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By Global NewsWire Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, announced that their long-time sorority member and leader, Karen Y. Williams will take the helm of the historic organization as their executive director on Feb. 15. Williams currently serves as the first vice-chair for the organization'
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Travel roundup: Two Caribbean islands are making entry easier
The content originally appeared on: CNN Editor's Note - Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel's weekly newsletter. Get news about destinations opening and closing, inspiration for future adventures, plus the latest in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel
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'We Might Have to Go Through That a Lot': Black Woman Responds After She Was Accused By Frontier Airlines Passengers of Trafficking Her White 4-Year-Old Adoptive Sister
An Aurora family's trip to Texas went awry when Dallas Fort Worth Public Safety officers confronted a young woman, accusing her of trafficking her adoptive […]
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Black Family With 7-Week-Old Forced Off Of Flight After Misunderstanding With Unprofessional American Airlines Flight Attendants
American Airlines is under increasing scrutiny after a video of a Black couple and their seven-week-old daughter being kicked off a flight last week by unprofessional staff members has been circling the web.
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Trump blames legal troubles on ‘racist’ Black DA’s
By Bobby Caina Calvan, The Associated Press Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them White, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. 'These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They're ra
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WHAT’S THE HOLDUP? Plaskett, Payne Weigh In On U.S. Attorney Confirmation Delay
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Senator-at-Large Steven Payne Jr. said Monday that he’d written a letter to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton “expressing outrage that partisan politics is standing in the way of the U.S. Senate confirming the first Black woman to be the U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Virgin
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FDA Investigates Lucky Charms Cereal After Reports of Sickness
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating Lucky Charms after consumers complained about becoming sick after eating the dry cereal. The FDA said it received more than 100 complaints this year. “The FDA takes seriously any reports of possible adulteration of
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Statement of Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner: Social Security Administration to Resume In-Person Services at Local Social Security Offices
Online Services and Telephone Remain Most Convenient Ways to Contact Agency “I am pleased to announce that local Social Security offices will restore in-person services, including for people without an appointment, on April 7, 2022. To avoid waiting in line, I strongly encourage people, who can, to
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Black Man says Tesla CEO Elon Musk stole his idea and trademarked it | New Pittsburgh Courier
Photo: Getty Images A Black man is accusing billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk of stealing his original concept and trademarking it under the same name, Black Enterprise reports. Riz Nwosu said that he was inspired by Tesla products and created the Cyberbackpack, a high-tech backpack that has an
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Alabama building honoring KKK leader to add Black student’s name
By The Associated Press, A University of Alabama building named for a former governor who led the Ku Klux Klan a century ago will also bear the name of the first Black person to attend the school, trustees decided. Graves Hall, an academic building named for two-term Gov. Bibb Gra
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MLK's Family To Biden: No MLK Day Holiday Without Voting Rights Legislation | Chicago Defender
Photo: Getty Images The family of Martin Luther King, Jr. is calling for a 'no celebration' of the January federal holiday named in his honor without action by lawmakers and Joe Biden on federal voting rights legislation. Martin Luther King III, his wife Arndrea Waters King and their daughter
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This Week In Black History - April 6-12, 2022 | New Pittsburgh Courier
Josephine Baker April 6 1798—One of the nation’s most famous and accomplished early Black pioneers, James Beckwourth, is born. The product of a White slave owner and a Black slave mother, Beckwourth acquired his freedom and became a successful fur trader. He would later become a scout for the Rocky
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Be the MVP of Super Bowl LVI and Spread The Word: Fans Don’t Let Fans Drive Drunk
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Super Bowl LVI will attract hundreds of fans territory-wide tomorrow. To help keep motorists, passengers, and other road users safe, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is teaming up with the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) and the Virgin Islands
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School Blames Black History Fried Chicken Menu On Cafeteria Worker | Atlanta Daily World
