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El Paso (Texas) Chapter, The Links Incorporated invite you to participate in a survey about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

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The El Paso Black K.A.R.E. Initiative is sponsored by the El Paso (TX) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated through a sub-grant funded by Baxter Healthcare Corporation.  We proudly, are amongst 14 chapters in the Western Area of The Links, Incorporated chosen to be a part of the Black K.A.R.E. Initiative.   ​

K.A.R.E. stands for kidney awareness, resources, and education and is a project focused on increasing awareness, recognition, prevention, and positive treatment outcomes for African Americans with chronic kidney disease.  It is reported that African Americans represent 35% of the people in the United States afflicted with kidney failure while only representing 13% of its population.  This initiative will focus on kidney education and awareness for early detection, prevention, nutrition and healthy physical lifestyles in the Black community.​

We thank our community organizations for partnering with us on this journey.  Your participation is life-saving.

El Paso (Texas) Chapter, The Links Incorporated.

Please complete the quick survey below.

President Joe Biden to visit El Paso Sunday

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by Robert Moore, El Paso Matters
January 5, 2023

President Joe Biden will visit El Paso on Sunday, his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office in 2021.

Few details of the visit have been released, but White House officials said the president will “address border enforcement operations and meet with local officials,” Politico reported.

Biden’s trip was announced Thursday just before his administration announced additional measures to try to slow the influx of migrants crossing into El Paso and other border communities.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has invited Biden to come to El Paso since before he took office. She said his visit Sunday is timely and important.

“El Paso has been the epicenter of this humanitarian crisis. We are feeling the effects of decades of failed and outdated immigration policy,” Escobar said.

“I am proud to have President Biden join us at our nation's front door to witness firsthand the depth of what we are facing and the tremendous collaboration and goodwill of El Pasoans as we continue to ask our Republican colleagues to work with us on true solutions,” she said.

Biden will stop in El Paso on his way to a meeting in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.

This article first appeared on El Paso Matters and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

MLK El Paso Statement on Shootings in Buffalo, NY

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The shooting of thirteen innocent individuals last Saturday in Buffalo, New York, is another example of the seemingly endless violence committed against people of color in our country daily.  A volatile combination of assault weapon accessibility, misguided ideologies of hate, domestic terrorism, and tactics of white genocide adopted by an eighteen-year-old resulted in the deaths of ten Blacks and three wounded.  The teenager accused of killing Blacks in the Buffalo supermarket massacre posted a rambling white supremacist manifesto that spewed a racist philosophy and outlined step-by-step plans to exterminate Blacks in the U.S.

On behalf of the El Paso MLK Committee, we offer our sincere condolences to the families of the victims of this horrific tragedy. We pray that God will strengthen, encourage, and uplift you during this extremely difficult time. 

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.”  We pray the El Paso Community will continue to align itself with local law enforcement agencies, faith-based groups, school administrators, school districts, parents, organizations, and entrepreneurs to eradicate the threat of violence.

Humbly submitted,

Bishop Albert J. Mays, Jr., MA. ED, ED (c), D.D.

President

MLK Committee