HBCUs & EDUCATION — The crisis at Southern University brings two pressures facing historically Black colleges into sharp relief: students were already familiar with prolonged outages in Black communities they call home, and now they are paying for an education that unreliable electricity keeps interrupting. Across the country, Black communities experience more frequent outages and longer periods to get power restored. Rapid repairs have cost the university over $1.7 million, but leaders say the Louisiana Legislature must invest around 30 times that figure to address the strain on the power grid long term.
The Trump administration suspended Microsoft, Adobe, and IT outsourcing firms from a green card program as it expands crackdowns on visa fraud. Microsoft last year laid off 6,000 American workers but also obtained 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards.
Black women with a history of breast cancer who ate the most ultraprocessed foods before diagnosis were 40% more likely to die from the disease than those who ate the fewest ultraprocessed foods. A study from Rutgers Cancer Institute researchers is the first to link ultraprocessed foods to reduced survival in Black women with breast cancer.
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Annual grant supporting rising and established Black entrepreneurs. Businesses selected receive $25,000 plus resources to propel their futures. The grant typically opens in October each year through NAACP's partnership with Medium Rare and The Shark Group.
Apply →With less than a month before the midterm elections, Black churches are boosting their efforts to get voters to the polls, using new outreach methods like postcard writing campaigns, multistate tours, weekday rallies, and other strategies to get their congregants and the broader Black community involved. With concerns about gas and grocery prices and lingering exhaustion over Kamala Harris' loss, this year there is renewed energy and collaboration with community organizers, civil rights and labor leaders, and college students to pump up voter turnout.