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5W Public Relations Announces 2020 Employee Match Program and Charitable Donations News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- 5W Public Relations, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announces today that as an agency, they have donated 6-figures in annual donations, across 43 nonprofit organizations in 2020. 5WPR employee donations were matched dollar-for-dollar by the agencys employee matching program. "Philanthropy i...

SLANG Worldwide Inc.: SLANG Worldwide Partners with Flower by Edie Parker to Manufacture and Distribute Cannabis Products SLANG Worldwide Inc. ( SLANG" or the " Company"), a leading global cannabis consumer packaged goods (CPG) company with a diversified portfolio of popular brands, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership to manufacture and distribute cannabis products for Flower by Edie Parker. Founded in 2010 by Brett Heyman, Edie Parker gained global recognition fo...

I know the justice system from a few perspectives. My first contact came when I spent half my life dependent on heroin, cocaine and prescription pills. I cycled through Cook County Jail more than a dozen times until a drug-treatment court helped me pave a path to sobriety that reached a five-year anniversary this month. Opinion With stability and structure, I found a job providing employment services to people with criminal records like me. Today, I’m a regional director for The Bail Project...

The Bail Project. Missed it? Just go to archive.wslr.org and search for “Peace & Justice.” Their website tells us this: On any given day, nearly half a million people languish in jail cells across America, waiting for their criminal cases to move forward and severed from their lives and communities even though they have not been convicted of a crime. People in pretrial detention now make up more than two-thirds of America’s jail population. 2 They are presumed innocent under the law, yet ...

by Matt Baume • Dec 17, 2020 at 12:30 pm MacNcheeseP1z Earlier this year, MacNcheeseP1z tried livestreaming a movie-watch party via Kast for the first time, and she was a bundle of nerves. “I’m trying something new—is it going to be perceived well, wondering if I’m going to be in there by myself,” she recalls worrying. “Am I going to be a loser watching a movie online by myself?” But then viewers started trickling in—dozens of friends an...

COVID-19 ripped through California’s oldest prison, San Quentin, after 121 men were transferred from the California Institution for Men in Chino in May. The outbreak became the deadliest in a California prison, leading to more than 2,200 infections and at least 28 deaths. Graphic artist, comic book creator and self-described illustrative journalist Orlando Smith documented the terror that he and other inmates experienced during the outbreak, which collided with last summer’s uprisings. Sm...

Share this article CHICAGO, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --  Today, Lever for Change announced premier technology workforce development organization Per Scholas as the recipient of the $10 million Economic Opportunity Challenge. Per Scholas advances economic equity through rigorous, tuition-free training for careers in IT and connects skilled talent from underserved communities to leading businesses. The "Proven Pathways to Transformative Careers in Tech" project was selected from a pool of 160...

Nearly 50-percent of Airway Heights Corrections Center inmates infected with COVID-19 December 10, 2020 7:29 PM Maher Kawash Updated: SPOKANE, Wash.– The Washington Department of Corrections’ biggest fear is now a reality as COVID-19 overtakes some jail systems. The biggest outbreak among Washington’s prisons is right in Spokane County, at the Airway Heights Corrections Center. As of Thursday, 779 inmates and 53 staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, an...

John Legend has won the United Nations Human Rights' High Note Global Prize for his work as a musician and activist.