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Racial justice can only begin when police departments reflect the communities they serve

By Sunita Sohrabji Contributing Writer (Ethnic Media Services) — Even as U.S. crime rates drop to historic lows, residents of low-income neighborhoods continue to be

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COVID-19 has increased the digital divide, but the Black community faces another threat to tech access

By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on a digital and educational divide that has already severely impacted African-American and

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Adults delaying conversations about race with children, according to report
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer New research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology shows that adults delay conversations about race with children due to a lack of knowledge of their development, ...
Breaking the law
To vote early and often was supposed to be a Louisiana political joke. It was up there with an old adage often quipped by Senator Russell Long, who expressed ...
COVID + Influenza: This is a good year to get a flu shot, experts advise
By Julie Appleby and Michelle Andrews Contributing Writers (Special from khn.org) — Flu season will look different this year, as the country grapples with a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than ...
Howard University community mourns Chadwick Boseman
By Michael Burgess II Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Howard University News Service) — While many were getting ready for bed or looking forward to a ...
Lawlessness and disorder: USA’s mistreatment of its Black citizens
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist When a seventeen-year-old white boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered ...
Now threatened, USPS was once a gateway to African-American prosperity
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer For more than a century and a half, the U.S. Postal Service has played a major role in Black American tradition and development, both as a means ...
Officials sound alarm bells on New Orleanians not filling out census
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer An emergency situation has popped up regarding federal funding to cities and states. Initially, the collection of 2020 census data was slated to end on October 31, ...
Study: $100M lost to stimulus check, COVID-19 fraud; Black Americans most vulnerable
(Defender News Service) — As a demographic group, African Americans face a greater risk of being victims of fraud than the nation’s overall population. That eye-popping statistic is ...

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