NNPA NEWSWIRE — BEN’S ORIGINAL brand has committed a total of $4.5 million over the next five years in support of inclusion and equity and to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table. This spring, in partnership with National Urban League and UNCF (United Negro College Fund), BEN’S ORIGINAL brand launched its SEAT AT THE TABLE™ Fund Scholarship for Black students who want to pursue food industry careers; this year’s recipients will be announced this fall. In Greenville, the company recently announced a new partnership with MolinaCares and Kroger Delta Division to bolster its $2.5 million investment focused on improving food access and education throughout the Mississippi Delta.
PRESS ROOM: Ben’s Original™ Launches “My Original Recipe” Chef Stories with Chef Marcus Samuelsson
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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Environmental Justice Advocate, Proud to Receive NNPA Leadership Award
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Sen. Booker, who served two terms as Newark mayor before his election to the Senate, will receive the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) National Leadership Award for excellence and innovative leadership in Black America. Drs. James Hildreth and Ebony Hilton, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Missouri), and Olympic record-setter Allyson Felix also will receive National Leadership Awards from the NNPA, the trade association of more than 230 African American-owned newspapers and media companies.
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Howard University Students React to Crippling Cyberattack
HOWARD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE — A three-day holiday weekend has turned into a week off from school for Howard University, after it was targeted by a cyberattack on Friday, September 3.
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NNPA Honors Dr. Ebony Hilton with National Leadership Award
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a practicing physician at the University of Virginia – Charlottesville, Dr. Hilton has continued advocating for underserved and marginalized populations. Her efforts have received recognition from the National Medical Association and the National Minority Quality Forum as one of the top 40 under 40 Leaders in Health Care award recipients.
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Chronicling Hearing Impaired Golfer Langston Frazier’s Path to the PGA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “This membership is much more than an ID number, membership card, a lapel pin, and a fancy piece of paper,” Frazier wrote on LinkedIn the day he received Membership. “It’s a gateway to so much more. It shows people, especially little kids that look like me, that, ‘Hey, if he can do it, I can do it too!’”
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Firefighter Roderick Lewis Was There, and in Ways, He Still is Remembering 9/11
HOWARD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE — Twenty years after the attack, after leaving the department and busying himself with new hobbies, after his oldest child, a son, had struck out on his own and his daughter had graduated high school, after buying a sailboat and exploring deeper his love of sailing, after he and his wife purchased another home in Chesapeake, Virginia, after counseling and consultation, it even surprises retired New York City firefighter Rodney Lewis how quickly the feelings can come bursting to the surface.
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Sen. Schumer, AG James: Rochester’s Black Moms Deserve Top Treatment – It’s Time to Deliver
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Momnibus Act of 2021 builds on existing maternal health legislation to comprehensively address the root causes of the maternal health crisis by making critical investments in addressing social, non-health related issues that can lead to maternal deaths, funding community-based organizations doing patient-level work to reduce the risks of maternal mortality, training programs for hospital staff on how to avoid maternal deaths, growing and diversifying the perinatal workforce, and improvements in data collection processes.
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President Biden Proclaims Sept. 10 World Suicide Prevention Day
NNPA NEWSWIRE — President Biden noted that the American Rescue Plan provided the third round of economic impact payments, established a homeowner assistance fund, and provided emergency rental assistance. He said his administration also has committed to addressing suicide by firearm, which statistics show are responsible for over half of all suicide deaths in the United States.
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Hiding in Plain Sight, a 30-Year-Old Hijacking Mystery Solved on 9/11
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I sat there. In hand was my notebook containing facts about a man named Patrick Dolan Critton who hijacked an airplane 30 years prior. American Justice had finally caught up with Critton and — until the events of this day — his story would be as big as any. Now, it is just a footnote on the history of that day. A terror mastermind named Osama bin Laden, who lived a cloak and dagger life more than 6,700 miles away in Afghanistan and escaping U.S. forces by living from cave to cave and underground bunker to underground bunker, had stolen Critton’s frontpage.
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Amazon rolls out new incentives in push to hire more workers
ROLLING OUT — The company announced during an event at its facility in Breinigsville that it will fund full four-year college tuition, regardless of what workers study or if they stay with Amazon.
