Month: May 2016
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Entertainment
WATCH: Female Muslim Hip-Hop Dancers Smash Stereotypes
[AJ+] Amirah Sackett and her female Muslim dance group, We’re Muslim Don’t Panic, spread their hip-hop all over the country…
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Op-Ed
Ask Alma: My Friend Invites Her Mother Everywhere We Go
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My friend of over 15 years recently made the decision it…
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Business
Black Founders Praise Chase’s $100 Million Investment in Detroit Businesses
[BLACKENTERPRISE.COM] Detroit leaders and organizations are working with JPMorgan Chase to deploy the bank’s $100 million commitment in various ways…
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Op-Ed
Killing Dylann Roof Won’t Kill White Supremacy
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dylann Roof, the unrepentant racist who killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist…
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Op-Ed
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Is a Clear and Present Danger
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (Founder and President of Rainbow PUSH Coalition) America is literally falling apart. In Flint, Mich.,…
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Op-Ed
Cop Killings Bear Strange Fruit for the Families of Black Victims
By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I’m about to be extremely facetious! We’re Black, right? We all like…
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Entertainment
“Roots” Remake Targets Younger Audience
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose admitted that she questioned why…
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Entertainment
Judith Jamison, Maurice Hines Honored at 34th annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honors outstanding dance and choreography…
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Black History
Former Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Butts Dies at 50
[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly…
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Op-Ed
To Be Equal: 5 Things You Need to Know about Vernon Jordan, the “Rosa Parks of Wall Street”
By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League) “Don’t just give us money, and don’t just show…
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