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Go beyond financial literacy"Gone are the days that we can hide behind the illusion that more financial literacy is enough," says Rahkim Sabree, AFC, financial therapist and counselor. Currently, 25 states require financial literacy education for students; however, rarely, if ever, does financial literacy address larger systemic issues that exist. Black students owe an average of 188% more than what white students borrowed by the fourth year after graduation. One 2016 study found that if current trends continue, closing the wealth gap would take more than 200 years. AdvertisementYounger Black Americans have now become the fastest-growing demographic of new investors in the stock market.

Persons: —, Martin Luther King, Jr, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, Ulrike I, Rahkim Sabree, We've, Kristin Afelumo, Lazetta Rainey Braxton, Braxton Organizations: Service, Business, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Black, National Bureau of Economic Research, Economic Policy Institute, AFC, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Netflix, Lazetta, Associates Locations: America, Evanston , Illinois, Black

☆ Rachel Dolezal fired from teaching job over OnlyFans account
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

As of publication, a link to an OnlyFans account is accessible through a bio in Dolezal’s verified Instagram account. The linked OnlyFans account, updated as recently as February 14, blocks images for non-subscribers but contains identifying information and captions alluding to adult and “nude” content. Her apparent OnlyFans account bears the name Rachel Dolezal. OnlyFans is a social media platform where creators post photos and videos and can charge users a fee to access it. Its rising popularity has led to innumerable instances of people being fired from their jobs for being OnlyFans creators, including several teachers.

Persons: Rachel Dolezal, Dolezal, Julie Farbarik, ” Farbarik, ” Rachel Dolezal, Nicholas K, Nkechi Amare Diallo, ”, Josephine Beall Willson Bruce Organizations: CNN, National Association for, Advancement of Colored People, Catalina Foothills School District, KVOA, Social Media, District Employees, NAACP, Human Rights Education Institute, Guardian Locations: Arizona, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene , Idaho

☆ Hundreds of Adobe employees protest the company moving its MAX conference to Florida. Ron DeSantis thinks it's a 'stunt.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A group of Adobe employees are upset over the company’s decision to host its MAX annual conference in Florida, citing the state’s “hostile” laws against marginalized groups. Earlier this month, more than 500 Adobe employees signed an internal petition demanding the company reconsider the location of the annual conference, scheduled to take place in Miami later this year. As company leaders reiterated their commitment to Miami for this year’s event, some Adobe employees took to the Slack channel to express their dismay. “I’m shocked and disappointed at the lack of consideration in that call,” one of the employees wrote in the internal Slack channel. "Adobe MAX is a celebration of our community and a platform to showcase the incredible impact that creativity has around the world.

Persons: ”, Shantanu Narayen, David Wadhwani, “, “ I’m, Ron DeSantis’s “, DeSantis, Jeremy Redfern, Ron DeSantis, Charlie Neibergall ‘, ’, Adobe’s, Erica Warren, ” Warren, Slack, Amy White, “ It’s, ” White Organizations: Adobe, Business, Disney, MAX, ”, AP, National Association for, Advancement of Colored People, Human Rights, Las, ” Adobe Locations: Florida, Miami, America, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Tokyo, LA, San Diego, Las Vegas, ‘ Florida, “

☆ ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Origin’ and the Pressures Black Writers Face
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Salamishah Tillet | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago. “If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter.”Seeking to establish his autonomy as a Black writer, he concluded, “If colored people are pleased we are glad. Like Hughes, the protagonists of these movies — the journalist Isabel Wilkerson and the novelist Thelonious Ellison, known as Monk — strive to write as they please. But, by depicting their characters’ struggles, the films offer refreshing commentaries on the social construction of race and its devastating consequences for those at the bottom of the hierarchy.

Persons: ”, Langston Hughes, “, Ava DuVernay’s “, Cord Jefferson’s, Black, Hughes, Isabel Wilkerson, Thelonious Ellison, Monk —, ’ Organizations: Negro

☆ 101 years before Rosa Parks, this woman integrated New York City's public transit
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jennings sued the streetcar company and was represented in court by Chester Arthur, the future US president. 10 years later, all of New York City's public transit systems were desegregated. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Then, African Americans were only allowed on trolleys with signs reading, "Colored People Allowed in This Train." Then, after a decade of continued activism and legal battles, all of New York City's public transit services were fully desegregated in 1865.

