As part of the renewed efforts for more inclusivity in the company, Alicia Boler Davis has been appointed as Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Global Customer Fulfillment. She is the first Black woman to become a Senior Vice President in the company’s 26-year history. […]
Happy Anniversary […]
Wherever you are, you can leave your city, state or your community and come back there in ten years and find many of your people in the same place, perhaps on the same corners doing what they always have done. […]
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Our future VP is who she is and where she is because she is driven in her quest for freedom, justice and equality and she is loyal. Senator Harris at times will stop what’s she’s doing to answer a call. I have known California’s first African American woman District Attorney and first African American Attorney General Harris to be this way for her 18-year political career. To make it plain: She is “Kamala Harris For the People.” […]
Charlotta Bass was a political activist and journalist who became the first African American woman to run for Vice President of the United States of America in 1952. […]
YWCA of Palm Beach County announces Shea S. Spencer as new Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Spencer comes to YWCA with over 15 years of nonprofit experience including fundraising and community engagement. For many years, Shea has served her local community and worked to drive support for programs and services surrounding homelessness, food insecurity, education, health, job readiness, entrepreneurship, disadvantaged youth, and low-income initiatives. […]
The shooting, which left Blake in a hospital’s intensive care unit, is not the first-time police officers in Kenosha, a town with a population of approximately 100,000, were publicly called out for excessive use of force. In 2004, an officer of the Kenosha Police Department shot and killed 21-year-old Michael Bell outside the home he shared with his mom and sister. According to an NPR report from 2014, a police officer had followed Bell to the house after he observed Bell’s driving. […]
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which barred states from considering a voter’s sex in determining eligibility, is commonly credited with expanding the right to vote to women, but the amendment didn’t actually guarantee all women the right to vote. Although the amendment, which was ratified 100 years ago Tuesday, eased the obstacles some women faced at the ballot box, Black women still faced legal barriers. […]
In her historic speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination for the Democratic party, Sen. Kamala Harris introduced her family — among them her beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, “The Divine Nine” and others from historically Black colleges and universities. […]
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