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SBA, Black Chambers Back President Biden’s Push for Federal Contracting with Minority Businesses
When President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to increase contracting spending with small, disadvantaged businesses by 50 percent over the next five years, Bibi Hidalgo, the associate administrator of Small Business Administration’s Office of Government Contracting and Business Development, pledged that her office would take steps to ensure that agencies make the President’s contracting goals a reality. […]
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How a Houston bodybuilder overcome a traumatic brain injury to compete in the sports he loves
And third, he pictures all the others at TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital who have traumatic brain injuries, like him, many of whom are still struggling to walk or build up the strength for even the smallest task. […]
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Meet The Man Who Left The NFL to become a Train Conductor
Meet the man who left the NFL to become a train conductor, Black Enterprise reports. […]
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
In early 1945 as the Battle of the Bulge concluded Army officials reported that a lack mail was hurting morale. Warehouses were filled with millions of pieces of mail destined for the seven million Americans serving in the European theatre. The task of getting that mail to its intended recipients fell on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. […]
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Congress Passes $57 Billion Postal Reform Bill
The legislation would clear $57 billion of that amount and save the agency another $50 billion over the next decade. […]
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FBI Announces Investigation into Bomb Threats against HBCUs
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force announced it was investigating the dozens of bomb threats received by HBCUs nationwide on February 1 as “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes.” […]
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Unsolved Deaths of Two Black Women: Two Bridgeport Police Detectives Placed on Leave
The two Black women, Brenda Lee Rawls, 53, and Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, died on the same day: Dec. 12, 2021, in separate incidents. The Chief Medical Examiner in Bridgeport has not determined a cause of death for Rawls. Rawls was close to her family by text and by phone and informed them she was to visit a male acquaintance. When she was non-responsive two days later the family became concerned. […]
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GOP Senator Suggests Biden’s Black Woman Nominee Wouldn’t Know ‘A Law Book From A J.Crew Catalog’
The Republican outrage over President Joe Biden‘s pledge to nominate a Black woman for the next Supreme Court Justice isn’t about their fear that someone unqualified will end up on the bench—they’re just racist. (I know, Carson is technically Black, but that’s one hell of a “technically.”) […]
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10 Books About The Black American Experience That Conservatives Want Banned
It’s a few months into 2022 and sadly we still need to have a conversation about the banning of books in America. Conservative parents all across the country have been storming into school board meetings demanding certain books about race and sex be removed from their children’s curriculum. […]