Since inception in 2019, The CROWN Act combats hair discrimination by ensuring that hairstyles historically associated with race, such as afros, braids, locs and natural hair are protected in public schools and workplaces.
Since inception in 2019, The CROWN Act combats hair discrimination by ensuring that hairstyles historically associated with race, such as afros, braids, locs and natural hair are protected in public schools and workplaces.
Black babies are more likely to die, and also far more likely to be born prematurely, setting the stage for health issues that could follow them through their lives.
"Dr. King was the voice of the civil rights movement and was its moral compass... and as a result of the movement that he headed up, this country was changed forever."
For over 120 years, the country’s first Black fraternity have molded young men into leaders. The Cleveland chapter is continuing that tradition with an initiative that is mentoring the next generation.
“My story is like a lot of other Black kids and how their story and how they came up. It was all about surviving. I don’t want my son to feel like he has to survive."
The Cleveland Clinic is collaborating with Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically Black college and university, to increase the number of underrepresented groups in the medical field.
Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday, but that doesn’t mean the Black community wants to see Juneteenth ice cream, T-shirts and streamers sold on every aisle.
Here in Cleveland, you don’t have to go to a museum to see and experience art.You can walk out your door, look up and see it on the walls of buildings all around the city.
Charles Jackson and the other exonerees who will likely live in this house one day will have a place to heal, to fulfill their passions, and continue finding justice for themselves.
“Being African American living in my community and the life choices, lifestyle I was living it was acceptable for me to see prison in my future,” Charles Jackson said. “When I was locked up in prison and then I saw a whole different side of what life is because I was in prison for something I didn’t do.”
”My message is clear: to provide a diverse opportunity for all students. Only 2% of teachers are Black males but it’s more than that. It’s women in S.T.E.M., it’s men in their primary years. I want to make sure that an African-American history class and a race, gender and oppression class become normalized and not different,” said Kurt Russell.
"It’s a program of support, of celebration,” said LaDosha Wright. “We want to address and talk about hair discrimination, hair bullying, hair shaming."
On the walls of the Kent State University Museum, there’s a portrait called “Internal Battle.” The artist, Keturah Ariel, pondering the decision: natural hair or straightened?
Black Ohioans are more likely than their white counterparts to be arrested for marijuana-related crimes, even though people of both races use the drug at about the same rate, a 19 new analysis shows.
Selina Pagan and her team at the Young Latino Network were pushed to the brink last month as they participated in more than 30 events educating others on Latino culture.
Chief People and Inclusion Officers with the NBA said the social movements from the past few years mean teams can no longer remain isolated: “It’s forced us all to come to terms with what’s happening in the world around us.”
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