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Facts And Falsities About Fixing Your Credit

In order to gain some clarity on how to properly build and maintain great credit, we turned to award-winning financial educator Sharita Humphrey. She was once staring down a credit score in the 300s, and managed to work it up to the 800s, through several strategic moves.

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The Treasury Department announced it will deliver millions of coronavirus response payments through prepaid debit cards this

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Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda ăntē´gə, –gwə, bärbu´də [key], independent Commonwealth nation (2005 est. pop. 68,700), 171 sq mi (442 sq km), West Indies, in the Leeward Islands. It consists of the island of Antigua (108 sq mi/280 sq km) and two smaller islands, the more sparsely populated Barbuda (62 sq

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Liberia: Is Ex-CBL Governor Milton Weeks the Sacrificial Lamb in the 'Missing Billions' Saga?

Monrovia — When Charles Sirleaf, the eldest son of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was arrested along with five others, including former Governor J. Milton Weeks, last February, it marked a turning point in the controversy surrounding the alleged disappearance LD16 billion ($100 million (€88

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Niamey, Niger (1902- )

Niamey is the largest city and capital of the West African nation of Niger. Niamey is located in the southwestern part of the country along the left bank of the Niger River. Niger is the largest nation within West Africa in terms of physical size, and Niamey is the administrative, economic, and

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Eureka Co-Operative Bank

David E. Crawford opened Eureka Co-Operative Bank in Boston in 1910, 'the only bank in the East owned and operated by â€˜Colored People.'' He was appointed a master in the Chancery by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1915, and in 1916 the citizens of Boston elected him as a delegate to the National

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Spingarn Medal: Charles R. Drew

Spingarn Medal presented to Charles R. Drew who set up and ran the blood plasma bank in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City which served as one of the models for the widespread system of blood banks now in operation for the American Red Cross.

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1944

The People's Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by former African Amer

The Peoples Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by former African American congressman George H. White of North Carolina. The bank will help hundreds of African Americans buy homes and start businesses until the illness of its founder forces its closure in 1918.

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26

1907

Rwanda: Banks Comfort Distressed Clients With Special Products

For example, in less than two weeks, Bank of Kigali's (BK), "Turikumwe," a special salary loan product, has recorded more than 2,000 online applications and 150 loan

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Zimbabwe: Kasukuwere in Spirited Fight to Save Mazowe Farm From Govt Seizure

Exiled former minister Saviour Kasukuwere has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court challenging Lands Minister Perrance Shiri's decision to withdraw his offer letter for his Mazowe farm without giving him a chance to file

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Pugh, Mary E. (1959- )

Mary E. Pugh, founder of Pugh Capital Management, a successful investment firm in Seattle, was the first black woman and youngest person to be named Senior Vice President at Washington Mutual Savings Bank. Born to a Boeing engineer father and real estate agent mother, Pugh’s family lived

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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Congress needs to show black businesses the money

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Freedmen's Bank closed

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DPP hails ruling in historic fraud case

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Local debt grows with Sh106bn Bretton Woods loan

Given Kenya’s classification as a lower middle-income country, the loan comprises a Sh79.5 billion credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and Sh26.5 billion from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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Uganda: Increase in Government Capitalisation Pushes Up Udb Profitability

Increased government capitalisation has helped Uganda Development Bank (UDB) to register growth in profitability to

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Two regiments, First and Tenth U.S.C.T., repulsed

Two regiments, First and Tenth U.S.C.T., repulsed attack by rebel General Fitzhugh Lee. Also participating in battle at Wilsins Wharf Landing, on bank of James River, were a small detachment of white Union troops and a battery of Light artillery.

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May

24

1864

Manchester Fraud Trial | Former municipal officials found guilty, mom and teller freed

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Malawi: State Drops Charges Against 4 Suspected Reserve Bank of Malawi Fraud

The State has dropped criminal charges against four central bankers suspected to have connived with former Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) manager, Charles Ezra July Mchakulu and three others, to steal K340 million from the central

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Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )

Nicodemus, Kansas was founded in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction Period. It soon became one of the most famous mostly black communities in the country formed by freedpeople migrating west. Nicodemus is located on the plains in the northwest corner of the state along the Solomon River in

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Deborah C. Wright

Wright was Chairman of the Board of Carver Bancorp, Inc. where she served as Chairman, CEO and President. Carver Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered savings bank and the nation’s largest publicly traded African- and Caribbean- American

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National name: Jamhuri ya Kenya

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Mandeville mayor lashes Scotiabank

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Arlene Isaacs-Lowe

Arlene Isaacs-Lowe is Senior Vice President, Commercial Group for Moody’s Investors Service. In this role, Isaacs-Lowe leads the Commercial Group’s team responsible for business development and account management efforts for Moody’s US Financial Institutions Group (FIG). The team works in close

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Zimbabwe: RBZ Says They Found the Man Who Flaunted New Banknotes On Social Media

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Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first

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Mar

2

1888

Zimbabwe: Mutodi and the Tragicomedy That Mnangagwa's Admin Is

After the bizarre remarks by Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri that the Covid-19 pandemic, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives globally, was divine punishment for countries that imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, it seemed the dross emanating from the corridors of power could not get

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First Black Women named Bank Head

Maggie L. Walker named president of Richmonds St. Luke Bank and Trust Company and became the first Black woman to head a bank.

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Apr

27

1903

Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”

Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th

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Thomas Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana in 1950. His father, J.K. Mensah, was a businessman who shipped cocoa products to chocolate manufacturers in France. Thomas was an exceptionally bright child, learning to read newspapers at an early age and becoming fluent in French. As a child, he often

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2012

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