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12-03-2024 2:54 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Elías Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year prohibiting DEI initiatives on campuses, such as special centers for minority students. Universities across the Lone Star State rushed to make changes to comply with the new law, which took effect on Jan. 1. . Texas is among five states that have banned DEI initiatives. At least 20 others are considering it.
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Victims in a police abuse case, Michael Corey Jenkins, left, and Eddie Terrell Parker walk toward the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
A Rankin County judge on Wednesday gave the men yearslong state sentences that were shorter than the amount of time in federal prison that they'd already received. They admitted to subjecting the victims to numerous acts of racist torture in 2023 after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman.
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Including the family in the patient’s treatment plan, also known as family-centered care, can help shorten a patient’s hospital stay and can even reduce hospital costs. However, caregivers carry heavy emotional burdens while supporting loved ones at the hospital. There are ways to help ease this emotional burden, and most of them come down to consistent and open communication between the patient, their caregivers and the medical team.
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At a private event, Trump reportedly joked about welcoming immigrants from “nice” countries like Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway, again demonstrating his racial bias in immigration policy.
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One of the central aims of the proposals is to address the disproportionate debt burden borne by communities of color, mainly Black and Latino borrowers.
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Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Some opine that it’s hurtful that an African American mayor in a District once heralded as “Chocolate City,” would launch such initiatives.
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Ex-Wall Street Analyst Ashley Fox Is Bridging Financial Gaps/ Photos courtesy of Ashley Fox
“Wealth doesn’t have a color. No matter what you look like or who you are, we deserve to build wealth.”
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Naya Ellis (Credit: STEM NOLA)
Her award-winning invention is saving lives!
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Tennessee State University, Nashville, May 24, 2008 (Public domain image)
Critics argue that TSU’s purported financial mismanagement is a manufactured crisis rooted in decades of underinvestment by the state government. They’ve noted that it continues a trend by conservatives and the racist MAGA movement to eliminate opportunities for Blacks in education, corporate America, and the public sector.
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Lawmakers in several states are trying to enact state-level protections to plug gaps opened by courts in the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. Minnesota, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey and Florida are building on state voting rights laws passed in New York and Connecticut Court rulings have weakened a key part of the national law as Republicans in Congress and red states impose new restrictions
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