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Minorities need COVID vaccine, Huntsville faith leaders say as they get shots
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Oscar Montgomery, pastor at Union Hill Primitive Baptist Church in Huntsville, gets the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 27, 2021. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com)
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Updated 10:45 p.m.: The city of Huntsville, in a comment on its Facebook post about the event, defended criticism for the community leaders who received the shots without meeting criteria for those currently eligible under Alabama Department of Public Health guidelines.
“Today’s media event was a collaboration between the Department of Public Health and the Huntsville-area COVID-19 Leadership Team to demonstrate to the public, and particularly our minority community, that the vaccine is safe,” the city’s comment said in part. “The team waited until after healthcare and frontline personnel were vaccinated and the state was well into phase 1B for essential workers b
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Legacy Collective, a giving community dedicated to funding nonprofits addressing systemic issues with sustainable, innovative solutions, today announces its partnership with Thrivent and Notley to launch the first Social Enterprise Pitch-Off. Students in the School of Business and Technology s Biz Ready Program at Huston-Tillotson University, Austin s only Historical Black College and University, will be challenged to create a nonprofit solution to meet a need in the community. The winning team will receive $15,000 donated by Thrivent and Legacy Collective to launch the nonprofit or donate it to a nonprofit in their community meeting a similar need.
Local members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. celebrate fellow sister, Vice President Harris Share Updated: 5:32 PM CST Jan 20, 2021 Share Updated: 5:32 PM CST Jan 20, 2021
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Show Transcript THIS A BARRIER BREAKING MOMENT. KETV NEWSWATCH 7’S DALAUN DILLARD JOINING US LIVE WITH A LOCAL CHAPTER’S RESPONSE. DALAUN: THIS VICE PRESIDENT EMBODIES A NUMBER OF FIRSTS. THE FIRST WOMAN, BLACK, SOUTH ASIAN, AND HISTORIC BLACK UNIVERSITY GRAD TO SERVE AS V. HER SORORITY SISTERS CALL HER AN INSPIRATION. MEMBERS OF OMAHA’S GRADUATE CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALP DRAPED IN PINK AND GREEN, AND SPORTING THEIR PEARLS, CELEBRATING THEIR SORORITY SISTER TURNED VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS. THERE’S MANY OF US WHO WOULD’VE LOVED TO BE IN D.C. TODAY, BUT WE’RE CELEBRATING THE BEST WAY WE CAN THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. DALAUN: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA IS THE NATION’S OLDEST BLACK SORORITY. HARRIS JOINED BACK IN THE 1980S AS AN UNDERGRAD AT HOWARD UNIVERS
By Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan,
Staff Writer,
The new look of the White House
President Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th president of the United States of America Wednesday, January 20, and Kamala Harris was sworn in as the 49th vice-president of the United states of America, becoming the first woman to occupy that seat. For the first time in our nation’s history, we have a second gentleman, the husband of Vice-President Harris, Douglas Emhoff.
In his inauguration speech, President Biden promises to be the president for all Americans. “Unity is the path forward,” Biden said. “I will be a president for all Americans;” a different tone and a different story from the previous administration. “I will work just as hard for those who didn’t support me.”