resorted to painting t-shirts in hard-to-find hues for sorority events.

The Board of Directors of Cure Violence Global is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Fredrick Echols

AMERIGROUP GEORGIA OPENS COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER IN SOUTHWEST ATLANTA

The Amerigroup Community Service Center is a one-stop shop for a wide range of information and resources, including access to healthcare, social and financial support, innovative technology, and more.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Georgia Partners with Everyone Eats Foundation to Expand Food Solutions for Families in Need

Everyone Eats is an event-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strives to build stronger communities through education, enrichment, & empowerment.

Therapist: Stigma keeping African-Americans from seeking mental health treatment

Jonathan Harrell, a local social worker and therapist, tells News 10 that research shows over 80% of African-Americans are concerned about being judged by society, mostly a mindset of older generations

First image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy has appeared.

Black holes have long been a source of public fascination, but they also pose notorious challenges to researchers, mainly because their gravitational fields are so strong that they either bend light or prevent it from escaping entirely.

U.S. Bancorp, NCRC, CRC Announce $100 Billion Community Benefits Plan

CDC says racism and inequality led to increased gun deaths in 2020

They also found firearms were used in 53 percent of suicides in people ages 10 to 44. A 35 percent rise in gun homicides brought the highest number in more than 25 years.

The racist history that helps explain our present wealth gap

“Redlining directed both public and private capital to native-born white families and away from African American and immigrant families,” concluded a team of researchers at four universities, including the University of Richmond, that put these maps online.

Once abandoned, Groveland cemetery for African Americans to get new life with grant

“The historians tell us here that Mr. Edge, who was one of the businessmen in this community, very prominent businessman, that he donated this acre and a quarter land for these African American folks to bury their loved ones,” Carroll said.

VSU Copeland African American Museum wins Google Ad Grants award

Watson said the Copeland African American Museum’s No. 1 goal with Google Ad Grants is to introduce more people to its collection and its story.

Individual wealth building for African Americans

More than 73 percent of African Americans reported the inability to cover expenses for three months in an emergency, according to an April 2021 Pew Research Poll. The Covid-19 Pandemic has impacted Americans overall in this category with only 4 in 10 Americans of all backgrounds reporting the ability to handle a $1000 emergency expense right now without using the charge card.

BLACK AMERICAN TAXES: COMPARING WHAT WE PAY

To answer these questions, we collected 2019 data from the primary source of US tax information: The US Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income (SOI) Division.

African-American Creatives to Vie for $150K in Funding at PitchBLACK Forum

The PitchBLACK Awards ceremony, on April 28 will celebrate Black media storytellers by honoring the past (Trailblazer Award), the present (Forum Awards) and the future (Nonso Christian Ugbode Award). The ceremony’s keynote speaker is award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter (“John Lewis: Good Trouble and The Way I See It”).

The Deadly Police Shooting That’s Roiling Michigan

This past weekend, a protest and candlelight vigil were held in Patrick’s memory; hundreds of Grand Rapids residents showed up, and Peter’s translator, a local pastor named Israel Siku, got a few of the marchers to re-create the incident as he’d viewed it in police footage. “It was an execution style,” he exclaimed, formulating a clear image of a cop holding Patrick on the ground, face down, and shooting him through the back of the head.

T. ROWE PRICE INVESTING IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES AND ENTREPRENEURS IN BALTIMORE

Kiva is thrilled to bring our crowdfunded, 0% interest loans to meet the needs of Baltimore’s most underserved entrepreneurs. In the U.S., where minority-owned, women-owned, and startup businesses face numerous barriers to financing, we’re proud to extend opportunity by lending to entrepreneurs based on character, not credit score,” Kiva co-founder and President Premal Shah said in a statement.

African American Reconstruction teams with pro sports organizations to empower Black community

The Coyotes, who in 2019 became the first NHL team with a Latin American owner in Alex Meruelo and team president in Xavier Gutierrez, are an ideal fit for AAR.

House Votes to Decriminalize Marijuana, But will it fires up?

The bill simply calls for the reclassification of cannabis products so that it’s possession is no longer a criminal act under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.[2] When the industry is finally formalised and regulated on a federal level, new taxes would be levied on marijuana sales and the proceeds would go to helping the communities most adversely affected by the decades-long ‘war on drugs’ that first started under the Nixon administration over half a century ago.