From Public Defender to Beefing With Marjorie Taylor Greene: Who Is Jasmine Crockett? - Blavity

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From Public Defender to Beefing With Marjorie Taylor Greene: Who Is Jasmine Crockett? - Blavity

Black women aspiring to pursue a career in politics have a new role model to look up to: Jasmine Crockett. The 43-year-old has long been fighting for the rights of others (and looking fabulous while doing it), but this spring her name is on the tip of many tongues in light of her feud with Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene . We’ve seen endless discourse about how the women handled their beef; while both sides are being criticized for different reasons, Americans are learning more about what Crockett has accomplished during her time as a lawmaker and how they can help her. Born on March 29th, 1981 in Missouri, Crockett attended the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School as a young girl. Though she’s of Baptist faith, she finished out her childhood education at an all-girls Catholic high school called Rosati-Kain. In 2003, the changemaker graduated from Rhodes College with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration. Politics is a passion now, but Jasmine...

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45% Of Black Businesses Anticipate Closing Due To COVID-19

Now, new data show that African American and Latinx businesses are not only in danger of losing their businesses but have been disproportionately denied relief loans established for the

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Fraudsters benefit Hundreds of millions in fraudulent, jobless benefits paid

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — Impostors have used the stolen information of tens of thousands of people in the state to fraudulently receive hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefits, the head of Washington's Employment Security Department said

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George W. Bush: George Floyd's Death Means It's Time To Listen, Not Lecture

Former President George W. Bush released a statement Tuesday about the police killing of George Floyd but emphasized it wasn’t his place to say how the country should handle its systemic racism

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Nairobi, Kenya (1899- )

Nairobi is the largest city and capital of the modern state of Kenya as well as the former capital of British East Africa. Nairobi was originally a camp for the engineers constructing the Uganda railway from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in 1899. Later that year, the railway headquarters was moved there

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Cynthia Augustine

At DraftFCB, Cindy Augustine is responsible for leading all aspects of human resources, including recruiting, talent development, benefits and compensation, as well as inclusion programs for the global network. She is a master at creating high-performance teams that leverage organizational strength

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Williams, Franklin Hall (1917-1990)

Longtime civil rights organizer and later U.S. Ambassador, Franklin Hall Williams was born on October 22, 1917, in Flushing, New York. His mother died in 1919. Williams was raised by his maternal grandparents. He graduated from Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1941. After

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Denene Millner - AALAS 2019 Nominee

Denene Millner – Fresh Princess

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R&B lost three legends this weekend in Little Richard, Andre Harrell and Betty Wright

Singers Betty Wright and Little Richard along with music executive Andre Harrell died this

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Interesting Facts About Maya Angelou

Thanks to her award-winning writing, Maya Angelou was internationally known decades before her death at age 86 in 2014. Despite her fame and her many memoirs, many interesting details about her life remain widely unknown to the public. Familiarize yourself with the life and work of Maya Angelou

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Alexander, Archie Alphonso (1888-1958)

African American engineer, architect, and mathematician Archie Alphonso Alexander was born on May 14, 1888 in Ottumwa, Iowa, the oldest of Price Alexander’s and Mary Hamilton Alexander’s nine children. In order to help his educational opportunities, when he was 11 years old Alexander’s family

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Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey

William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to describe the reissue of one of his most successful books, Black Indians, he describes how he became an historian of African America and particularly the black

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker is an acclaimed American actor, producer and director. He was born on July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas to an insurance salesman named Forest Steven Jr. and a special education teacher named Laura Francis. The family moved to California when Whitaker was four years old. He attended

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Tressie McMillian Cottom - AALAS 2019 Nominees

Tressie McMillian Cottom – THICK: And Other Essays

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Trump Took Shelter in White House Bunker As Protests Raged

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police

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Source: Black America Web

Anthony Fauci vs. Donald Trump – Who’s Right?.

“If states reopen their economies too soon, there is a real risk that you may trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control,” said

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Akiba Solomon & Kenyra Rankin – AALAS 2019 Nominee

Akiba Solomon & Kenyra Rankin – How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

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Vanzant, Iyanla (1953- )

Rhonda Eva Harris was born in the back of a taxi to Sarah Jefferson, a railroad car maid. Her father, Horace Harris, a petty criminal, was largely absent from Rhonda’s life. When Sarah Jefferson died from breast cancer in 1957, Rhonda went to live with various paternal relatives, one of whom raped

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Republicans Spending $20 Million To Help Prevent African Americans From Voting

The Republican effort, which is gaining steam, will recruit up to 50,000 volunteers in 15 states to monitor polling places and challenge ballots and voters deemed

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Verrett, Shirley (1931-2010)

Shirley Verrett was a distinguished mezzo-soprano and soprano opera singer. Born in New Orleans on May 31, 1931, one of five children to strict Seventh Day Adventists, her father was a successful building contractor. She came from a musical family, her mother often sang in the house and her father

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Woman fired after calling police on African-American birdwatcher in Central Park dog leash dispute

A white woman has lost her job after a video which showed her calling police to say she felt threatened by an African-American birdwatcher in New York's Central Park went

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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial

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Dee Marshall - International Speaker, Author, Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer

A sought-after international speaker, Author, Executive Coach, leadership trainer, Dee C. Marshall is CEO, Diverse and Engaged, LLC a diversity resource specializing in developing programs and initiatives to engage, support and develop diverse

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Source: Diversity Programs, Organizational Diversity | Diversity Best Practices

Barack Obama slams coronavirus response in HBCU graduation speech

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Joy Ann Reid - AALAS 2019 Nominee

Joy Ann Reid – The Man Who Sold America

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Anderson, Lauren (1965- )

When Lauren Anderson was promoted to principal dancer with the Houston Ballet in 1990, she became the first female African American principal dancer in the United States and, at the time, the world’s only African American prima ballerina heading a major ballet

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Shellye L. Archambeau

Shellye L. Archambeau is Chief Executive Officer of MetricStream, a global market leader recognized for growth and innovation. Archambeau’s proven global business expertise, combined with a passion for public policy, has fueled

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University of California to Eliminate ACT and SAT Test Requirements Until 2024

As academic leaders try to find solutions, the University of California system announced that they will suspend ACT and SAT testing requirements for admission through

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Investigate not just Ahmad’s death, but the system that let his killers escape

The 64-year-old former police investigator and his 34-year-old son who are charged in his death told police he thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected in several break-ins in the

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Timeline of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)

May 3 – In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States are entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the

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William Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy

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