Adirondack Diversity Initiative seeks more funding for agenda
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1of3Nicole Hylton-Patterson began work in December as director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative. (Photo courtesy Adirondack North Country Association)Adirondack North Country AssociationShow MoreShow Less
2of3Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson poses for a photo in her Saranac Lake, N..Y., office on Dec. 10, 2019. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports that Hylton-Patterson is moving out of Saranac Lake, citing racist graffiti on a railroad bridge that made her feel unsafe. She moved to Saranac Lake from the Bronx borough of New York in December 2019, to take the new position of director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, coalition of groups seeking to make the Adirondacks more welcoming and inclusive to all New Yorkers.Griffin Kelly/APShow MoreShow Less
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Mariah Carey, Stacey Abrams All In, George C. Wolfe and Netflix Named 2021 AAFCA Special Achievement Honorees
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The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has selected Mariah Carey, George C. Wolfe, Stacey Abrams’s “All In” and Netflix as its special achievement award honorees for the 12th annual AAFCA Awards.
Carey will receive the Innovator Award, while Wolfe earns the Salute to Excellence. Netflix is the Cinema Vanguard recipient, while the Stanley Kramer Award for Social Justice goes to “All In: The Fight for Democracy” with Stacey Abrams and filmmakers Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus.
California aims to more than double vaccination rate in new partnership with Blue Shield
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Large tents are set up for the drive-through portion of the mass vaccination site at the Oakland Coliseum on Friday.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Workers build a mass vaccination site Friday at the Oakland Coliseum. The site opens Tuesday, a few days after S.F. announced it is temporarily closing two clinics over supply problems.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
California aims to vaccinate up to 3 million people a week by March 1 more than double its current rate under a distribution contract with Blue Shield that took effect Monday. The goal was set even as counties continued to face frustrating supply problems.
Facebook Launches Black Creator Accelerator Program We the Culture
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Facebook has launched We the Culture, a new content initiative created and managed by a team of Black employees that is investing in and amplifying content from Black creators.
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The initiative also incorporates programming for Facebook Watch through partnerships with production companies focused on Black creatives, and among the first shows are “Chop It Up” with Storm Reid, “Asking for a Friend” with Vanessa Simmons, and “Mastery of Comedy” with Angela Yee.
We the Culture grew out of Facebook’s announcement last summer following the murder of George Floyd that it would invest $200 million to support Black-owned businesses and organizations, including $25 million earmarked for Black content creators.