(San Diego, CA) This past Saturday, residents of southeastern San Diego’s Diamond Neighborhoods, City of San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, District 4 Councilmember Myrtle Cole and other community leaders joined officials from the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the long awaited grand opening of Walgreens near Market Street and […]
May 17, 2015 (New York, NY) – This Tuesday May 19th, the 90th anniversary of the birthdate of El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Malcolm X, will be celebrated at The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Harlem, New York (165th and Broadway). This wonderful birthday celebration, which is free and open to the
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Women On 20s a non-profit, grassroots organization whose mission is to effect change, says that now is the time to put a woman’s face on our paper currency, has announced the results of their online poll. On May 12, 2015, Women On 20s presented a petition to President Obama informing him of the results of the
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(Chula Vista, CA) On Saturday May 1, a group of local residents from the Chula Vista community decided to meet over breakfast to discuss the African American voice in determining council districts. The meeting, which took place at the new Denny’s restaurant located across from the Otay Ranch Shopping mall, was facilitated by JoAnn Fields, community organizer
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Senate finally voted to confirm Loretta Lynch. The 56-43 vote makes 55-year old Lynch, the first African-American female attorney general in U.S. history. Obama nominated Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder in November and her nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. Still, she waited longer than the seven most recent U.S. attorneys
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The White House today announced that 37-year old Deesha Dyer has been promoted to Special Assistant to the President and Social Secretary. She currently serves as Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary. Dyer, who will be the second African American woman to hold the top social post, has maintained a low profile in Washington
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Writer Thomas Mosley’s poetic reflection on the senseless loss of Black lives. Your nights shielded you from Emmett Tills so that you could discover his life from your life. Sheets of cannibals persuaded the guns of Mississippi that Medgar Evers flesh was not human. Freedom was a duplication of my counterparts and I sat
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In celebration of baseball season, we commemorate Jackie Robinson, who debuted as a major league player April 15, 1947. Robinson, was the first African-American to break the sport’s racial barrier. After playing only played one season in the Negro Leagues before being recruited into the Major Leagues by Branch Rickey, as a member of the
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My life is not mine to sojourn with others, as I live within my corridors of hatred. I hear the silent thoughts of others, with temptations of actions that burn their desires. Created in time, I became the insults of emotions that penetrated the features of mankind. I can’t breathe when I talk to my
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NAACP Image Award winner and Golden Globe nominated director of “Selma,” Ava Duvernay, is profiled by 60 minutes correspondent, Bob Simon, this Sunday February 8th. In the piece, DuVernay travels to her parents’ native home of Loundes County, Ala where she spent her childhood summers and discusses how that experience shaped her approach to Selma. The
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