By Blacknews.com Unveiling Snafu, a hybrid weather app developed by three African-American founders, Warren Connley, Schapiro, and Michael Kalu, that combines basic features of an ordinary weather app with a detailed report on what to wear for the day and the rest of the week. The app recommends beautiful design fashion outfits for any weather […]
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Black Kids Swim Launches ‘The Goree Project’ to Unite African-Americans, Senegalese Through Swimming
Black Kids Swim Inc., a Maryland-based nonprofit that serves as a resource for Black competitive swimmers, recently launched a first-of-its-kind web series to unite African-Americans and Senegalese through cultural and athletic exchange. This year will mark the 33rd Dakar Gorée swim, where hundreds of Senegalese retrace the same path enslaved Africans traveled some 400 years […]
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Africa Starts Opening Airspace Even As COVID-19 Cases Climb
By CARA ANNA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived. Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 passengers also brought the coronavirus. A few tested […]
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As Monuments Fall, Confederate Carving has Size on its Side
By KATE BRUMBACK and RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Some statues of figures from America’s slave-owning past have been yanked down by protesters, others dismantled by order of governors or city leaders. But the largest Confederate monument ever crafted — colossal figures carved into the solid rock of a Georgia mountainside […]
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Parade of Hearses
You may have seen the long line of hearse riding down west North Avenue headed east on Friday, June 27, 2020 at approximately 6:15 p.m. in Baltimore, MD, but let’s talk about the reason for the caravan. Harri Close, President, National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association (NFDM), a Black Funeral Directors and Mortician Association, organized […]
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“America’s First Outdoor Vacation Destination” Opens for Vacations and the Great Escape
“America’s First Outdoor Vacation Destination” Opens for Vacations and the Great Escape Bring on Summer! Greater Williamsburg Announces Reopening Dates for Popular Attractions, Lodging, Restaurants and More Greater Williamsburg, Virginia, which some say is America’s first outdoor vacation destination established in 1609, is easily accessible by car from many East Coast cities and is now back in business […]
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Black Women Launching Digital Green Book For Black Travelers
DENVER-AREA WOMEN LAUNCH DIGITAL GREEN BOOK CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT SAFE, WELCOMING BUSINESS AND TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK AMERICANS Denver, CO (BlackNews.com) — Birdwatching. Barbecuing in a park. Browsing a store. Eating at a restaurant. These activities are framed as every day, fun, and enjoyable activities for most, but these same activities can also become dangerous […]
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Coronavirus Lockdowns Increase Poaching in Asia, Africa
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — A camera trap photo of an injured tigress and a forensic examination of its carcass revealed why the creature died: a poacher’s wire snare punctured its windpipe and sapped its strength as the wound festered for days. Snares like this one set in […]
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MEET AN ANIMAL: Mara the Elephant Found Sanctuary After 50 Years in Circuses and Zoos
Mara basks in the sun, both happy and exhausted, the memories of a COVID-19 quarantine and a thousand-mile journey fresh in her mind. She never forgets. There are signs that the 3.6-ton elephant, thought to be 55, remembers her decades as a circus performer and years as a zoo curiosity. Now, after a border crossing […]
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WATCH: Stars Gather For Online Festival To Combat Hunger in Amazon Rainforest
More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest. And to help them, a group of musicians and celebrities from around the world will come together for an online music festival. SOS Rainforest Live, organized by Rainforest Foundation Norway and Rainforest Foundation USA, will broadcast […]
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#BlackLivesMatter Protest in Germany
By Jessica Dortch AFRO Production Editor jdortch@afro.com The untimely and wrongful death of the late George Floyd on May 25 has since caused a global uproar among people of all races and ethnicities. Protests centered around the Black Lives Matter movement have been happening around the world, and some of our AFRO international readers gathered […]
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Protesters Support Floyd, Black Lives Matter on 3 Continents
By RICK RYCROFT and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people rallied in Australia and Europe to honor George Floyd and to voice support Saturday for what is becoming an international Black Lives Matter movement, as a worldwide wave of solidarity with protests over the death of a Black man in Minneapolis […]