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Though Black faculty members have been part of the Penn State community for over 60 years, “the challenges facing Black faculty are no less formidable” in 2021, according to the second “More Rivers To Cross” report. As a follow-up to the first report published in January 2020, biobehavioral health professor Gary King and an independent group of Black faculty members published part two of “More Rivers To Cross” on March 25. The 2020 report, which was 93 pages long, examined issues of representation at Penn State and the “racially biased” responses from s...

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For weeks, it seemed like the phones at Interfaith Outreach Association would not stop ringing. Since late June, the Lynchburg-based nonprofit has served as the local state-designated grantee tasked with helping distribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in housing assistance to residents who have lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic. Interfaith has been flooded with calls from residents late on rent who are desperate to stay in their homes during the worst public health crisis in a century, according to Shawne Farmer, the association’s longtime director. “Our lines stayed s...