The future is education for our kids to start early. Let them know about Blacks who made history and did it from their own belief in themselves, and belief in we got to make a change," Norman C. Francis said.
By Alabama Newscenter Staff
Hope Enterprise Corp., with a $130 million commitment from Goldman Sachs, has partnered with seven cities and nine historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the South to launch the Deep South Economic Mobility Collaborative (DSEMC).
Birmingham, Montgomery and their respective HBCUs, Miles College and Alabama State University, are taking part in the collaborative, announced this week, which was formed to stabilize and strengthen businesses and communities devastated by the economic crisis. DSEMC invests in the power of small businesses and entrepreneurs in the Deep South, particularly those from underserved and under-resourced communities.
DSEMC taps the expertise and capabilities of Hope Enterprise Corp., Goldman Sachs, institutions of higher learning and cities to provide access to financing, business education classes and business support services, leveraging the private, public and nonprofit sectors. This comprehensive effort
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Liberal NBCUniversal News Group has decided to give back by launching an initiative it said would address systemic racism and inequality by you guessed it singling out individuals based on race and other identity groups.
Leftist cable communications company Comcast put out a press release Jan. 14, 2021 discussing which “underrepresented groups” are the priority for NBCU News Group’s new “multiplatform journalism training and development program.” In the press release, Comcast announced that the new initiative, called NBCU Academy, would be part of the “multi-year $100 million commitment to help address systemic racism and inequality” that was announced back in June 2020. Another part of the leftist outfits plan included announcing its Fifty Percent Challenge Initiative, announced in July 2020. The initiative challenged NBCU to become 50 percent people of color and 50 percent women.
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Faith Dawson
Let s consider for a minute physicians, patients and race. Evidence suggests that when doctors and patients share the same race or ethnicity, it improves time spent together, medication adherence and other factors. It can also dramatically affect outcomes of birth to Black mothers. Now, you two are at the beginning of your medical training, how has being a Black medical student influenced your understanding of the needs of the community?
Sydney Labat
I think that s that s probably a multifaceted question. From the standpoint of being a student and being in the hospital and interacting directly with patients, you can definitely see the change in a patient’s attitude, the change in the way a patient feels when the provider team walks in the room, they see someone who looks like them. Particularly I can talk about one experience in which I was on one of my rotations and I had a patient who ended up trusting me very much and, and when I had a day off, my resident, or my