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California Launches CalMoneySmart Program Based on Bradford Bill
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State, FBI to Oversee Probe into Black Man’s Hanging Death – Voice and Viewpoint
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Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County Launches Black-Led Community Investment Fund
Today, Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County (BLMSKC) — a grassroots, volunteer-run, social-justice nonprofit organization focused on the empowerment and liberation of Blacks and other people of color through advocacy and direct action – announced the launch of the Black-Led Community Investment
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NASA will rename their Washington D.C. headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black woman engineer at the association and the subject of the film Hidden
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Milwaukee Residents Set Fire To Alleged Sex Trafficking House After Search For Two Missing Black Girls
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