October 15, 2021

Dillard University President Sets The Record Straight On Biden Administration And HBCUs, Says Congress Needs To Increase Funding

Published on October 15, 2021

By Anoa Changa, The president of Dillard University took to Twitter to debunk disinformation being spread about the Biden administration’s commitment to funding HBCUs. Walter M. Kimbrough, known on Twitter as @HipHopPrez, highlighted several accounts spreading the lie that the Biden administration cut $30 Billion from HBCUs. Holding elected officials accountable is a part of the

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June 17, 2020, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA: Latosha Clemons, the Boynton Beach deputy fire-rescue chief who was depicted as white in a mural, tells her story in front of the office of her attorney, Nicole Hunt Jackson, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. (Credit Image: © Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Wire)

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Lawsuit filed in Florida over a mural showing city’s first Black female firefighter depicted with a White face

Published on October 15, 2021

By Gregory Lemos and Melissa Alonso, The Boynton Beach City Commission will meet this week to discuss a lawsuit filed on behalf of the city’s first Black female firefighter over a mural where she was inaccurately depicted with a White face. “The City Commission will meet in a closed-door session to discuss the litigation. It

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2021, file photo, Jack Kingsley R.N. attends to a COVID-19 patient in the Medical Intensive care unit (MICU) at St. Luke's Boise Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Idaho's public health leaders have expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring hospitalization. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare made the announcement Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. St. Luke's Health System, Idaho's largest hospital network, asked state health leaders to allow "crisis standards of care" on Wednesday because the increase in COVID-19 patients has exhausted the state's medical resources. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, File)

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Covid-19 infections are declining in the US. But hospitalizations are still high in some hot spots

Published on October 15, 2021

By Travis Caldwell, While the rate of Covid-19 infections nationwide is slowing, health care systems in some parts of the country are struggling with hospital wings still packed with patients. Montana, for instance, is facing new highs this week in coronavirus hospitalizations, with 533 Covid-19 patients in hospitals as of Wednesday, according to the US Department of Health and

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