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Guinea-Bissau Swim Federation Alleges FINA Discrimination Against African-American Olympic Hopeful

by lisadtinsley July 6, 2021

In a strongly worded letter to international swimming’s governing body, Fédération Internationale De Natation (FINA), the Guinea-Bissau Swim Federation disputes FINA’s refusal to allow Siphiwe Baleka to swim in the Olympics on behalf…

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Spelman College Joins Blackstone LaunchPad Partnership With Atlanta Historically Black Colleges to Expand Access to Entrepreneurship

by lisadtinsley July 4, 2021

Spelman College, along with Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, announces a new partnership with Blackstone LaunchPad to make the development of entrepreneurial skills more accessible to students in the Atlanta University Center…

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July 4, 2021 0 comment 395 views
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Nine Facts About Juneteenth You Should Know

by lisadtinsley June 19, 2021

Written by Lisa D. Tinsley      Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.  It went into effect on January 1, 1863.   In the Confederacy, slaves were…

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June 19, 2021 0 comment 663 views
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Five Black cities that resemble the thriving spirit of Tulsa, Oklahoma

by lisadtinsley June 5, 2021

By Torrance Stephens In his memoir, My Life and An Era, attorney Buck Franklin, a survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre who represented other Greenwood families in court after the tragedy, describes…

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2021 Fair Housing: Restoring HUD Rules and Revenues

by lisadtinsley June 5, 2021

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Newswire Contributor The reality for Black America and other people of color is that housing has not significantly changed since the 1968 federal enactment of the Fair…

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Community Spotlight: Youth Revive

by lisadtinsley April 12, 2021

By Angela Ly “The whole concept began when I started analyzing not just the students but the community itself and how the impact of behavior can cause people to have…

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Analysis: How the US Invested in the War on Terrorism at the Cost of Public Health

by lisadtinsley April 4, 2021

By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Kaiser Health News Here’s one big takeaway from our country’s disastrous 2020 covid response: For 20 years, we’ve lavished attention and money on fighting human terrorism and…

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Doctors Debate Use of Blood Thinners to Prevent Clots in Women After C-Sections

by lisadtinsley April 3, 2021

By Harris Meyer Nearly all women who deliver babies through cesarean section at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City receive injections of the blood thinner heparin for weeks…

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Civil and Human Rights Organizations Fight for Open Records at Florida Prisons

by lisadtinsley April 2, 2021

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia African Americans comprise about half of the more than 100,000 inmates in Florida prisons and jails. Black males ages 30…

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National Museum of African American Music Opens in Nashville

by lisadtinsley April 2, 2021

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia From the hymns of slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries to hip-hop artists’ powerful message in the 20th and…

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