Opinion: Ode to WAPA: "Don't Hold Your Breath"

Windy's Preschool Drive-Thru Bridging Ceremony A Much-Appreciated Success

Greenbriar Children’s Center honored the pre-kindergarten graduates of Windy’s Preschool today with a drive-thru bridging ceremony in front of the school on Tattnall Street in downtown

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

Health matters: former festival queen seeks to promote mental wellness

SHARING IN the conversation around National Mental Health Month, which is recognised in May, the non-profit organisation Motivate Ja hosted a three-day online forum from May 25 to 27 dubbed ‘Mental

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Zorie, 105, defied COVID-19 and the odds

According to Geneveiva De Mattos, a great-niece of the elderly woman, her great aunt was placed in the care of the then “Alms Home” at a young age, by a now-deceased brother who was unable to care for

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault won the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for Apartheids Peole a report on South Aferica.

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Rwanda: Tributes Pour in for Fallen Minister Ahead of Burial

Louise Mushikiwabo, Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) and former senate president, Bernard Makuza, are among several officials who have paid tribute to former Minister Laurent Nkusi, who passed away on Monday, May

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Source: allAfrica.com

Here are the 2020 most expensive cities in Africa for expats

Mercer has released its 26th annual Cost of Living

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

City of Sacramento Gives Masks To Businesses

As some local businesses, including dine-in restaurants and small retail, prepare to reopen, the City of Sacramento is distributing 800,000 masks provided by the California Department of Public Health to help provide a safe experience for staff and patrons while adhering to public health

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

How to mourn your old normal and adapt to the new

In addition, we are also mourning lost habits and ways of life that are casualties of the coronavirus.Going out with friends, hugging a grandparent, even opening a door in a public place are on

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Mukuhlani reflects on difficult year

Despite enduring arguably the worst year in its history, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has ironically emerged stronger and ready to take the game to the next

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

James Hutton Brew

James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies.

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Rowan, Carl T. (1925–2000)

Rowan was born August 11, 1925, in the mining town of Ravenscroft, Tennessee. When he was a baby his family moved to McMinnville, Tennessee, because his parents thought its lumberyards offered more opportunity. His father, Thomas, stacked lumber for construction, and his mother, Johnnie, cleaned

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Source: Black Past

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

VIDEO OF SPEECH

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Rufus King seniors earn full rides to Notre Dame, including QuestBridge match

Congratulations to Rufus King International School seniors Jordan Anderson, who will attend the University of Notre Dame as a Quest- Bridge scholar, and David Akinsanya, also heading for Notre Dame on a full-ride

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

Remembering Wes Unseld by CP Time’s Chris Paul

And in a typical Black DMV household we cherished three things: God, hard work, and

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Source: Black America Web

Tiwa Savage, Davido, Mr Eazi grace cover of Billboard's special issue on Africa

“The three major-label groups—Universal, Warner and Sony—have all ramped up their investments in Africa in recent years: opening offices, sending A&R scouts to major hubs and forming joint ventures and partnerships,” the feature reads, adding, “[Africa] has also emerged as a particular wellspring

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Baltimore City Comptroller: Henry Upsets Pratt | Afro

Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt has held the office as the City’s independent fiscal executive since

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

With 24 college acceptances, RuQuan Brown, 17, runs a company aiming to end gun violence

RuQuan Brown knows how it feels to lose a loved one to gun

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Uganda: How Late Bloomer Magwali Gave Up Firefighting to Enjoy Football

The 23-year-old is a jack of all trades who plays for the national beach soccer team yet his arrival at 16-time champions SC Villa came when he was playing football for the sake of it in the third-tier Regional

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Source: allAfrica.com

Headline-Making Missteps Put Focus on Newsroom Diversity

Nobody anticipated it would lead to a staff revolt and become a national story, part of an extraordinary week where the news media’s sluggishness in building diverse newsrooms became part of the national

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Kenwood student Desmond Dunn looks to improve his b-ball game | The Crusader Newspaper Group

“Junior year started off rough but we ended stronger than everyone expected us to,” said Dunn, about helping his basketball team overachieve last

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

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

***EVENT CANCELED*** Rev. Jackson, son, Yusef, to take COVID-19 test today at Kennedy King College | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Leading by example, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and his son, Attorney Yusef Jackson, who is Secretary of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Board, will lead by example 12 noon, Tuesday, May 26th, by taking a COVID-19 test at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

How artist Emma Amos challenged racism and sexism through anonymous groups

Art museum director, Sharon Patton, summarizes her works thus: “Amos’s sequence of paintings is anecdotal, but the objective of each is the same: to argue constructively against norms in the field of art as well as

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GOP's Only Black Senator Now Leads on Race

Initially reluctant to focus on race, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is now a leading Republican voice, teaching his party what it’s like to be a Black man in America when the police lights are flashing in the rearview

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

A Community in Action: Residents Gather to Clean, Repair, and Rebuild Neighborhoods Hit Hardest by Looters.

The hard-working residents of neighborhoods severely impacted by the looting of businesses over the past few days came out in a beautiful display of community, strength, and

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Source: Chicago Defender

White, V. Ethel Willis (1920-2003)

Theendowment named in honor of V Ethel Willis White is unusual in that the person honoredwas not a wealthy woman in the usual sense of the word. Instead V Ethel Willis White’s wealth derivedfrom her inspiration to

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Source: Black Past

Black Student Accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Launches Company to End Gun Violence – Free Press of Jacksonville

Nationwide — RuQuan “Ru” Brown, a 17-year old high school senior from Seattle who has excelled in his classes and sports, has been recently accepted into 24 colleges including Harvard, Yale, and

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

Snapchat Says It Is No Longer Promoting Trump's Account

Snapchat said Wednesday that is has stopped promoting President Donald Trump’s content on its “Discover” pages due to recent comments he has made about protesters demonstrating against racial inequality and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis

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Leading the Charge: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Uses Political Platform to Advocate for Testing and Necessary Resources in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the midst of one of the deadliest pandemics in the history of the United States, there has been at least one elected official who has truly led the charge and been on the frontlines of dealing with addressing this unprecedented COVID-19 virus – that elected official has been none other than

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

About African-American Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek

Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek (born April 15, 1926 in Harlem, New York) worked behind the scenes on some of the largest architectural projects in America. Notable in architectural history as the first African-American woman registered architect in New York and California, Sklarek was also the

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