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Enterprise Rent-a-Car: At a Place Where Everyone Starts at the Bottom, Anyone Can Get to the Top

Enterprise Holdings Vice President and General Manager Kevin Moore stands before nearly 100 colleagues at his company’s St. Louis headquarters. His audience is 90 rising stars from across the company who are there for the company’s Minority Leadership Forum. But the audience also includes

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2020 graduates reflect on lack of traditional commencement

Instead of a momentous occasion, thousands of graduates find themselves staring at a computer screen as they listen to deans and school principals wax lyrical about their achievements over the last four years, while celebrity commencement speakers, including former President Barack Obama, spout

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TSD Flash! - Back to Business Phase II; free tax help; a plan-ahead event; music vibe: Fugees' 'Ready or Not'

Memphis and Shelby County now has shifted into Phase II of the Back to Business plan, according to the Memphis/Shelby County COVID-19 Task

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Revised Public Order Act – well begun is half done

Apparently Parliament has requested that the Independent Media Commission (IMC) Act be strengthened and the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) improve on its

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Eric Leon Holoman

Eric Holoman is the Operating Partner of Magic Johnson Enterprises and oversees the company’s day-to-day operations of its largest portfolio companies including President and CEO of EquiTrust, a $18 billion dollar life and annuity business, Managing Partner of JLC Infrastructure and Managing

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Source: Savoy Network

Ghana: The Ghana Education Service and Culture Education Delivery At the Pre-University Level - a Critical Appraisal

The continued existence of thisall importance unit of the Ghana Education Service must be critically reappraised now; and given proper attention that it deserves asfar as the promotion and development of the Ghanaian culture are concerned; or else it ceases to exist to save the tax

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Source: allAfrica.com

NFL Commits $250 million Over 10 Years To Fight Systemic Racism

According to an NFL spokesperson, the league would be willing to work with Kaepernick on social justice

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Bumper Crop of Women Farmers Emerges in India

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Source: The Washington Informer

Rwanda

Rwanda continued fighting against the Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout its four-year civil war. Finally, in July 2002, the two countries signed a peace accord: Rwanda promised to withdraw its 35,000 troops from the Congolese border; Congo in turn agreed to disarm the thousands of Hutu

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

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24

2014

Oakland Youth Lead Exhibit of Art by Attitudinal Healing Connection

ArtEsteem is the youth arts program of the Attitudinal Healing

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Dorothy Mae DeLavallade Taylor: First Black Woman to Serve in the Louisiana House of Representatives

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(1993) Lani Guinier, “Seeking a Conversation on Race"

By 1993 Lani Guinier, a Yale Law School graduate, had crafted an impressive career as an NAACP attorney who specialized in voting rights cases, member of the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and special assistant in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in the Carter

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Source: Black Past

Jun

4

1993

Monday Night Politics: Meet the candidates

In my own neighborhood, I have served as a precinct chair for over a decade and have worked to help elect strong Democratic leaders in Dallas and across the State, including County Judge Clay Jenkins, Congressman Marc Veasey, former Congressman Beto O’Rourke and many

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Kenya: Plain Truth - Not Everything About Women Is About Gender

I was surprised last week when the impeachment of Governor Anne Waiguru by the Kirinyaga County Assembly sparked a gender

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mayor Duggan Appoints Former Chief Justice Conrad Mallett as Deputy Mayor

Mayor Mike Duggan announced the appointment of Conrad Mallett, as Deputy

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

(BPRW) 5 SOCIALLY DISTANT MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES | Press releases

(BPRW) 5 SOCIALLY DISTANT MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Barclay, Paris K.C. (1956- )

Paris K.C. Barclay is an award-winning American television director, producer, and LGBT rights activist. In 2013, he broke new ground when he was named President of the Directors Guild of America, making him the first out gay male and the first African American to hold the

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Source: Black Past

Jun

30

1956

Uganda: Baale Takes League Through Ballet Dance

On Saturday August 15, 2015, the final of the Fuba-Junior NBA League was held at the Lugogo Indoor Arena with Abraham Meron scoring a game high 39 points and 16 rebounds as KISU Bucks defeated Mashariki Pelicans 66-51 to emerge inaugural

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J'can health expert praises WHO boss

THE opening speech by World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the 73rd World Health Assembly's virtual meeting on Monday has been lauded by one local public health expert as “the most brilliant watershed speech by any WHO director

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Chairman And CEO Sean Combs Promotes Long-Time Associate Dia Simms To President Of Combs Enterprises

Simms will lead company in all verticals including fashion, spirits, media, and other brands

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(2015) President Barack Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney

VIDEO OF SPEECH

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L.A. Police Protective League Statement on Death of George Floyd

Los Angeles, CA—The Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League issued the following statement regarding the death of George Floyd in

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Malia Obama’s Critics Are Making Fun Of The Shape Of Her Head

Recently, his first-born daughter Malia Obama has been the object of internet criticism after appearing in her mother’s “Becoming

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Source: Your Black World

Lowes Commits Additional $25 Million in Grants & Resources To Small Businesses In Wake of COVID Pandemic

As small businesses look to reopen in the coming weeks and months, Lowe’s announced a second $25 million commitment to support ongoing COVID-19 relief, bringing the company’s pandemic support to communities to $50

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Tributes to late MPs take Lower House sitting into late night

THE House of Representatives yesterday spent hours paying tribute to former Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson, and former Education Minister Dr Neville Gallimore — both members of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) — who died late last

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

(1898) Booker T. Washington, “The Madison Square Garden Address”

After his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech, Booker T. Washingtons popularity grew rapidly among Northern whites. In this instance he gives an address at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 12, 1898, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Not surprisingly he promotes industrial education

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Source: Black Past

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12

1898

Thank you, Baltimore | Afro

Today, I conclude my campaign the same way I began by saying—Thank

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

TIAA Virtual Commencement Celebrates Difference Makers

As a part of the efforrt to uplift the community, TIAA celebrated individuals who are committed to making a positive impact on society and on the lives of others who they consider to be next generation of difference-makers last week during their virtual commencement in partnership with Facebook and

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Jamaica: Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Soul food

Soul food is a variety of cuisine originating in the Southeastern United States. It is common in areas with a history of slave-based plantations and has maintained popularity among the Black American and American Deep-South cotton state communities for centuries; it is now the most common regional

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