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First Black woman in top USDA role talks about decades of loan discrimination.
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Virginia State University welcomed home one of their own. Petersburg native Dr. Jewel Bronaugh made her first official appearance as USDA Deputy Secretary at a closed-session roundtable and public town hall meeting.
“VSU is the Commonwealth’s leader in supporting socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers through its agricultural research and Cooperative Extension programs,” said Dr. M. Ray McKinnie, VSU College of Agriculture Dean and 1890 administrator. “It was truly an honor for Deputy Secretary Bronaugh to recognize our work in this field and to choose VSU as the Virginia site to host the USDA’s Socially Disadvantaged Producer American Rescue Plan Roundtable and Town Hall.”
Dr. Marya Shegog, Health Equity and Diversity Coordinator of Lazarex Cancer Foundation, shares how this non-profit organization is providing assistance to minorities facing a cancer diagnosis.
Illustration by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with Steve Shanabruch
Where science meets the sacred
04/20/21
By Brianna Barbu
Sanford Underground Research Facility is making an effort to build bridges with Native American communities and operate with respect for the sacred land it is built on.
The name of the Black Hills mountain range in western South Dakota is a translation of the name the Lakota (Sioux) gave the area: Paha Sapa, “hills that are black.” The description evokes the mountains’ dark-colored ponderosa pine. Nine federally recognized South Dakota tribes and 18 other land-based tribes have spiritual and cultural connections to the Black Hills.