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Valentino D. Carlotti

Valentino D. Carlotti is a Partner at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. where he is the head of the Sales & Trading Division’s Institutional Client Group focused on covering major accounts of the division. Prior to this role, Valentino was President of the Goldman Sachs Brazil Bank from 2007 to

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Bradley T. Sheares

Bradley T. Sheares was Chief Executive Officer of Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sheares has over 25 years of experience in science, business and the pharmaceutical

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Africa: As Lockdown Fuels Food Shortages, Africa Goes Online for Groceries

From sharing grocery costs to food remittances, African tech entrepreneurs are finding ways to keep fresh food affordable

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Everything To Know About Gun-Toting ‘Ken And Karen’ Couple Who Aimed Weapons At Protestors

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The African entrepreneur and COVID-19: Where do we go from here?

Ernest Armah is the Country Manager of enpact e.V. enpact e.V is a global non-profit organization founded in 2013 to empower entrepreneurs, ecosystems and international

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Garrett Morgan

Garrett Morgan is one of those rare people who are able to come up with an extraordinary inventions which have a tremendous impact on society – and then follows that up with even

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Master Tutor

For 30 years Samuel P. Perry, Jr., has spent his days and nights tutoring boys and girls in all subjects, preparing them for college. Almost any late afternoon you can see this quiet whirlwind of a Black man rushing back and forth among a half dozen Black students in Bates Hall, the huge

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Activists demand halt to state reopening plan

Activists with the social justice group Mijente and the Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition place flowers on a mock coffin at the steps of the State

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Jonathan Mariner

Jonathan Mariner served as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Major League Baseball (MLB). In this role, Mariner oversaw approximately $2 billion in combined league-wide pension assets and MLB’s strategic investment fund. He also served as President of BASES, the league’s captive insurance

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David L. Motley

David L. Motley co-founded two enterprises beginning in 2010: The BlueTree Venture Fund, where he currently serves as a Managing Partner, and a real estate development joint venture with Walnut Capital Management. In addition, Motley has played a leadership role for Headwaters SC (acquired by EY in

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Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter, Jr. is President & Chief Executive Officer of Inteliquent, a leading provider of wholesale voice services for carriers and service providers. Prior to his current position, Carter served in various leadership roles at Sprint. From 2010 until November 2014, Carter served as

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List of African-American visual artists

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More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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Tar-Baby

The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1880; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Brer Fox to entrap Brer Rabbit. The more that Brer Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he

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Veteran Executive, Eglon E. Simons Announced As President And Chief Executive Officer Of The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications

The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) announced the selection of Eglon E. Simons as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June

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American Express Makes History With the First Black Woman on its Executive Committee

American Express named President of Strategic Partnerships Glenda McNeal to its Executive Committee this week, making the veteran executive the first Black woman to sit on the

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African-American neighborhood

African-American neighborhoods or black neighborhoods are types of ethnic enclaves found in many cities in the United States. Generally, an African American neighborhood is one where the majority of the people who live there are African American. Some of the earliest African-American neighborhoods

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Jesse J. Greene

Jesse J. Greene, Jr. was Vice President Financial Management and Chief Financial Risk Officer of IBM. Currently, Greene is Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School, and an instructor in Corporate Governance, Risk Management and other areas of interest to MBA and Executive Education level

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Black women open up about dating other POC amid Hollywood spotlight

Audiences can now see Black women at the forefront of many of these relationships, and they are often paired with other people of

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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "AM I BLACK ENOUGH?": THE FALLOUT OVER JOE BIDEN'S COMMENTS TO CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Doxie Jordan

Doxie Jordan is Vice President, Diabetes Sales, South Area for Novo Nordisk, a global health care company with 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. In this role, Jordan leads five sales teams across nine regions, totaling more than 900 professionals. His primary focus is to

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Conrad L. Mallett

Conrad L. Mallett, Jr. is Chief Administrative Officer of the Detroit Medical Center. In this role, Mallet is leading hospital’s operational re-design with a particular focus on population health management, physician and patient satisfaction, cost containment, medical safety and clinical

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LIVESTREAM REPLAY: Accessing COVID-19 Testing & Availability

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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Tarrus Richardson, First Purdue Black Student Body President

In 1990, Tarrus Richardson (M’91) became the first black Purdue student body president, with 70 percent of the

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4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren

"Our students of color are treated differently in our schools," Kim Ellison, who chairs the Minneapolis Board of Education, told NPR earlier this

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Grief coach helps women get over loss of spouse, gives tips on pandemic

Nickcole Byrd, an associate pastor at Higher Dimensions church for more than 20 years, is hoping to change the shocking statistic by helping widows heal through her organization, 700

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Public Enemy Live From Metropolis Studios available now

On August 6, 2014, Hip-Hop legends Public Enemy performed at London’s world-renowned Metropolis Studios in the most intimate gig of their career. This special show was the hottest ticket of the summer, giving 125 lucky fans the rare opportunity to witness one of the most influential Rap

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LIVESTREAM REPLAY — NNPA Partners with #Donate1Post to Help Black-Owned Businesses During COVID-19

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Cornel West

Cornel West , (born June 2, 1953, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.), American philosopher, scholar of African American studies, and political activist. His influential book Race Matters (1993) lamented what he saw as the spiritual impoverishment of the African American underclass and critically examined the

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Kay Wallace, Nat'l Black MBA President / CEO

The new president and CEO of the National Black MBA Association—which just held its 41st Annual Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas—is all about achieving

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