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…
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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…
Morehouse College President David A. Thomas (Morehouse’s twelfth President) and the Morehouse community celebrates the 154th Anniversary of the founding of Morehouse College. The celebration culminates with a gala of the 33rd Annual “A Candle in the Dark Awards” Ceremony. The “Candle in the Dark” Gala was named after the title of the Morehouse’s official history book written by Edward A. Jones (Morehouse, 1926). Due to COVID, this year’s gala will be a virtual event via the Internet, on Saturday, February 13, 2021. “The Bennie Award,” named in honor of…
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Chase A. Blackwell is the nephew of Atlanta Inquirer publisher John B. Smith, Jr. A very talented and smart young man, Blackwell is a junior at Whitefield Academy in Smyrna, Georgia. He is very passionate about the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) not only because it is a good organization, but because he, first hand, knows the devastating affects of cancer. In 2016, Chase lost his mother to cancer; and in 2017, he lost his father to cancer. Despite his losses, his mother when he was 12 and his father…
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