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Ohio University to close Pride Center, Women’s Center and Multicultural Center due to new law

2 weeks ago | therealdealpress.com | Megan Henry

Ohio University will close the Pride Center, the Women’s Center and the Multicultural Center in response to a new higher education law banning diversity efforts that takes effect this summer, the university president announced Tuesday. OU will sunset the Division of Diversity and Inclusion — which includes those three centers — “over the next several weeks,” Ohio University President Lori Stewart Gonzalez said in a statement.
California Congressman brings Trump, Vance critique to City Club

4 weeks ago | therealdealpress.com | Nick Evans

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Black colleges ponder their future as Trump makes cuts to education dollars

1 month ago | therealdealpress.com | Robbie Sequeira

The nation’s historically black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, are wondering how to survive in an uncertain and contentious educational climate as the Trump administration downsizes the scope and purpose of the U.S. Department of Education — while cutting away at federal funding for higher education. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order pausing federal grants and loans, alarming HBCUs, where most students rely on Pell Grants or federal aid.
Beyond hard hats: mental struggles become the deadliest construction industry danger

Jan 17, 2025 | therealdealpress.com | Ashley Murray |Jennifer Shutt

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Frank Wampol had a dark realization when he came across some alarming data a few years ago: Over 5,000 male construction workers die from suicide annually — five times the number who die from work-related injuries, according to several studies. That’s considerably more than the suicide rate for men in the general population.
Serious concerns raised over proliferation of Ohio data centers

Jan 14, 2025 | therealdealpress.com | Marty Schladen

As Ohio entices yet more data centers, a watchdog group is raising important questions about whether that’s good for average Ohioans. Among them are whether the state is giving up too much in tax revenue for the number of jobs they’ll create, who will pay to add electricity generation to meet the centers’ surging demand, and whether the new demand will force fossil-fuel burning generators to stay online, making the world’s climate crisis worse.
America’s split screen: The caring and decency of Carter v. the carelessness and indecency of Trump

Jan 13, 2025 | therealdealpress.com | Marilou Johanek

This is a split screen moment in America. On one side of the screen, a former president is being memorialized this week not only for his service to country but for the principled life he personified with renowned caring and decency. On the other side of the screen, another former/future president is being remembered this week for the violent insurrection he inspired with his “stolen election” Big Lie before he appears in court Friday for his sentencing on 34 felony convictions.
Congressional Black Caucus marks historic firsts as its membership hits record

Jan 9, 2025 | therealdealpress.com | William Ford

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With a record 62 elected black officials, including historic firsts of two women senators and two representatives from Alabama, the Congressional Black Caucus held a swearing-in ceremony this past Friday morning before members took the oath of office for the 119th U.S. Congress. Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware will represent the first time two black women will serve together in the U.S. Senate.
Ohio coal plant said to be nation’s most deadly

Jan 5, 2025 | therealdealpress.com | Marty Schladen

Environmental activists have been pressing the company buying an Ohio coal plant said to be the nation’s deadliest to retire the facility. But that seems unlikely, given statements it made in a regulatory filing that it provided to the Ohio Capital Journal. The buyer, Energy Capital Partners, has boasted of helping plants make the transition away from coal. It hasn’t answered questions about its plans for Gavin, but in a Dec.
Vance, Yost targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio with ignorant fear-mongering disturbs me deeply

Sep 11, 2024 | therealdealpress.com | David DeWitt

Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home, and you end up watching a national conversation play out largely divorced from reality or the actual experiences of communities intimately connected to your own life. That’s what happened to me Monday as I watched Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance lie about legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and — displaying no sense of conscience whatsoever — make an abhorrent insinuation about them.
Women Creating Change

Jul 26, 2024 | therealdealpress.com | Marian Wright Edelman

When a large meeting of black women voters made headlines this week, to many people it was another reminder of the major role black women and all women have always played in creating transforming change.