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(BPRW) #MOBEMondays session features leading voices of change in the advertising and broader marketing communications industry. - The Black Chronicle

(Black PR Wire) In the current climate of social unrest and cultural change, we are seeing emerging voices speaking truth to power on systemic racism and racial inequities. In the…

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“Institutional racism and historical discrimination have meant that Black workers have fared worse in the labor market, even in good times,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the progressive Economic Policy Institute who co-authored a report this week looking at the devastating toll COVID-19

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Killings of Arbery and Martin tragically similar

In both cases, prosecutors initially declined to prosecute and charges were filed only after weeks of sustained pressure from the Black communities in both Deep South

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Eure Sr., Dexter Dillard (1924-2015)

Dexter Dillard Eure Sr., pioneering black newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe, was born in Suffolk, Virginia, an only child to Luke Eure and Sarah Sharpe. His father left the family when he was an infant and his mother died when he was 12. Eure spent the rest of his young life going back and

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Source: Black Past

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2015

10 Classic Songs About Racism and Civil Rights

Racism in oldies music has been a recurring theme ever since the blues was born. Found as a means for expression for their anguish and strife, musicians took to their craft to pen powerful ballads about the real devastation experienced because of racism in 20th century

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Source: ThoughtCo

Harris, Barbara C. (1930- )

Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930. After graduating from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, she joined Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc., a black-owned public relations

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Source: Black Past

Uganda: Pandemic Accelerates Shifts in Office Designs, Limits Face to Face Interactions

Willis Otto Olanya employs people at Owel Architecture Limited and warns employers about the potential for liability should employees fall sick at the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States has been present since the colonial era. Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white Americans but denied to Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic and Latino Americans. European Americans (particularly the

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Phyllis Anderson

In this role, Anderson is responsible for the company’s marketing and corporate communications functions, including brand development, creative services, division marketing, events and public

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Source: Savoy Network

Keke Palmer Pleads With Members Of National Guard In Viral Video

Keke Palmer Emotionally Pleads With National Guardsmen To ‘March Beside via @keke/Instagram

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Georgianna Glose, a Nun and Activist for the Poor, Dies at 73

If you passed Georgianna Glose on the streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, you might have known her as that renegade nun, the one who left her convent to live among the poor and then blew a whistle on sexual abuse in the Catholic

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Source: Unpublished Black History

Cops Are ‘Shaking Their Heads’ At Biden As Military Leaders Distance Themselves From Trump

While one group seems to be condemning Donald Trump‘s rhetoric against protestors, the other group is taking issue with Democratic nominee Joe

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Source: NewsOne

TSD Flash!: Local protestors, supporters push forward for 'justice'

Memphis Police Department officers made moves to keep the groups apart, subsequently issuing dispersal orders in response to streets being blocked illegally, according to a police

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Black conservatism

Black conservatism is a political and social philosophy rooted in communities of African descent that aligns largely with the conservative ideology around the world. Since the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968), the African American community has often identified politically with liberals. Black

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Source: ThoughtCo

Africa's Media Hit Hard By COVID-19 Crisis

In normal times, reporters at the Nigerian independent radio network Dandal Kura International earn the equivalent of around $100

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Source: allAfrica.com

Burris, Roland (1937- )

On January 15, 2009 Roland Wallace Burris was sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burriss appointment made him the third African American U.S. Senator from the state and the sixth black U.S. Senator in the history of the United States. The appointment, however, was marred by controversy

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Source: Black Past

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2009

Racism Is A Public Health Crisis. Ohio Wants To Declare It A Statewide Emergency.

As nationwide protests continue over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck last month, Ohio is trying to declare racism a public health

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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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It Only Takes One

The individual captured on video slowly draining life from Mr. Floyd wore a uniform, but he did not represent its values – his actions were his

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400 ship workers tested for COVID-19

The taking of COVID-19 samples by the Ministry of Health and Wellness from Jamaican ship workers who arrived in the island on Tuesday is to go on break on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Meredith Marshall’s Mixed-Income Approach

The Crossing at Jamaica Station adds 669 units of residential, retail space and a community center in the New York City borough of

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Source: Multifamily Real Estate News | MultiHousing News

The Power of Race and Inequality in Amerikkka: The Miseducation of a Poor Black Girl from the North Side

Other experiences such as being followed around stores as a customer, being pulled out of a car during a ‘traffic stop’ being asked “where are the drugs” before asking for identification, being pulled over for having tinted windows, being pulled over and asked “what are you doing out here” every

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Tedx Speaker Dena Crowder Offers 6-Minute Guide on Transforming Trauma (WATCH)

Three people we have recently witnessed dying violently, people who died solely because as African Americans, their lives are not valued in this

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Everyday Value investing in Jamaica’s future

Everyday Value Jamaica Limited has demonstrated confidence in the future of Jamaica’s economy with its acquisition of St Bess Foods and Lowe’s Peanut Brittle Limited amid the downturn in global fortunes from the devastating impact of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities of Color in “America’s Suburb”

In the article below historian Jean-Paul R. deGuzman briefly introduces the multiethnic history of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, a popular region that one local chronicler calls nothing less than “America’s Suburb.” The narrative that follows, part of deGuzman doctoral

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Source: Black Past

Protest march in Ghana in wake of George Floyd killing as president denounces brutality

As nationals across the world solidarize with America’s black community in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by holding protest marches, Ghanaian nationals and their African-American counterparts resident in Ghana also held a peaceful protest march, which culminated in front of the US Embassy in

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

GBN Celebrates African American Music Appreciation Month 2020 (LISTEN)

June is African-American Music Appreciation Month and typically there are scores of live concerts and performances to honor the beauty, art, respite, truth, wisdom, information, strength, joy and freedom in the music Black people have created in this country – no matter the circumstances – and

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Uganda: Six Companies Authorised to Make Facemasks As Govt Moves to Ease Lockdown

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has authorised six companies to produce non-medical facemasks for over 30 million Ugandans aged six and above as government moves to ease the virus induced

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Source: allAfrica.com

Amid Uprisings, Schools Consider Terminating Their Contracts With Police

In Minneapolis, where protests exploded after a police officer killed local resident George Floyd, the school board voted Tuesday evening in favor of a resolution to cut ties with the police

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(BPRW) #MOBEMondays session features leading voices of change in the advertising and broader marketing communications industry. - The Black Chronicle

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