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Pastor visits Chattanooga to push for more accountability in local leaders
Its unique way to hold local leaders accountable and that's what one Baltimore pastor is trying to start up in Chattanooga. The program is called "Act Now". Pastor Alvin Hathaway says creating Act Now has not only held leaders accountable in Baltimore but has also made city leaders more transparent. He says the same could happen right here in Chattanooga if those in the community do the hard work by using policy, procedure and legislation. "Act [...]
Brown Capital Management and State of Maryland Commit $2.25 Million to Nation’s First African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative
The nation’s first African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) announced today $2.25 million in startup funding from the investment management firm Brown Capital Management (BCM) and the State of Maryland. The goals of the AANRI are to close the gap in brain research that has consistently underrepresented African Americans and to create the most comprehensive African-ancestry, brain-genomic dataset in the world, with the ultimate goal to develop new therapeutics and prevention strategies for brain disorders. In [...]
LIEBER INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN DEVELOPMENT RECEIVES $1 MILLION FROM CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE TO FOSTER DIVERSITY IN NEUROSCIENCE
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support the work of the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) to promote racial equity throughout the field of neuroscience. AANRI began in 2019 as a collaboration between African American community leaders in Baltimore, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development—located on the Johns Hopkins medical campus in Baltimore—and Morgan State University, a public historically Black university in [...]
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