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Rep. Karen Bass Makes History as L.A.’s First Black Woman Mayor
“The challenges we face affect us all, and all of us must be a part of our solutions,” said Mayor-Elect Karen Bass in a prepared statement. “Los Angeles is the greatest city on Earth. I know, if we come together, hold each other accountable, and focus on the best of who we are and what we can
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COMMENTARY: To Be Equal #41: House Oversight Committee’s Revelations are Merely the Tip of Trump’s Iceberg of Graft | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A Washington Post investigation found that Trump’s company raked in at least $2.5 million in taxpayer money and $5.6 million in campaign funds during his presidency, — an incomplete accounting, as several federal agencies refused to turn over records to the Post. The
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COMMENTARY: What Must Be Done with White Reconstruction
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Unlike one hundred years ago, we know what’s coming and what we can do to stop such actions. We know that from the increase in hate crimes and racism, much of it fueled by the actions of our former President, that racism on the part of conservative and right-wing whites is fear of
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Last Weekend to View African American Artist Faith Ringgold Special Exhibit at San Francisco’s de Young Museum
The exhibit, titled ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’, is on display until Sunday, Nov. 27, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San
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Milwaukee Academy of Science Celebrates A Week in Tech - Milwaukee Community Journal
Milwaukee Academy of Science (MAS), located on Milwaukee’s northwest side, is celebrating A Week in Tech where students from K4 to 12th grade are engaging in unique activities designed to […]
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Superb Woman: Evelyn Dickerson - Texas Metro News
She’s the gift that keeps on giving! After a rich and rewarding career in the Dallas ISD where she designed and implemented a model early childhood education for three and four year olds at the Jimmie Tyler Brashear Early Childhood Center; Evelyn Dickerson continued her life of service. She ended
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IMF delegation and Joint UN/ECOWAS Mission Team visit Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2022: Following her court appearance last week, which many now believe to be nothing, but an unnecessary and costly political storm created by the government to malign and harass the Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr over a trumped-up charge of police
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San Francisco Named Host City for 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Summit
Asian Americans account for about a third of San Francisco’s total population, and San Francisco has Sister City relationships with cities throughout the region, including Osaka, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh, Manila, Sydney, and Shanghai. San Francisco’s Chinatown is the first in North America and one of
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IN MEMORIAM: NAACP Mourns the Passing of Cecilia Marshall, Former NAACP Legal Secretary - Texas Metro News
Cecilia 'Cissy' Marshall, widow of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, has died. She was 94. Remembered as an historian and civil rights activist,CeciliaSuyatMarshall, a Filipino born in Hawaii, came to the United States in 1948.She was a former NAACP legal secretary. In a statement released
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Panel Discusses Supreme Court Case Threatening End of Affirmative Action
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media A webinar hosted by ChangeLawyers, the American Constitution Society (ACS) Bay Area, and Equal Justice Society was held Nov. 15 to discuss the possible outcomes of the pending decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in the case of
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PRESS ROOM: Walgreens Launches Free Paxlovid Delivery Services with DoorDash and Uber | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — This initiative is aimed at increasing access to COVID-19 treatment, with a focus on reaching those in socially vulnerable or medically underserved areas at a time when COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise again across the United States. According to Walgreens COVID-19 Index
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PGA of America Offers Short-Term Employment Opportunities in Support of 2023 Major Championships through PGA JobMatch | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “We are committed to creating a golf industry workforce that reflects the demographics of America,” said PGA of America Chief People Officer Sandy Cross. “PGA JobMatch provides unique and valuable experiences working at some of golf’s most high-profile championships for individuals
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Superb Woman: LaToya Hardaway - Texas Metro News
A graduate of MacArthur High School, she studied Psychology at East Texas State University and she also attended the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management. Latoya is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.For almost 15 years she has been a marketing agent for Kauwuane Burton
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Buffalo mass shooter gets life in prison - Garland Journal
ByStacy M. Brown A White man who traveled to a Buffalo grocery store in May and killed 10 African Americans, including Black Press writer Katherine Massey, pled guilty to 25 […] The post Buffalo mass shooter gets life in prison appeared first on Garland Journal.
