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RICHMOND FREE PRESS: New housing honcho: RRHA’s leader Damon Duncan outlines priorities that will impact city’s 10,000 public housing residents
View of Creighton Court where some residents are struggling to keep warm in unheated apartments where radiator systems failed. The landlord, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing...
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BLACK HISTORY: Stevie Wonder: “black lives matter… because we are the original people of this world”
http://www.blackwestchester.com Originally Posted on July 14, 2016 by AJ Woodson (LONDON) — Motown singer Stevie Wonder has told a huge crowd in London, that “black lives matter…...
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Did you know? The Pan-African Flag
The Pan-African flag—also known as the UNIA flag, Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag and various other names—is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal...
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Two indicted in Anne Arundel sex trafficking ring that worked across the Baltimore region
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh issued a statement Thursday announcing the results of grand jury proceedings last month that led to the arrest of...
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8-year-old living in homeless shelter wins New York chess championship: ‘I want to be the youngest grandmaster’
Photo: New York Times (NEW YORK – May 12, 2019) – An 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter has won the New York State chess championship...
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When Men Pray: Citywide Prayer Effort Held to Spread God’s Love
(BALTIMORE – May 11, 2019) – Torone Samuels, a Baltimore man, is on to something powerful. He put out the all-call for men to come...
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Expelled in 1956, black woman gets doctorate at U of Alabama
Photo: Associated Press (TUSCALOOSA, AL – May 11, 2019) – Autherine Lucy Foster, the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, received an...
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Apply today for the General Motors / NNPA “Discover the Unexpected” Fellowship! Deadline May 12th: Chevrolet wants to invite HBCU journalism and new media students to apply
Chevrolet wants to invite HBCU journalism and new media students to apply for the 2019 Chevrolet Discover the Unexpected Fellowship in partnership with the National Newspaper Publishers...
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Photo of principal, teachers posing with noose in leaked photo incites outrage
(PALMDALE, CA – May 10, 2019) – Four educators who smiled for a photo with a noose are all suspended, along with their principal, who reportedly...
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BOTWC: THIS IS THE LARGEST CLASS OF BLACK WOMEN TO GRADUATE FROM WEST POINT
(WEST POINT – May 9, 2019) – Two years after Simone Askew made history as the first African-American woman to be appointed to First Captain at the United...
