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by Adedamola Agboola Ashley Bell will take the reins of the Small Business Administration’s Southeast Region as its new director, the White House announced Monday. The Georgia native, who will be sworn in Monday, Feb. 26, […]
Tens of thousands of high school students across America were marked with an unexcused absence Wednesday, but everyone knew where they were. In the Washington area, high school students from DC. Public Schools and from public […]
By a vote of 111-1 on Tuesday afternoon, February 20, 2018, the Florida House approved HB 139 to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The bill was signed by […]
Mary Jackson, NASA’s first black female engineer(Photo: NASA Langley Research Center) by Marina Koren via theatlantic.com An elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a […]
by Tiffany Pennamon The vital role and relevance of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has been contested in contemporary times. Until recently, no central text or film documented the history of these institutions as […]
Lena Horne is remembered as an all-around entertainer, Hollywood actress, Grammy Award winning singer, and a Tony Award winning Broadway star. But equally important to her legacy was a willingness to use fame as a […]
THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL Center from the South West, showing how the Museum Building, Forum Building, and Library Building will surround a public plaza. The Center is oriented to the neighborhood just west across Stony Island […]
By Freddie Allen —Members of the Congressional Black Caucus wore Kente cloth-inspired prints to the State of the Union address standing in solidarity with Americans, Haitians and the African nations smeared by President Trump’s racist […]
Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown filed papers this week to challenge U.S. Congressman Al Lawson for the 5th Congressional District. Lawson, a first time representative, won the seat over 12 term incumbent Corrine Brown in […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) During a lengthy, members-only meeting on Capitol Hill on January 19, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) discussed various options to protest the current President of the […]
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