AMHERST, Massachusetts, March 11 -- Hampshire College issued the following news: Physician, scholar, and activist Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F was interviewed on PBS NewsHour around the medical field's long history of discrimination and abuse against Black patients and how these issues became magnified during the pandemic. Gamble is a professor of medical humanities at George Washington University and an internationally recognized expert on the history of race and American medicine, raci more PR

WASHINGTON, March 9 (TNSPer) -- Howard University issued the following news release on March 8, 2021: The Howard University Board of Trustees announces its unanimous decision, upon the recommendation of President Wayne A. I. Frederick, to name the Law School Library as the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Law Library in honor of the proud and devoted Howard alumnus, and Civil Rights icon. "Vernon Jordan's life embodied Howard's motto of truth and service from his early beginnings as a lawyer to his more PR

NEW YORK, March 12 -- The Advertising Council issued the following news release on March 11, 2021: The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative today announced new PSAs as part of their COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative's "It's Up To You" campaign featuring former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and former First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn Carter. The videos are designed to encourage all Americans to get answers to the top qu more PR

NEW YORK, March 12 (TNSPer) -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release on March 11, 2021: The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative, of which The Rockefeller Foundation is a member, today announced new PSAs as part of their Covid-19 Vaccine Education Initiative's "It's Up To You" campaign featuring former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and former First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Rosalynn Carter. The videos are  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on March 10, 2021: U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and his Democratic colleagues passed the American Rescue Plan, comprehensive relief and stimulus legislation that will combat the dual threats of the pandemic and its economic fallout. Co-sponsored by Pascrell, the legislation provides an additional $300 million for federal fire services grants in Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 to help America's fire d more PR

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, issued the following floor statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on March 5, 2021: Mr. President, today I recognize Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, a dedicated public servant who is celebrating 25 years on the Federal bench on March 11. Born and raised in Montana, Judge Thomas's skill as a decision maker was evident from the start. Even as a high school debater, he earned the respect of competing schools with the more ST