Controversial Rock Creek Park Golf Course Renovation Receives Final Green Light

Rwanda: Inside the Country's 10 Multi-Billion Dollar Green Projects

Rwanda recently submitted its new national climate plan dubbed "Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Playing Golf Alone Without the Caddies

Because golf is an outdoor activity that also provides companionship for many people, Jessy says, he misses the 19th hole, a word golfers use for a pub, bar, or restaurant on or near the golf course, very often the clubhouse

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Source: Business Daily

Nation’s Oldest Rodeo Still On In Okmulgee: Roy LeBlanc Invitational Rodeo Marks 65th Year | The Oklahoma Eagle

Okmulgee, Okla. – The 65th annual Okmulgee Roy LeBlanc Invitational Rodeo, the nation’s oldest all-black professional rodeo event, has announced plans to proceed with staging this year’s program in August as it considers different scenarios related to the global coronavirus

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Op-Ed: The remarkable idiocy of holding a Trump rally in Tulsa | The Atlanta Voice

Like many others, I was startled to learn that President Donald Trump was resuming his campaign barnstorming in

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Samsung and All Def Digital Collaborate to Discover The Next Big Thing in Music

l to r: Steve Rifkind, Russell Simmons, Todd Pendleton and DJ Skee at launch of ADD52 at SXSW

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Tourism, fishing trawlers hurt seagrasses of East Africa - UN

In its new report titled Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, launched on World Oceans Day on June 8, Unep blames these unsustainable activities for a deteriorating coastal ecosystem, a decline in coastal productivity, and affected certain supportive functions

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Source: The East African

Coronavirus Illinois: COVID-19 cases top 110K with over 4.8K deaths; Pritzker releases Phase 3 reopening guidelines | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Governor JB Pritzker has released guidelines tailored to specific industries such as restaurants, retail and health and fitness centers as Illinois prepares to enter Phase 3 of the governor’s reopening plan

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Huawei and Mustek: Connected collaboration

According to Donna Mostert, Huawei business unit manager at Mustek, strong and strategic partnerships allow for an organisation to build stable foundations and explore new ways of engaging with customers and

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Source: TechCentral

Kenya: Small-Scale Farmers to Get Sh3 Billion in Stimulus Package

Small-scale farmers will receive Sh3 billion from the stimulus package announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta through an e-voucher system, which subsidises

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: Security Vs Efficiency - Smart Ports in a Post-COVID-19 Era

Improving the efficiency and capacity of African ports is a major policy goal for the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities, as well as organisations such as the Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern

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Source: allAfrica.com

The Bridge Charity Golf Classic Presented by The Doswell Foundation | Dallas Weekly

The Bridge Charity Golf Classic Presented by The Doswell Foundation

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Tanzania, Kenya in line for fibre optic hook-up

Kenya and Tanzania are among 16 African countries set to benefit from 2Africa, a subsea 4G and 5G Internet project that will link them Europe and the Middle

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Source: The East African

Gibson, Althea (1927-2003)

Althea Gibson, a sharecropper’s daughter, entered the world of sports when segregation severely limited opportunities for African Americans. She eventually became the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis and

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Source: Black Past

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New Techniques for Water Conservation

At first glance, one can sense a disconnect between water pollution and construction—until contractors and builders follow the movement of

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Source: Brothers on Sports

Dallas' Environmental and Climate Action Plan | Dallas Weekly

Dallas’ Environmental and Climate Action Plan

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Source: Dallas Weekly

MTN 5G launch: Everything you need to know

MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa

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Source: TechCentral

Faron Young

Faron Young , (born Feb. 25, 1932, Shreveport, Louisiana,—died Dec. 10, 1996 , Nashville, Tenn.), . American singer, one of the most popular country music performers of the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s. He was known as the “Young Sheriff, which he later changed to the “Singing

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Source: Brittanica

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US faces Memorial Day like no other

ATLANTA, United States (AP) — Americans marked a Memorial Day like no other yesterday as the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional commemorations and forced communities to honour the nation's military dead with smaller, more subdued ceremonies like car convoys and online tributes instead of

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Woods, Eldrick “Tiger” (1975- )

Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was born on December 30, 1975 in Cypress, California to parents Earl and Kultida Woods. Woods was given the nickname Tiger after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father’s. He grew up watching his father play golf and at the age of two, he was putting with

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Source: Black Past

Dec

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1975

Florida, Texas and Arizona see record highs for new COVID-19 cases

Three Republican-led states are seeing a record number of new COVID-19 cases since their

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Source: theGrio

BET founder Robert Johnson says Dems taking black voters 'for granted,' calls for BLM to form party

BET founder Robert Johnson says the Democratic Party has taken black voters in America for granted, and he urges the ascendant Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to form a new third party to fight for their

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civil rights: Civil Rights in the United States

Since the Civil War , much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. The first legislative attempts to assure African Americans an equal political and legal status were the Civil Rights Acts of

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Hampton U. Axes Golf Program Amid Economic Fallout from COVID-19

Hampton University's Department of Athletics announced it will discontinue its men's and women's golf programs, a result of the negative financial impact of the COVID-19

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Source: The Washington Informer

Charlie Ward

Showing athletic gift and interest in various sports from a young age, Charlie Ward was born on October 12, 1970 in Thomasville, Georgia. Having his own father as the coach, Ward starred on the football and basketball teams of his high school, showing the signs of a star from the start and led his

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Source: Black History Resources

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Uganda: More Ugandans Turn to Mobile Money

Uganda's mobile financial services continued to register steady growth with the quarter ending December 2019 realising 700,000 new mobile money

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ways to lift Kenya from global environmental ranking bottom list

It is, therefore, no surprise that Kenya ranks among bottom 50 countries in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) – a biennial scorecard of countries on a range of sustainability

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Source: Business Daily

Renewable electricity suppliers gaining ground in South Africa

The total generating capacity of green energy in South Africa is approaching 2.5GW – just less than the average produced by Eskom’s fleet

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Source: TechCentral

US Autoworkers Return, While Possible Vaccine Shows Promise

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and

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Source: Black America Web

VW launches smart-car app in South Africa

Volkswagen has launched its We Connect Go “connected car” app to South Africans who own the

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Source: TechCentral

President Bio takes to the red carpet in style to launch national tree planting

Launching the country’s national tree planting, afforestation, and reforestation project at Mortomeh in Bathurst, Freetown two days ago, 5th June 2020, this is what president

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