Persons: Elizabeth Jennings, Jennings, Chester Arthur, —, Rosa Parks, Thomas L, Arthur Organizations: Service, New York City, First Colored American Congregational Church, New York Tribune, New Yorkers, Third Avenue Railroad Company, New York Daily Tribune, Avenue Railroad Locations: New York, Montgomery , Alabama, Lower Manhattan

☆ Sixty years after King's 'dream' speech, thousands gather in Washington
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Rachel Nostrant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Chi and Chiamaka Okonkwo take a selfie in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, U.S., January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson Acquire Licensing RightsAug 26 (Reuters) - Thousands of Americans will converge on Washington on Saturday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a pivotal event in the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement at which Martin Luther King Jr gave his galvanizing "I have a dream" speech. Many credit the show of strength with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other civil rights groups, this year's march takes place at the Lincoln Memorial, the backdrop to King's impassioned call for equality. Speakers at Saturday's march will include civil rights leaders such as the Reverend Al Sharpton, King's son Martin Luther King III, his granddaughter Yolanda Renee King and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Persons: Chi, Martin Luther King, Jr, Julia Nikhinson, Martin Luther King Jr, Kimberle Crenshaw, Crenshaw, Al Sharpton, King's, Martin Luther King III, Yolanda Renee King, Hakeem Jeffries, Jonathan Greenblatt, we've, Greenblatt, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, John F, Kennedy, Chanelle Johnson, Johnson, Rachel Nostrant, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Civil, National Association for, Advancement of Colored People, Lincoln Memorial, African American Policy, African American Studies, Defamation League, White, National Council of Negro, Youth, Collegiate Affairs, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Washington, Florida, Arkansas, King's

☆ Florida introduces new guidelines on teaching Black history, critics give poor grade
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

July 20 (Reuters) - Florida's board of education has approved new guidelines for teachers on how Black American history should be taught despite sharp criticism from some educators and civil rights groups. The board of education approved the new teaching guidelines for kindergarten through high school on Wednesday. Earlier this year Florida rejected a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies, saying it was littered with leftist ideology. DeSantis has battled against Disney over its criticism of a Florida law banning classroom discussion of sexuality and gender. Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas; Editing by Donna Bryson and Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Manny Diaz Jr, Diaz, William Allen, Frances Presley Rice, Allen, Presley Rice, Derrick Johnson, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Brad Brooks, Donna Bryson, Stephen Coates Organizations: Florida's, National Association for, Advancement of Colored, Florida Education Association, Republican, Disney, Thomson Locations: Orlando, Florida, Lubbock , Texas

☆ GOP congressman declares amendment has 'nothing to do' with 'colored people' on the House floor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said an amendment he'd proposed to the annual defense bill had "nothing to do" with "colored people." Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Black woman, immediately had Crane's words struck from the record. "My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people, or Black people, or anybody can serve, okay?" And when he finished his remarks, Beatty spoke up and immediately called for Crane's remarks to be struck from the record. "I'd like to be recognized to have the words 'colored people' struck from the record," said Beatty.

Persons: Eli Crane, he'd, Joyce Beatty, Crane, Beatty Organizations: Service, Republican, Democratic Rep, Caucus, Arizona Republican, Armed Forces Locations: Wall, Silicon, Joyce Beatty of Ohio, Arizona

☆ Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Knew That Trump and DeSantis Don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here, it is worth taking a brief tour of the history of birthright citizenship in the United States. Although the idea of birthright citizenship was present in English common law at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the Constitution as ratified said nothing about acquiring citizenship by either birth or naturalization. To the extent that citizenship came with rights, the scope of those rights was a question of state laws and state constitutions. But there were always proponents of a broader, more expansive and rights-bearing birthright citizenship. “Our common country is the United States,” Delany wrote.

Persons: ”, Martin Delany, ” Delany, Martha S, Jones Organizations: Colored People, Rights, Antebellum, Convention Locations: United States, Union, Antebellum America, America, Rochester , New York

☆ Despite Battle Over Politics, Florida Tourism Rolls On
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Tariro Mzezewa | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At Disney World that day, you would never have known that the League of United Latin American Citizens, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the L.G.B.T.Q. organization Equality Florida had all recently issued warnings telling people to reconsider coming to Florida because of the policies of Gov. I had traveled to Florida in the wake of the N.A.A.C.P.’s advisory to see whether the warnings had any effect. In fact, several travelers said that they visited Disney and certain parts of Florida to get away from politics. “Coming to Disney, especially, is like entering a safe zone,” ‌‌Stephanie Kate Jones, who was visiting the park from Wales in the United Kingdom, told me.

