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Summit Seeks Prosperity for Minority Females $100 Million Initiative Launched to Fight Inequality, Violence By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer
CRIME STOPPERS: U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch met with the leaders of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in the District on Monday, Nov. 16 to discuss violent crime reduction strategies and criminal justice reform. /Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Justice
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D.C.’s Newest Jewel Tells History of Black America National Museum Gives Foretaste of 2016 Opening By Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer
5 On Monday, Nov. 16, the National Museum of African American History and Culture held an event featuring a 3-D illumination display on the building’s exterior surface in anticipation of the Museum’s opening in 2016. / Photo by Travis Riddick
The National Museum of African American History and Culture [NMAAHC] kicked off the countdown to the Museum’s grand opening in the fall of 2016 with a three-night video illumination presentation. The “Commemorate and Celebrate Freedom” event commenced on Monday, Nov. 16 at the NMAAHC in Northwest paying tribute to three milestones in African-American history. “Years ago this was a dream. Tonight we celebrate the realization of
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Celebrating 51 Years of Service / Serving More Than 50,000 African American Readers Throughout The Metropolitan Area
A day-long White House summit to empower low-income women of color began and ended with a major splash as leaders from foundations across the country gathered to launch “Prosperity Together,” a $100 million, five-year funding initiative aimed at improving economic conditions for America’s most vulnerable group. The initiative specifically targets women and girls of color. “We’ve made great strides to protect the middle class from poverty since the president has been elected, but too often, women and girls of color face limited opportunities,” Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Barack Obama and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, told a cheering audience at the summit on Friday, Nov. 13. The summit, which focused on empowering and increasing opportunity for women and girls of color and their peers, brought together a range of stakeholders from the academic, private, government and philanthropic sectors to discuss ways to break down barriers to success and create more ladders of opportunity for all Americans, including women and girls of color. The Anna Julia Cooper Center
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at Wake Forest University, which recently conducted extensive research on women and girls of color, served as host of the event that featured 24 other American colleges and universities, seminaries, research programs and institutions. Combined, these institutions made voluntary commitments of $18 million for the next five years to conduct and share the data. “Women ourselves are not homogeneous,” said Teresa Younger, the chief executive officer of the Ms. Foundation. “We have different experiences at different levels. Women in the work force are essential to our families and to the entire country, yet women still make considerably less than men,” she said. Younger also noted that women make “78 cents to the dollar that a man makes, however, African-American women earn 16 cents and Latina women earn 55 cents of what a white non-Hispanic man makes.” During the summit, the Council on Women and Girls identified five data-driven issue areas where they said interventions can promote opportunities for success at school, work and in the community. They include: sponsoring and
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