Ujamaa Place is a St. Paul community organization that provides holistic transformational and stabilizing support services to economically disadvantaged African American men aged 18 to 30, helping them build stable lives and integrate successfully into society.
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Flau’jae Johnson on a Mission: LSU Star Teams Up with Experian to Relieve Debt for Louisianans
Flau’jae Johnson, a standout junior guard for LSU’s women’s basketball team, is partnering with Experian to relieve $5 million in consumer debt for 5,000 African American families in Louisiana, using her financial literacy to help those struggling with debt.
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Rediscovering History: Relocation of African American Ancestors’ Graves Sparks Reflection and Mixed Emotions
The remains of approximately 275 African American tenant farmers and their families are being moved from a former Virginia plantation to a new burial site in order to make way for an industrial park, with descendants seeking to give their ancestors the respect and dignity they were denied in life.
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Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery Presents “The Black Vote”
The Black Vote, a multimedia exhibition curated by historian Mica L. Anders, opens in February at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures
Simply put, a reverence for ancestral knowledge and culture is the beating heart of Afrofuturism.
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Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior
Although his name is barely known today, Charles Henry Turner was a pioneer in studying bees and should be considered among the great entomologists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Black Business Spotlight: Best Care
Best Care is doing his part to affirm the role of the PCA during COVID 19.
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COVID: The Unknown gives rise to ‘all kinds of fear and anxiety’
‘People feel that they have little control of what is happening in their homes and in their communities.’
Posted inOpinion
Mourning Kofi Annan, remembering Ron Walters
Kofi Annan’s contributions to the UN are twofold, in my opinion. First, he was committed to peace, and to the UN’s peacekeeping role. He saw human rights as more important than “state sovereignty” and felt that the UN had a role in maintaining citizen rights in the face of state brutality.
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Through his art, former prisoner diagnoses systemic sickness of Florida’s prisons
Dimanche hopes that his art will open some eyes, and eventually end the American tradition of locking up, neglecting, exploiting and abusing millions in prisons across the country.
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Grants address disparities in African American births
$1.3 million in Human Services grants aims to enhance prenatal care The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) recently awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to help enhance prenatal clinical services and reduce significant health disparities in birth outcomes for African Americans. The Integrated Care for High-Risk Pregnancies (ICHRP) pilot program aims to address […]