Louis B. Lynn

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Louis B. Lynn

Louis B. Lynn is Chairman & Founder of ENVIRO AgScience, Inc. In this role, Lynn has over 37 years of experience in all aspects of landscape and construction activity from corporate office administration to project management. Under his leadership, ENVIRO AgScience, Inc. is recognized for its commitment to “Social and Civic” Responsibility.

Lynn is a National Board Member of the American Horticulture Society and the National Association of Minority Contractors. Lynn’s entrepreneurial spirit has been widely recognized including being awarded the prestigious 2012 “Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award”. The award, inspired by the late U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, recognizes individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and achieved significant success in creating diversity in the public or private sector.

Lynn holds a Bachelor’s degree in Horticulture Science and a Master’s degree in Horticulture both from Clemson University, and a Ph.D. in Horticulture from that University of Maryland – College Park.

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Revolutionized Shoemaking

Jan E. Matzeliger of Lynn invented a shoe lasting machine in 1888 that revolutionized the making of shoes. His invention led to the formation of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in 1890.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

MANY strive at all cost to climb the social ladder, live in luxurious homes, take dream vacations, drive fancy cars, while having a little fortune stashed away in the

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

Doll Creator Dr. Lisa Williams Has Laid Down Her Burdens and Is Living Her Dream

Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black

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

The 6 Friends You Need In Your 30s

Anyone who has turned 30 can look around and realize they might not have the same group of friends they had when they turned

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Source: MadameNoire

Eric Yarbro is a Senior Vice President with CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. In this role, Yarbro handles the relocation, disposition and marketing of office space throughout New York City, with a particular focus on Penn Station and Grand Central, as

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Source: Savoy Network

How High School Seniors can Navigate COVID-19 Uncertainty

For high school seniors bound for college, the COVID-19 pandemic struck at a pivotal time in life — as they finish one chapter and prepare to start a new

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Nicholas Johnson is Princeton University’s First-Ever Black Valedictorian – Your Black World

For the first time in the higher education institution’s 274-year history, Princeton University named a black

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Source: Your Black World

Zimbabwe: Lupane Varsity Rocked By Nepotism, Tribalism Storm

Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor Pardon Kuipa is in an eye of a storm after it emerged that his daughter, who only has a Master's degree was appointed a lecturer ahead of PhD holders with teaching

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Source: allAfrica.com

FAMU switches athletic conference; joins SWAC –

TALLAHASSEE – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Board of Trustees has approved the university’s move to join the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), beginning with the 2021-22 academic

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Source: Daytona Times

NIH study links cigarette smoking to higher stroke risk in African Americans

African Americans who smoke are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stroke than those who never smoked, while former smokers show a similarly lower risk as never smokers, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of

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Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Turning Discovery Into Health

The Lineage of ‘Lemonade’

Tyina Steptoe, PhD, an author and associate professor at the University of Arizona, says the ebbs and flows of gender and sex politics would affect the trajectory of women in music for decades, but national events and movements like the civil rights movement, which centered respectability, would

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Chargers head coach helps build school in African nation

Education has always been important to Lynn, a 27-year football veteran who at the age of 49 re-enrolled in school, determined to obtain his

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Louis E. Lomax: Introduced the Nation of Islam & Malcolm X to the World

Louis E. Lomax: Introduced the Nation of Islam & Malcolm X to the World

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Source: Black Then

Musician Cameron Sankey Playing Music, Talking Tech

… I had two or three gigs a week, traveling out of the [U.S. and] state with other artists,” said Sankey, a full-time musician, music producer, mixing engineer, writer-arranger, keyboardist, and

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Gov. Walz announces more than half a million COVID-19 tests in MN

As State reaches milestone of 20,000 daily test capacity, Gov. Walz heralds partnership with Mayo Clinic and U of

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Guyana must build capacity for excellence like Jamaica

The difference between Jamaica and Guyana, in addition to the political interference that you correctly identified, is the quality of the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. (born March 13, 1972), better known by his stage name Common (formerly Common Sense), is an American hip hop recording artist, actor, poet and film producer from Chicago, Illinois. Common debuted in 1992 with the album Can I Borrow a Dollar? and maintained a significant

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AMHVoices: Many Mutodis in Mnangagwa’s govt

It is unfortunate that we still have people like the fired Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi in the government, but nothing much is being done to get rid of them because they are serving on the blessings of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Who’s Who in Black Atlanta celebrates 2020 Clark Atlanta University graduates [Video]

Although countless 2020 class of “perfect vision” commencement statuses nationwide are still uncertain, graduates at Clark Atlanta University received a virtual celebration that lifted many spirits at home during

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Bill Cosby’s wife slams #MeToo movement, says they should ‘clean up their act’

8|24 #MambaMentality

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Congratulations! Nick Cannon Graduates From Howard University And Speaks At Virtual Ceremony

Congratulations to Nick Cannon for graduating from Howard University last

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Source: Black America Web

Op-ed Submission: America is My Home | Afro

Today, they stand as beacons of light, shining example to the next generation of what we can accomplish with our God-given talents, the freedoms we enjoy, the opportunities available in our nation and, yes, a whole lot of

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

William E. B. DuBois

William E. B. DuBois (1868-1963), born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive the Ph.D. degree from Harvard (1895). His thesis was on the African Slave Trade. DuBois was influenced by Boston's fiery and 'radical' civil rights leader William Monroe Trotter in

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

That Celebrity Interview: 23andMe COVID-19 with Joyce Tung

I focused on a new study: Could Genetics Play a Role in the Severity of

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

HBCUs, Other MD Colleges Plan for In-Person, Remote Learning in Fall | Afro

The 12 state schools that constitute the University System of Maryland will use a mix of in-person and remote learning when they reopen in the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Egyptologist Dr. James Henry Breasted And The Creation Of White Supremacist Ideology

Lewis, the Harvard and Cornell University trained professor, has challenged White supremacist notions about Kemet (Egypt) and Black people in his ground breaking book called-The Falsification and Fabrication of Ancient Egypt 3400 BCE to 500 BCE: A Survey of the

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Source: Your Black World

When the clueless and corrupt pray

A FEW days back President Emmerson Mnangagwa called for a day of prayer and

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

“Plandemic”… Fact or Fallacy?

I had not heard of it before and I saw that it was an interview with a scientist, Judy Mikovitz, Ph.D., who claims that the current COVID-19 pandemic was actually planned and she systematically attacks Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

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Source: BlackDoctor | Health News On Fitness, Nutrition & Weight Loss - BlackDoctor

A congratulatory message to the Wisconsin graduating class of 2020

Graduates, in a world filled with uncertainty, change is the only

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

Opinion | It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.

It set in motion black people’s diminished access to healthy foods, safe working conditions, medical treatment and a host of other social inequities that negatively impact

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