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ACLU-PA Statement on Arrests at Philadelphia Starbucks
The incident, which occurred at the Starbucks at 18th and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, went viral, thanks to video of the arrest that was captured by a bystander.
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
By Shomari Wills
By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.
NAACP Statement on Facebook’s Improper Data Collection Breach
“The breach and misuse of data of 87 million users was negligent at best and exploitative at worst,” said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of NAACP. “Sixty-seven percent of African Americans who use the Internet are on Facebook…”
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Film Review Icon Grace Jones Shines in Lackluster Documentary “Bloodlight and Bami”
Scenes shot in Jamaica depict Grace in church, the place she rebelled from for so many years. This is when Remko Schnorr’s evocative cinematography catches traction. Pastoral shots of deep green landscapes look like paradise.
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How Trump Is Creating a Propaganda State: Trump Mouthpieces Repeat the Lies
An impenetrable bloc of voters will continue to blame Latinos for their woes, to ignore basic facts that are staring them in the face, to trumpet American exceptionalism while neo-Nazis roam the streets…
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Five Things to Know About the Teacher Strike in Oklahoma
Following the success of the West Virginia teachers strike earlier this year that led to a 5 percent pay raise, teachers throughout the nation are rising to demand better conditions and better pay.
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API Launches New Jobs Website Focused on the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
“Whether you’re coming out of high school or college and looking for a job or you’re looking for a mid-career change…whatever skills you have [the oil and natural gas industry] is a good place to apply them and we hope that people see that,” Winkel said.
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Database Helps Minority Students Find Scholarships They Can Actually Win!
Now, more than ever, a college degree is an essential prerequisite for achieving upward mobility. Unfortunately, for today’s traditionally underserved (and often ignored) minority communities, achieving that goal is becoming even more elusive.
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The Law That Made Facebook What It Is Today
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled in front of Congress to apologize for a data scraping scandal – a scandal that quickly followed an outcry that the site had been exploited by Russia during the 2016 election.
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‘Fascism: A Warning’ When Someone Claims to Speak for a Whole Nation
A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary…”
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When Presidents Lawyer Up: A Brief History
The formal explanations of why lawyers have chosen not to represent Trump have included various business and client conflicts. But attorneys are often unwilling to take on a client who has a reputation for disregarding legal advice and freezing out, if not outright firing, lawyers who disagree with him.
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ESSA Demands Full Transparency on K-12 Educational Funding
According to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2015, all public schools nationwide, will be required to give fully-detailed reports on how and where they spend institutional funding.
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First African-American Woman President of UNC System Association of Student Governments
In this role for the 2018-2019 academic year, Njaramba will serve as the chief executive officer of the organization and act as the official representative and spokesperson.
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Want to Help the World? Resolve Conflicts
In a world divided by tension, there’s one skill that stands above all others: the ability to resolve conflict. It is the paramount challenge of our time. There are so many divisions that fracture our communities, states, and nations…
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Nearly Homeless Single Mom Strikes It Big With Products Launching in Sally Beauty Stores
Every Naturalicious product is multitasking and time-saving and each product does the work of four products. This means three Naturalicious products alone replace 12 products you’d have to purchase from other brands.
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Black-Owned Tech Company Launches Technology Revolution Across Dallas
Small and medium-sized businesses throughout the area that have felt the pain of productivity coming to a halt when their computers, phones, networks and servers fail them…
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Black Millennials in the Workplace Use the Free Agent Option to Advance Their Career
Any employer paying attention to social trends has to know that much of their Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, however well intended, well stall at recruitment if they don’t make an effort…
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Go for It – Rising Public Relations Star Alonda Thomas Encourages Black Millenials
Cathy Hughes’s story is the American dream. It is so motivating to know that a woman from humble beginnings could take a vision and buy a radio station and grow it into a successful multi-faceted media company.
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Huge Surge in Political Activism, Engagement Has Direct Ties to Trump Presidency, Poll Finds
The momentum shows no sign of waning as the 2018 midterm elections draw near. Eighty-three percent of those surveyed said they intend to vote on election day, and a third said they plan to work or volunteer for a political campaign.
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Amid Revolt Over Starving Schools, Kentucky GOP Passes Tax Cut for the 1 Percent
State funding for education and other services will be undermined by this effort to move away from taxes on corporations and high-income earners,” warned one policy analyst.
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We are the 99 Percent, But Richest One Percent Will Soon Own Two-Thirds Of World’s Wealth
A new study claims that the wealth of the richest one percent grows at six percent annually, outstripping the three percent annual growth of everyone else, causing a continual movement of money to the top.
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There Are Four Types Of Expenses, But Only One You Need To Cut
Managing expenses is nearly a full-time – though unpaid – job for many people. From the monthly mortgage, car payment, insurance, groceries and utility bills to family activities, there’s a long list that requires prioritizing and discipline.
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Three Ways Couples Can Discuss Money Without Getting Divorced
From different spending habits and financial goals to one spouse earning considerably more income than the other, money can be a polarizing issue in a marriage, straining it to the breaking point.
