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Richfield Public Schools in Minnesota has received more than $22,800 in donations as of Tuesday after a video surfaced of workers throwing away kids’ hot lunches if the students owed more than $15, according to CNN. CNN reported that hundreds of people have donated in order to raise the thousands…
A report by the Community College Equity Assessment Lab at San Diego State University (CCEAL) and the Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative revealed that Native American boys are suspended and expelled at higher rates than students from other demographics in both the Sacramento area and throughout the entire state…
A nonprofit called Springboard to Opportunities, is giving 20 Black single mothers a year of universal basic income, $1,000 a month – and it has helped support major improvements to their lives. The program is in Jackson, Mississippi. It originally helped low-income people write resumes and workforce development, but Aisha…
Newark, New Jersey — a city that is over 50% Black — has even more lead in its water than Flint, Michigan did at the height of its water crisis, according to the most recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lead samples from June. Flint’s water quality is improving. The most…
The U.S. Census Bureau has been facing harsh criticism for its plans to try to accurately count people of color for the 2020 Census. The agency is planning internet and telephone questionnaires – which are pretty useless for people in rural areas without reliable communication infrastructure, such as tribal communities….
Forest Hills Elementary is an underfunded school, where bullying prevention is non-existent. Raniya Wright, a fifth-grader at Forest Hills Elementary School in Walterboro, S.C., died two days after getting into a fight with a another fifth-grade girl. Weeks before Raniya’s death, she kept asking her mom if she could stay home…
Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore, said on Tuesday that she would stop prosecuting marijuana possession cases regardless of quantity or prior criminal record. Mosby also urged state legislators to support a bill allowing her to vacate almost 5,000 criminal convictions, including corrupt police cases. “For far too long,…
The opening experiment to universal basic income might be underway. The community of Stockton, Calif., is planning to hand out $500 a month to 100 citizens. This project is being funded by the cofounder of Silicon Valley giant Facebook, Chris Hughes, and his firm, the Economic Security Project. For a…
During the town hall-style presidentialdebate between Hillary Clinton and Trumpin St. Louis Sundaynight, an African American audience member asked if the candidates would be a president for all Americans. Trump responded by explaining the plight of people living in “inner cities,” conflatingthe Black questioneras a representative ofthe inner city, and…
2015 saw an increase in median household income for whites, Blacks, Asians and Hispanics, the newest report from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed, the highest increase being among Hispanic households. According to the report, 2015 saw an additional estimated 3.3 million people with earnings over 2014, regardless of work experience….
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