October 19, 2021 – 1K Women Strong recently received a grant from Bridge Together, a fund supported by American Bridge 21st Century to continue year round organizing and civic engagement aimed at Black women in pre-identified key political states going to the 2021 midterm and 2022 elections. The new fund, called Bridge Together, has been created to support grassroots organizations in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Nevada. It will be spearheaded by the group’s co-chair Gov. Deval Patrick. He served as the Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 –…
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Members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (MLK) Merchants Association met at Johnny M’s Pizza Bistro Bar and Grill on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard to participate in neighborhood clean-up. Johnny M’s Pizza Bistro Bar and Grill is owned and operated by Atlanta businessman and philanthropist Johnny Mims who is also the current president of the merchants’ association. The mission of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Merchants Association includes providing professional business building guidance to the members, creating employment opportunities…
Atlanta-based attorney Misty Oaks Paxton, owner of The Oaks Firm, recently released her first book “Focus: Redirect the magnifying glass of your life to live the life of your dreams.” The book highlights 20 specific areas that will help people move forward in the direction that will yield the best results. “We are a society that does not practice focus, instead we practice distraction,” Paxton said. From the time we open our eyes in the morning to the time we close them at night, we are inundated with countless events,…
This program is Georgia’s first-ever initiative to re-house individuals still using drugs/alcohol The innovative program provides wraparound services for the homeless: medical/pharma, mental health, substance use and other services January 2022 Aniz will be providing medical insurance for members currently on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) Aniz, Inc., Atlanta Georgia has signed an agreement with Partners for Home (hereafter “PFH”) to provide re-engagement and intervention services to the Atlanta homeless population. The re-engagement component of the program includes job readiness training and linkage to qualifying housing. The intervention component involves mental health…
Local officials test an array of approaches that offer hope for safe re-openings. By Hazel Trice Edney / Trice Edney News Wire (TriceEdneyWire.com) – With coronavirus cases rising across the U.S. as a result of the highly contagious Delta variant, school districts nationwide are moving quickly to implement public-health precautions in preparation for fall re-openings. The scramble to put these precautions in place reflects the intense pressures that school districts around the country are under to reopen amid growing concerns that many students have struggled to keep up academically during…
NAACP Town Hall Panelists say… Keep Masks On, Warns African-American COVID Doctors, Scientists, Health Experts On Saturday, May 8th, the Atlanta branch of the NAACP brought together some heavyweight African-American scientists and physicians for a virtual town hall meeting on the corona virus and the vaccines currently on the marketplace. “This is not a pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine conversation,” emphasized Charise Jefferson, an Atlanta-based political strategist and founding member of the John Lewis Coalition for Democracy. “This is a Black conversation for Black people with Black scientists (and doctors). There is…
