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Black Enterprise Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College are among the many Atlanta universities this upcoming fall semester that will require students, faculty members, and staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19. On April 19, at the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), where all the schools received representation, made the announcement that employees and students need to be vaccinated, Atlanta’s WAGA-TV reported. Those who need two or more shots need to verify that they have completed their vaccination. One-shot vaccine recipients only need to show that the...

Atlanta universities, including HBCUs, will require students, faculty members, and staff to be vaccinated for the fall semester.

Learning from Lincoln Sean Wilentz is a historian of the leftist persuasion and also a principled opponent of the New York Times’s 1619 Project errors, distortions, and lies (my word, not his), now adopted as the orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. The problem is “A matter of facts,” he wrote in The Atlantic. He also signed off on the letter prominent historians sent to the Times challenging the project as ideological rather than historical. Coincidentally with my own comments this week on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Professor Wilentz takes up Lincoln’s case in his New Yor...

Print Black students in Los Angeles County continue to face a multitude of barriers to an equitable education, including concentrated poverty, high suspension rates and housing insecurity, a UCLA report released Wednesday found. Researchers focused on 14 school districts in the county that serve at least 800 Black students to understand how various factors are leaving behind Black children, particularly those considered vulnerable. The report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools builds on a previous study that found schools serving Black students lacked critical resources —...

ROCKFORD — Allen Chapel A.M.E Church will host a one-day vaccination event on Monday for Illinoisans.  With the help of the Illinois National Guard, the church located at 3000 Rural St. aims to vaccinate approximately 500 people with the Johnson & Johnson one-shot coronavirus vaccine.  Shots will be given by appointment only and are open to anyone who lives in the state of Illinois, Pastor Charlene Bulls-Mills said. Individuals can register online with the Illinois Department of Public Health and will be provided with a vaccination card after receiving their shot. If you lack internet ...