Death of Captain Paul Cuffe

McDonald's USA launches $500,000 scholarship fund for HBCU students amidst COVID-19

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

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Former Seattle Black Community Festival President Michael Taylor Passes

Here, Taylor attended South Seattle Community College, and worked at the Boys and Girls Club, YMCA and the Girls Club, serving Seattle youth through mentorship and enrichment

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This Man Is Bringing World’s First African And Caribbean Rum To The United States

Now one man is introducing a new kind of rum to the world with the first rum that blends African and Caribbean cultures, and he’s bringing it to the United

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs

"This is the kind of impact we would like to deliver to smallholder farmers across the African continent," says Joyce Kamande, one of 25 African entrepreneurs who spent six weeks at Oklahoma State University last year as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a flagship programme of the

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Source: allAfrica.com

5 Unique Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support During This Time - Blavity

Resiliency is a facet of the Black community that has been engraved through periods of adversity and

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Caroline Esinam Adzogble: the 28-year-old Ghanaian redefining education in Africa

Today, Adzogble is a national asset in the field of

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Sharpton, Alfred Charles “Al” (1954- )

Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political, social, and human rights advocate. Known as “the Wonder Boy” as a youth, he was licensed and ordained as a Pentecostal minister and toured with the gospel singer

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First Black-Owned Alcohol Beverage Distribution Company Launches in Georgia

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Scot G. Forte, founder and CEO of Forte International Spirits Inc./Direct Distributing, is the first African-American to launch an alcohol distributing company in the state of

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Source: Headlines - The Atlanta Inquirer

This Black Ad Exec Wants To Create 1 Million New Black Millionaires

This Black Ad Exec Wants To Create 1 Million New Black via professionals in corporate business structures are notoriously cut out of senior-level positions and opportunities to move

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NY Liberty Juneteenth panel discusses equality, power of voting

The event was moderated by Breakfast Club Host Angela Yee and included panelists like social justice advocate and Liberty guard Layshia Clarendon, Garret Temple of the Brooklyn Nets, social justice advocate Topeka K. Sam, and Grammy-nominated artist

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1 In 10 HBCUs Were Financially Fragile Before COVID-19 Endangered All Colleges And Universities - Blavity

The Department of Education tracks which colleges and universities are most at risk of closure in its heightened cash monitoring

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Meditation & daily naps, one entrepreneur's tips for remote working in the UAE

Global self-isolation and work lockdowns of late, have prompted many to assess their personal and professional

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KABATA: Key models for business recovery after virus

What this means is that unlike economic slowdowns that we have witnessed before such as the 2008/2009 recession, the Covid-19 induced slowdown may require a different economic recovery thinking and modelling because it is not only affecting the demand side as people lose jobs and incomes but has

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Source: Business Daily

African-American Author Releases a Book to Assist Parents in Starting the Conversation on Racism and Police Brutality

The Talk: A Black Family’s Conversation about Racism and Police Brutality, by Ama

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'21st Century Mona Lisa!': Keyshia Ka'oir Fans Call Her the 'Most Beautiful Lady Ever' In This Photo

The model’s husband and rapper Gucci Mane also showered her photo with love and threw in two heart

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This Man Is Bringing World's First African And Caribbean Rum To The United States

This Man Is Bringing World’s First African And Caribbean Rum To The United via Purple PR

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Atlanta Says Goodbye To Rayshard Brooks With Funeral At Martin Luther King’s Church

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NDEMO: Economics of race in Kenya’s tech sector

Economics of race in Kenya’s tech sector

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NNPA Exclusive: Iconic entertainer and entrepreneur, Ice Cube, speaks to the Black Press

Like very few others, Ice Cube is celebrated for his groundbreaking accomplishments in music, film, sports and

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CBK warns 75pc of small businesses risk collapse

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Young, Black & Gifted: Parenting A Gen Z Beauty Boss

Lia-Symone, Terry Thyler Yahya talk about entrepreneurship in the beauty industry for a 13-year-old during this time.

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

(BPRW) The 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience Presented by Coca-Cola Set to Expand Branded Experiences in First-Ever Virtual Format | Press releases – The Black Chronicle

(BPRW) The 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience Presented by Coca-Cola Set to Expand Branded Experiences in First-Ever Virtual Format

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Meek Mill Tweets Support For B. Simone Amid Plagiarism Scandal

Meek Mill took to social media on Sunday (June 14) to defend B. Simone over allegations that she plagiarized passages of her book Baby Girl: Manifest the Life You

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Black-Owned Drive-in Theater Offers an Old School Solution for Fun While Social Distancing, plus a Exclusive

Mr. Percy Scott, one of the Chicago Defender’s 2016 “Men of Excellence” honorees and President/Founder of Global 360 Marketing, exemplifies beating the odds and booming in

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Quarantined Teens Participate In A First Ever Virtual NAACP ACTSO Competition

All nine hopeful students won gold medals, positioning themselves to advance to the Virtual 42nd Annual NAACP ACTSO National Competition in July

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‘Will You Adopt Me?’: Young Man Makes Tearful Request to Stepfather In Viral Video

On Father’s Day, in a now-viral video, a 17-year-old from Suffolk, Virginia, named Keon Wiggins-Saunders held back tears as he shakily read his letter to Donzell Powell, the man who stepped up as Keon’s father since he was 1 and married his mother, Keona, when he was

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Africa is Strong

A beautiful new short film, narrated by rugby superstar, Tendai ‘The Beast’ Mtawarira, is released as hardships continue across the continent in the face of COVID-19

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Africa: Better Access to Stories Can Improve Adolescent Lives in Africa

The United Kingdom Research and Innovation fund's Accelerate project is working with adolescent groups in Africa to understand how young people see their lives in terms of

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Rwanda: Study - 57% of SMEs Were Affected By COVID-19 Lockdown

At least 57.5 per cent of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) operating across different industries closed operations between March and April due to Covid-19 impact, a new study by Business Professionals Network (BPN) and the University of Rwanda

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Marcus Garvey

Born: 8/17/1887 Saint Anns Bay, JamaicaDied: 6/10/1940 London, United KingdomMarcus Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro

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