The U.S. 2020 census will determine each state’s representation in Congress, and how more than $675 billion in federal funding would be distributed across the country.

As the federal government prepares for the spring survey, community groups in West Michigan are pushing the public for greater participation and hoping to see more resources allocated to their communities as a result.

“Neighbors are counted so that we can get funds to our neighborhood. If those neighbors aren’t counted, we can’t get those funds coming back into our neighborhood because they don’t know these people are here,” Monica Hall said. “It's like if there's a hundred people in the community and only 10 answer, we're only going to have resources for 10 people.”

African-American architect who made his name designing homes for the stars donated his star-shaped design for the hospital founded by his friend Danny Thomas.

He styled a Mid-Century Modern bachelor’s abode for Frank Sinatra that enthralled a national audience during a televised tour. For Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, he designed a Palm Springs weekend home that epitomized sleek, glass-walled elegance.

But Paul Revere Williams had something simpler, more functional in mind when he drew up plans for the original St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

For this project, the so-called architect to the stars sketched a star.

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In a move that will benefit millions of low-income people, Comcast is expanding a program that offers low-cost Internet. See how it works. 

CINCINNATI, OHIO ­– August 13, 2019 ­– Earlier this year, the Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio (ULGSO) announced that long-time Urban League President and CEO Donna Jones Baker would retire; the organization appointed Ms. Chara Fisher Jackson, Executive Director of ULGSO as Interim President & CEO; the organization also immediately formed a search committee for a permanent President & CEO.  After an exhaustive national search and careful consideration of a number of highly qualified candidates, ULGSO today announced Eddie L. Koen as its new President and CEO.

The Board of Directors of the Chicago Urban League has appointed accomplished leader Karen Freeman-Wilson as the organization’s next President and CEO. Freeman-Wilson, who currently serves as the mayor of Gary, Indiana, will assume the role after completion of her term in office.

By Jeffrey Layne Blevins, www.stltoday.com

I returned home to Cincinnati after visiting family in St. Louis the evening of Aug. 10, 2014. Hell was breaking loose in Ferguson. As a St. Louis-area native, I was eager to know what was happening. Coverage on cable news networks was limited, and so I took to the internet and then social media to get first-hand accounts of what was taking place in the wake of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown Jr. by a white police officer, Darren Wilson.

Following #Ferguson as it trended on Twitter throughout the months that followed, I became more curious, as a journalism professor, about how social media might affect the relationship between traditional news media and the public. 

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