All posts tagged "initiative"
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#BlackGirlMagic: ‘Queen Sugar’ S3
Queen Sugar, the OWN drama series from Ava DuVernay, announced the remaining directors to complete the season three all-female directorial line-up. The ladies include first-time...
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HBCU’s Gain Widespread Props After Beyonce’s Coachella Performance
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin ATLANTA (AP) — When Beyoncè paid tribute to historically black colleges at Coachella, the singer’s grand performance reignited interest in the marching band...
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Staff Worried About Prince In Days Before Death, More Records, Photos Released Of Scene
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Some of Prince’s closest confidants had grown increasingly alarmed about his health in the days before he died and tried to get...
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Starbucks Will Close 8,000 Stores To Do Bias Training; Hear The 911 Call That Started It All
NEW YORK (AP) â Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores...
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Medical Marijuana Push Spreads To Utah, Oklahoma
A caregiver shows what a medical marijuana identification card looks like for a caregiver and patient during an open house in Erie, Pa. SALT...
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Williams Sisters Join Tennis Legend In Equal Pay Initiative
A day before playing in the 2005 final at the All England Club, Venus Williams addressed a meeting of the Grand Slam Board, urging Wimbledon...
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Meet The Illinois 8th-Grader That Raised $1,000 For A Community âFree Wash Dayâ
Source: Blend Images â JGI/Jamie Grill / Getty An Illinois teen is giving the gift of clean laundry to those in need in her...
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Get Well Wednesday: Preventing Kidney Disease: Healthy Women, Healthy Families
Doctor Griffin Rodgers is the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease. March is recognized as national kidney month. Below...
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Oscars 2018: Diverse Nominations, But Jordan Peele, Kobe Bryant, Only Black Winners
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A sense of change was palpable at the 90th Academy Awards as Hollywood sought to confront the post-Harvey Weinstein era and...
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Ava DuVernay & L.A. Launch Hollywood Diversity Initiative
Ava DuVernay Ava DuVernay teamed up with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as well as Netflix, HBO and Dan Lin to launch a $5...
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Senate Rejects Immigration Bill Leaving Young Immigrants In Limbo
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., confers with aides off the Senate floor. WASHINGTON (AP) â The Senate has left hundreds of thousands of “Dreamer” immigrants...
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Are African-Americans Losing Ground Since The King Era?
(THE CONVERSATION) On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. That was almost 50...
