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Inside the Success of Workshops Empowerment Inc.’s Jobs Program

THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — WE Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Birmingham’s Avondale community, offers a broad range of vocational rehabilitation services geared toward helping people with disabilities become employed. It also has programs designed to support people reentering society from prison or rehabilitation facilities and those who have been out of work over a long period of time.

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PRESS ROOM: BHERC Call for Entries for the 28th Annual “Sistas Are Doin’ it for Themselves” Short Film Fest

THE LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Normally a live event, “Sistas” streams online for the second year due to the pandemic. However, participants last year were able to capture the essence of the live event noting, that they had not been able to travel to Los Angeles in the past. Having the festival online, allowed them the opportunity to participate as well as to meet the filmmakers.

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IN MEMORIAM: Frederick K.C. Price, Founder of Black Megachurch, Dies

SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT — Frederick K.C. Price, televangelist and founder of the Crenshaw Christian Center, has died. He was 89. Price founded the church in 1973 with about 300 members, according to the church’s website. He expanded his reach, first through radio broadcasts, then televised services, and grew the ministry to over 28,000 members.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I think if people begin to associate this legislation with what happened to the descendants of enslaved Africans as a human rights violation, the sordid past that violated the human rights of all of us who are descendants of enslaved Africans, I think that we can find common ground to pass this legislation,” said Congresswoman Jackson Lee in reference to H.R. 40, the reparations legislation that focuses on truth, racial healing, and transformation.

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