October 2020

BeyGOOD & NAACP Grants for Black-Owned Businesses Amid COVID-19 BeyGOOD is on a mission to spread hope. Beyonce and her philanthropic company, BeyGOOD Foundation, and the NAACP have joined together to introduce The Black-Owned Small Business Impact Fund, offering $10,000 grants. The goal is to provide a lifeline for small businesses at the epicenter of…

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Americans have endured economic crises before but none quite like this one. To capture the depths of the suffering, The New York Times teamed up with 11 local news organizations across the country to document the lives of a dozen Americans who found themselves out of work. Read the full special report here. From “The Week” Pandemic poverty:…

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HARTFORD, CT – The University of Connecticut will pay $249,539 to resolve alleged pay discrimination at its Storrs, Connecticut, campus following a routine compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). OFCCP found that the public university and federal contractor discriminated against five female employees in Specialist IA and Specialist…

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By Meera S. Nair, Crimson Staff Writer October 7, 2020 Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, Class of 1905, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard. Until now, the Holmes Society bore the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Class of 1829,…

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Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day when news of the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery reached Texas via a Union Army general Gordon Granger, setting off celebrations among the newly freed. It became an official Virginia state holiday on October 13, 2020. As far as I’ve been able to find, Virginia and…

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