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The Women Leading the Fight Against COVID-19
Less than 30 percent of the world’s researchers are women, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. However, one team fighting against COVID-19 is not only leading the charge to save lives, but also in empowering women in science, encouraging the next generation of girls and young women to
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Ethiopia Conflict: The story of a pregnant refugee | Africanews
Like all mothers-to-be, Berekhti Burro dreamt of bringing new life into the world in a safe place, with love and care at home to give her baby the best
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The Chadian women crushing gravel to make ends meet in dust and heat | Africanews
In the heart of the Chadian capital N'Djamena dozens of women spend up to 12 hours a day bent over their work, They pulverising concrete, cement or brick chunks while children hover around them in the dust and heat.
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The James Beard Foundation Launches Investment Fund For Black And Indigenous-Owned Businesses
0 (Image: iStock/martin-dm) Food and drinks businesses have been suffering as a result of the massive closures due to COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic restrictions on in-door dining. While…
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Source: The Black Chronicle
5 female captains in BPD is a ‘major event,’ says professor
Solomon Crenshaw Jr. For The Birmingham Times It’s uncommon to find five female captains serving in one police department, like Birmingham Police Department, said Lynda R. Williams, who knows a thing or two about law enforcement.  Williams is a retired deputy assistant director of the U.S. Secret
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Meghan Markle And Gloria Steinem Discuss Voter Suppression In New Interview
The Duchess of Sussex and the longtime activist met for a wide-ranging conversation about politics and feminism over the weekend.
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Egypt's first female ship captain fears for her career after being falsely blamed for the Suez jam
Online rumors and fake news headlines said Marwa Elselehdar was the captain of the Ever Given container ship blocking the Suez Canal.
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10 Tips For Launching a Career in Voiceover- 2020 Guide | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2020
With almost everything going digital, voice-over or so-called off-stage commentary has become even more popular. Namely, the voice that is not a part of the narrative in many different productions: movies, television, radio, video games, theatre, presentations, and even in smart devices. It is used
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Imperial Couplings | Public Books
Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies explores the couple, and intimacy, as foundational historical categories in postcolonial and decolonial studies. At the heart of her narrative lie Carl, a Jamaican ... The post Imperial Couplings appeared first on Public Books.
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Cape Brandy vs French Cognac: The choice is yours
French Cognac is pretty special stuff, but so too is South Africa's own Cape Brandy, which has become a world-class spirit in its own right.
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The Future of Education is at stake in the 2020 Election | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Karen Gross, a former college president who once served as a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, told BlackPressUSA that the election's impact on education would be profound across the early childhood – adult education pipeline.
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Bottoms Up! Celebrate National Vodka Day With These Cocktail Recipes
Do you like your drinks shaken or stirred? Well, this Sunday, October 4th, you can indulge a little because it's National Vodka Day! For all you Vodka lovers out there, […] The post Bottoms Up! Celebrate National Vodka Day With These Cocktail Recipes appeared first on Essence.
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A Black Counternarrative | Public Books
Master narratives become the background music of our lives, undercurrents so ingrained that the violence they often engender is rendered unremarkable. One master narrative is the tale we tell about the United States being a welcoming country to immigrants, about how the “bootstrap” mentality
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(BPRW) Women of Color Empowerment Institute’s August Hour of Power | Press releases
(BPRW) Women of Color Empowerment Institute's August Hour of Power With Soledad O'Brien and is Saturday, August 22 at 10 AM (Black PR Wire) Soledad O’Brien is the August 2020…
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How To Get Divorced And Learn To Surf In Your 40s
Diane Cardwell, author of “Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life,” spoke to HuffPost about catching waves and surviving Hurricane Sandy.
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UAB’s Deborah Grimes Named one of the Most Influential Women in Corporate America
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Grimes, the chief diversity officer for the UAB Health System, has been named one of the most influential women in corporate America for 2019 by Savoy Magazine. The magazine released its 2019 Most Influential Women in Corporate America listing in its summer edition. The full list
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‘SA women have played a pivotal role in the response to COVID-19’ - Cyril
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his weekly newsletter, marked International Women’s Day and lauded SA women for their fight against COVID-19.
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Report Shows Racial Pay Gap For L.A. City Workers - Los Angeles Sentinel
  Los Angeles' city workforce has a large racial pay gap, with city workers on average earning $53 per hour, while Black and Latino city employees earned an average of $44 per hour during the 2020 fiscal year, according to a report released today by Controller Ron
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Familial incarceration negatively impacts mental health for African American women - African American News Today - EIN News
… how marginalized populations, particularly African American families, face worse outcomes … to incarceration, generations of African American families have endured having their … negatively impacts mental health for African American women (2020, September 3) …
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This Midwife Is Giving Pregnant Black Women The Health Care They Deserve
Around eight months into her pregnancy, Kiki Jordan felt disappointed in the prenatal care she’d been receiving at a nearby hospital. “As a Black woman, I didn’t feel like I…
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Source: The Black Chronicle
Dia Simms Launches Saint Liberty Whiskey to Celebrate Prohibition-Era Women Bootleggers
After running Sean “Diddy” Combs’ company, Combs Enterprises, for two decades while overseeing brands Ciroc, Aquahydrate, Sean John, and the brand that started it all, Bad Boy Entertainment, former president…
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COMMENTARY: The Future of America is People of Color
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There is a diversity explosion taking place across the country, in the White House, in Congress, with women and with people of color. The new census reports confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s growth.
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Zanade Mann Has Built a Community for Black Women Entrepreneurs
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Burkinabé Tour du Faso cycling race back after pandemic hiatus | Africanews
The Burkinabé government decided Wednesday that the nation's cycling competition Tour du Faso will take place from October 29th to November 7.
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C.A.R refugees return home | Africanews
Around 200 Central African refugees taking refuge in neighboring Cameroon make their way back to their country. In fear for their lives as violence erupted in the Central African Republic, they fled to Cameroon for
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Applications Open For James Beard Foundation Investment Fund
The foundation announced that they will be providing 18 grants valued at $15,000 for Black and Indigenous-owned food and beverage businesses around the country.
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Free hotline for Ethiopian refugees in Sudan | Africanews
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Newly Issued Findings on ‘2020 Status of Women in Alabama’ 
By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham this week released its inaugural report, “2020 Status of Women in Alabama”, the first of its kind delving into statewide and county-by-county well-being indicators for women.  The report, based on data compilation by the
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(BPRW) New Voices Foundation + Target Accelerators to Hold $100,000 Virtual Pitch Competition for Women of Color Entreprenuers
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"France need not apologise for Rwandan genocide"- ex French PM | Africanews
Former French PM Edouard Balladur has said 'France need not apologise for the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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