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Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — For instance, Amazon fired Black and brown workers who have organized to demand more substantial health and safety protections. Thousands of Instacart workers, many of whom are women of color, are reportedly waiting for face masks and hand sanitizer promised months ago. Three out of

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Melissa Mitchell On Finding Her Purpose As A Painter And Being A Master Manifestor: I Kept Praying For My Why And God Gave Me Art

"To be a Black woman with a brush and a platform, I've got to be a whole Harriet out here for the art world because it's like now that I have everybody looking at me, here's the rest of my sisters."

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An Introduction to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is relatively improbable that you hear about Cryptocurrency, and its twinnie Blockchain for the first time. This is due to its current rate of adoption among people and business corporations worldwide. If Crypto is experiencing a high level of passage in the world today and is

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Kenneth E. Coleman named first black CEO of Birmingham’s top business group

birminghambusinessalliance.com Kenneth E. Coleman has been named president and CEO of the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), the region’s leading economic development organization. He is the first African-American to hold that position and its predecessor organization the Birmingham Regional

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Star-studded lineup planned for first Black Press virtual convention - DefenderNetwork.com

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancelation and rescheduling of many events. For the first time in the 80-year history of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and the 193 years of the Black Press of America, the pandemic has resulted in the first virtual conference. “This

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Two Black Harvard grads have redefined ‘nude’ by launching a makeup line for all complexions | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Kristine Solomon, Yahoo Lifestyle Have you ever looked for the perfect nude lipstick? Amanda E. Johnson had been searching for three years when she finally vented her frustration to K.J. Miller, a friend and fellow Harvard Business School graduate. Zeroing in on the right neutral is

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Transport and logistics start up defy economic headwinds

Transport and Logistics start-up, MartGreen international is gradually penetrating the cut throat market despite the economic challenges bedeviling the economy with a view to position itself as a transnational cargo transportation entity. BY FIDELITY MHLANGA The company which began operations in

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Millions of African Women At Risk Because of COVID | Afro

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Rebecca Nakamanya rolls her eyes, dismissing a question about school fees. What really worries her is how to feed three children and a jobless partner on a daily wage of less than $3, minus transport to and from her job as a cook. “We have

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Big Mac Racism at McDonald's | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Under the guise of reorganizing the way they manage the franchise system, the restaurant system across the country, they basically decimated the ranks of the African American leadership and employees,” Caruso said. “That to me is one of the most glaring act of intentional

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Patrick Mahomes scores $450M contract extension - TheGrio

Kansas City waited 50 years for a Super Bowl championship. Now theyve broken open the Brinks truck to make sure... View Article The post Patrick Mahomes scores $450M contract extension appeared first on TheGrio.

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Our HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again.

Today America has 101 HBCUs located in 19 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These institutions had to overcome tremendous obstacles just to come into existence. They are adversity-hardened and time-tested. Working together, and working with willing partners in both

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Stocks slink back as virus outbreaks dim recovery hopes - Black News Channel

By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. stocks are slipping in early trading on Tuesday, giving back some of their big gains from the past couple weeks. The SP 500 was 0.3% lower, as of 9:50 a.m. Eastern time. Stocks were down even more in France, Germany and elsewhere after the

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Senate Extends Small Business COVID-19 Relief Program - Black News Channel

By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press/ BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats drove a temporary extension of a popular subsidy program for small businesses through the GOP-controlled Senate late Tuesday, an unexpected development that came as spikes in coronavirus cases in many states are causing

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Star-Studded Lineup Planned for First Black Press Virtual Convention | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on African Americans and other people of color throughout the United States. Yet, coupled with that viral pandemic is the continuing epidemic of racism in America that is unabated with the fatal realities of racially

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Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Join Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Williams, whose transformed RB, pop, and gospel music over her extraordinary five-decade career, joins Stephanie Mills, Anthony Hamilton, Carlos Santana, and Salt-N-Pepa in a star-studded lineup of musical talent appearing at the first virtual conference in the 193-year history of

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Layoffs stuck at high level as 1.3 million seek jobless aid - Black News Channel

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high pace that shows that many employers are still laying people off in the face of a resurgent coronavirus. The persistently elevated level of

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Super-sized racism: former McDonalds execs strike back in explosive race

Trevor Coleman and Trevor W. Coleman II For more than 50 years the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial diversity as a critical

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Meet the entrepreneur breaking barriers in the cannabis industry

In the competitive cannabis industry, Hope Wiseman is a boss amongst bosses. By the age of 26, she made history as the youngest Black woman dispensary owner in the U.S. Beyond entrepreneurship, she is looking to break down stigmas, raise awareness and educate about the positive impact cannabis can

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US consumer spending up 8.2%, partly erasing record plunge - Black News Channel

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The American consumer increased spending by a record 8.2% in May, partly erasing record plunges the previous two months, against the backdrop of an economy thats likely shrinking by its steepest pace on record this quarter. Last months

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Scammers see COVID-19 as an opportunity | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Tyler Fenwick, The Indianapolis Recorder One of the common ways scammers get people to fall for their tricks is by stirring up emotions — anger, panic, excitement, anything to make unsuspecting victims venture away from rational thought. What a gift, then, COVID-19 has been to scammers because

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African, East European fresh foods virtual trade fair can be template for Caribbean - Stabroek News

With the COVID-19 pandemic challenging the international community to find ways around the restraints imposed by social distancing, there is evidence that some countries are already embracing technology to arrive as close as they can to a condition of normalcy insofar as interaction associated with

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The Carr Report: Nine things you can do with money | New Pittsburgh Courier

by Damon Carr, For New Pittsburgh Courier As adolescents we often hear our parents say “money doesn’t grow on trees”. As parents we echo the same words to our children. That’s truly the only money advice we receive from our parents. It’s the only money advice we give to our children. We generally

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Kanye West congratulates wife Kim Kardashian for becoming a billionaire - TheGrio

Just weeks after Kylie Jenner was slammed by Forbes for allegedly faking her financial status, Kanye West has taken to social media to congratulate who he says is the new billionaire in the family: his wife. READ MORE: Meet the Black prison reform warriors behind new Third Strike project and who

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Ben Crump Heralded as Black America's Attorney General | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, and Breonna Taylor, gunned down in her bed by Louisville police in

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(BPRW) AHF Lauds San Bernardino County on Declaration that Racism is a Public Health Crisis; Urges Others to Follow Suit | Press releases

[ad_1] (BPRW) AHF Lauds San Bernardino County on Declaration that Racism is a Public Health Crisis; Urges Others to Follow Suit In ‘historic’ 5-to-0 vote Tuesday, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors formerly declared racism a public health crisis, vowing to identify, confront and defeat

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(BPRW) Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Slams Delaware Department of Correction and Governor Carney for Politicizing Mask Donations | Press releases The Black Chronicle

(BPRW) Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware Slams Delaware Department of Correction and Governor Carney for Politicizing Mask Donations The DOC rejected 4,600 masks from Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware in

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Food Secure - Stabroek News

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Gold prices - Stabroek News

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday July 9, 2020 The article Gold prices appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Eighteen million barrels of Venezuela’s ‘untouchable’ oil languishing at sea - Stabroek News

As if Venezuela’s economic woes were not enough to demand the full-time attention of President Nicholas Maduro and his government, the administration in Caracas must contend as well with the pressures of working out just how it extricates

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Government shutters EcoCash - NewsDay Zimbabwe

The government on Friday struck a mortal blow on Econet, suspending mobile money transactions, which will affect EcoCash the most, and suspended trade on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange in an effort to contain the collapse of the country’s currency. In a statement on Friday evening, the permanent

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