For over 20 years, we have advocated for the increased engagement of Black Hoosiers in the political process through voter registration and education. We have traditionally held and continue to hold local forums on issues of concern including election reform, community violence and education.
In the last several years we have presented a collective voice on issues requiring an informed Black perspective. Nevertheless, it has become clear that inattention at the policy level to root causes has furthered deterioration of Black communities.
COVID, joblessness, food access not Black Hoosiers problems alone
We have been the last hired and the first fired, even when the economy was good. The Economic Policy Institute found that when the state unemployment rate was 3.5% in the third quarter of 2018, Black unemployment was at 5.4% while white unemployment was at 3.2%.
Wilbur Rea Jones
NEWPORT NEWS Our gracious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, called home our beloved, the Rev. Dr. Wilbur Rea Jones, 86, to eternal rest Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Pastor Jones was a great man of God, servant, wonderful husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend to many he met along the way.
His life was an example of Christ’s love and forgiveness in ways too numerous to describe. His charity toward his family, flock and the community was boundless. God truly blessed Pastor Jones with many gifts and talents, which he used daily in the preaching of God’s Word, the administration of the church and life in general.
New supply of Pfizer vaccines available starting Friday at Northside senior center
The Florida Health Department has supplied the City of Jacksonville with 975 vials of each dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Author: First Coast News Staff, Casey Feindt Published: 9:56 AM EST February 4, 2021 Updated: 5:19 AM EST February 5, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry released details about a new supply of Pfizer vaccines available at a Northside senior center during a news conference Thursday.
Curry said vaccines will be administered at Clanzel T. Brown Senior Center located at 4575 Moncrief Road on Friday, Feb. 5, and Saturday, Feb. 6, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for the 37th year running, the Ministers Alliance of Rhode Island celebrated its scholarship recipients.
For the first time, it happened on Zoom: The coronavirus pandemic has changed so much in the past year, and forced this annual tradition to go remote.
Some things, though, haven’t changed, even since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. himself was speaking about them in the 1950s and 1960s, Pastor Justin Lester of Congdon Street Baptist Church in Providence said. And King’s words are as relevant as ever, Lester said.
“That means racism has not ended,” Lester said. “That means we’re still screaming, ‘I’m a man.’ We’re still putting our hands up saying, ‘Hands up, don’t shoot,’ and this is the same situation where we learn that Black skin is still a threat to insecurity.”