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  • Black farming projects look to recoup historical U.S. land losses

    The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund is helping Black farmers buy land. More than $200,000 have gone toward urban land purchases in a practice some see as “restorative economics." Black land activists are also purchasing land in rural communities across the United States.

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  • How poor, out-of-school children gain education in the FCT

    The Knowledge Skills Solution and Creativity (KNOSK) N100-a-Day Charity School provides an education to children in the area who can’t afford to attend school. KNOSK provides STEM education, uniforms, books, sanitary supplies for girls and free meals to each student for just 30 cents a day.

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  • Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

    Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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  • A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

    Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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  • What the student loan payment pause has meant to Black women

    The two-year pause on federal student loan payments in the United States during the pandemic allowed Black women, who share a disproportionate amount of the country’s student debt, to redirect the money they would typically use for repayment toward other needs.

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  • Asthma affects thousands of Oakland kids. These residents are working to prevent it

    To help prevent children with asthma from missing school and being hospitalized Asthma Start provides their families with education and resources like mattress and pillow covers and cleaning supplies.

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  • How one woman shed $350,000 in student loans — without a lawyer

    People who cannot afford their student loan payments are filing discharges themselves and proving to the court why paying back the loans would create undue hardship to have their loans forgiven.

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  • Minority businesses: Wounded by COVID, but key to inclusive revival

    Efforts to support and financially help small businesses in Connecticut are being prioritized. In particular, Black and minority-owned businesses are typically most at-risk to fail and require the most help.

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