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Uhuru Kenyatta , in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961, Nairobi, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in
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Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr.
Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Quality Health Strategies and previously served as its Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Forsythe served as Chief Information Officer and Vice President at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he led projects that
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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America
In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based
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Torrence Boone
Torrence Boone is Vice President, Global Agency Sales & Services for Google. In this role, Boone is responsible for driving Google’s worldwide strategy and relationships with marketing and advertising agencies. Boone leads a team focused on large scale, global strategic partnerships spanning
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Walker, Howard Kent (1935- )
Howard Kent Walker is a military veteran, diplomat, and educator who was born on December 3, 1935 in Newport News, Virginia. His father was a high school chemistry and mathematics teacher and his mother a homemaker. Upon graduation from high school Walker enrolled at the University of Michigan in
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Source: Black Past
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1935
Eviction Moratoriums Will Keep Up the Pressure, but We Still Need Long-Term Rental Assistance
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Robin L. Washington
Robin Washington is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gilead Sciences, Inc. In this role, Washington oversees the Global Finance and Information Technology organizations. Washington brings extensive leadership and management to her positions which led to successive
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Ann-Marie Campbell
Ann-Marie Campbell is Executive Vice President, U.S. Stores of The Home Depot. In this role, she leads the company’s three U.S. operating divisions comprised of nearly 2,000 U.S. stores and the bulk of the company’s nearly 400,000
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2016 repeat? Trump revives Clinton playbook to battle Biden
And it kicked into overdrive last week when Trump seized upon revelations that Biden was informed of the investigation of ties between Russia and Michael Flynn, a senior Trump official, as evidence of a plot to undermine a presidency before it
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Tonit M. Calaway
Ms. Calaway is Vice President, Human Resources for Harley-Davidson, Inc. In this position, she oversees leadership development, benefits and compensation, labor relations, global diversity inclusion and a staff of approximately 200 human resources employees at H-D throughout the
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Lawrence D. McRae
Lawrence D. McRae is Executive Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development for Corning Inc. Larry McRae has served as executive vice president, Strategy and Corporate Development, since October 2010. In this position, he is responsible for developing strategic approaches for a broad range of
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Wheat, Alan Dupree (1951 - )
Alan Dupree Wheat, the first black Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on October 16, 1951. He attended schools in Wichita, Kansas, and in Seville, Spain, before graduating from Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 1968. In 1972 Wheat received
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Constitution of the Female Anti Slavery Society of Salem (1832)
We the undersigned, females of color, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being duly convinced of the importance of union and morality, have associated ourselves together for our natural improvement, and to promote the welfare of our color, as far as is consistent with the means of this
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Robert Dixon
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Sheila G. Talton
Sheila G. Talton is President and Chief Executive Officer of Gray Matter Analytics, a consulting firm that offers data analytics and predictive modeling services and solutions to organizations in the financial services and health care
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Dr. Samuel Kelly, Class of 1971: Soldier, Educator, Advocate.
For virtually all of the eight decades of his life, Dr. Samuel E. Kelly has been an advocate of education for its own sake and as a central strategy for improving the lives of African Americans. His awareness of the importance of education came early when his parents demanded careful attention to
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COVID-19 and America—the fire this time
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Herndon, Norris Bumstead (1897–1977)
Norris Bumstead Herndon was the second president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded by his father, Alonzo Herndon, in 1905. Herndon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 15, 1897, the only child of Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil, a graduate and teacher at Atlanta University, and Alonzo
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Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)
Preamble: Whereas the subscribers, women of color of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, actuated by a natural feeling for the welfare of our friends, have thought fit to associate for the diffusion of knowledge, the suppression of vice and immorality, and for cherishing such virtues as will render u
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Can Joe Biden Win? The Jury is Out
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden has the most delegates going into this summer’s Democratic Convention and is the presumptive nominee for
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Guion S. Bluford, Jr., Ph.D. (Colonel, U.S. Air Force - Retired): First African-American in Space
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Zambia
Zambia, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is about one-tenth larger than Texas. It is surrounded by Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. The country is mostly a plateau that rises to 8,000 ft (2,434 m) in the
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Afro-American Council (1898-1907)
The Afro-American Council (AAC) was established in Rochester, New York, in September 1898 by newspaper editor T. Thomas Fortune and Bishop Alexander Walters of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.  They envisioned the organization as a revival of the earlier National Afro-American League
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University of Michigan's Fab Five Alumnus Jimmy King Joins Schechter Wealth Strategies
Schechter Wealth Strategies announces the appointment of Jimmy King as Vice President, Business Development in the Birmingham office. Jimmy was a member of the University of Michigan Men’s Basketball Team from 1991-95 and was part of the “Fab Five” – college basketball’s most talented
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Gale V. King
Gale King is Chief Administrative Officer for Nationwide. Ms King’s responsibilities include human resources, corporate real estate, corporate security and aviation for all Nationwide companies. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Senior Vice
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John Thompson
John R. Thompson was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of BestBuy.com for Best Buy, Inc. In this role, Thompson led the wholly owned Internet subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc., a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and
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