Rwanda: Kigali Innovation City Is a Catalyst for Rwanda's Technological Leap

National Black Chamber of Commerce

The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) was incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., in 1993. It is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities. Additionally, the organization indicates that it

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The USA premier marketplace for skills launches its services

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Steve Pamon, President of Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment Company, Shares Sound Advice for HBCU Grads

Steve Pamon, the president and chief operating officer of Beyoncé’s management and production company, Parkwood Entertainment, has a message for the class of 2020: your biggest hater is

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Rwanda: 1 in 9 Rwandans Owns a Business

Though 53 per cent of the businesses are not formally registered, the report's authors pointed out that the growth in business owners and businesses may indicate the attention given to developing the micro, small and medium business

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Rwanda: How Taxi-Motos Comply With COVID-19 Measures

She also observes if all passengers are given sanitizers to wash their hands before the ride, or if the passengers have well fit cloths to wear under the

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Rwanda: Kabuga Arrest Puts UK's Attitude Back in the Spotlight

Andrew Mitchell, a British Conservative Party politician and former secretary of state for international development, is among the voices now again urging legal authorities in his country to act on five genocide perpetrators living in the UK, "not in hiding but in plain

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'We Don't Speak': Sierra Gates Reveals Her Standing with Karlie Redd, Discuss Virtual Reunion Rumors and Helping Women Secure the Bag

Glam Shop founder and television personality Sierra Gates is getting real about her successful career as a serial entrepreneur and starring on popular VH1 show “Love and Hip

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Top Financial Educator Launches First Hip-Hop Inspired Daily Finance Show

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New Black-Owned Financial Literacy Board Game That Sold Out in Days is Now Available to Pre-Order

Nationwide — Sense 2 Cents, a financial literacy company for children and young adults, has produced an immersive financial literacy board game to develop children’s financial management and decision-making skills while engaging in leisurely

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'Matchet man' in Rwandan genocide wants French trial

One of the most wanted fugitives in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Felicien Kabuga, appeared before a French court Wednesday (May 20), days after his arrest but a decision on his fate was delayed until next

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Fulton County Library System welcomes guest reader Stacey Abrams

The Fulton County Library System’s Summer Reading Program kicked off Monday, June 1 with a full week of exciting guest speakers, including best-selling author Nic Stone, local politicians, Lucy McBath and Park Cannon and local artists from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Dad’s Garage Theatre

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How Rwanda is spurring a generation of women in technology

The government of Rwanda has been a foremost champion of women in ICT and in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also known as STEM), by driving initiatives like the establishment of the Carnegie Mellon University-Africa campus, for which the Bank provided

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McDonald's USA Launches Fund for HBCU Students | Dallas Weekly

Powered by the company’s Black Positively Golden movement, McDonald’s is also furthering its investment in the next generation of women leaders in partnership with ESSENCE Girls

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Rwanda: Muhitira in Early Preps for Kigali Peace Marathon

Félicien Muhitira, Rwanda's finest middle and long distance runner, has resumed training as he gears up for the 16th Kigali International Peace

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Rwanda: How Two Sectors in Rwamagana Are Becoming Key Suppliers of Fresh Foodstuff

Speraton Ntawumenyumunsi, a farmer in the area has more than 10 hectares of coffee, banana, macadamia, passion fruits, tamarillos and pineapples among

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Russell Westbrook, Stanley Nelson Jr. To Create Docuseries About Black Wall Street

According to Variety, the Houston Rockets point guard is teaming up with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. for the creation of a docuseries about the Tulsa race massacre that happened in

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McDonald’s USA Launches $500,000 Scholarship Fund to Help HBCU Student

McDonald’s USA today announced the launch of its $500,000 Black & Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of

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She Represents: Dr. LaTonya Bias | Dallas Weekly

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International Finance: Casablanca Finance City Wins The Africa Economy Builders’ Grand Prize

Casablanca Finance City (www.cfca.ma) was awarded last Thursday in Abidjan the “Africa Economy Builders’ Grand Prize” in recognition for its performance and contribution to the development of

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Walker, Madam C. J.

Walker, Madam C. J., 1867–1919, African-American entrepeneur, b. Delta, La., as Sarah Breedlove. Thought to be Americas first black female millionaire, this daughter of ex-slaves was orphaned at 7, working at 10, married at 14, and a widow with an infant daughter at 20. She worked as a domestic

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Rwanda: Rise in COVID-19 Cases Derails Rwanda's Plan to Lift Lockdown

Rwanda on Sunday reported 11 new coronavirus cases, the highest number of infections reported in two weeks, a development that has frustrated the country's plan to reopen the

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Rev. Dr. Jim Holley hosts new weekday morning drive-time radio program on 910 AM Superstation

Since his installment as senior pastor of the Historic Little Rock Baptist Church in Detroit on June 9, 1972, Rev. Dr. Jim Holley has built an on-going reputation as one of the top pastors in

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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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EAC tops $2.3b Covid-19 loans in three months

East African countries have borrowed nearly $2.3 billion new loans in less than three months since reporting the first Covid-19 positive case, adding to the region’s mounting debts at a time of shrinking tax

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D'SOUZA: Kenya’s economic stimulus package 2 will fall far short

This came a few weeks after he announced a raft of tax and expenditure measures to cushion the economy from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, his first ESP as

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Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise

Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and entrepreneur, born

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BUWEMBO: Restore sanity in Kampala? You must be joking, right?

Of course, the police had little power of the thousands of boda boda motorbikes and hundreds of wild VIPs with blaring sirens driving on the wrong side of the road, even on Sunday mornings when the traffic was

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Window opens for Burundi and Rwanda relations after frosty spell

President Paul Kagame’s condolence message to Burundians following the death of the outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza marked his first public message to the country since relations between Rwanda and Burundi turned sour in

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Rwanda Faults Cross-Border Movement for Resurging Virus Cases

A day after Rwanda reported 11 new Covid-19 cases, President Paul Kagame hinted at suspending resumption of public transport even as he blamed cross-border movement for the

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Fund to Raise $2M For Black Hairstylists | Afro

NEW #SAVETHESALON FUND TO RAISE $2 MILLION FOR BLACK HAIRSTYLISTS

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