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Masada with his family with The Washington Monument in the background

My Head Start Success Story

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Head Start was pivotal in preparing my twin boys for school while my wife and I regrouped financially. It’s one thing to experience...

Commentary2 years ago

DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The report, covering the years FY 2014 through FY 2021, scrutinizes 344 deaths in BOP institutions and points to a multitude of issues,...

Art3 years ago

Stop Hate. Spread Love: California Black Media Campaign Unveiled at L.A.’s Taste of Soul Fest

By McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media The “Stop the Hate. Spread the Love,” initiative spearheaded by California Black Media (CBM) and others, was introduced to...

For more than thirty years, communities across the U.S. have been raising serious concerns about the disproportionate exposure to environmental threats that low-income communities, people of color, and tribal groups have borne. Recent events across the country, such as outbreaks of lead poisoning in Flint, MI and East Chicago, IN, the battles by the Standing Rock Sioux and Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw to hold onto and protect their sacred land and recent devastating flooding in Baton Rouge and Charleston, West Virginia are focusing new and needed national attention on environmental and climate justice and environmental racism. This photo is from a talk by Vernice Miller-Travis that focuses on the present and future call for environmental justice and the fact that widening economic inequality is intertwined with environmental inequities.

Black History4 years ago

Vernice Miller-Travis, a Crusader who Continues the Struggle to Weed out Environmental Racism

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Vernice Miller-Travis said that it’s her job to analyze data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of national priorities. In that way,...

The Select Committee is investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack.

BlackPressUSA5 years ago

Select Committee on the January 6 Committee, Led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sends Out Subpoenas

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been marginalized by the members of the Republican Party in the U.S. House....

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DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths

Stop Hate. Spread Love: California Black Media Campaign Unveiled at L.A.’s Taste of Soul Fest

Vernice Miller-Travis, a Crusader who Continues the Struggle to Weed out Environmental Racism

Select Committee on the January 6 Committee, Led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sends Out Subpoenas

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DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths

Stop Hate. Spread Love: California Black Media Campaign Unveiled at L.A.’s Taste of Soul Fest

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