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A state grant program meant to help small businesses and nonprofits didn’t reach all applicants equally. On average, Black business owners received less than half as much funding as white entrepreneurs from Rebuild VA, the state’s pandemic grant program, through January 2021.

WASHINGTON (September 28, 2021)—World Resources Institute (WRI) has launched a new high-level advisory council for its Electric School Bus (ESB) Initiative, which aims to help electrify the nation’s 480,000 school buses by 2030. The advisory council is comprised of leaders from across the United States who will advise the project on strategic priorities, serve as ambassadors to the public and play an important role in advancing the project’s equity-centered approach.

Homeownership initiatives aim to help Black Americans generate wealth, but rising property values could block others from getting in.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Charles Robinson, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's top academic and student affairs administrator, has been named interim chancellor effective Aug. 16.

Asking for millions of people facing homelessness. joining me now is andre perry, author of "know your price," and diane yentil, president and ceo of the national housing coalition. diana, i want to start with you, because understand the fear of not being table to pay your rent and the fear of facing this deadline. i want you to paint the picture for us. what happens as we keep kicking this can down the road. what happens in october when this moratorium expires again? >> joe biden extending the ...

Emergency rental assistance out to the tenants and landlords who need it, to keep tenants stably housed. there are sufficient resources to cover all of the arrears that renters crewaccrued during the pandemic, but the money is getting out much too slowly. so now states and localities have to do more and better and faster to get this money to tenants. two months may not be enough time and we may not even have two months if the courts strike the eviction moratorium down before then. >> so you talk...

Just not terrible. we could worsen the health crisis and the economy if we dont find a solution. >> lets talk about the landlord side of this. because when people close their eyes and they think landlord, they think its some big business that has all sorts of money, but thats not necessarily the case. you are suing the government for $26 billion in rent debt. you work with landlords day in and day out. what has the pandemic been like for them? >> the pandemic has been stressful, regardless of if...

The federal eviction freeze expired over the weekend after the supreme court said the cdc everstepped its authority in issuing the ban, saying it required an act of congress. the house left d.c. for seven weeks and now speaker nancy pelosi is pointing the finger at the white house urging them to extend it. all of this comes with a tsunami of debt set to hit homeowners that are no longer protected by the foreclosure freeze. and now a group of landlords is suing the government for lost rent. joini...

Black lawmaker hopes highway project can right an old wrong By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press Published: July 22, 2021, 2:28pm Share: 3 Photos Tennessee State Rep. Harold Love, Jr. stands on an overpass over I-40, Monday, July, 19, 2021, near the site of his familys former home on the north side of Nashville, Tenn. Love Jr.s father, a Nashville city councilman, was forced to sell his home near here to make way for the highway, but put up a fight in the 1960s against the ...

Darnella Frazier, the 17-year-old who happened to be at the scene of George Floyd’s murder last year, captured with her smartphone the police brutality that shocked America and energized the Black Lives Matter movement for social justice. Darnella...