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From a desert to an oasis: Penn engages in ambitious greening effort in the Sahel Students from the Weitzman School of Design journeyed to Senegal to help with a massive ecological and infrastructural greening effort as part of their coursework. The Dakar Greenbelt aims to combat desertification and promote sustainable urban growth. Source link

Washington • Burgess Owens’ conversion to the Republican Party came after playing a decade of professional football, watching the rise of Ronald Reagan and yearning to start his own business.“I’ve always been a conservative, and that’s what I realized,” says Owens. “I grew up conservative, but I was voting as a Democrat because we would talk [about how] that was the party in our favor.”He left the NFL as a “cocky liberal,” but years later, he says, “I found myself as a very humbled and appreciative conservative.”The 68-year-old Owens is now the Republican nominee in the 4th Congressional District of…

Amna Nawaz: And now to a story from our student reporters.Last year, Congress passed a measure to find and protect historic Black cemeteries nationwide, but money to actually do the work hasn’t been allocated. Some aren’t waiting for lawmakers to act. Earlier this summer, dozens of people came together to help preserve a pair of cemeteries in Washington, D.C.From the “News Hour”‘s Student Reporting Labs journalism training program, Claire Baek reports.This is where people are laid to rest, and its sacred space. Death reflects life. And the treatment of Black people in life is reflective of treatment of Black people…

(franckreporter; South_agency; milanvirijevic via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Black Americans’ experiences, habits and attitudes around news and information. The main source of data for this study is a Center survey of 4,742 U.S. adults who identify as Black. Black adults include those who say their race is Black alone and non-Hispanic, Black and at least one other race and non-Hispanic, or Black and Hispanic. The survey was conducted online from Feb. 22 to March 5, 2023, among a sample of U.S. Black adults. This sample included 1,745 respondents from Pew Research Center’s American Trends…

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This story is published in collaboration with Grist. In 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, a man who is believed to be the first African-American independent record producer opened up a blues and gospel record store called Joe’s Record Shop. The store was lined with vinyl records and music posters, with a big, upright piano in the back. Joe Von Battle started the business by selling records from his personal collection. Later, he remodeled the store to include a recording studio. His shop was a focal point for the music scene on Hastings Street — the center of Black business and entertainment…

Soul Bowl Credit: Ashley Lauren/MSR News Dynamic duo Gerard and Britney Klass are the owners of Soul Bowl, a fresh concept serving a fusion of soul food, Caribbean cuisine and BBQ. It was established in 2017.   Soul Bowl’s pop-up cafe re-emerged in 2018 at Breaking Bread Cafe located in North Minneapolis. Business quickly grew and expanded. As a result of rapid success, in March they chose to become a food vendor at Target Field. They can be found in section 120.  Recently, on Sept. 6, a second location was launched at Graze Provisions + Libations in North Loop. The new venue…

In the more than a decade since Alabama regulators allowed a landfill to take in tons of waste from coal-burning power plants around the US, neighbors in the majority-Black community of Uniontown frequently complain of thick air so pungent it makes their eyes burn.FloodlightOn some days, it can look like an eerily white Christmas in a place that rarely sees snow.“When the wind blows, all the trees in the area are totally gray and white,” said Ben Eaton, a Uniontown commissioner and president of Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, a local group that is pushing to shutter…

Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t neighbours – they don’t go to the same schools, they don’t shop at the same stores, and they don’t always have access to the same services. In 2016 the issue of race will remain high on the agenda in the United States. The police killings of unarmed black men and women over the past few years reignited a debate over race relations in America, and the reverberations will be felt in the upcoming presidential election…

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A rural Nevada sheriff is investigating a potential hate crime after a Black man who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure recorded a confrontation with another man he said directed a racial slur at him and said “they have a hanging tree” for people like him. “I’m still shaking every time I think about it,” Ricky Johnson told The Associated Press by phone Monday as he boarded a plane in northern Nevada back to his home in Houston, Texas. Johnson posted part of the video of the Aug. 2 incident…