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With Mortgage Rates So Low, What To Consider Before Getting A Loan

Advice from a certified financial planner and mortgage analyst about things to consider before buying a home or refinancing with record low mortgage rates

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) – As the U. S. House of Representatives awaits the political fate of another multi-trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill, called the “Heroes Act”, Black Wealth 2020 (BW2020), a national catalyst for economic justice for African-Americans, is pressing Congressional leaders to

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California After COVID – Recovery is Not Good Enough

OPINION (CBM) – The coronavirus crisis is testing most households and businesses in California, pushing some to the very brink of what they can bear before falling off

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East Africa: COVID-19 Leaves Region in $2.3 Billion Debt Hole 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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Janelle Monae on Coping With the Pandemic and Her New Amazon Series

Season two of Homecoming, which will be released May 22, marks her first leading role in a streaming

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Eviction Moratoriums Will Keep Up the Pressure, but We Still Need Long-Term Rental Assistance

Until a vaccine is developed for COVID-19, staying safer at home will be one of the best things we can do for the health of our families and our communities But for far too many families, a safe and stable place to call home is out of

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How Income Inequality Affects Minority Workers

It’s no secret that white households in the United States take in significantly more income than black and Latino households do, fueling racial inequality. What’s to blame for this discrepancy? It’s not just that whites work in higher paying jobs than their minority counterparts do. Even when

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Black capitalism

Black capitalism is a movement among African Americans to build wealth through the ownership and development of businesses. Black capitalism has traditionally focused on African-American businesses, although some critics and activists have also pushed for increased representation of Blacks in

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Scott $75B Homeowner Assistance Bill Included in HEROES Coronavirus Relief Package

Scott welcomed the inclusion of his legislative proposal to establish a $75 billion Homeowner Assistance Fund to offer relief to consumers and prevent

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Cash Money Records Donates $225K In Rent Money To Help Hometown Of New Orleans

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Magic Johnson Secures $100M For Minority-Owned Companies As Government Fails Black And Latino Small Business Owners

One of the greatest passers in basketball history has thrown his latest assist to Black and brown small business owners who have seemingly been excluded from the government’s apparently selective efforts to keep employees on companies’ payrolls during the coronavirus

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‘Now is the time’ - BET founder Robert Johnson wants U.S. to pay $14 trillion in slavery reparations

And though attitudes towards reparations for slavery tend to polarize the U.S., BET founder Robert Johnson believes that “now is the time to go big” on reparations to help prevent the country from splitting into separate and unequal

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(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation"

W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist. In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, African Americans had to

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St. Paul Pastor Honored With Auto Parade

Pastor Dr. Ephraim Williams has led the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Park since

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Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation

The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or

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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers – A President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced

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NBCUniversal Manager of Diversity Tells Brands How They Can Support Their Black Employees

In an email interview with BLACK ENTERPRISE, NBC Universal Media Manager of Diversity Inclusion for Talent Culture Tiara Budd-Ramos discussed how brands can support their black employees during this

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Organization for a New Equality

The Organization for a New Equality ( O.N.E.) was founded in 1985 by Rev. Charles Stith, Senior Pastor of Union United Methodist Church. O.N.E. is a local and national vehicle for mounting strategies to develop economic opportunity for 'people of color' and racial harmony in cities and on college

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Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter's Family Properties

In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an

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Pension savings hold key to home ownership

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund

The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and

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Caldwell, Elvin R., Sr. (1919-2004)

Politician Elvin R. Caldwell Sr. was born on April 11, 1919 in Denver, Colorado. Raised in Five Points, Denver’s predominantly black community, Caldwell was one of 12 children in his family. After graduating from Eastside High School in 1937, Caldwell earned a track scholarship to the University of

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St. Ann Center Staff Parades Appreciation

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Exclusive: Cash Money Co-Founder Slim and Business Manager Vernon Brown on Partnering with New Orleans Mayor to Pay Rents Amid COVID-19

Co-founders and brothers Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams of Cash Money Records partnered with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell to cover the cost of rent for the month of June for residents living in low-income

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Uganda: I Should Have Been One of the Best Footballers - Optional

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Black Americans face an unequal housing market and nearly 25% of Americans have no emergency savings

Nearly 25% of Americans have no emergency savings: Lost income due to coronavirus is piling on even more debt

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Is There More COVID Cash Coming to Help Californians?

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(1860) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “A Slave's Appeal”

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