News From A Colorful Perspective
When it comes to New York City, Blackness and Harlem are synonymous. In 1968, Martin Luther King’s assassination spawned the meeting of 13 Black leaders in Harlem. The meeting discussed how the Black community needed to heal in light of the death of one of our greatest leaders. From that…
John Weigel, a 58-year-old Navy vetern, is $139,000 deep in medical debt and is feeling suicidal under the weight of the bills. On September 13, he attended a Bernie Sanders town hall at the Carson City community center. He wanted to ask for help. Weigel waved his medical bill in the…
For the first time in U.S. history, people of color, in particular women of color, are the majority of prime working-age hires. “Prime working-age” is between 25 and 54 years old, according to the Washington Post’s analysis of Labor Department data. The department began collecting the data in the 1970s….
Kevin Richardson, one of “The Exonerated Five” was honored at Syracuse University with a benefit reception and the announcement of a scholarship in his name. Richardson was part of a group of Black and Latino teenagers previously called the “Central Park Five:” Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson…
As the national fight to remove racist Confederate monuments forged on last year, two neo-Nazi vandals desecrated a monument that commemorated the enslaved Africans responsible for building the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC). In March 2019, Ryan Barnett and Nancy McCorkle thought it was an excellent idea to…
Manal Ezzat ran from the burning Pentagon building on September 11, 2001. She didn’t know what had happened, but soon would. Terrorists crashed the plane into the Pentagon and murdered 184 people. The very next day, Ezzat started work rebuilding the site. She is an Army Corps of Engineers employee who was…
Originally published on Comcast.com KEY TAKEAWAYS Company announces grant to fund creation and delivery of specialized digital literacy training program materials and classes for the disability community. Since 2011, Comcast’s Internet Essentials program has connected more than eight million low-income Americans to the Internet, including nearly 210,000 individuals in the…
Virginia’s Hampton University, a historically Black college, is offering University of the Bahamas students displaced by Hurricane Dorian a free education for the rest of the fall semester. The University of the Bahamas is the country’s main public university. Dorian, a Category 5 storm, was the most severe hurricane to…
Kimberly Teehee has now been appointed as the first delegate from the Cherokee Nation to join the U.S. House of Representatives. Her nomination was approved by the tribe’s council Thursday. The Treaty of New Echota that created the nonvoting position was established in 1835, but until now, the spot has…
While at the federal level, the Trump Administration is making moves that will prevent protections against workplace discrimination for LGBTQ individuals, Ada County, Idaho has expanded its anti-discrimination policies to specifically protect LGBTQ applicants. At the end of August, Ada County commissioners approved the broad wording of the policy after…
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