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Second Chance Job Fair
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6 takeaways from the New York Times article about declining enrollment levels for Black men, especially at HBCUs
On March 30, the New York Times dropped a story titled, “At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing,” which discusses a pretty commonly understood occurrence on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): there are significantly more Black women enrolled than Black men. At least it’s understood for those of us who attended HBCUs; I suppose this information could be brand new for both Black people who don’t attend HBCUs and, well, everybody else. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Booker breaks Senate floor speech record held by segregationist who opposed Black civil rights
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke the record for the longest speech given on the Senate floor on Tuesday as he protested the first 71 days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Booker officially broke the record at 7:19 p.m. Ironically, Booker surpassed the previous record — 24 hours and 18 minutes — held by Sen. Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who used the Senate procedure known as a filibuster in an effort to block the passage of landmark civil rights legislation for Black Americans. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Cory Booker undergos hours-long Senate speech in protest of Trump actions
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., launched a marathon speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Monday evening in protest of several actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration, vowing to go for hours into the night. As of Tuesday morning, Booker has stood on the Senate floor for 15 hours. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
White House Correspondents’ Association cancels Amber Ruffin performance at dinner
Comedian Amber Ruffin will no longer serve as headline performer at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced on Saturday.
He continued, “At this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists.” Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”
But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined slavery into the U.S. Constitution and declared enslaved persons as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of the Census. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Tenn. State Rep. Justin Pearson’s confrontation with Republican over gun violence gets personal: ‘Learn to shut up!’
Emotions were high at the Tennessee State Capitol on Wednesday as State Rep. Justin J. Pearson confronted a Republican colleague during a legislative hearing on gun control.
Pearson, a longtime gun reform advocate who, along with fellow Rep. Justin Jones, was infamously expelled by Republicans for protesting against gun violence on the House floor, returned to the capitol building after losing his brother to gun suicide to yet again advocate for his legislation to end permitless-carry gun laws in Tennessee. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Founders of Black-owned brands adapt their hopes and business plans for a post-DEI era
The co-founders of a company that makes lip products for darker skin tones no longer hope to get their line into Target. A brother and sister who make jigsaw puzzles celebrating Black subjects wonder if they need to offer “neutral” images like landscapes to keep growing. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Potential Black candidates to fill Texas’ 18th Congressional District after deaths of Reps. Turner, Jackson Lee
Texas’ 18th Congressional District is currently without representation following the consecutive deaths of two former U.S. representatives in less than a year. Former U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, 70, died after a medical emergency on March 5, serving only two months in office after succeeding longtime Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who died of pancreatic cancer on July 19, 2024. Read more at www.thegrio.com.
Florida considers loosening child labor laws to fill vacancies due to crackdown on undocumented workers
Florida is looking to children as young as 14 to fill the vacancies left by the state’s crackdown on employers who hired undocumented workers. According to CNN, in a bill recently advanced through the Florida Senate’s Commerce and Tourism Committee, children as young as 14 years old would be able to work overnight shifts—even on school nights. Under the state’s current law, children are not allowed to work before 630 a.m. or past 11 p.m.; homeschooled 16- and 17-year-olds are allowed to work any hour of the day. Read more at www.thegrio.com.