CBCF Welcomes Public Affairs Strategist and Marketing Leader as New President and CEO WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) announced today that Tonya Veasey, communications and marketing agency founder and CEO will lead the organization as its new president and chief executive officer. For more than 20 years, Veasey has provided award-winning […]
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City of Baltimore Offering COVID-19 Temporary Rent Support
Baltimore City is offering temporary rent support to help people who have lost their income due to COVID-19. The program supports eligible renters by making rent payments to landlords. You can apply thru Monday, July 13. To be eligible: You must rent an apartment or house in the City of Baltimore You must have a […]
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Opinion: Lawmakers Can Get Thousands Back to Work By Greenlighting Stalled Projects
Move these projects forward and get Americans back to work By Bette Grande With more than 40 million Americans out of a job due to the coronavirus pandemic, states are scrambling to help the unemployed and laying plans to reopen the economy. Many of the proposed measures could take time to bring relief. In at […]
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
By Frederick Douglass Excerpted from his speech delivered before the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, July 5, 1852 in Rochester, N.Y. Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political […]
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THE RUN DOWN – August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green touches on the murky relationship between August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith and the trending stories in this weeks AFRO American Newspaper.
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THE RUN DOWN – Bubba Wallace Nascar Noose Scandal
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks Nascar driver Bubba Wallace and the trending stories in the AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
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AFRO FACTS – THE GAP BAND
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green Tributes THE GAP BAND in this weeks AFRO FACTS.
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NASA Names Headquarters After First Black Female Engineer At NASA
By US Black Engineer NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black female engineer at NASA. Mary started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. A mathematician and aerospace […]
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AFRO FACTS – JUNETEENTH & THE BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks Juneteenth & The Black National Anthem. #Juneteenth #Blacklivesmatter #TheAfro
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THE RUN DOWN – Quaker Oats Rebranding
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green Talks Quaker Oats rebranding and trending topics in the AFRO AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
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Silence Is NOT An Option
Released by Ben & Jerry’s All of us at Ben & Jerry’s are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization, and repression because […]
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BOYCOTT
From the Office of: Dr. Marvin L. ‘Doc’ Cheatham, Sr. Chief Executive Officer MATTHEW HENSON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION