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Cleveland “Cleve” Eaton, Hall of Fame jazz great, dies at 80
By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times Cleveland “Cleve” Eaton, the Hall of Fame jazz legend from Fairfield (Ala.), died on Sunday morning. He was 80. “He was just a wonderful man who treated me like a queen and took care of [his children and grandchildren],” said his wife Myra Eaton. “I’ve had
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Source: The Birmingham Times
(BPRW) HBCU HEROES HOSTS FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL ESPORTS TOURNAMENT FOR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON JULY 5 IN CONJUNCTION WITH JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE FILM CALL-TO-ACTION TO INCREASE STUDENT VOTER PARTICIPATION The Black Chronicle
WHAT (Black PR Wire) The Good Trouble Takeover is a 4-hour, online NBA 2K20 tournament between six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and premiere-a-thon to support the release of
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Source: The Black Chronicle
Netflix and Ava DuVernay to Focus on Kaepernicks HS Years in Colin in Black White
[ad_1] Streaming giant service Netflix announced that filmmaker Ava DuVernay and social activist/former professional football player Colin Kaepernick have joined together to present a limited series on Kaepernick’s high school years titled, Colin in Black & White. The series will focus on the
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Source: The Black Chronicle
ESPN's Sage Steele Says She Was Excluded From Race Special For Not Being Black Enough
[ad_1] ESPN anchor Sage Steele claims her colleagues kept her out of a network special on race and social justice because she isn’t Black enough. According to Yahoo Sports, Steele was absent during the sports channel’s Time for Change: We Won’t Be Defeated special that appeared in the aftermath of
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Will Smith Has Last Laugh Over Instagram Joker’s ‘Very Funny’ Entanglement Gag
The actor admitted the joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s so-called “entanglement” with R&B singer August Alsina was "very funny."
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Africa's top virus deaths: Ex-Nigerian governor dies | Africanews
The death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa is heading is gone past the 1,000 mark as of April 18, 2020. The casualties cut across age groups. From the death of a 6 year-old in Kenya, older patients in most instances and persons in the youth
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Read Frederick Douglass 1852 Speech What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited him to speak at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. He refused to speak on that day and
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Armed Black Militia Group Marches Through Georgia Confederate Park on July 4
[ad_1] A heavily armed Black militia group made a statement by marching through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia near Atlanta on July 4, insisting on the removal of the giant Confederate monument that’s prominent at the site, according to Reuters. A spokesman for the Stone Mountain Memorial
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Source: The Black Chronicle
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67-Year-Old Supermodel Beverly Johnson Opens Up About Engagement to Black Financier –
They say the third time is a charm. Beverly Johnson revealed in an exclusive People interview that she and financier Brian Maillian are engaged. The 67-year-old supermodel vowed never to…
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Black Male Nail Technician Defies Odds, Enters Billion Dollar Nail Industry
Only 2% of nail salon workers are Black and almost all of them are women, but 29-year old Darnell Atkins, a nail technician from the Washington, DC area wants to
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The Man Who Wrote the Much-Recited Poem “If” Also Wrote One of the Most Racist Poems of All Time - Watch The Yard
This article was originally published on 8/17/2017 With the decision by Kappa Alpha Psis Colin Kaepernick to boycott the National Anthem, our nation has started to question and discuss the meaning of other symbols and practices that seem every day to us. In an effort to keep the conversation
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(BPRW) THE COMMISSION ON THE SOCIAL STATUS OF BLACK MEN AND BOYS ACT PASSES THE HOUSE | Press releases
(BPRW) THE COMMISSION ON THE SOCIAL STATUS OF BLACK MEN AND BOYS ACT PASSES THE HOUSE (Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. – Today the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the…
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Black Woman Athlete Makes History, Becomes the First to Own a Sneaker Company
Santia Deck, founder of TRONUS, has become the first female athlete to own a sneaker company. She also made history earlier this year when she signed a multi-million dollar deal to play in…
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Black Chocolatier Tired of Being Fired Created His Own Chocolate Company Hired Himself
[ad_1] Getting laid off from a job can be stressful and discouraging, especially when you are a Black man in America dealing with systematic racism. Some people decide to use this time of stress and inequality as an opportunity to create an even better life for themselves and their families by