Persons: Jean Franco Rivera’s, Ahmed, Luis, ‌ Jean Franco, Jean Franco’s, Ron DeSantis, Stephanie Kate Jones, ” Organizations: Disney World, Galaxy, Disney, League of United Latin American Citizens, National Association for, Advancement of Colored People, Gov Locations: Puerto Rico, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Wales, United Kingdom

☆ How should slavery and its legacy be taught in U.S. schools?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +21 min

My father said it was indeed a general store, supplying everything from hog feed to eggs to coal for heating. On the map, I believe General’s Store is the building at the bottom and labeled S for store. Black people appeared chiefly in sketches aimed at amusing readers – or when they were accused of crimes against whites. The letter writer said a young white man in a general store had ordered the woman to put down a can of oil she was examining. I could find nothing that accounted for the death of General Bryson, let alone any item that mentioned the Bryson family.

Persons: General Bryson, General, G.G, Bryson, George T, Williamson, Bryson’s, Lucille Newton Duke, Boots ”, Barbara Newton, Bud Moon, Jim Smith, Smith, Sheriff Culberson, Moon, “, Martin Luther King Jr, Ancestry.com, Jim Crow’s, Margaret Burnham, Burnham, ”, –, ” Burnham, Isaac Gaston, Gaston –, General Bryson –, Walter White, weren’t, Patricia, Julia, I’d, LaBrenda Garrett, Nelson, Thomas Colquitt Hardman, Lamartine Hardman, Hardman, – Hardman, Harry Bryson, Harry, wasn’t, Uzell Mathis, Black, you’d, Terrie Epstein, Epstein, Chara Haeussler Bohan, Alexander Stephens, Mildred Rutherford, Bohan, ” Bohan, ” Chara Haeussler, Ron DeSantis, David Walker, DeSantis, ’ ” Bohan, Jim Crow, Carol Swain, Swain, ” Swain, Booker T, Washington . Organizations: Commerce, Herald, Calvary Baptist Church, Sanborn, Company, Library of Congress, Hurricane, Reuters, Civil, Northeastern University, National Association for, Advancement of Colored, NAACP, New York Times, Jackson County Herald, Arlington National Cemetery, Quartermaster Corps, Harmony, Black Commerce, New, Hunter College, Blacks, Georgia State University, Confederacy, Southern Poverty Law, Union, American AP, Republican, Yale, Harvard Law School, state’s Department of Education, –, demonize, Washington, Tuskegee University Locations: Jackson, Mt, Calvary, Hurricane, Hurricane Grove, Jefferson, Winder, Maxey’s, Donalsonville , Georgia, Donalsonville, Commerce, Georgia, Atlanta, Jackson County, United States, Brest, France, Arlington, Harmony Grove, Commerce Jackson County Georgia, Black, Grove, Michigan, Confederate States, America, Southern, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, demonize America, Virginia, Washington

☆ Analysis: As the nation celebrates Juneteenth, it's time to get rid of these three myths about slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

It marks the moment in June of 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free by executive decree. Though it commemorates a moment when enslaved African Americans were freed, the US is still held captive by several myths about slavery and people like Cummins. 1: African Americans were ‘freed’ after the Civil War endedThere is a popular conception that the formerly enslaved were freed after the Civil War ended. It is what historians call a “Slave Bible.” It is a copy of a Bible that was used by British missionaries to convert enslaved African Americans. Kin Cheung/APThe historical record shows that enslaved African Americans revitalized Christianity in other ways, historians say.

Persons: Tempie ” Cummins stoically, Cummins, “, ‘, ’ ” Cummins, gainst, Tempie Cummins, Congress Juneteenth, ” Abraham Lincoln, ” “ There’s, ”, Tobin Miller Shearer, ” Albert J, Raboteau, ’, Clint Smith, ” Smith, Smith, Susan Merritt, …, ” Merritt, Frederick Dielman, Douglas A, Caleb McDaniel, Leslie Wilson, Wilson, ” Wilson, Bunny, Uncle Remus, Joel C, Harris, Albert Murray, ” White, ” Murray, Leon Harris, ” Malcolm X, Nat Turner, Martin Luther King Jr, ” Harris, Kin Cheung, God, ” Raboteau, Juneteenth, White, John Blake Organizations: CNN, New, Library, Congress, African American Studies, University of Montana, New York Times, Former Confederate, Rusk, District of Columbia, Colored People, Montclair State University, Getty, Museum, Biola University Locations: Jasper , Texas, eavesdrop, Texas, Antebellum, Whites, Rusk Country , Texas, Sabine, District, Washington, America, New Jersey, Southern, West Africa, United States, Washington , DC, California, Lambeth, London, Israel

☆ How Greenwood Grew a Thriving Black Economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Victor Luckerson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

They soon transformed the space into the Dreamland Theatre. It was the first Black-owned theater in Tulsa and one of the few owned by a Black woman. Du Bois believed that enterprises like the Dreamland held the key to Black prosperity in a segregated world. Though primarily heralded as a sociologist and activist, Du Bois studied economics in graduate school in Berlin. When Du Bois strolled the streets of Greenwood in the spring of 1921, there was hardly any competition.

