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The PNC Financial Services Group announced a commitment of more than $1 billion to help end systemic racism and support economic empowerment of African Americans and low- and moderate-income
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My Mom and the Importance of Realizing that Black Lives Matters
By Hakim Abdul-Ali The recent protests events surrounding the May 25, 2020, killing of a brother of color named George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ignited national and worldwide alarming concerns to all morally sane “hue-mans’ ” senses of equal justice everywhere. I, too, felt disdain by this
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Source: The Charleston Chronicle
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Latino and black Americans are allies in the fight for racial justice
And I have joined in previous demonstrations over the last several weeks because George Floyd’s murder serves as yet another painful reminder of the deeply entrenched racism in our nation’s institutions, from the highest levels of government to local law
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Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa tä´bō mvo͝oyĕl´ə mbĕk´ē [key], 1942–, South African political leader. Mbeki was born into a politically active family his father, Govan Mbeki, an official with the African National Congress (ANC), was imprisoned (1964) at Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela , released
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(BPRW) Ford and National Urban League Launch $600,000 Initiative to Help Black Small Business Owners Hardest Hit By COVID-19 | Press releases
[ad_1] (BPRW) Ford and National Urban League Launch $600,000 Initiative to Help Black Small Business Owners Hardest Hit By COVID-19 • National Urban League affiliates in six cities — Los Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans, Atlanta, Chicago, and New York — will participate in the program • New pilot
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Bitcoin Is Financial Freedom for Black America Part 1 | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The PPP prioritized the applications of their wealthier clients, mostly white, at the expense of Black business owners who don’t have existing banking
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Leading Civil Rights & Housing Groups Condemn President’s Effort to Gut Fair Housing, Use of Incendiary Racial Rhetoric for Political Gain - Milwaukee Community Journal
Fair housing advocates denounce Trump’s newest effort to eliminate a critical tool to desegregate communities and call on the president to instead concentrate on ensuring housing equity during a pandemic Washington, D.C.- Today, a coalition of civil rights, affordable housing and consumer advocacy
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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper
Race matters: Gap between Black and white homeownership is vast, new report finds - African American News Today - EIN News
The gap in racial equity that persists in many facets of American life impacts home ownership as well. Among Black families, 44% owned their own home as of the first quarter of this year compared to 73.7% of white families, according to the U.S. Census. And that disparity is even greater depending
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What, To The Black Student, Is Reparations? A Commentary On Racism And Public Schooling - Blavity
What, To The Black Student, Is Reparations?: A Commentary On Racism And Public Schooling
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Check Out More Than 20 Must-Read Books To Learn More About Black history, Racism And Social Justice – Free Press of Jacksonville
With the demonstrations on countless streets and the conversations taking place in countless homes, bookstores are now experiencing a surge of interest in books about Black history, racism and social
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Harvest House is MDC-T citadel: Khupe
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Coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on Stockton’s guaranteed income experiment — The Sacramento Observer
(CALMATTERS) - If there was ever a good time to convince people guaranteed income can make a difference, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs figured it’d be in the middle of a pandemic that is taking a heavier toll in poor neighborhoods and among Black and Latinx communities. So Tubbs, whose city has been
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
The Deep Roots Of Louisville’s Rage Over The Police Killing Of Breonna Taylor
For each of the past two nights, large protests have broken out on the streets of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, much as they have in cities across the country after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, a Black man, on
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Nigeria: PDP Salutes Own Governors, Hail Achievements
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated state governors elected on the platform of the party on the occasion of May 29 Inauguration Day, describing them as leading drivers of national
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The CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS MOURNS THE LOSS OF CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement on the passing of House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman and Congressional Black Caucus Member, Congressman John R. Lewis (GA-05): The world has lost a legend; the civil rights movement has lost an icon, the City of
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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group
Helping Our People Excel (HOPE Inc.) Engages AME-SADA
Helping Our People Excel (HOPE Inc.) Engages AME-SADA Helping Our People Excel (HOPE) was recently awarded a USD$190,000 grant from the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian [...]
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Milwaukee, San Francisco and Detroit Top the List of Places Where Black Homebuyers Are More Likely to Be Denied a Home Loan
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Study finds higher eviction rates in black communities - The Bay State Banner
While 18% of Boston renters currently live in majority-black neighborhoods, about 37% of evictions occur in those neighborhoods, according to a study undertaken by researchers at MIT and the Boston tenants’ rights group City Life/Vida
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Amie Jean, UT20 Senior - DefenderNetwork.com
Student Body VP Amie Jean talks about education and the true value of the unnamed moments that surround it. By: Jade Fabello  Sponsored content by the University of Texas at Austin Growing up, Amie Jean was the 12th child out of 13. Her mother would buy the single-serving cereal boxes, and there
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Holy Land's Reckoning Over Anti-Blackness : Code Switch : NPR
After his daughter's racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic social media posts became public and drew backlash, an Arab Muslim business owner is trying to making amends. But is redemption possible?
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WANTED: Residents to join conversations about racial equity in proposed bond 2020
Dallas ISD’s Racial Equity Office (REO) is calling on communities in the city’s southern sector to help define what racial equity will look like in Dallas ISD’s proposed Bond 2020 package of school and facility
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It’s Still About Economic Development, Not Burning America Down
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BET Creates $25 Million Social Justice Initiative To Support New 'Content For Change' Program - Blavity
In a statement to Blavity, the network said its Content for Change program "will focus on racial justice, economic empowerment, education, health and civic participation to address racial
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Killer heat: US racial injustices will worsen as climate crisis escalates
… fewer than 25% African Americans. By mid-century … in counties with smaller African American populations, according to … a climate justice issue.” African American historical data Guardian graphic … and hotter classrooms for African American and Latin students. …
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#BlackoutDay2020 is July 7. Here’s what you need to know. - DefenderNetwork.com
Tuesday, July 7, is #BlackOutDay2020, when many Black Americans and allies plan to showcase their combined economic might by refusing to spend any money on anything at all. Those who have to buy something are being encouraged to spend their money at a Black-owned business. Texas resident Calvin
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Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain - and now national action
In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade, a community festival, a soulful rendition of “Lift
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A recent survey shows that despite grassroots campaigns to get more women in hardship areas to take up the cheap business credit, the empowerment gap continues to widen.
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As the Black Voice News marks its 48th year it embraces the challenges of covering a triple pandemic “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves
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