(Chicago, IL) Going against the grain is considered a “cultural norm” for computer wiz Erica Austin. The former IBM employee who’s revolutionizing the way comic books are read with the creation of her own app, “Against the Grain,” Erica is just one more example of what it means to be apart of a growing number […]
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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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EXPERTS IN FIELD AND DIGITAL ORGANIZING GATHER AT JACOBS CENTER SUMMIT TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS San Diego – April 21, 2015 – Last Tuesday, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation concluded a two-day convening of some of the country’s brightest minds in community organizing and digital engagement. The purpose of this Digital
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(Via Press Release) NEW YORK, NY – April 20, 2015 – BLACK GIRLS ROCK! Inc. Founder and CEO, Beverly Bond, continues her mission to empower the next generation of girls with the launch of the first annual BLACK GIRLS LEAD Conference. BLACK GIRLS LEAD is a 4-day international leadership conference designed to fortify girls between
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SoulSwipe is the fastest growing African American dating app on the market right now. SoulSwipe launched in the Apple App Store in March of 2015, with an Android release on Tuesday, April 28th. Press release dated April 17, 2015 states: This is the only location-based dating app fully committed towards serving the African American community. SoulSwipe already
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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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This year for the second annual Ben Vereen awards, in partnership with Broadway/San Diego, the Tony-Award winning actor is in town focusing on high school musical theater competition. Widely for his body of work on broadway which garnered him a Tony Award for his work as the lead in “Pippin,” and in Alex Haley’s TV mini series, Roots
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Family is everything. Right? For an intelligent nineteen year-old girl, who goes by the name of PJay, nothing could be further from the truth. Growing up in San Diego County, as one out of 18 siblings, all of whom are half (one parent is non biological), Prea’ Jhana Anderson has spent the majority of her
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On Thursday, April 9, 2015 UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series presents: Tomorrow’s Leaders: Building on the Legacy of Selma. Guest speaker for the series is Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Evers-Williams has become a symbol of courage and perseverance, steadfast in her march towards social justice. She made history
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