Read MoreWho Lynched Willie Earle? Preaching to Confront Racism
By Will Willimon
By hearing black pain, naming white complicity, critiquing American exceptionalism/civil religion, inviting/challenging the church, and attending to African American pastors, this book helps pastors of white, mainline Protestant churches
MLK50: Fifty Years after Kerner and King, Racism Still Matters
“Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget…” Report by the Kerner Commission, 1968
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For Many Black Washingtonians, Gentrification Threatens Housing and Health
Lost in the city’s waves of new amenities and newer, more affluent inhabitants, are the long-time Washingtonians who have been pushed out or who are fighting to stay in the city. Shirley Williams is one of those residents, who decided to fight.
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Direct Engagement With President Trump and the GOP Is Paying Off for the HBCU Community
The commitment of dozens of our HBCU presidents and chancellors who attended our inaugural convening, we’re beginning to see major developments from several federal agencies looking to increase support for HBCUs…
Read MoreWhat a Difference a Director Makes: Trump-Appointee Helps Companies, Not Consumers
For six years, America’s consumers had a bureau that won significant victories in the name of financial justice. CFPB was so effective that 29 million consumers received nearly $12 billion.
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Rep. Adams, HBCU Collective Leader Supports “A Call to Colors” for HBCU Civic Engagement – Part V
As we get closer to the crucial 2018 fall midterm elections, two new voices join the a “Call to Colors” civic engagement effort to register 100 percent of the students on historically black college and university campuses throughout the state…
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MLK50: A Look Back Rev. James L. Netters Sr, ‘We can’t just do it by marching…’
“We had come to resolution to give the sanitation workers exactly what they’d asked for. That’s why Dr. King had come, and we’d gotten a resolution…” his voice trailed off as he remembered the details of that day.
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Spiritually Speaking: Taking It One Day at a Time
Often, and do I mean often, I get reminded of the power and seductive nature of ego, pride and the need to control. Or, should I say the need to be in control? Letting go and letting God is a simple concept…
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Voting Laws Roundup for 2018 – Changes to Voting Laws
Legislative sessions have either commenced or concluded in every state that is meeting thisyear, except North Carolina, and the most notable takeaway of this session so far is the remarkable momentum around automatic voter registration, or AVR. What follows is the Brennan Center’s analysis.
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N.C. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Larry Hall Supports a “Call to Colors” Part IV
N.C. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Larry Hall is fully behind a “Time for Colors,” a nonpartisan civic engagement action plan to implement 100% voter registration on all historically black college and university campuses across North Carolina.
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Former Trump Fraud Commission Leader Peddles Voter Fraud Myths in Federal Court
Trump’s voter fraud commission was abruptly disbanded in January, but some of its veterans still haven’t dropped their pitchforks. The commission’s leader, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, was recently in federal court.
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Five Things to Know About the Teacher Strike in Oklahoma
Following the success of the West Virginia teachers strike earlier this year that led to a 5 percent pay raise, teachers throughout the nation are rising to demand better conditions and better pay.
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Defeating Voter Suppression Tactics Is Like Battling a Hydra
Throughout American history this ugly practice has endured and been employed generation after generation. Some of the historical schemes of voter suppression include the “grandfather clause”, literacy tests, poll taxes and constitutional quizzes.
Read MorePropaganda Machine: Video Reveals Power of Sinclair Media’s Fake News
It was the latest show of the vast reach of a company that owns local TV stations across the country and has long been criticized for pushing conservative coverage and commentary onto local airwaves.
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Top 10 Things to Do for MLK Jr. 50th, Announced by Fathom
April 4th marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. The culture and travel experts at Fathom have announced the top ten things to do.
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Jay-Z and His Mom Announce New 2018 Scholarship Program via the Shawn Carter Foundation
The Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship provides financial support to high school students as well as undergraduate students entering college for the first time.
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Genuine Over Perfect – How to Align Your Marketing with Shifts in Youth Culture
Create and activate the most relevant brand experiences for teens and young adults. Whether those experiences are social or experiential, influencer or content, here are five recommendations.
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Why Raleigh and Charlotte Are Quietly Succeeding in Doing Well for Black Americans
Racial disparities are always going to crop up as an important issue. Black Enterprise recently declared Raleigh “the startup capital of the South,” with a booming venture capital.
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Guaranteed Basic Income Scam – Beware the Architects of Neofeudalism
They couch their proposals in the moral language of caring for the destitute and the less fortunate. But behind this is job insecurity, substandard wages, automation and crippling debt peonage …
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Most Americans Say They Are Not Seeing Paycheck Boost From GOP Tax Scam
Pointing to analysis from the Tax Policy Center, which predicted that the average middle-income household would take in an extra $930—or less than $18 per week…
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3-Day Virtual Conference during National Small Business Week – Free to the Public
Participate in this free, online conference to listen to practiced advice on current business strategies, meet other business owners, and chat with industry experts!
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Oklahoma Black Business Expo and “Shark Tank” Are Looking Their Next Success Story
The event will take place in Oklahoma City, to bring attention to African American owned businesses and those resources that assist in building a successful brand and business.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: A Spirited Revolutionary Who Kept Resistance Alive
It is in the smaller and more intimate stories of our stumbling to make a better world that we are best able to recognize and appreciate the meaning of the life of Madikizela-Mandela.
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