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Black Farmers Market Attracts Over 1,000 Shoppers In North Carolina
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LIVESTREAM #FIYAH — 6.8.20 7PM — THE MUSIC OF LENORA • D.B. BANTINO • NOVA BLESSED | BlackPressUSA
The Black Press Celebrates New Music From New Artists. In his 2016 proclamation, Obama noted that African-American music and musicians have helped the country to dance, to express our faith through song, to march against injustice, and to defend our countrys enduring promise of freedom and
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White Woman Draws and Points A Gun At Black Woman And Daughter (Video)
[ad_1] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhdMcrBuDU[/embed] “I am deeply disturbed by an incident last night where a woman pointed a cocked gun at another woman during an argument,” Oakland County Executive David Coulter said in a written statement Thursday. “This behavior is
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The Top Omega Psi Phi Graduation Photos of Spring 2020 - Watch The Yard
Graduation season this semester has looked a lot different because of COVID-19 but it has not stopped members of Black fraternities and sororities from celebrating each other and their accomplishments. We at Watch The Yard have been getting thousands of submissions from D9 members who want to
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LIVESTREAM — #SaveLocalJournaism #10: THE BLACK PRESS SAVING BLACK LIVES | BlackPressUSA
How many times per day/week/month/year do you encounter the expression, the leading cause of death? Those words are usually preceded by a health status, living condition, economic condition or age range. But the reality is that those statements are nearly always conditioned differently if youre
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Maxine Waters intervenes after Black man is pulled over by police : TheGrio
Rep. Maxine Waters got a closer look at why police officers had a Black man pulled over in Los Angeles. Rep. Waters has served in congress since 1991. The post Maxine Waters intervenes after Black man is pulled over by police appeared first on TheGrio.
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University of California Appoints First Black President In 152 Years
Diversity in academia has been long outstanding in the field. This week, the University of California has made history by electing its first Black president. The announcement came after the
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Report: MSNBC Host Joy Reid To Become First Black Woman To Anchor a Prime-Time Cable News Program
MSNBC weekend morning anchor Joy Reid will reportedly take over the time slot that one-time host Chris Matthews occupied before exiting the network several months ago, according to The Daily
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(BPRW) Black PR Wire publishes Commemorative 2020-2021 Calendar | Press releases
(BPRW) Black PR Wire publishes Commemorative 2020-2021 Calendar Features images of the 'City that Never Sleeps' that took a pause during COVID-19 (Black PR Wire) Miami, Fla.  - COVID-19 has…
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People Are Shocked These Brands Aren’t Actually Black-Owned
Brands like SheaMoisture and Carol's Daughter get called out.
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Dance video celebrates healing body of Sotho heritage at virtual NAF
Oupa Sibeko’s virtual piece ‘The Rebirth of Iqhawe’ brings a touch of Japanese butoh to South African screens.
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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID and Civil Unrest" | BlackPressUSA
VIDEO — May is Mental Health Month. The NNPA's Dr. Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D along with Dr. Kanika Bell Dr. Jimmy Davis — Professors of Psychology at Clark Atlanta University — discuss the pandemic and society's reaction to it.
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Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in Alabama
By Kim Chandler Associated Press TROY, Ala. (AP) — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that “good trouble” could change the
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Source: The Birmingham Times
These San Diego Delta Sigma Theta Sorors Did a Beautiful Deltaversary Photo Shoot - Watch The Yard
The first line of North San Diego County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta recently celebrated their one year Deltaversary with a beautiful photoshoot. The North San Diego County Alumnae Chapter was chartered April 20, 2013, by twenty-four talented and visionary women emboldened with the same
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Meet The First Black Woman To Open An Urban Winery in Kansas
Amid all that is transpiring around the world, and beyond the borders of our own backyards, it is always refreshing to capture milestones of cultural progression. Jenny Dawn Cellars was
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George Floyd’s Death Should Be Blamed On Black America
[ad_1] Sounds like Lil’ Wayne is playing “blame the victim.” The rap artist was recently chatting with fellow hip-hop icon Fat Joe on Instagram Live about the murder of George Floyd and the protests. During the session, Lil Wayne, 46, said Floyd’s tragic death would be blamed on Black America. “If
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