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Grim Holiday Season for Nigerian Farmers
Grim Holiday Season for Nigerian Farmers […]
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Applesauce Is All Grown Up
Founder & CEO Keisha Smith-Jeremie, featured on Shark Tank, disrupts the applesauce industry with sanaía, the re-imagination of childhood treats for adults. sanaía is the first company to recognize that millions of adults still love applesauce. While the rest of the category was focused on kids, Keisha seized the opportunity to cater to adults who wanted to enjoy applesauce without being subjected to pouches or uninspired flavors. […]
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Childhood dreams overcome childhood trauma as C. David Moody builds booming Black-owned construction business in Atlanta
As a child in a Chicago apartment, he loved to build towers out of red and yellow plastic bricks. Today his firm, C.D. Moody Construction, has earn more than $3 billion business contracts. For the past 26 years, he has kept secret a childhood torment that dogged him at every chapter of his life. […]
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Being a Black Veteran isn’t Always Happy
Veterans who served in our military to provide security and a safe future for our citizens. These are our heroes and we should respect and appreciate the sacrifices they make for us. However, the love and bravery they show is not always appreciated. A big determinant and indicator as to how that veteran is going to be treated is his race or the race of those who make the decision to honor or ignore his efforts. […]
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Dec. 9: ‘Hidden Figures’ inspiration, Dr. Christine Darden, to be honored in the Capitol
On Monday, December 9, at 5 p.m., Dr. Christine Darden, Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former NASA mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer, ‘Hidden Figures’ author Margot Lee Shetterly, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), and U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) will headline a reception, hosted by the Sloan Foundation, in recognition of the women mathematicians and engineers who contributed to the success of NASA and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during the Space Race. […]
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PRESS ROOM: Black Law Enforcement Speaks Out on Proposed Menthol Ban
We stress the concept that these proposed legislative acts would, in fact, be antithetical to healthy, robust and productive relationships between law enforcement and those they are sworn to protect as these new laws would presumably provide law enforcement officers with the authority, indeed the responsibility, to stop, interrogate and arrest persons on suspicion of selling or being in possession of untaxed cigarettes. […]
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Three Baltimore Men Exonerated After Nearly Four Decades in Prison
Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney, reopened the case earlier this year because of lingering questions and recent revelations of corruption in the city’s police department that allegedly stretched back for decades. […]
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Kamala Harris Drops Out of Presidential Race
California Sen. Kamala Harris informed staff Tuesday on a conference call that she is dropping out of the presidential race because she lacks the funds to compete, according to staff on the call. […]
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Serena Williams Builds Schools in Jamaica, Africa
In a recently released video, Williams donned a pair of jeans, workboats, a hardhat and went to work on Salt Marsh Elementary School in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. Williams, who has won a total of 39 Tennis Grand Slams – including Doubles titles, has also built grade schools in Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. Williams built the Marsh Elementary through a partnership with the nonprofit Helping Hands Jamaica, while the schools in Africa were in conjunction with Build Africa. […]
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Civil rights attorney Fred Gray will be honored by National Black Caucus of State Legislators
Civil rights attorney Fred Gray will be honored with the Living Legends Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators(NBCSL) for his continued efforts to fight on all fronts for the Civil Rights of Black people. […]