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Biden Honors Selma, Renews Call for Voting Rights Action

 President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law. “Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote … to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it anything’s possible,” Biden told a crowd of several thousand people seated on one side of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. “This fundamental right remains under

NYC to Pay Protesters $21K Each Over 2020 NYPD Tactics

By Daniella Silva New York City has agreed to pay more than $21,000 each to hundreds of protesters who were surrounded, arrested and subjected to excessive force by police during a George Floyd protest in 2020, according to court documents. A proposed settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday said the city would compensate about 320 people who participated in the protest June 4, 2020, in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx borough. In the filing, the city agreed to pay eligible class-action members $21,500 each, as well as another $2,500 to each person who received a desk appearance ticket. The

Biden, Harris Honor Black History Month at White House

By Isabella Murray As Black History Month draws to a close, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris marked the celebration by delivering remarks at a reception in the White House’s East Room. The pair touted what they called the accomplishments their administration has made for the Black community in areas like government, housing and climate while implicitly rebuking some Republican efforts to revise African American history courses. “History matters and Black history matters,” Biden said to an audience of Black Congressional leaders, students at historically Black colleges and universities and other guests. Look, I can’t just choose to learn what we

Massachusetts Launches Black Empowerment Advisory Council

By Jessica Washington Let’s be real here when people think about Massachusetts and specifically the Boston area; Black empowerment isn’t exactly top of mind. But on Friday, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced she was creating an Advisory Council on Black Empowerment. The council, comprised of 30 Black leaders from across the state, will advise Healey on various issues impacting Black Americans, including education, health care, and workforce development. The advisory council will be co-chaired by NAACP Boston President Tanisha Sullivan and Vice-President of Equitable Business Development for the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, Anthony Richards. “Massachusetts’ Black residents make tremendous contributions to our state, but far too often

HBCU Journalists Join White House Briefing With Harris

By D. Thompson Student funding, loan forgiveness, mental health, racial inequalities and resources for universities were some of the topics discussed last week at a White House press briefing with Vice President Kamala Harris, Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms and journalism students from Bowie State University and  41  other HBCUs. Harris and Bottoms answered questions posed by the students on issues that are of major concern on HBCU campuses. Angelica Tyler, a Bowie State graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Organizational Communications, believes the White House briefing was an eye-opening experience for all of the students

Vanessa Bryant Reaches $29M Settlement in Photo Lawsuit

By Paradise Afshar and Nouran Salahieh Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $29 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna Bryant and seven others. The settlement caps several years of litigation related to the January 2020 helicopter crash on a Calabasas, California, hillside and photos that circulated in its aftermath. “Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant’s courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct,” Luis Li, an attorney representing Bryant, said in

Miss Coppin State Faces Backlash, Stands Firm in Her Role

By Edwin Flores When Keylin Perez became the first Latina to be crowned Miss Coppin State University in Baltimore, she was thrilled. She had been named the university’s Miss Sophomore and Miss Junior previously and was eager to continue representing the school with pride as the 91st Miss Coppin State University queen. But after a TikTok video she posted went viral, she received backlash, including harassment, from online critics who said the role should be given to a Black woman, since Coppin State University is a historically Black university, known as an HBCU. “I never considered stepping down,” Perez told NBC News.

Black Medical Students Push for Equity in U.S. Healthcare

By Jacqueline Howard When being truly honest with herself, Seun Adebagbo says, she can describe what drove her to go to medical school in a single word: self-preservation. Adebagbo, who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Boston, said that as a child, she often saw tensions between certain aspects of Western medicine and beliefs within Nigerian culture. She yearned to have the expertise to bridge those worlds and help translate medical information while combating misinformation – for her loved ones and for herself. “I wanted to go into medicine because I felt like, ‘Who better to mediate that

Shelby County Approves $5M Reparations Study Initiative

By Alicia Victoria Lozano Officials in Tennessee’s largest county, which includes Memphis, voted Wednesday to study reparations for descendants of enslaved people, adding to a growing list of local and state governments that are considering or are launching similar programs. The Shelby County resolution will allocate $5 million to study and find “actionable items” addressing five key areas: increased access to affordable housing and homeownership, health care parity, criminal justice reform, enhanced career opportunities, and financial literacy and generational wealth. The resolution was overwhelmingly approved with the support of all eight Black members of the 13-member Board of County Commissioners

Uncle Nearest, SusieCakes Fund HBCUs With Whiskey Cupcakes

By Amira Castilla Two woman-owned and founded companies, Uncle Nearest and SusieCakes, have joined forces to raise money for historically Black colleges and universities during Black History Month as a part of Uncle Nearest’s #HBCUChallenge. We sat down with the Chief Business Officer of Uncle Nearest, Katharine Jerkins, and CEO of Susie Cakes, Susan Sarich, to learn more about the whiskey and baked dessert collaboration. How the collaboration came to be The idea of the collaboration first came together in 2021. Fawn Weaver, the CEO and Founder of Black-owned whiskey company Uncle Nearest, has traditionally ordered SusieCakes treats for important events in her life, and so have her employees. So combining

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