Category: Health
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff June 30, 2025 – Nonprofit innovator and pioneer Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury recently announced that she will step down from her post as president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF), concluding a distinguished 33-year career in philanthropy. Since 2007, Dr. West-Scantlebury has guided WRF through a period of […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 30, 2025 –Black unemployment in April jumped 0.7 percentage points between March and April, testing the well-worn Trump administration talking points that the Black economy improves under the MAGA agenda. The Arkansas Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), announced on May 21 […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 26, 2025 – President Trump reacted angrily to Walmart’s first-quarter earnings report, in which the Bentonville-based retailer said it intends to raise prices later this month on some grocery items due to ongoing tariffs and the administration’s trade war with China. During the company’s May 15 conference call with […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 25, 2025 – The reconciliation package, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” will now proceed to the U.S. Senate. On April 10, following action in the Senate, the House adopted a final concurrent budget resolution that sets the stage for work on a future reconciliation bill. The Senate’s April 5 amendment […]