Booker’s bill proposed the establishment of a new agency within the USDA to give land grants to Black farmers and a new lending program designed specifically for Black farmers and ranchers who were routinely denied funding from USDA programs.
“Overtly discriminatory and unjust federal policy has robbed Black families in the United States of the ability to build and pass on intergenerational wealth,” Sen. Booker said.
While the legislation brings some tangible moves toward relief and reconciliation for past discrimination, some Black farmers are wary of Biden’s nomination of
Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Department of Agriculture. Vilsack, who served under former President
On Thursday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee gathered at Texas Southern University to celebrate the launch of the school’s new coronavirus vaccine clinic. The vaccination center on TSU’s campus is being managed by St. Luke’s hospital with the hope that it’ll become a local leader for getting vaccines to Houstonians of color.
Thursday’s event came after a hectic Tuesday for the new clinic, which was bombarded with eager Houstonians desperately searching for vaccine shots after Democratic State Sen. Borris Miles incorrectly tweeted out that no appointments were needed for the clinic and that there was no age requirement to get a free dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
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Billie Holiday s God Bless the Child Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful Over the Rainbow
Billie Holiday s God Bless the Child Gave Blacks Their Own Mournful But Hopeful Over the Rainbow
A columnist writes that God Bless the Child is at least as historically important as Strange Fruit to the Black community, with its bracing mixture of hard-scrabble practicality and hope.
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From Sunday sermon to the strip club: The duality of Mistah F.A.B.
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Dope Era clothing shop in Oakland, founded by rapper Mistah F.A.B. in 2011.Patricia Chang/Special to SFGATE
The back office of the Dope Era clothing store in Oakland is like a teenager’s dream, filled with NBA Jam and Street Fighter II arcade machines and a classic NES piled underneath clutter that looks like homework the dog ate. It seems like a place that’s more play than work, and to watch Mistah F.A.B.’s wildly popular Instagram videos featuring him goofing off with his uncle Ernest “Unc” Holloway, you might think that’s the case.
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Vancouver, British Columbia (Newsfile Corp. - February 12, 2021) -
Black Mountain Gold USA Corp. (BMG: TSXV) ( BMG or the Company ) announced on January 19, 2021 that it was engaging in a non-brokered private placement (the Private Placement ) of 10,000,000 units at a price of CDN $0.40 per unit, for gross proceeds of CDN $4,000,000. On January 22, 2021 the Company announced that, as a result of strong investor interest, the Company was increasing the Private Placement to 12,500,000 units (the Units ) at a price of CDN$0.40 per Unit for proceeds of CDN$5,000,000.
The Company wishes to announce that it has closed the Private Placement of the 12,500,000 Units for proceeds of CDN$5,000,000