(BPRW) HBCU HEROES HOSTS FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL ESPORTS TOURNAMENT FOR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON JULY 5 IN CONJUNCTION WITH JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE FILM CALL-TO-ACTION TO INCREASE STUDENT VOTER PARTICIPATION

(BPRW) GOOGLE DOODLE CELEBRATES LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST MARSHA P. JOHNSON | Press releases

[ad_1] (BPRW) GOOGLE DOODLE CELEBRATES LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVIST MARSHA P. JOHNSON (Black PR Wire) On June 30th, 2020, in light of Pride Month in the U.S., Google launched a Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Rob Gilliam, celebrating LGBTQ+ rights activist, performer, and

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McDonald's USA Launches Fund for HBCU Students | Dallas Weekly

Powered by the company’s Black Positively Golden movement, McDonald’s is also furthering its investment in the next generation of women leaders in partnership with ESSENCE Girls

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“The Purge” Couple In St. Louis Who Pulled Guns on Peaceful Protestors To Be Investigated

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Harvard, MIT sue to block order revoking visas for foreign students

BOSTON, United States (AP) Colleges and universities pushed back yesterday against the Trump Administration's decision to make international students leave the country if they plan on taking classes entirely online this fall, with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Southern University [New Orleans] (1956-- )

Southern University is a historically black university with a main campus located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Originally founded in 1880 in New Orleans as Southern University in New Orleans, it began its mission of providing post-secondary education for African Americans with 12 students and

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How to Achieve Cultural Diversity in the School System

Cultural diversity as an issue wasnt even on the radar of most private school communities until the 1990s. To be sure, there were exceptions, but for the most part, diversity was not at the top of the list of priorities back then. Now you can see genuine progress in this

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Netflix series to dramatize Kaepernick’s path to activism

LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL

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Essence Responds to ‘Toxic Culture’ Allegations; Names New Interim CEO

Black-owned media giant Essence Communications, which publishes Essence magazine, has responded to allegations made by an anonymous group of women that it created a toxic work culture for employees with the announcement of an independent review and a new interim

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A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & Don Q ft. lil Uzi Vert “Flood My Wrist,” G Eazy “Back To What You Knew” & More | Daily Visuals 7.1.20

Source: The 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) held at the Ahoy Rotterdam, Netherlands – Press Room Featuring: G-Eazy Where: Rotterdam, Netherlands When: 06 Nov 2016 Credit: WENN

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GFive Cultivation Partners With Cam’ron For Pynk Mynk Line

Taking advantage of the green rush, Cam’ron has partnered with GFive Cultivation for the release of a new cannabis line, Pynk

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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers: NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion – Voice and Viewpoint

A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced

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(BPRW) HBCU HEROES HOSTS FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL ESPORTS TOURNAMENT FOR HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ON JULY 5 IN CONJUNCTION WITH JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE FILM CALL-TO-ACTION TO INCREASE STUDENT VOTER PARTICIPATION The Black Chronicle

WHAT (Black PR Wire) The Good Trouble Takeover is a 4-hour, online NBA 2K20 tournament between six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and premiere-a-thon to support the release of

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Oakwood University [Huntsville] (1896- )

Oakwood College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Huntsville, Alabama; the small urban campus is five minutes from downtown. Sitting on 1,185 acres, Oakwood University is one of the historical landmarks of Huntsville. It is the only

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White Hotel Karen Kalls Kops On Black Woman For Using Swimming Pool With Her Kids

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Watch: Kanye West Drops “Wash Us The Blood” Video ft. Travis Scott

Kanye West just dropped a new video for “Wash Us In The Blood” featuring his buddy Travis

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Stefflon Don Says COVID-19 Threat Has Blocked Her From Seeing Burna Boy In Jail

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McDonald’s USA Launches $500,000 Scholarship Fund to Help HBCU Student | The Michigan Chronicle

McDonald’s USA today announced the launch of its $500,000 Black Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of COVID-19. Facilitated by Thurgood Marshall College Fund

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Colin Kaepernick & Ava DuVernay Team Up With Netflix For Dramatic Series On His High School Years

On Tuesday (Jun 30), Netflix announced the partnership with Colin Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner, Ava DuVernay, to produce a limited scripted series focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him

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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19

“It doesn’t matter what color you are, how much money you have, how much education you have, things happen: grief, depression, anxiety, which COVID has really unleashed,” said F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Springboard Community Services, a regional full service behavioral health and case

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McDonalds Launches $500,000 Scholarship For HBCU Students

In partnership with the ESSENCE Girls United HBCU initiative, McDonalds has launched a new scholarship fund for students attending historically Black college and universities.

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The beat of a culture: how HBCU bands relate to Black music legacy

READ MORE: Little Richard will be buried at Alabama HBCU he attended in the 1950s

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'Too Many Black Families Don't Know How to Swim': Fans Praise Ciara for Daughter Sienna's Aquatic Skills

Continuing the Wilson tradition of breaking down stereotypes that surround Black families, Ciara took to social media to show off her daughter’s budding skills as a water

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(BPRW) Fighting The Good Fight and More Featured on Brown Sugar in July | Press releases

[ad_1] (BPRW) Fighting The Good Fight'' and More Featured on Brown Sugar in July (Black PR Wire) ATLANTA, GA - Brown Sugar, the popular subscription streaming service from Bounce, has a hot line-up this July. This month's curated collection is themed for strong-willed men and women striving to

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Senegal renames slaving post: Europe Square now Freedom Square

Goree, an island in Senegal linked closely with slave trade, has decided to rename one of its main squares in response to the ongoing racism in the

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Study Links Trauma of Racism to High Blood Pressure in Black Americans

The lasting echoes of that trauma left Lawrence not at all surprised by a new study linking racism in the United States to an elevated risk of high blood pressure among Black

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McDonald’s USA Launches $500,000 Scholarship Fund to Help HBCU Students Return to School Amidst COVID-19 Crisis

McDonald’s USA announced June 25 the launch of its $500,000 Black & Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite impacts of

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Ministry of Finance denounces news item on debt servicing funds - Stabroek News

The Ministry of Finance has denounced a report in todays Guyana Times about the allocation of debt servicing funds. The article Ministry of Finance denounces news item on debt servicing funds appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Paris Dennard Doesn’t Shy Away from Backing Trump

Paris Dennard is one African American who thinks President Donald Trump has improved the lives of Black people in the United

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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner

For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by a Klan

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