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Presbyterian Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to lead the US Bureau of the Census, dies at age 96

Posted March 8th, 2023

Barbara Everitt Bryant, a Presbyterian and the first woman to lead the U.S. Bureau of the Census, died March 2 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 96. Among her three children is Linda Bryant Valentine, the former executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

‘An outpouring of solidarity, care and concern’

Posted April 26th, 2021

At the Lived Theology in Asian America Conference on race, justice and politics held last week, Dr. Melissa Borja of the University of Michigan shared what she and her research team learned as they tracked stories in the media about anti-Asian racism and resistance to it over the past year.