By Dianne Anderson From mental-health struggles, rising overdoses, chronic disease and barriers to basic health care, some communities are taking the hit from all sides, but local leaders are looking to build up a new generation of public and community-health workers. They’ll meet residents where the healthcare system falls short. For students who may not ...

Frank Alvarez, Director of Partnership Development at YouthBuild Charter School of California; Dee Goins, Chairperson at the YouthBuild Collaborative of Southern California, and Benedito (Benny) Orduño, Co-Executive Director at Rising Stars Business Academy and Moreno Valley YouthBuild have completed the 2024–2026 YouthBuild Leadership Fellowship, a two-year international leadership initiative developed and hosted by YouthBuild Global, ...

By Freddie Allen Editor-In-Chief, NNPA Newswire The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), in partnership with Chevrolet, recently announced that the 2018 Discover The Unexpected (DTU) Journalism Fellowship will now accept applications from communications and journalism students attending any one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) across the country. In 2016, the DTU Journalism ...