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Good Black News January 13, 2021 Today, Apple announced a set of major new projects as part of its $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI) to help dismantle systemic barriers to opportunity and combat injustices faced by communities of color. These efforts include the Propel Center, a first-of-its-kind global innovation and learning hub for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs);…

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Across the globe and right here at home, millions of people are being exploited for profit. Human trafficking, also known as modern slavery, affected some 24.9 million people in 2016 (the most recent year for which we have comprehensive data) and is estimated to be one of the most profitable forms of transnational crime. The 2009 UCC Synod…

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By JAY REEVES, LISA MASCARO and CALVIN WOODWARD | The Associated Press January 11, 2021 at 7:15 a.m. | UPDATED: January 11, 2021 at 8:06 a.m. WASHINGTON  — Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump’s name, the Capitol’s attackers pinned a bloodied police officer in a doorway, his twisted face and screams captured on video. They mortally wounded another…

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Journalist and political commentator Abby Phillip will become the anchor of CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday” from 8-9 a.m. ET on Sundays, beginning January 24th. Harvard grad Phillip has also been named the network’s senior political correspondent. Read more HERE.

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By Sarra Sedghi  The grocery store rotisserie chicken is queen in terms of convenience. The cooked bird is cheaper than a whole raw chicken and elevates the simplest meals. Most importantly, it gets the job done. Maybe it’ll feed your family. Maybe you’ll eat the entire thing yourself, sans silverware, over a period of days. Either…

Read More We Tried Rotisserie Chickens From 6 Grocery Stores—Here’s Our Favorite

By Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which bases its analysis on the latest American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Then we break down the same…

Read More Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race