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11-18-2024 10:00 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Marvin Ellison, Lowe's CEO (AP Photo, File)
Home improvement chain Lowe’s is scaling back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, joining the ranks of a few other companies who have altered their programs since the end of affirmative action in higher education and amid conservative backlash online. In an internal memo, Lowe’s executive leadership said the company began reviewing” the company's diversity and inclusion programs in July 2023 and has made some changes to ensure the programs are “lawful” and aligned with its commitment to “include everyone.”
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Earl Lewis, director of the Center for Social Solutions (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
Nonprofits like Forward Through Ferguson see a surge in giving while their cause is in the spotlight, only to see donations quickly dry up. The racial reckoning sparked in Ferguson, Missouri, was supposed to be different. But it didn’t turn out that way, slowing or, in some cases, stopping the progress that these new community groups hoped to make by the 10th anniversary of Brown’s death.
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Educators with credentials produce better outcomes for children, according to the many studies that Usma cites. And she provides recommendations that can help lower the roadblocks early childhood teachers face to earning credentials.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Kamala Harris is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the Democratic National Convention. She takes credit for parts of President Joe Biden’s record while casting herself as a new leader who rails against “the politics of the past.” Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two competing messages, much to the frustration of former President Donald Trump and his allies.
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Ellen Lo Hoffman (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
For some Christian progressives, the lack of acknowledgement by their churches or ministries of the racial reckoning in 2020 was the final push to go elsewhere.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign says it's now raised $540 million for the presidential race against Donald Trump. Democrats have had no problems getting supporters to open their wallets. Her campaign said it saw a surge of donations during last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago where Harris and running mate Tim Walz accepted their nominations.
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(Leah Millis/Tampa Bay Times via AP, file)
Business owners who cater to Florida’s LGBTQ+ tourists said Wednesday that it was the latest attempt by officials in the state to erase the LGBTQ+ community. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis previously championed legislation to forbid classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, and supported a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Harris paid tribute to her roots as the daughter of a brown woman and Caribbean man and honored the multicultural village of “aunties” and “uncles” in California’s Bay Area. It was a way to display her personal story while offering a visual political message that could appeal to a broad swath of people who see themselves in families like hers.
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(AP Photo/Kate Payne)
In the rural Florida panhandle, one school district is planning to close its last three stand-alone elementary schools due to persistently declining enrollments. The decision to consolidate Madison County's schools is exposing tensions in the community, where for years some white families have resisted integrating public schools.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, left, fires up young voters during a surprise visit to the DNC's Youth Council with Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson. (Photo: Skyler Winston/HUNewsService.com)
He passionately addressed topics such as the need to improve educational systems, tackle student loan debt, combat climate change and mobilize the youth vote.
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