Category: Making a Difference
-
Gallup Center to Report on the Black Experience in America
Gallup announces the launch of the Center on Black Voices, an unprecedented ongoing study of Black life in America.
-
A Statement of Equality and Reconciliation to Hollywood
Blackville has recently released a statement addressed to Hollywood and available on its official website.
-
‘It’s Not Too Late to Do Your Taxes, Free, with Expert Guidance’
United Way offers free tax filing services as Americans struggle with financial insecurity in the midst of the pandemic During these especially financially pressing times, United Ways of California is providing a free way to make a stressful task much less difficult. United Ways of Californiacontinues to build resiliency and financial security for vulnerable populations…
-
Collision from Home – BuzzFeed CEO: Racist Police Violence is Part of US History of Oppression
The BuzzFeed CEO says the site decided to stop publishing lighthearted content like quizzes and recipes after the killing of George Floyd
-
Chipotle Hosts Charitable Lunch & Listen With Karamo And LGBTQ+ Creators On TikTok
Brand to donate $1 for every TikTok Live viewer to The Center for Black Equity
-
NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace…
-
The George Floyd Monument Project Seeks to Build a Symbol of Equality Never Before Seen by African Americans
In an effort to create a symbol of equality and unity, and in tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement ignited in the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd by a police officer in May,
-
Celebrate Juneteenth
#Juneteenth marks the complete end of slavery in the #UnitedStates. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth; also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day is a holiday celebrating the liberation of those who had been held as slaves in the United States. https://tnc.network/celebrate-juneteenth/ #Juneteenth Moments in History: Garrett A…
-
MSNBC To Exclusively Livestream Faith For Black Lives Inaugural JusticeCon
Livestream Social Justice Conference Featuring Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Kamala Harris, Rev. Al Sharpton, Color of Change President Rashad Robinson
-
American Jewish Committee (AJC) Celebrates Juneteenth
On the occasion of the Juneteenth holiday tomorrow, American Jewish Committee (AJC) issued the following statement: On June 19, 1865, two months after the Civil War ended in Confederate surrender and two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, news reached Galveston, Texas — slavery was no more. American Jewish Committee (AJC) joins Black Americans across the…