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E. Patrick Johnson has been named the next School of Communication dean, according to a Northwestern News
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School leaders to receive training to manage institutions remotely
(JIS): School leaders across Jamaica are to participate in a Virtual Instructional Leadership (VIL) online course to equip them with the skills and competencies to effectively manage institutions
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Kandi Burruss Tears Up Over Teaching Her Son Ace About Police Brutality: “That’s An Emotional Thing For Me”
Kandi Burruss recently revealed on an episode of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live that she had to have a difficult conversation with her children in regards to the current environment of continued police brutality on Black people and white
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COVID-19 in Zim: Where are we going?
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College of Charleston Remains Focused on Efforts to Improve Diversity, Inclusion
It’s been an unprecedented time in the Holy City and around the United States as people of all ages and races have taken to the streets in recent days to fight for social justice following the death of George Floyd, a black man, as a result of a forceful arrest by Minneapolis police
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Knights of St. Peter Claver (1909- )
The Knights of Peter Claver organization was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. It is the largest African American Catholic lay organization in the United States. The organization was founded by the Josephites, a Catholic order whose mission was to serve Catholic African Americans. Josephite
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the following article University of Oregon historian Carlos Aguirre describes the self-taught poet, writer, and folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz, one of the understudied black intellectual leaders in Peru and Latin
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Africa: WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT!
Dakar — Africans in Africa and Around the World in Solidarity With African-American Sisters And Brothers
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Innovations City Hosts Virtual Pitch Competition
Innovations City, a peer-to-peer online platform designed to help entrepreneurs, announced it will host its virtual global pitch competition for women of color entrepreneurs on May
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Only a few Texila students will take exams on campus
Students of Texila adapted to the online classes and we have received encouraging feedback from parents and active participation among the
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NFL Continues Strong Social Justice Initiative with $250 Million Commitment
The National Football League’s social justice initiative has continued to inspire change in underserved communities, including a $250 million commitment to bring awareness, dialogue, and a renewed direction to the conversation of racial and social
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Kyrie Irving and LeBron James Differ On Returning NBA Season
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Why special SME funds have yet to make big impact
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Skills threat that high-end hotels face on Covid-19 closures
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NFL to celebrate Juneteenth as official league holiday
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Africa: COVID Threatens Livelihood of 164 Million People in Africa's Informal Economy
The novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to destroy the livelihoods of more than 164 million workers in Africa's informal economy - the largest employing sector, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in its latest
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Clarinetist Anthony McGill Kneels, Pleads And Plays For Justice
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Nigeria: Justice for Uwa and Tina
Armed with research to prove how much better off our world would be with the rights of women and girls realised, we in the global advocacy community declared that it is well past time to start living in a gender equal
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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"
On June 7, 1966, New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy became one of the first major American politicians to take a public stand against South African Apartheid when he delivered an address to the National Union of South African Students in New York City.  His address appears
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Morocco: Reimaging Its Economic Model - Can Morocco Shift to Better Outcomes?
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Celebrating World Environment Day amid COVID-19
The year 2020 witnessed the event being celebrated not only in the background of climate change impacts, but also in the midst of COVID-19, a deadly pandemic that has caused massive human casualties around the
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Ex-guide feeds tourism workers who lost jobs
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Black Women CEOs Launch Online Singing Competition With $5K Cash Prizes to Help Boost the Economy
Nationwide — Meet A. Cookie Williams and Beth Noisette, two U.S. Army veterans that are also the co-founders of Sing2Bling.tv, an online platform that allows at-home users to submit their video performances for a chance to win weekly cash prizes of up to
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - UN Agency Seeks $182m for Families in North-East Nigeria
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Coronavirus deaths surge in Brazil, Mexico as regional leaders look to reopen
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