SPEAKING OUT WEEKLY NEWS — I can’t say that I am surprised by the situation in general, because except for February we (including me) generally don’t spend a great deal of time discussing our history and sharing our culture, other than – say our food, music, art, sports, and sense of style. As a result, we leave an incomplete picture of Black history and culture for our children and our children’s children. Think of the great William Hooper Councill, a one-time slave who founded what is now presently Alabama A&M University in 1875. Mr. Councill remains one of a few African Americans with a portrait hanging in the Alabama Archives in Montgomery.
COMMENTARY: Time to Engage in Our History
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OP-ED: PTSD SC — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Each of California’s governors and CDCr cabinet secretaries from 1977 to 2015 knowingly enhanced their system to become more repressive upon the prisoners held in solitary confinement in the SHUs. We prisoners have known for the past decades that California citizens have not condoned the torture of California prisoners. Nevertheless, since the ‘60s, each state governor and legislature knowingly sanctioned solitary confinement torture.
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PRESS ROOM: Zillow, United Negro College Fund and Black Tech Ventures to Host Hackathon for Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Zillow, in collaboration with United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Black Tech Ventures (BTV), will host the HBCU Housing Hackathon to help HBCU students further develop their skills through workshops, hands-on enrichment, mentorship and teamwork.
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PRESS ROOM: Minority Equality Opportunities Acquisition Inc. Becomes the First Minority-Led SPAC Traded on NASDAQ, Closes $126.5 million IPO
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Led by Mr. Shawn Rochester, Minority Equality Opportunities Acquisition Inc.’s Chairman and CEO, and Ms. Robin Watkins, its Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, the blank check company will focus its business combination search and transactions on historically undercapitalized minority-owned/controlled businesses in various industry sectors across the country.
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New Coronavirus Variant a ‘Concern’ for Health Officials
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Nearly 219 million people globally had contracted the novel coronavirus since March 2020, when officials officially declared a pandemic. Over 4.5 million have died, including more than 657,000 in the United States, where the disease has disproportionately attacked African Americans and other communities of color. Health officials have identified the Delta variant — and the lack of those vaccinated — as the primary reason over 100,000 people in the United States are currently hospitalized — the largest number since the beginning of the year.
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PRESS ROOM: New Podcast, St. Jude Mission of A Lifetime, Launches to Document World’s First All-Civilian Mission to Orbit
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We are writing the narrative of human spaceflight right now, as we go to the moon, and we go on to Mars,” said Dr. Sian Proctor. “What do we want that to look like? How do we make space really for everyone? Bring all of humanity along? Inspiration 4 is the perfect example.”
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Hammel Woods Dam removal project complete, site reopens for public use
The limestone-and-concrete dam in the DuPage River at Hammel Woods preserve in Shorewood has been removed and the site has reopened for public use.
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Energy Assistance Program underway in Will County
The Will County Center for Community Concerns (WCCCC), as administrator of the Home Energy Assistance Program in Will County, has announced that funds are now available to assist income-eligible households with their natural gas, propane and electric bills and furnace assistance.
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Russell Simmons, Erica Ford Continue Decades-Long Tradition Uplifting Mothers of Murder Victims
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Erica Ford has received honors for implementing concepts for increasing safety that New York City officials said have resulted in a 10 percent reduction in violence throughout the five boroughs. When she and Russell Simmons began collaborating years ago, the mogul became one of the few celebrities to jump in feet first and remain intently involved.
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Jazz Legend Louis Armstrong’s ‘Second Home’ Among Property Destroyed by Hurricane Ida
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hurricane Ida’s devastation claimed the Karnofsky Tailor Shop and Residence, “second-home” of famed jazz legend Louis Armstrong. A viral social media video captured Ida destroying the shop at 427 South Rampart Street in New Orleans. Armstrong grew up near the shop, and by the age of 12, was known to frequent the place owned by the Karnofsky family, who offered him a job.
