Tag: underserved communities
Senator Cory Booker (D-NY), Environmental Justice Advocate, Proud to Receive NNPA Leadership Award
Sen. Booker, who served two terms as Newark mayor before his election to the Senate, will receive the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA)...
Women, Black, and Hispanic/Latino Workers Underrepresented in US Clean Energy
According to Nicole Sitaraman, policy committee chair of BOSS and vice president of strategic engagement at Sustainable Capital Advisors, “We are living in a...
How President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda Helps Black Communities
The White House
One year ago, with the country at a crossroads, President Biden unveiled his Build Back Better Agenda.
Facing a raging pandemic, unprecedented economic...
US Turns to Social Media Influencers to Boost Vaccine Rates
By James Anderson, Associated Press
As a police sergeant in a rural town, Carlos Cornejo isn’t the prototypical social media influencer. But his Spanish-language Facebook...
NNPA Hosts Series of Interviews on Closing Education Achievement Gap
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Not only have K-12 students felt the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but college students...
