Scientist challenges industry to engage talent in Black communities

“If we’re going to do the things that are necessary to move the needle to impact those 1.9 million jobs, we have to go where most people don’t want to go and that’s in the Black and brown communities,” Calvin Mackie, Ph.D., founder of STEM NOLA., told leaders of the American Petroleum Institute. (More)

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• 28th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration, Dec. 30, focus on Nia principles

• Law enforcement looking for drunk drivers during holiday weekend

• Mission to help Baton Rouge kids move more

• Baton Rouge sailor reflects on year of recruiting in America’s Navy

• Edwards makes board appointments to Children’s Trust Fund, polygraph, others

• Grambling student, Adrian Wilson, named to La. Board of Regents

• Wilbert Pryor named to Board of Regents

• ‘The Talented Ribkins’ wins 11th Annual Ernest Gaines Award

• Former legislator Roy Burrell, others named to state commissions

• State task force established to review sexual harassment, discrimination policies in agencies

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