Pulitzer Prizes Go to Outlets for Reporting on Trump Assassination Attempt, Elon Musk, and Abortion

Magic Johnson Partners with New Jersey-Based Company to Help Nonwhite and Female Small Business Owners

NBA legend and entrepreneur Magic Johnson has taken note, he pointed out, that loans to assist small business owners during COVID-19 aren’t trickling down to nonwhites and women who own those

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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro

Black Businesses & Access to Capital: Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community

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Doctor Considered To Be 'Jay-Z' Of Brooklyn Hospital, Who Delayed Retirement To Fight COVID-19, Dies Of The Virus - Blavity

Dr. James A. Mahoney spent 40 years serving hospitals in low-income

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New Orleans Has Gone Three Days Without a Coronavirus Death

The city of New Orleans once had the highest per capita coronavirus death rate of any city in the

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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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Trump Blasts Obama As 'Incompetent' After Apparent Commencement Speech Jab

President Donald Trump on Sunday tore into former President Barack Obama, calling him “an incompetent president” after Obama appeared to criticize his response to the coronavirus crisis during two commencement speeches a day

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Black Saints Waiting Outside the Pearly Gates | Afro

But Baltimore City because of its other public health plague—unceasing crime and violence—could doubly use a patron saint, And who better than Mother Mary Lange, foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence to fulfill that

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Iceberg Slim

Robert Beck (born Robert Lee Maupin or Robert Moppins, Jr.;[1] August 4, 1918 – April 28, 1992), better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership. Becks novels were adapted into movies, and the imagery and

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Daymond John

Daymond Garfield John[2] (born February 23, 1969) is an American businessman, investor, television personality, author, and motivational speaker. He is best known as the founder, president, and CEO of FUBU, and appears as an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Based in New

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Wallace Fard Muhammad

Wallace D. Fard aka Wallace Fard Muhammad /f ə . ˈ r ɑː d/ (born February 26, 1877[2]) was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught a distinctive form of Islam to members of the citys African-American

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Loretta Lynch Bio - First African-American Woman Attorney General

Loretta E. Lynch serves as the U.S. attorney general. She was nominated to the post by President Barack Obama in September 2014 and, upon confirmation more than half a year later, became the first African-American woman to serve in the

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Davy, Gloria (1931-2012)

Gloria Davy, a rich-voiced (lirico-spinto) soprano who “sang for the sheer joy of singing” had a four decade career as a concert singer. Early in her career she replaced Leontyne Price as Bess in the 1954 international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1958 she broke color barriers when she

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Magic Johnson's Life Insurance Company To Distribute $100 Million in Federal Loans to Minority Businesses

Former Los Angeles Lakers guard and team president Earvin “Magic” Johnson announced his life insurance company will provide $100 million for women- and minority-owned small businesses as part of the Paycheck Protection Program

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Biography and Profile of Susan Rice

Name: Susan Elizabeth Rice Position: Nominated as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by then President-elect Barack Obama on December 1, 2008 Born: November 17, 1964 in Washington, DC Education: Graduated National Cathedral School in Washington, DC in 1982 Undergraduate: Stanford University, B.A.

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Political hip hop

Political hip hop is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning rap music into a call for action and a form of social activism. Inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and musician Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy was the first predominately

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, better known as Alex Haley, was a celebrated author whose books centered around African American heritage. He was born on August 11, 1921 in Ithaca, New York to Simon and Bertha Palmer Haley. For the first few years of his life he lived in Tennessee with his mother

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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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Up To 3,000 Churches Plan to Reopen on Pentecost In Defiance of Governor’s Shutdown Orders

Earlier this month a federal judge ruled that Newsom had the right to ban church services in the interest of public health after a Lodi church—whose locks were changed when they were found to be in violation of the order— filed

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‘Trump Death Clock’ In NYC Counts Preventable Coronavirus Deaths

A digital billboard in Times Square showing the number of deaths related to President Donald Trump’s slow coronavirus response, reached a grave milestone on Wednesday, as it ticked over to an estimated 50,000 preventable

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Doley, Harold, Jr (1947- )

Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr is the founder of Doley Securities, LLC, the oldest African American owned investment banking firm in the nation. Doley is the only African American to have owned a seat on the New York Stock

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Roc Nation Signs CNN Host, Activist Van Jones

Renowned activist, CNN commentator and two-time New York Times bestselling author, Van Jones, has joined Roc Nation as an exclusive management

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Barnes, Melody (1964- )

Melody Barnes was chosen by then President-elect Barack Obama to serve as the Director of Domestic Policy Council shortly after the presidential election in 2008, a position she held until her resignation at the end of 2011. Born in Richmond, Virginia to Charles and Mary Frances Barnes in

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Sons of murdered journalist Khashoggi 'forgive' killers

The sons of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Friday that they "forgive" the killers of their

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Gittens, Charles LeRoy (1928–2011)

Charles L. Gittens was an American Secret Service agent. He joined the Secret Service in 1956, becoming the agencys first African American agent. An Army veteran, Gittens began his career at the agencys office in Charlotte, North Carolina. However, he was soon posted to its New York field

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2011

Eartha Kitt

Born in 1927 South Carolina, Eartha Kitt became popular in Paris as a nightclub singer, then returned to the U.S. to appear in films and on

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Harris, Everette “E” Lynn (1955-2009)

New York Times bestselling author Everette “E” Lynn Harris was born June 20, 1955, in Flint, Michigan. Openly homosexual, Harris was best known for his depictions of gay African American men who were concealing or “closeting” their sexuality. Although he did not participate

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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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We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

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Ethiopia fights for vibrancy as economy takes Covid hit

For the past three years, Ethiopia was the talk of town, with leading institutions terming it one of Africa’s fastest rising

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Ben Jealous - Wikipedia

After completing his degree at Oxford and returning to the US, Jealous worked as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200 black community

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