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Six Michigan nonprofits, many dedicated to working with communities of color or in the arts, got a substantial boost Tuesday thanks to philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott.
Known for donating billions of dollars to nonprofits in the last two years, Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, on Tuesday announced another round of $2.6 billion in gifts to 286 organizations. In Michigan, ACCESS, Allied Media Projects, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Mosaic Youth Theatre, Motown Museum and the Sphinx Organization all received donations.
The Motown Museum s $5 million gift from Scott is one of the largest donations it has received during a $25 million fundraising campaign.
Senator Luján, Senator Scott Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Eliminate Drunk Driving
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MADD calls for passage of RIDE Act to require lifesaving technology in all new cars
The RIDE Act holds the potential to eliminate drunk driving forever and it is one of the most important initiatives in MADD’s 40-year history. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) April 22, 2021 New bipartisan legislation introduced today by Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) and Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) would ultimately mandate drunk driving prevention technology as standard equipment in all new vehicles. The Reduce Impaired Driving for Everyone (RIDE) Act would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to issue a rulemaking to make this lifesaving technology available in all new passenger vehicles.
Rana Abbas Taylor let more than 100 people know Thursday that what happened to her sister, brother-in-law and their three children in a drunken driving wreck is not OK.”
The fatal head-on collision happened two years ago in the early morning hours of Jan. 6, 2019, along Interstate 75 in Lexington, Kentucky.
Time cannot heal all wounds, and Abbas Taylor’s voice wobbled and broke as she relived the tragedy on Zoom.
“In a split second, we lost a significant unit of our family,” the Northville woman said, “because a drunk driver was able to get into a vehicle, take that vehicle on the wrong side of the same freeway my family was driving on and collide with them head on, killing every single one of them instantly.”