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09-13-2024 1:18 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Should all U.S. public school students be able to eat breakfast and lunch at no cost, regardless of their family’s income? The federal government temporarily made that possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, some states have taken it upon themselves to make it happen on a permanent basis. The Conversation U.S. asked Marlene B. Schwartz and Juliana Cohen, two scholars of school nutrition, to explain why this issue has become more prominent and what they expect the next presidential administration to do about it.
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Pastor Charlie Dates launched the “Black Boy Literacy” program, a six-week summer camp aimed at improving literacy rates among Black boys in grades 1 through 3. Just wrapping up its second year, the program has now gained national recognition and become a model for other Black churches to replicate across the country.
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Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are each making a beeline for swing states that they hope to flip this year. Harris started in North Carolina making a broad appeal. She played up endorsements from Republicans like former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney. But she talked about issues aimed squarely at core Democrats. The rallies come two days after their first and perhaps only campaign debate.
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LA FOCUS — AB 1815 is one of 14 reparations bills introduced by the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC). The bills were based on recommendations in the final report published by the California Reparations Task Force in 2023.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Vice President Kamala Harris positioned herself as a problem-solver, taking on issues like housing, childcare, and the economy. In her opening statement, she outlined her “opportunity economy” plan, which focuses on bolstering the middle class. “I was raised as a middle-class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America,” Harris said. She detailed a $6,000 child tax credit as part of her plan to support young families.
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Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Steven Horsford (NV-04) (Photo: NNPA)
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Steven Horsford (NV-04) and CBC members have released a first-of-its-kind report titled “What Good Looks Like: A Corporate Accountability Report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” The report aims to hold Fortune 500 companies accountable for their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the racial justice movement that followed.
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Tyreek Hill (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
The star wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins was stopped for speeding and reckless driving before the team’s first game of the season. His interaction with police escalated and is yet again prompting a larger discussion about the realities of “driving while Black.”
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Today, Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and Americans for Tax Fairness released a damning report exposing the deep racial inequities entrenched in the U.S. tax system. The issue brief “How Tax Fairness Can Promote Racial Equity,” written by Color of Change Managing Director Portia Allen-Kyle and Americans for Tax Fairness Executive Director David Kass, exposes the systemic flaws in tax policy that have widened the racial wealth gap and prevented economic mobility for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.
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Gov. Tim Walz (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, File)
In 2020, Minneapolis and St. Paul erupted after a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. The Black man’s murder sparked a nationwide reckoning over racial discrimination and police misconduct. What the governor did — or failed to do — during and afterward continues to draw sharp criticism from Republicans who say he should have acted sooner to stop the looting and arson.
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The race for control of Congress is as close as ever as lawmakers return to Washington for three weeks, leaving the campaign trail where races have become a seat-by-seat slog. Fewer than two dozen House seats and a handful in the Senate will most likely determine whether Democrats or Republicans will dominate after November. Many of highest-profile races are being waged in Montana, New York, California and beyond. That's far from the presidential battleground states contested by Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris
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