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Uganda: COVID-19 Disrupts 2021 Elections Plan

All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Government Should Rescue People From Poverty

Therefore, the question is: What will stimulate demand and eventually boost peoples' decreasing

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Source: allAfrica.com

Chadian capital N'djamena to be quarantined for two weeks

Youssouf Djaoro, N’Djamena resident said: “Quarantine the city of N’Djamena, I fully

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Advocate for Community Development

Charles 'Chuck' Turner, executive director of the Center for Community Action, has been a community organizer, activist, and advocate for Boston's African-American community for over 20 years. He has a record of effectively organizing people to confront city and state agencies for jobs, affordable

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce sets up relief program to help businesses of color

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – The Oakland Chamber of Commerce has set up what they call a resiliency relief program to help its members who have been hurt by the coronavirus

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

H. James Dallas

H. James Dallas was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Medtronic, a global medical technology company. In this role, Dallas successfully implemented over 10 transformational and turnaround initiatives, 20 acquisition integrations, 5 operations/quality shared services centers

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Beyonce Publishes Poem for Blue Ivy

Beyoncé’s upcoming expansive feature for CR Fashion Book will include a special dedication to her daughter Blue Ivy in the form of spoken

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Source: Savoy Network

Eric G. Johnson

Eric G. Johnson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Baldwin Richardson Foods Company, one of the largest African- American-owned businesses in the food industry. Headquartered in Frankfort, Ill., with manufacturing facilities located in Macedon, N.Y., the company employs more than 250

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Internationally Known Drummer

Roy Haynes, a Roxbury native, is a nationally known drummer and has played a significant role in the changing sound of jazz in a career that encompasses several eras from the bebop of Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk to Chick Corea's avant-fusion.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Legendary Baseball Great

Will 'Cannonball' Jackman of Boston is a legendary baseball great of the old Colored Baseball League during the early 1900s. For seventeen years Jackman pitched the baseball like his nickname. He played with the Philadelphia Colored Giants during the 1920s and 1930s and was a stellar attraction on

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Temperance Society

In the early 1830s Jane Putnam and Susan Paul formed a temperance society. In 1833 the group was responsible for 114 African-Americans taking the 'cold water pledge' denouncing liquor. Two years later in 1835 the New England Temperance Society of People of Color was formed.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

'I'm borne down': She’s lost more than 30 friends and acquaintances to the coronavirus

For weeks, Marsha Music's Facebook feed has brought a stream of death notices as COVID-19 tears through the black community in her hometown of

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Source: News from California, the nation and world - Los Angeles Times

Dmitri Stockton

Dmitri Stockton was Chairman, President and CEO of GE Asset Management for GE. In this role, Stockton oversaw $115 billion in assets under management for GE’s U.S. employee pension and benefits plans and a wide range of other institutional

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Source: Savoy Network

Matthew Henson - Birthday

Henson was born on August 8, 1866 on a farm in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecroppers who had been free people of color before the American Civil War.

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Utah US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate Urges a Navy Veteran in Utah with Mesothelioma to Not Put Off Compensation Because of COVID19-But to Call Attorney Erik Karst of KVO to Begin the Process

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, May 12, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Utah US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate is appealing to a Navy Veteran in Utah who has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma or their family to not waste time on Internet nonsense about 'free' mesothelioma publications because

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

AARON WALTON: Blazing Diverse Trails In Advertising And Fashion With Integrity And Innovation

“I’m amazing today, and you?” says the receptionist. How many times have you walked into an office where you have felt trans- formed just by the greeting? The atmosphere at Walton Isaacson, under the leadership of Co-Founders Aaron Walton, Cory Isaac- son, and the“Angelic

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Angola: New State of Emergency in Force

Luanda — A new 15-day state of emergency period going until May 25 has taken effect as from 00:00 am on Monday, as part of the measures put in place to contain the expansion of the covid-19 pandemic in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Gist, Carole Ann-Marie (1969- ) - Birthday

Carole Anne-Marie Gist, the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title, was born on May 8, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Mauritania reopens mosques after lull in virus infections

Mosques in Mauritania reopened after a week of no new coronavirus cases were

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Pamela Culpepper

Ms. Culpepper is responsible for providing leadership in guiding PepsiCo’s global Diversity and Inclusion strategy to bring together diverse strengths, backgrounds and perspectives to achieve our strategic business imperatives, advance our Performance with Purpose goals and drive

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Source: Savoy Network

Despite Guv's OK, Stylist Fears Reopening

She’s plenty eager to resume offering her loyal customers hair extensions and her trademark short cuts, the ones that for 25 years have caused New Haveners to remark, “Oh — Samantha cut your

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Source: New Haven Independent - It's Your Town. Read All About It.

Africa: Religion as Africa's Trojan Horse

It's impossible to have an honest discussion about Africa's underdevelopment and poor performance in the global stage without recognising the ignominious role played by

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Between the Lines

The story was about Kelvin' Ochieng', a young man who had ended up homeless on the rough streets of Nairobi after graduating with a first-class honours in actuarial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Guinea Bissau: MSF Calls for an Urgent Scale Up in the Response to COVID-19

Bissau — After a dramatic increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bissau city, the pandemic prevention and response activities in the country must be

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nation of Islam Leader

Minister Louis Farrakhan, raised in Roxbury and a 1950 graduate of English High School, has been the national leader of the Nation of Islam since 1977, following the death of the founder of the Nation, Elijah Muhammad. While viewed by some as controversial, Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Sylvia Taylor

Sylvia Taylor is the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for The Weather Channel. In her current role as EVP of Human Resources for The Weather Channel, Sylvia is responsible for designing and executing the Human Resources Strategy for the company, implementing key initiatives in Change

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Source: Savoy Network

Africa's Forgotten World War II Veterans

More than a million African soldiers served in colonial armies in World War

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Source: allAfrica.com

Intentional Inclusion at FCB

Our work as a fully integrated marketing communications company with a heritage of creativity since 1873 is based on an ever-evolving and deeply developed understanding of different peoples, cultures, diversified local markets and global cultures. With more than 8,000 people in 109 operations in 80

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Source: Savoy Network

Tanzania: Kenya Shuts Borders With Tanzania, Somalia Over COVID-19

Kenya has shut its borders with Somalia and Tanzania as the country strives to stem further spread of the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tanya C. Clemons

Ms. Clemons is responsible for the company’s executive talent succession and development. Her organization includes global talent acquisition, learning and development, diversity, organization development, as well as enterprise-wide culture and change initiatives. Tanya owns the strategy for the

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