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Sept. 4 | Live music and entertainment planned for Pennsylvania Avenue

(WEAA) —James Hamlin, owner of The Avenue Bakery is working to keep music, arts and Black culture alive on Pennsylvania Avenue, an area once known as the entertainment center for Baltimore. Chef Hamlin and The Royal Theater & Community Heritage Center have been hosting summer jazz concert series in the neighborhood for more than seven years.

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(WEAA) — (WEAA) — Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Women of Color STEM Conference is offering a digital experience this year. 

Marsha Reeves-Jews joins Two Way Talk to discuss the history of Women of Color and what we can expect from the online event.

Baltimore schools: Federal aid could make big impact

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BALTIMORE (AP) — Educators in Baltimore say an enormous infusion of federal dollars for COVID-19 relief has the potential to transform aspects of district school programming while also providing a rare opportunity to make some long-needed infrastructure upgrades.

John Davis, the Baltimore district’s chief of schools, said the system has some “very audacious plans” for the one-time federal recovery aid with a mix of infrastructure upgrades, programming and direct COVID-19 mitigation efforts.

Morgan News Hour: 8-25-2021

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Heartscape with Cari K. is shining the spotlight on local heroes and entrepreneurs who are striving to make a positive impact in their communities and beyond.  Lauren Grimes, a Washington, D.C native is the founder and CEO of the Community Enrichment Project. The non-profit organization, also known as CEP, was created to instill a strong sense of civic awareness and engagement in underserved communities.    

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Time's UP CEO Resigns Over Cuomo Fallout

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Tina Tchen has resigned from her position as president and CEO of Time's Up, an organization whose mission is to protect women from harassment. It was the latest fallout from charges that Times' Up leaders privately consulted with then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has denied accusations by 11 women that he sexually harassed them.

Sarah Jarosz On Mountain Stage

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In the past decade, multi-instrumentalist and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sarah Jarosz has become a household name in Americana music. The singer-songwriter signed to Sugar Hill Records in the late 2000s while she was still in high school.

If the intention of the attacks at the Kabul airport was to throw into disarray an already chaotic U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, the effects of Thursday's violence are only beginning to take shape. Flights have been taking off from the airport since the explosions occurred, and President Biden said the American withdrawal will continue.

"America will not be intimidated," Biden said.

Early in the pandemic, one bit of encouraging news was that children weren't as vulnerable to COVID-19 as adults.

But doctors who treat children with cancer had special concerns.

These kids have impaired white blood cells — the ones that fight infection. That can be a result of the cancer itself or of cancer treatments like chemotherapy. So when it comes to common respiratory infections like the flu, children with cancer tend to show more severe symptoms.

Would COVID also be more severe in this population?

Updated August 26, 2021 at 7:22 PM ET

The group known as ISIS-K had long planned attacks on American personnel and others. That's one reason why President Biden said he wanted to limit the duration of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Updated August 26, 2021 at 7:19 PM ET

President Biden on Thursday delivered a stark message to those who carried out the deadly attack outside the airport in Kabul that left 13 U.S. service members dead, while also pledging that the evacuation of Afghanistan will continue.

"Know this," Biden said to the attackers. "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:

For more reaction to the day's events, we're going to bring in Democratic Congressman Jason Crow from Colorado. He's also an Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Welcome back to the program.

JASON CROW: Hi, Audie.

CORNISH: We heard the president say today that the evacuation effort must continue. But to you, does the loss of U.S. service members today change your perspective on what needs to happen in Afghanistan?

Women's Equality Day is all about celebrating equal rights, but it's important to note that when women first won the right to vote more than a century ago, equal rights weren't so equal.

The basics of Women's Equality Day are easy enough to understand: we celebrate it because on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified, making it illegal to deny citizens the right to vote based on sex.

Here's what you might not know: the blanket use of the word "women" when discussing what the 19th Amendment changed is misleading.

Sahar Education, a small, U.S.-based nonprofit that works in Afghanistan, was in the process of building a new boarding school for girls in the northern part of the country – until the Taliban regained control of the capital on Aug. 15.

That's when Sahar decided to pause all operations. It stopped construction of the school and removed anything from its website that might reveal the identities of its students and staff.

As she does ahead of every school year, Karen Schwind and the team of school nurses she manages in the New Braunfels Independent School District in central Texas spent a lot of time checking every student's immunization records against the state's database.

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Start your Sunday morning on the right note with Gospel Grace at Day Break with host Ernestine Jones. Hear the best in gospel music every Sunday starting at 5 am.
Keep your Sunday inspiration going with Gospel Grace Sunday Brunch with Jamal McCollum. The show airs every Sunday from 10 am- 1 pm.
The flagship show of WEAA’s gospel programming, Gospel Grace Afternoon airs Sundays from 1-5 p.m. and is hosted by Joi Thomas.

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