Shirley C. Franklin

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Shirley C. Franklin

Shirley C. Franklin is Executive Chair of the Board for Purpose Built Communities, Inc., an organization established to transform struggling neighborhoods into sustainable communities since 2011. Also, Franklin has served as the Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor at the University of Texas-Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs. Franklin has an extensive background in executive management and government leadership.

Franklin served as Mayor of the City of Atlanta from 2002 to 2010 and served in cabinet positions in the City of Atlanta, including Chief of Operations and Chief Administrative Officer, from 1978 to 1991, prior to her election as mayor in 2001.

Franklin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from Howard University and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Source: Savoy Network

Only 40.7% of Greene County households have completed the Census Greene County’s Census response rate lags behind state and national rates

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

The Unbearable Grief Of Black Mothers | The Oklahoma Eagle

Between Covid-19 and police brutality, the burden of grief is yet another risk to Black

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

In reality, the House bill would give $100 billion to local organizations, such as community health centers or nonprofits, to help with testing and contact tracing by funding door-to-door outreach, the purchase of testing supplies and the hiring and training of people to run mobile testing

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

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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Source: The Black Chronicle

Nieto Gil: Did Colombia whitewash the legacy of its only black President?

This article was given to The City Paper as an exclusive for Colombia by its author Gonzalo

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Source: The City Paper Bogotá

Ms. Mims is responsible for creating a corporate philanthropy and multicultural affairs strategy focusing on children’s education, financial literacy, outreach to diverse communities, and environmental sustainability for ING

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Source: Savoy Network

Atlanta City Council approves fiscal year 2021 budget

ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council on Saturday approved the budget for Fiscal Year 2021, which begins July 1 (Legislative Reference

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

‘Bad mind!’ - St Ann’s Bay mayor blasts critics of COVID spend, Porsche charging station

ST ANN’S Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis has labelled as “bad-mind” detractors who have mounted a withering campaign against him since news broke of the reported $46m COVID-19 expenditure on sanitising the town of Ocho Rios and the $80,000 charging port installed at the municipal office to charge his

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Four Cops Have Been Fired After A Black Man Died Begging A White Officer To Stop Crushing His Neck | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired, according to the city’s mayor, after a disturbing video showed a black man dying in police custody on Monday night as he repeatedly said “I can’t breathe” while a white police officer pushed a knee into his

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Gabon: Illicit bars pop up amid Covid-19

In Libreville, illicit bars where friends can get together for a drink or two are beginning to

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Ferguson elects first black mayor as new protests roil US

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson voters have elected Ella Jones as the city’s first black mayor as protests over the death of George Floyd and police treatment of black communities roil the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Why Raising Kids To ‘Not See Color’ Doesn't Help Fight Racism

In response to just about any story about how to raise anti-racist children or about the pain Black parents feel having “the talk” with their young children before they feel ready often comes the familiar refrain: “I’m teaching my children that we don’t see

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

KSAMC PNP minority wants foul-mouthed councillor punished

The People's National Party Minority Leader in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation Andrew Swaby has written to Mayor Delroy Williams threatening to move a resolution to investigate a councillor who, he says, has brought the local authority in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

NYC mayor seeks $1 billion police cut amid protests | New York Carib News

NYC mayor seeks $1 billion police cut amid protests

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Source: The New York Carib News

The Mo'ne Davis brand

Mo’ne Davis is on fire. Not her baseball pitch, but her

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Source: Savoy Network

William R. Harker

William R. Harker is President and Co- Founder of Ashe Capital Management, LP, a position he has held since 2013. Before establishing Ashe in

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Source: Savoy Network

Four San Jose officers placed on leave after alleged racist and anti-Muslim posts

Four San Jose Police Department officers are placed on administrative leave after they allegedly posted racist and anti-Muslim messages in a private Facebook

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Source: theGrio

Council pulls plug on mayor’s Porsche

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the St Ann Municipal Corporation, Rovel Morris, has said that the plug-in facility that was installed to charge the personal hybrid Porsche of the mayor, Michael Belnavis, has been

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Georgia Police Chief Pushed To Resign Over Black Lives Matter Post

A new Georgia police chief in Johns Creek is now being called on to resign after he posted a controversial statement on his social media page regarding the Black Lives Matter

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962 - Death

Judge Luke Charles Moore died in Atlanta, Georgia on December 18, 1994.

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Source: Black Past

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1994

DA wants Gauteng education dept to shut down schools in Diepsloot

The DA is calling on the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) to close all schools in Diepsloot because of a lack of running

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Op Ed Submission: “Why We Must Resist Our Hatred of Candace Owens: An open letter to Dave Chappelle…and every anti-racist” | Afro

I was one of maybe five Black students in my Stilwell, Kansas high

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

A shoutout to these high achievers from Flagler high schools –

His mom, Adrienne Harvey, says that Alex is a 2020 graduate of Flagler Palm Coast High School (FPCHS) and a high

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Source: Daytona Times

Algerians find smartphones are a lockdown essential

Since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic, smartphones have become increasingly popular in Algeria, as many people across the country use their time in lockdown to connect with each other and the outside world, new research

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

This Pride Month, let us not forget about our Black liberation pioneers

Front row, left: Author James Baldwin, Front row, 2nd from left, Selma March strategist, Bayard Rustin,Front row, 3rd from left (with hat), A. Philip Randolph (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty

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Source: theGrio

MDC Alliance councillors in stands scam

MDC Alliance councillors at Mutare City Council have been implicated in a scam involving residential stands after they allocated themselves land that only new councillors were supposed to benefit

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

In 1967 Thomas Atkins became the first Black Bostonian to win a city-wide election to the Boston City Council. He served two two-year terms before losing a campaign for mayor in 1971.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

U-turn as suspension of prominent North West doctor lifted

The controversial suspension of one of the North West province's senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to his post as head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital on 29

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Source: https://www.news24.com

The unbearable grief of Black mothers

The emotional and physical burden of trauma on Black mothers’ bodies

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Source: Vox - Understand the News

Herndon, Norris Bumstead (1897–1977) - Birthday

Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 15, 1897, the only child of Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate and teacher at Atlanta University, and Alonzo Herndon.

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