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Melanie March Leehy Credit: Photo by Chris Juhn A place for coffee, community, and youth development In 1990, Melanie March Leehy, whose Christian faith has always guided her community work, was inspired to launch a nonprofit called The Dwelling. “It was a coffeehouse that mentored urban youth and gave them a place to be loved and to call home,” says Leehy, who is almost 60 now, recalling her first coffee shop.  “It was in Anoka, of all places. We averaged 150 kids every Friday and Saturday night, giving them a place to do their art, to do their music, and…

by Mary Spiller November 30, 2024 The Brown Mamas Marketplace will take place on Small Business Saturday and feature local vendors from the Pittsburgh area. Muffy Mendoza, founder of Brown Mamas Inc., recently spoke to Trib Live about the next iteration of the Brown Mamas Marketplace, which will take place on Nov. 30. The marketplace will center around Black women-owned businesses on Small Business Saturday and will feature vendors and educational opportunities for those in attendance. Mendoza told the outlet that she intentionally scheduled the event for Small Business Saturday because she wanted it to be an opportunity for Pittsburgh-based…

“Unequal” is a multipart series highlighting the work of Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, and researchers on issues of race and inequality across the U.S. The first part explores the experience of people of color with the criminal justice legal system in America. It seems there’s no end to them. They are the recent videos and reports of Black and brown people beaten or killed by law enforcement officers, and they have fueled a national outcry over the disproportionate use of excessive, and often lethal, force against people of color, and galvanized demands for police reform. This is not the…

by Mitti Hicks September 20, 2024 An interactive map from Tougaloo College gives insight into cities and communities in the United States and whether they’re considered sundown towns. An interactive map from Tougaloo College gives insight into cities and communities in the United States and whether they’re considered sundown towns. According to Britannica, sundown in U.S. history is a town that excluded nonwhite people, most frequently African Americans, when the sun set. How people enforced these “rules” ranged anywhere from collective violence, such as public lynchings, discriminatory laws, and open housing discrimination. The map is inspired by a database entered…

North Omaha impactedAngel Starks and her real estate agent colleagues began to notice a sharp increase in out-of-state buyers. They took note of their new tactics.These buyers pay in cash. They waive standard inspections. They make offers over the list price.That’s the aggressive approach that Vinebrook takes as well – an approach outlined by one of Vinebrook’s local contractors, longtime Omaha-area real estate broker Bruce Powell, in an email sent to real estate agents early this year.The email was forwarded to the Flatwater Free Press by an industry insider, not Starks.In the email, Powell said Vinebrook had bought “over 16…

WEST ORANGE, NJ — NOTE: This article has been updated with statements from the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission and a spokesperson from the governor’s office, who have disputed claims from the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey and Rep. Donald Payne Jr.For Corey Dishmen and Charles Penn, the people who make up the “cannabis culture” of New Jersey have always been “100 percent inclusive of everyone.” And that goes for the people who work in the marijuana business, too. But according to the owners of The Library – who are hoping to open New Jersey’s first, Black-owned…

Sorority sisters in New Mexico are under fire for allegedly making racist remarks during a welcome event for new members, according to reports. The University of New Mexico chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is under investigation following complaints that members mocked an African-American speaker Sept. 17 at a Greek life summit, news station KOAT reported. “This situation, it is not an isolated situation,” Black Student Union Vice President Dannelle Kirven told the news station. The sorority girls were allegedly heard making comments such as “Black people, get away from me” and “Black people, stop wearing grills,” according to the news…

Dominique DeWeese wanted a gallon of gas to do some yard work, so the 37-year-old lifelong Portland resident headed to a local gas station and asked the attendant fill up a canister one day this past July.DeWeese, who is Black, said the white attendant took one look at him and refused.DeWeese said the attendant implied that he didn’t want DeWeese to set fires or commit other crimes at the nightly racial injustice protests that have resulted in some demonstrators setting fires in the streets or inside buildings. According to cellphone video DeWeese took of the conversation, the attendant told DeWeese…

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On Saturday Black Lives Matter Rhode Island (BLM RI) opened the African American Innovation Center at 225 Main Street in Pawtucket with a four hour celebration filled with tours of the facilities, refreshments, speeches and entertainment. Bernice Morris, the policy advocate with BLM RI, opened the speaking program.. The first speaker, Pastor Carl Jefferson, opened with a blessing and stories. “Brother Gary is literally the first African-American I spoke to in a workplace in America, ” said Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence). They worked together at Hasbro shortly after Representative Ranglin-Vassell-Vassell first immigrated from Jamaica. Representative Ranglin-Vassell-Vassel went…