Photo: Getty Images When it's not on the menu for Juneteenth, it's the star of the show during Black History Month. It's the fried chicken menu. A Massachusetts high school issued an apology this week after serving up fried chicken on the first day of February as part of its Black History Month
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Chauvin Trial Judge Likely Signed Warrant That Led To Amir Locke's Death | Atlanta Daily World
Photo: Getty Images The Hennepin County judge who presided over Derek Chauvin's state murder trial is likely the same who signed the no-knock warrant that left 22-year-old Amir Locke dead last Wednesday (February 2). Judge Peter Cahill was the designated signing judge last week, a courthouse
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My crime is not who I am: Dream Corps JUSTICE hosts sixth annual Day of Empathy to highlight criminal justice reform
By DeAnna Giles, Special to the AFRO The United States of America has the largest prison population in the world. And the American criminal justice system continues to incarcerate minorities at a disproportionate rate. According to The Sentencing Project, Black Americans are incar
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Johnny Depp Calls Amber Heard Allegations ‘Heinous,’ Says He Never Struck Her
FAIRFAX — Actor Johnny Depp testified today that he never struck his ex-wife Amber Heard and was challenging her accusations in a $50 million defamation case in part to protect his children from false information about his behavior. Speaking softly and slowly, Depp said in a Virginia courtroom that
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International Black Aviation Day to Honor Black Aviators | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Tammy Gibson Casey Grant, one of the first African American stewardesses of Delta Air Lines, is on a mission to honor the unsung men and women in aviation, despite the obstacles in their path. Wednesday, February 16, 2022, is International Black Aviation Day to honor black aviators, past and
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Frontier Airlines falsely accuses Black woman flying with her 4-year-old white sister of trafficking
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Black Democrats try to revive party in Trump territory

By Andrew DeMillo, The Associated Press Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years. He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as eas

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Relationship tips for singles, couples to elevate your Valentine’s Day game
By AFRO Staff If you are having a difficult time navigating the dating world, you are not alone. In fact, a 2020 report issued by the Pew Research Center said that half of all adults say dating became harder in the last decade. The good news is that there is help for those who wan
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Whoopi Goldberg awkwardly demonstrates how the idea of race varies by place and changes over time | New Pittsburgh Courier
On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Whoopi Goldberg said, “I don’t want to make a fake apology.” Youtube by Robyn Autry, Wesleyan University Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” set off a firestorm when she insisted on Jan. 31, 2022 that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Hands
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PRESS ROOM: A message from Rear Admiral Felicia Collins, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and Director of the HHS Office of Minority Health
(Black PR Wire) – [April 1] marks the start of National Minority Health Month 2022, a chance for us to spotlight the disproportionate burden of premature death and illness in racial and ethnic minority and American Indian and Alaska Native populations and to encourage action throu
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Bank Of America Names Victor Branch First Black President Of Richmond Area | The Michigan Chronicle
Photo: Getty Images Victor Branch is no stranger to supporting the Richmond, Virginia community –– be it through his service on nonprofit boards or engaging local business partnerships. He's continuing to do that work and more as the first Black president of Bank of America's Richmond
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This Week In Black History - April 26 - May 3, 2022 | New Pittsburgh Courier
Former South African presidents Nelson Mandela, left, and FW de Klerk, right, with Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, center, at de Klerk's 70th birthday party in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa-File) April 26 1886—The “Mother of the Blues” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey is born Gertrude
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Principal Forced To Apologize For Showing Video About White Privilege | The Michigan Chronicle
Photo: Getty Images A Kansas principal was allegedly forced to apologize to high school staff after showing them a video about white privilege, KMUW reports. The incident started in January when Principal Tim Hamblin reportedly showed Derby High School staff a 2011 video focused on the perspectives
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“Say His Name”: Amir Locke Killed In “No-Knock” Raid - The New Journal and Guide
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Black Girl Who Wore 'BLM' Swimsuit To Competition Nearly Disqualified | Chicago Defender
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