Daily Lumina News 030122

For three nights every other week, congregants at Temple Beth Elohim gather in the synagogue’s kitchen to create meals for their neighbors a couple of miles away at MassBay Community College.
The volunteer workers cook, package, freeze, and deliver 120 meals every two weeks to the campus in Wellesley Hills as a part of a new partnership to help students struggling with food insecurity.

Miaja Jefferson is no stranger to adversity. As a young teen, she found herself homeless, pregnant, and in foster care.
Jefferson's life could have taken a very different turn if not for a conversation with a caring Cobb County police officer. That encouragement inspired her to earn a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Kennesaw State University. Today, Jefferson is joining the police department.

The hiring pathway hasn’t evolved as much as one might think. That's why Google’s announcement of a $100 million training fund to help 20,000 workers is so significant.
Not only is the company betting big on a new kind of training—its own Career Certificates program—but the initiative also involves two partners, Merit America and Year Up, who are among an emerging cadre of nonprofits rethinking how the country recruits and trains workers for the new tech economy.

Cornell Watson’s photographs are supposed to be hanging right now in a gallery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That exhibit, titled “Tarred Healing,” focused on places of importance to the Black community in and around the university.
Instead, the exhibit was canceled. The gallery's decision raises questions about whether university officials sought to censor images depicting the school in an unflattering light, including photographs of the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure case.