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Powerful Book for Young Black Boys Celebrates 25 Years with a Pledge to Get 1 Million New Readers

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

My Friend, My Hero, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a commemorative edition that includes an addendum of book discussion questions and now available; a full curriculum with a companion Student Success Guidebook, Teacher’s Guide, and Unit Assessments containing lesson plans. The goal is to promote Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in the classroom by providing strategies for students to make better choices and gain much needed confidence to support unleashing their inner greatness. […]

House Passes Voting Rights Measure to Restore Portions of Law Gutted in 2015

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

“Voting is personal to me because it was on the streets of my hometown, Selma, that foot soldiers shed their blood on the Edmund Pettus Bride so that all Americans – regardless of race – could vote,” Sewell, who is African American, wrote on Twitter. […]

Black News Channel In ‘The Red Zone’ Ready for Launch

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, joined a gathering of BNC officials, anchors, and other guests at a reception on December 3 in Washington, D.C., to toast the launch of the network. […]

Grim Holiday Season for Nigerian Farmers

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Grim Holiday Season for Nigerian Farmers […]

Applesauce Is All Grown Up

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]

Childhood dreams overcome childhood trauma as C. David Moody builds booming Black-owned construction business in Atlanta

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]

Being a Black Veteran isn’t Always Happy

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]

Dec. 9: ‘Hidden Figures’ inspiration, Dr. Christine Darden, to be honored in the Capitol

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]

PRESS ROOM: Black Law Enforcement Speaks Out on Proposed Menthol Ban

December 11, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]

Three Baltimore Men Exonerated After Nearly Four Decades in Prison

December 5, 2019 Carma Henry 0

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. […]