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Melanin Origins, LLC announces the publication this summer of Not All Superheroes Wear Capes (available for pre-order on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com), a children’s book designed to teach African American students the opportunities available to them in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers

Choosing Nursing, an online program that prepares nurses in the U.S. and Canada to sit their NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN exams and meet the prerequisites for their nursing license, is currently offering eight paid digital products and courses with strategies to help its students secure passes.

Toyota Establishes the John W. Mack Scholarship Fund Through the National Urban League

Yes on 10 Campaign responds to revelations that California NAACP Leader Alice Huffman is hired by campaign opposed to Prop 10 funded by billionaire landlords

“Josephine Baker: Black Diva in a White Man’s World,” count among the highlights of the 12th annual African Diaspora International Film Festival which opens on Friday, August 17 at the Marvin Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

When the word spread among the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians scattered across the United States that Dr. Abiy Ahmed, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Ethiopia, would visit Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Calif., and Minneapolis, Minn., the expatriates prepared to travel to those cities by plane, bus, train or car.

Early death is a phenomenon particular to Black men in America, yet it is missing from most conversations about racial inequality and barriers to creating and sustaining legacy wealth.

The NAACP commends State Attorney Bernie McCabe for charging Michael Drejka with manslaughter in the brutal murder of Markeis McGlockton in Pinellas County Florida.

     Fortunately for the young lady, Oakland University reached out to offer her a 100% tuition grant. This is following her desire to have the opportunity to study Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Their offer, however, does not include her books and an a-mount reaching $1,640.

In 1911, the first Black training school in the nation was open to Black students. The vocational and industrial education offered the students specialized training.