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Comerica Bank Makes Historic Donation to Support Black-Owned Businesses

Comerica Bank today announced its $1 million commitment over four years to the National Business League as part of a national partnership that will launch the Black Capital Access Program (BCAP), an access to capital initiative to assist Black businesses across the

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Boston Lawmakers Vote To Ban Use Of Facial Recognition Technology By The City

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Source: Stories About Black History

Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

NASA Names Headquarters After 'Hidden Figure' Mary W. Jackson

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Democrats block GOP police reform Bill in US Senate

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — US Senate Democrats blocked a closely watched police reform bill yesterday, arguing that the Republican measure introduced after George Floyd's killing by police does not go far

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

Tale of two murals

The City of St. Petersburg unveiled a “Black Life Matters Mural” on a city street, similar to

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

‘I am a pastor, not a politician’ - Firebrand clergyman, Bishop Rowan Edwards says he wants to remain non-partisan to fulfil his mandate

Two of Jamaica’s more prominent pastors said that while the formation of another political party is good for democracy, they have no intention of being a candidate when the newly formed Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) contests the next general

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

3,300 workers regain jobs in BPO sector

A total of 3,300 employees in the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector have regained their jobs, which were lost as a result of the impact of the coronavirus

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

WalletHub study ranks Texas at No. 8 for racial equity in education

A recent study found that school districts that have a high concentration of white students receive $23 billion more per year in funding than those that have a high concentration of non-white

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

High literacy is only one of the first steps towards development

It is a country with a high literacy rate, one of the highest on the African

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Camille Cosby says White women Have History of False Claims Against Black men – Free Press of Jacksonville

“The #MeToo movement and movements like them have intentional ignorance pertaining to the history of particular white women — not all white women — but particular white women, who have from the very beginning, pertaining to the enslavement of African people, accused Black males of sexual assault

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

TIME FOR REAL CHANGE IN BLACK AMERICA | The Crusader Newspaper Group

It is time to face facts: the relationship between Black people and the United States of America is at

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Morehouse School of Medicine Awarded $40 Million Federal Grant to Fight COVID-19 – Free Press of Jacksonville

The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) selected the Morehouse School of Medicine as the recipients of a $40 million initiative to combat the coronavirus outbreak in vulnerable

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

'The Noose Was Real' - NASCAR releases photo from Talladega

Declaring “the noose was real,” NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Black voters might hold Democrats accountable for police violence...

That issue was and is police

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Calling all allies: This is your moment!

If you are out there painting half your face black to show outward solidarity with Black Lives Matter, you are not a true

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

KABAARA: It is time to learn about living with coronavirus

Relentless testing, tracing and monitoring, proactive official quarantine and isolation responses, tight border management and constant citizen reminders on hygiene and social distancing are part of this “new

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Source: Business Daily

Protesters: Remove Statues of Slave Kneeling Before Lincoln

Calls are intensifying for the removal of twin Emancipation memorials in Washington, D.C., and Boston that depict a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s feet — optics that jar and offend many in a nation confronting racial injustice through a fresh

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

BIKO INTERVIEW: Angela finds a perfect mix

Angela finds a perfect mix

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Source: Business Daily

PNC Commits More Than $1 Billion To Help End Systemic Racism

The PNC Financial Services Group announced a commitment of more than $1 billion to help end systemic racism and support economic empowerment of African Americans and low- and moderate-income

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

NASA’s Headquarters to be Renamed in Honor of its 1st Black Woman Engineer, “Hidden Figure” Mary W. Jackson

NASA announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Report: 7.7 percent of female workers in Texas are entrepreneurs

The median annual income for full-time female entrepreneurs is $40,000, slightly lower than the median annual income among all full-time female workers of

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

COVID-19 Indiana Phase 2 study findings released | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Results from the second phase of a scientific study of statewide random testing aimed at measuring the spread of the novel coronavirus in Indiana show fewer active infections and a greater number of people testing positive for

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Bill Cosby Allowed to Appeal His 2018 Sexual Assault Conviction

Cosby will now get to appeal two crucial elements of the conviction, which Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court announced on

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

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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Source: Dallas Weekly

OWN’s Greenleaf Cast Get Candid About Final Season During Virtual Roundtable

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

'Bear Our Pain': The Plea For More Black Mental Health Workers

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Source: Stories About Black History

A quarter-billion children getting no education: UN

Children from poorer communities as well as girls, the disabled, immigrants and ethnic minorities were at a distinct educational disadvantage in many countries, the UN's Paris-based education body UNESCO

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Black Student At Texas' Robert E. Lee High School Won't Wear School's Name On Track Jersey Until It Ditches The Confederate Homage - Blavity

A Texas student-athlete started a movement to change her high school’s name after writing a letter to the school board explaining why she'll no longer bear its name on her

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Source: Blavity News

Edward Keith Leak Sr. part of a Chicago dynasty dies at 91 | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Edward Keith Leak Sr. grew up as a child of the Great

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

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