Category : Lifestyle

Summer nutrition programs address child hunger

By Audrey Vanzant Ohio Association of Foodbanks On June 20, Deborah Swerdlow, Chief of Staff, USDA Food Nutrition and Consumer Services, visited a handful of Ohio and Kentucky feeding sites providing summer meals to students during the summer...

40 acres and a lie

40 ACRES AND A LIE: The broken promise to Black Americans

40 acres and a lie: Broken promises to Black Americans

How a congregation came to pay reparations

What comes after the book studies? For decades, members at Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., did what congregations do to be informed participants in God’s liberating justice. We heard sermons, clarified our values, became politically engag...

The failure to track race and other data on stillbirths undermines prevention efforts

French leftist coalition prevails over far-right, anti-immigrant forces in national election shocker

Wash U researchers say child savings accounts can be used to deliver reparations

As reparations task forces continue studying how to repay African Americans for past racist harms, Washington University researchers say there are tested policy models that can deliver mass repayment. In the June issue of the Russell Sage Foundation...

Harford County school board denies AP African American Studies course

Harford County Public School students will not have the option to take AP African American Studies next year. After piloting it at three high schools during the 2023-2024 school year, the board of education voted against it becoming a permanent cours...

California’s $25 Health Care Hourly Wage Relies on Federal Boost, State Worker Exemption

By Don Thompson | KFF Health News SACRAMENTO — California’s nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers will rely on a significant boost in federal funding and exempt thousands of state employees under an agreement that is expected to be a...

‘What’s Going On?’ The Fate of Art and Soul in Florida

By Fedrick C. Ingram | Word In Black (WIB) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t interested in being a leader. Leaders listen to the people, even those they don’t agree with, in order to foster democracy and empathy for the communities they’...

Majority of Poles want government to seek war reparations from Germany

A large majority of people in Poland want their country to seek reparations from Germany for the Second World War, a new poll has found. The findings, which echo the results of previous surveys, come days after Prime Minister Donald Tusk indicated, f...

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