As Executive Director of Schools for the Central Region, Pritchett will support the principals and schools in the central region of the city with responsibilities ...
NAACP Files Complaint With EEOC
On Monday, Verlene Jones, Labor and Industries Representative with the Seattle-King County Branch of the NAACP (NAACP-SKCB), along with other activist from the African American community filed a formal complaint with the Seattle office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of African American workers at Sound Transit’s ULink site.
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“I started to control my blood pressure and diet,” said Wiley, an ordained deacon. “These changes allowed me to put off dialysis for more than 10 years.”
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Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., president and CEO of the...
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Historical Black College Closing
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Saint Paul’s College, a historically Black college founded in 1888 in partnership with the Episcopal Church, announced last week that it’s shutting down and working to help current students transfer to other institutions.
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NAACP Executive Vice President To Head Amnesty International USA
(Baltimore) -- NAACP Executive Vice President and Chief of Programs Steven W. Hawkins has been selected to take the helm of Amnesty International USA as its Executive Director, both organizations announced today. Hawkins has been a part of the senior leadership team that led the Association through a five-year period of financial growth and ...
National NAACP Applauds Historic Expansion Of Voting Rights
(TriceEdney Wire) - “This is a great step for Virginia and we look forward to working with the Commonwealth …on expanding the vote,” stated Benjamin Todd Jealous, national president and CEO of the NAACP. “Anyone who has made a mistake, done their time and paid their debt to society should be able to join their neighbors at the voting ...
It’s Time To Eliminate The Let Out
This weekend we were once again confronted with deadly violence. This time in Auburn, yes Auburn. It appears that violence will...
Healthy Mind, Body & Spirit
As I celebrate the first anniversary of my radio show titled “Think on These Things,” I can’t help but consider the scripture that the Lord gave to me for the show. In Philippians, Chapter 4, beginning ...
Is ‘Big Brother’ Racially Biased?
When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, he envisioned a character, real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could. Those...
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