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(from left) Kevin Dedner founded Hurdle, a mental health startup that pairs patients with therapists. Ashlee Wisdom’s company, Health in Her Hue, connects women of color with culturally sensitive medical providers. Nathan Pelzer’s Clinify Health analyzes data to help doctors identify at-risk patients in underserved areas. Erica Plybeah’s firm, MedHaul, arranges transport to medical appointments. Kevin Dedner; Kolin Mendez Photography; Aaron Gang Photography; Starboard & Port Creative hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dedner; Kolin Mendez Photography; Aaron Gang Photography; Starboard & Port Creative (from left) Kevin Dedner founded Hurdle, a mental health startup that pairs patients with therapists. Ashlee Wisdom’s…

Black Lives Matter protests on June 6 Sources: Crowd Counting Consortium, Edwin Chow and New York Times analysis | Note: The Times partnered with Edwin Chow, an associate professor at Texas State University, to count the protesters based on available aerial images from June 6 and added those estimates to data from the Crowd Counting Consortium. Counting efforts are still ongoing, so the map is not comprehensive and totals shown are an average of high and low estimates. The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across…

Families in Louisville, Kentucky, are rightly calling for an end to police in schools following the recent assault on two Black students perpetrated by law enforcement at a local high school that was caught on camera. Before the video begins, two students at Jeffersontown High School were said to have been in a fight over a pair of headphones when a police officer intervened. He reportedly called for additional officers after being attacked by the student. The video clip shows three police officers on top of a teenager. One officer presses the teen’s head into the linoleum floor while another…

How to start a small business in Kansas City: 5 things experts say you need to know Kansas City Star Source link

Two years after the Los Angeles Times reverted to local ownership, one of the country’s largest metropolitan daily newspapers is facing a painful internal reckoning over glaring deficiencies and missteps regarding race and representation in its pages and its staff.On Wednesday, Executive Editor Norman Pearlstine heard from aggrieved newsroom staff members during a more than four-hour meeting examining the mistreatment of Black and brown editorial staff members past and present. He acknowledged that the 138-year-old paper had failed to capitalize on an unprecedented opportunity to better diversify its newsroom since its 2018 purchase by L.A. biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong…

Cynthia Tomah of Princeton shot the biggest bull moose she or Tobey Brook Guide Services has ever harvested. But it wasn’t her first time with black powder. She has harvested all of her large game animals with a muzzleloader, her husband and guide service co-owner Toby Tomah said Tuesday. The guide service was started four years ago by Toby Tomah and his brother Charles Tomah. Before that, the Tomahs worked with other lodges in the area. Toby and Charles’ grandfather worked as a registered Maine guide for 40 years in the same area. Cynthia’s moose weighed 834 pounds, with an antler…

Tulsa Race Massacre: Newspaper Complicity and Coverage The Library of Congress (.gov) Source link

Ivins • Of all the adjectives used to describe Black Desert Resort, the $2 billion golfing, dining and hospitality mecca under construction in Ivins, 8 miles northwest of downtown St. George, perhaps a three-letter one sums it up best.Big. Really big!Sizewise, Black Desert dwarfs all other resorts in the region and stacks up favorably to some of the most famous national entertainment brands. Situated on 630 acres straddling Ivins and Santa Clara, Black Desert is nearly four times the original size of Disneyland, which opened on 160 acres in Anaheim, California, in 1955, and still eclipses that resort’s 500 acres…

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The Center for Community News at the University of Vermont today announced its third annual cohort of CCN Faculty Champions, a national initiative to support the people running local news reporting programs at U.S. colleges and universities across the country. News-academic partnerships have emerged as a critical contributor to the national news landscape and one solution to the crisis facing local news.“The news coverage that these programs are providing in coordination with their local outlets is helping to meet critical information needs,” said CCN Director Richard Watts. “Most importantly, they offer students a chance to contribute to…

Feb. 23, 2007 — Bobby Seale regaled a standing-room-only crowd with tales and asides about his life and founding the Black Panther Party during a talk on Feb. 22 that was part of Black History Month celebrations at the University of Virginia.Seale, 70, detailed his political awakening, his early encounters with party co-founder Huey P. Newton and FBI efforts to destroy the party. He punctuated his talk with amusing stories about the early days of the Panthers, including how the catalyst to launch the party was an impromptu, al fresco poetry reading in Berkeley in 1965. While Seale said he…