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IN MEMORIAM: NAACP Mourns the Passing of Cecilia Marshall, Former NAACP Legal Secretary - Garland Journal
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WNBA Star Brittney Griner Arrives Back in Texas - Texas Metro News
A Gulfstream jet carrying WNBA star Brittney Griner landed at about 5:30 a.m. E.T. at San Antonio’s Kelly Air Force Base. The post WNBA Star Brittney Griner Arrives Back in Texas appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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Jack Nicklaus Once Again Surprises Military Veterans with a Golf Lesson in Honor of Veterans Day and the PGA National Day of HOPE
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The PGA of America reaches out to Veterans, they reach out to all different people,” explained Jack Nicklaus, who is the only sportsman and just the fourth person in history to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005), the Congressional Gold Medal (2015) and the Lincoln
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Sierra Leone: Gas shortages forces taxi drivers to turn to black market | Africanews
For several months Sierra Leone has been experiencing regular gas shortages, creating long queues at petrol stations. Since March, the government has limited the price per litre, now fixed at 21 Leones (1.14 USD), which is almost double from the previous year.
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March Against Fear: When ‘Black Power’ Became Mainstream
By Tamara Shiloh It was June 5, 1966. James Howard Meredith (born 1933), on a mission to encourage Black voter registration and defy entrenched racism in the South, set out on a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. On the second day of his journey, Aubrey Norvell, a white
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Nonprofit Launches Effort to Support Immigrants Seeking Early Childhood Education Careers | Post News Group
Upward Scholars is introducing an academic and career support initiative called TeacherUp, which will help residents enroll in college, connect with employers and receive wraparound support, like
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Superb Woman: Wonda Traylor, RPA - Texas Metro News
Wonda Traylor is a servant leader.  The post Superb Woman: Wonda Traylor, RPA appeared first on Texas Metro News.
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Mentally Ill Prisoners in California 3 Times More Likely to Get Shuffled Around | Post News Group
CalMatters’ analysis of data from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation found that, from 2016 to 2021, California prisoners in “enhanced outpatient” mental health treatment were moved three times more often, on average, than other prisoners. The data shows that incarcerated
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Open letter to the electoral commission for Sierra Leone
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2022: Commissioner Mohammed Konneh Electoral Commission For Sierra Leone OAU Drive, Tower Hill Freetown, Sierra Leone 8th December 2022 Dear Commissioner Konneh Disclosure Of Disaggregated Voter Registration Data For Western Area Urban
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Virginia Will Revise Recent SOLs After Strong Criticism
By Leonard E. ColvinChief ReporterNew Journal and GuideAfter a disastrous rollout of its update of the state’s K-12 History and Social Science Standards of Learning (SOL) standard last August, the State Board of Education is revising it.Confronted with strong criticism of proposed standards, the
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Superb Woman: LaToya Hardaway - Garland Journal
A graduate of MacArthur High School, she studied Psychology at East Texas State University and she also attended the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management. Latoya is a member […] The post Superb Woman: LaToya Hardaway appeared first on Garland Journal.
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Black Military Veterans: Our Past and Our Future | Post News Group
The African Americans in the Military During WWII Exhibit is a pictorial history of the sacrifices and the contributions that African American men and women have made to our nation. The post Black Military Veterans: Our Past and Our Future first appeared on Post News Group.
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Hakeem Jeffries Becomes First Black American to Lead a Major Political Party in Congress | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jeffries said he hopes to find common ground with the G.O.P. where possible. He takes over the reins from long-time Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The 52-year-old leads a changing of the guard for Democrats, a party long headed by its most senior members, including
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Africa’s 1st humanoid robot [Inspire Africa] | Africanews
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Russia Frees WNBA Player Brittney Griner - Garland Journal
WNBA Star Brittney Griner has been freed in a prisoner-swap and is now in U.S. custody. Russia freed the Phoenix Mercury star Thursday morning in a prisoner swap The post Russia Frees WNBA Player Brittney Griner appeared first on Garland Journal.
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A Critical Analysis of Alexis Alleyne-Caputo’s Photography by Matt LaVine - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine
Alexis Alleyne-Caputo has a vision of what’s possible that we badly need in our white supremacist, patriarchal, capitalistic, colonial world. The post A Critical Analysis of Alexis Alleyne-Caputo’s Photography by Matt LaVine appeared first on Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine.
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