☆ The Elusive Quest for Black Progress in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Matthew Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Du Bois went to the Paris World’s Fair to contribute to a showcase called the Exhibit of American Negroes. Du Bois and the exhibition’s organizers wanted to present a more current image of Black strivers. As the founding editor of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Du Bois was near the peak of his influence. When he returned to Greenwood in 1926, Du Bois found that the massacre had not dimmed the community’s spirit. But he was beginning to confront the limits of Black progress, starting to ask questions that would lead to his eventual break with the N.A.A.C.P.

☆ N.A.A.C.P. Issues Florida Travel Advisory, Joining Latino and L.G.B.T.Q. Groups
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Saturday issued a travel advisory for Florida, saying that under Gov. Ron DeSantis the state has become “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and L.G.B.T.Q.+ individuals.”The N.A.A.C.P. joins the League of United Latin American Citizens, a civil rights organization that issued a Florida travel warning on Wednesday, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group that issued one last month. The N.A.A.C.P.’s travel advisory does not explicitly recommend against travel to Florida. said in a statement on Saturday that the travel advisory was in “direct response to Gov.

☆ Fact Check-Screenshot of article headline about ‘racist Ukrainian refugee sex workers’ is digitally altered
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A screenshot of what appears to be a news article about racism among Ukrainian refugee sex workers has been digitally altered and shared on social media. The screenshot also includes an article date of Sept. 24, 2022, and a date for the accompanying photo in the photo caption of Sept. 23, 2022. Reuters did, however, find an authentic Vision Times article which used the same photo as seen in the screenshot. The authentic article is headlined “Ukraine War Puts Refugee Women at Risk of Human Trafficking, Sex Predators," and can be viewed on the outlet’s website (here). Moreover, the authentic article credits Neil Campbell and has a similar byline description to the one in the screenshot.

Elon Musk's Twitter account displayed on a mobile with Elon Musk in the background are seen in this illustration. Leaders of major civil rights groups are denying accusations made by Elon Musk, who said they broke an agreement with him by encouraging companies to halt advertising on Twitter . "The main person responsible for the Twitter advertiser exodus is Elon Musk. "We're basically asking Elon Musk, who we all know is a rather creative person, to take leadership in this area," Cooper said. Under Musk's leadership, Twitter rolled out and promptly rolled back a Twitter Blue Verified subscription service, after users who purchased the badges were able to impersonate celebrities, politicians and brands.

☆ Republican senators vote to block a bill requiring dark-money groups to disclose their donors: 'I don't want to see them doxxed'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Democrats teed up a procedural vote Thursday on a bill to disclose dark-money groups' donors. Super PACs, on the other hand, are subject to federal campaign finance disclosure laws, but their funding often comes from dark money groups. "Unfortunately, the Republican party has become as dependent on dark money as a deep-sea diver is on his air hose," said Whitehouse. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesA bipartisan problemSince the Citizens United ruling 12 years ago, dark money spending has exploded in elections. Nonprofits have poured around $2 billion into elections, most of which can be linked to dark money groups, OpenSecrets found.

☆ Beyonce a câştigat cele mai multe trofee din istoria galei NAACP Image Awards
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: nytimes.comBeyonce a câştigat cele mai multe trofee din istoria galei NAACP Image AwardsLa câteva săptămâni după ce a făcut istorie la premiile Grammy, cu un record de 28 de trofee, Beyonce a fost recompensată cu patru premii în cadrul galei National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards, care a avut loc în weekend, în categoriile dedicate muzicii, informează DPA. Cu un total de 22 de trofee obţinute de-a lungul timpului, Beyonce este cel mai premiat artist din istoria NAACP Image Awards. LeBron James a fost recompensat cu President's Award pentru activitatea sa extra-sportivă, care include finanţarea unei şcoli publice, ''I Promise school''. Girată de organizaţia americană pentru drepturi civile National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, The Image Awards este o gală anuală de premiere, care recompensează performanţe deosebite în film, televiziune, muzică şi literatură realizate de persoane de culoare. Creată în 1967 pentru a încuraja o participare mai largă a persoanelor de culoare în lumea televiziunii, filmului şi muzicii, Image Awards a devenit o ceremonie de premiere televizată în 1986, când a fost difuzată pentru prima dată de NBC.

Persons: Beyonce, Derrick Johnson, Megan Thee, Anthony Anderson, Chadwick, Viola Davis, James Organizations: National, Viola, National Association, Image, NBC

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