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By Barrington M. Salmon (BlackPressUSA/NNPA Newswire Contributor)
This is the first article in a series focused on the health effects associated with gentrification in Washington, D.C. This series is supported through a journalism fellowship with the Center for Health Journalism at the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California.
By many measures, the revitalization of neighborhoods across Washington, D.C. has been a windfall for the city. Fueled by higher tax reve...

Tourist brochures and adverts paint a lush picture of Jamaica, a 4,411 square-mile “patch of land” that is sun-kissed beaches, blue skies, puffy clouds, cool breezes and pastel sunsets.
But Jamaica is much more than the backdrop of a tourist playground. Move beyond the trendy tourist spots, Jamaicans say, and you’ll find the real treasure of these islands: 2.9 million resilient men and women making their way in the real world.
Simmering below the veneer of relative calm are a mélange of seemi...

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Marjorie Anne Jones recalls arriving in the United Kingdom on Nov. 4, 1965 after traveling from Jamaica with relatives. One recollection that is still crystal clear, she said, was the range and intensity of the hardships her family endured.
There was the bitingly cold weather, frigid winters, the dank and grim landscape of Manchester and then there was the chilly reception, undisguised racism and the hostility of the Whites around them. Mrs. Jones’ mother,...

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Americans who fall outside of the categories of rich or wealthy are entangled, trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, lack and poverty. Despite working hard, and ‘doing the right thing,’ economic and financial security continues to elude millions of Americans who are nominally considered middle class.
The United Way released recent data offering a troubling snapshot of where the United States stands since the 2008 recession ended. The data compiled over a 10-...

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Remembering a ‘radical, peace-loving warrior,’and staying in the fi ght for justice and equality
Since his assassination on the evening of April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s name and legacy has grown in mythic proportions. Yet a lot of the truth he represents is now shrouded in fable.
Every year on his birthday, Jan. 15, Americans pause to honor a man lauded among other things, as a symbol of peace, a social justice warrior and the instr...

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The explosion of digital technology in the U.S. and around the world is commonly described as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But civil rights advocates like Marc Morial, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Black legislators in the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are again raising fears that in the midst of this tech boom, Silicon Valley’s stubborn resistance to diversity is barring Black Americans from enjoying the jobs, salaries and other benefits that tech jo...

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On occasion, overt racists like Roseanne Barr get punished following public outrage and pay a cost for their ignorance. Or you will see an incident such as the one that occurred at a Philadelphia Starbucks when two innocent Black men were arrested while waiting for a colleague without buying something. Corporate leadership responded by firing the employee who called the cops and closed all 8,000 U.S. coffee shops for a half-day race workshop for 175,000 em...

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‘Lethal force should be an absolute last resort, not a first option’
The city of Pittsburgh is on edge and boiling hot after an East Pittsburgh Police officer with a checkered past shot and killed an unarmed high school student after police stopped the vehicle the young man was in as a part of an investigation into an earlier shooting.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said officers found two firearms on the floor of the car. He adde...

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Silent no more - A Black athlete speaks up, forces a look at reality of race in America
“I’m not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
This bold declaration by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernic...