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World Bank approves $50 million grant to improve quality of education in Sierra Leone

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved a $50 million grant to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s flagship program for Free Quality School Education launched in

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Ghana coronavirus: 5,127 cases; Obuasi becomes latest hotspot

April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Two Region Nine students with COVID-19 to get secondary school placements

Two Region Nine students with COVID-19 to get secondary school placements -some still worried about safety ahead of exams

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Rwanda: Ministers Inspect New Model Village, Other Projects in Nyagatare

Five ministers on Saturday, June 13, visited Gishuro IDP Model Village in Tabagwe Sector, Nyagatare District, in a visit inspecting several projects that are expected to be inaugurated on Liberation Day, July

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Source: allAfrica.com

Primary, secondary schools reopen in Cameroon

More than two months after suspension of classes due to the coronavirus in Cameroon, primary and secondary school students returned to school on

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Emory University suspends SAT/ACT requirements for 2020-21

“With this change, Emory will take this year as an opportunity to re-examine its selection process, to study indicators of academic promise, and to assess how we can further advance equity, access and the diversity of our extraordinary student community,” says John Latting, dean of

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

She Does It Your Way | Dallas Weekly

They have married couples live on Good Morning Texas, at the State Fair of Texas, in a coffee shop, at Whataburger, and many other

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Growth & Jobs | Young make-up artist innovates amid COVID-19

AT A time when many entrepreneurs are feeling the financial pinch from the fallout of business, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, certified make-up artist Teeah Anderson has decided to re-strategise her business model in order to continue to earn

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Why There's A Push To Get Police Out Of Schools

At least two-thirds of American high school students attend a school with a police officer, according to the Urban Institute, and that proportion is higher for students of

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Source: Stories About Black History

Universal service fund looks to bridge digital learning gap

The fund, managed by the Universal Service Advisory Council (USAC) under the tutelage of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) , has seen the CA roll out ICT projects in areas that previously could not access these services

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Source: Business Daily

Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)

Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was

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Source: Black Past

‘The Fatal Conscience’: Julia de Burgos, Puerto Rico’s Greatest Poet

In 1928, when Julia de Burgos was fourteen, Hurricane San Felipe devastated Puerto

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Source: The New York Review of Books

Ghana coronavirus: 6,269 cases, 'learn to live with virus' - prez urges

Total confirmed cases = 6,269 (new cases

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism – Free Press of Jacksonville

Mattis, along with Urooj Rahman, 31, was arrested in New York City on May 30 during protests against racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Jordan, June (1936-2002)

June Meyer Jordan, writer, editor, poet, educator, environmental and social activist, was the only child of Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maude Fischer Jordan who were Jamaican immigrants. June was born in Harlem on July 9, 1936. June’s father worked as a night shift postal clerk and her mother

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Virtual Townhall: Erasing the Opportunity Gap Created by COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic and the creation of emergency education has put parents, teachers, administrators, and community advocates in panic mode trying to figure out how to ensure the opportunity gap doesn’t exponentially widen for Black

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

All the Black & Brown Virtual Graduation Ceremonies To Check Out So You Don’t Feel Left Out

2 Event: iHeartMedia “Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020” When: May 15 If ceremonies aren’t your thing and you’d likely be forced to walk across the stage by your family, podcasts might be more your vibe. 3 Event: “Show Me Your Walk HBCU Edition” When: May 16 Dreamt of Barack O

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

June 25, 2020

Stay connected and let us know what you’re thinking on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @DefenderNetwork. Plus, discover on DefenderNetwork.com agencies and companies offering funding to small businesses, the latest on exercise and nutrition, and if you’re a recent high school or college

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Jazz Competition For High School Students Goes Virtual

NEW YORK (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition Festival, but it will still go on, giving students the chance to show their talents

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Source: Black America Web

Boston Busing Case

Morgan v. Hennigan, 379 F. Supp. 410 (D.C. Mass., June

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Cal State LA graduating student strives to help children feel understood

As a speech language pathologist, Theora Brown wants to help young children feel

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Graduating Senior, Khloee Williams Shares How Evolution Academy Helped Her Overcome Bullying and Rise to the Top | Afro

EVOLUTION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL STUDENTS DEFEAT ALL ODDS TO GET TO GRADUATION DAY

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Sextuplets Who Once Appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show Just Graduated From High School

Nationwide — The Harris family sextuplets from Alabama, who are known for being the first surviving set of Black sextuplets in the U.S., are once again making international

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

‘He Looks Like Babyface’: Toni Braxton Fans Do a Double Take After the Legend Posts Son’s Graduation Picture

The R&B living legend took to Instagram to celebrate her oldest son, Denim Braxton-Lewis, on his milestone achievement of graduating from high school, but his resemblance to Braxton’s producer and longtime friend Kenneth “Babyface” Edmunds turned a few

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

(1903) W.E.B. Du Bois, “Training Negroes for Social Power”

In this 1903 speech, W.E.B. Du Bois describes his educational philosophy and in the process, contrasts his views with those of the Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington who was then at the height of his

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Source: Black Past

Local funeral home owner and businessman Arthur Reid, Jr., passes at age 82

Arthur Reid, Jr., business man, founder and president of Reid’s New Golden Gate Funeral Home and a longtime benefactor of student education in Milwaukee, died Wednesday, May

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

16-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man

“An estimated 23% of girls in Kenya are married before their 18th birthdays, the main reasons being gender inequality, poverty and traditional beliefs,” said Joshua Ole Kaputa, a children’s rights crusader and peace

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Source: South Florida Times

Transition to CBC enters homestretch, says Magoha

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Source: Business Daily

Opinion: The intersection of rage, fear and hope

The hardest thing I had to do last week was explain to my sons why they are hated by certain people, and how their skin color will be weaponized against

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

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