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Vice President Kamala Harris Speaks to the Black Press of America

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s about putting $6 billion into state and local government to improve safety on the roads,” Vice President Harris pronounced. “It’s about funding for local communities for better streetlights, ensuring crosswalks are safe. We’re talking about the elderly, the mother with the stroller, the father with the stroller – people given enough time to cross the street. It’s a very big thing when you talk about the quality of life and when you live in communities where they rely on public streets to walk to church, to get the kids to school, to get them to the bus stop.”

IN MEMORIAM: Legal Scholar and Civil Rights Champion Professor Lani Guinier Dies

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Professor Guinier worked in the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice and then headed the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1980s. She published such scholarly articles and books as The Tyranny of the Majority, Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School and Institutional Change, and Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice.

IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Helen Chavis Othow Dies at 89

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Born April 21, 1932, in Oxford, North Carolina, Dr. Othow was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Sr; a Prince Hall mason and superintendent of African American child-care institutions, and Elisabeth R. Chavis, a writer and public school teacher for 65 years.

Aunt Kelly’s Cookies Providing the Fresh, Old-School Flavor to Delighted Customers

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kelly Simmons opened Aunt Kelly’s Cookies in 2018, and she said she “mixes every batch with love” using locally sourced ingredients, including Domino Sugar. Cookies are made daily from scratch to ensure they taste as fresh as they look. “We bake our last daily batch two hours before closing,” Simmons continued. “Because of this, our customers say they taste like their grandmother’s kitchen and bring back feelings of nostalgia and happiness.”

African American Entrepreneurs Head SPAC in $126.5 Million IPO to Acquire Black-owned Firms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The company’s directors are majority-minority including, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, MIT economist and Dean, College of Ethnic Studies, Cal State Los Angeles, Mr. Ronald Busby, Sr., President and CEO, US Black Chamber, Inc., and Mr. Patrick Linehan, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson.

Phoenix Suns Owner Sarver Has Long History of Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

NNPA NEWSWIRE — When NBA players and owners agreed to become more inclusive and promised better diversity measures following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Sarver and the Suns led the way. They transformed the team’s former home, the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, into a voting site. The move occurred in response to repeated conversations within the Suns organization about racial inequality.

Symone Sanders, VP Harris’ Chief Spokesperson and Senior Advisor, Plans to Leave the Administration

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Every day, I arrived at the White House complex knowing our work made a tangible difference for Americans. I am immensely grateful and will miss working for her and with all of you,” Symone Sanders, Vice President Kamala Harris’ chief spokesperson and senior advisor wrote in a letter to Vice President Harris’ staff.

Investigators exonerate men convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The stunning reversal recasts history and reopens the case of the slaying of Malcolm X, who died in a hail of gunfire at the old Audubon Theater in New York’s Harlem area. The exoneration of the two men, Muhammad A. Aziz, and Khalil Islam, represents a “remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in a case of towering importance: the 1965 murder of one of America’s most influential Black leaders in the fight against racism,” the Times reported.

After Guilty Verdicts, Civil Rights Leaders Exhort Black America to ‘Never Stop Running for Ahmaud’

NNPA NEWSWIRE — A Glynn County, Georgia, convicted Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan of felony murder. “Guilty. Guilty. Guilty,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump exclaimed. “Nothing will bring back Ahmaud, but his family will have some peace knowing the men who killed him will remain behind bars and can never inflict their brand of evil on another innocent soul,” Crump continued.

Despite Misinformation and Distractions, Biden-Harris Accomplishing Black Agenda

NNPA NEWSWIRE — During and exclusive interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond, says that the deliberate misinformation published by news outlets and posted on social media is meant to undermine the President and Democrats. Notably, the dubious accounts aim to suppress the Black vote further, Richmond declared.

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