Mack Henry Brown Historical Marker Unveiling in Roswell, Georgia On February 28th at 4 pm the Mack Henry Brown Historic Marker Committee (MHB-HMC) of the Fulton County Remembrance Coalition (FCRC), a community partner of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI, Montgomery, Alabama), will be unveiling the historical marker dedicated to Mack Henry Brown, a Black man lynched in Fulton County in 1936. This marker, located at Roswell’s Riverside Park, is meant to open a public dialogue about our history of terrorizing Black people with White Supremacy terror and violence. Beginning with…
Education & Schools
Bank of America Helps Fuel Black Innovation With Launch of the Center for Black Entrepreneurship In Partnership with Morehouse College, Spelman College and the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, the Initiative is Powered by a Two-Year $10 Million Grant Atlanta, Georgia – On February 22, 2021, Bank of America, the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, Morehouse College, and Spelman College announced the development of the Center for Black Entrepreneurship (CBE), the first-ever academic center of its kind to assemble, educate, and empower a new class of Black entrepreneurial talent. The CBE will…
Atlanta – Winter weather across the country is significantly impacting shipments of COVID-19 vaccine to Georgia. The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) received notification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that normally would have arrived the first part of this week were held back by the manufacturers due to the weather. As a result, many providers statewide, including health departments, are being forced to reschedule appointments for vaccination. Rescheduling appointments will depend on when shipments resume and when the vaccine…
Atlanta – The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is launching a new COVID vaccine dashboard on the DPH website https://dph.georgia.gov/. The dashboard provides a detailed, transparent picture of vaccination administration in Georgia. As part of the transition to the new dashboard, you will see a one-time decrease in the number of vaccines administered. This slight decrease is the result of data cleaning and removal of duplicate vaccination entries, and overall quality control. The dashboard will update daily at 3 pm and now includes: • Number of vaccine doses that…
The McIntosh County Shouters from Briar Patch, Georgia will have some ring shouts aired in an upcoming PBS documentary, The Black Church. This two-part, four-hour documentary will air on February 16. More information is here: https://www.pbs.org/weta/black-church/
Siebert Williams Shank Foundation donates $200K to create lasting educational programs for next generation of leaders The Siebert Williams Shank Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (SWS), the nation’s top-ranked minority- and woman-owned investment banking firm, is helping to establish the next generation of African American business leaders by donating $200,000 to support educational programs at Howard University and Spelman College, two of America’s preeminent Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), to kick off Black History Month. SWS, dually headquartered in New York City and…
