By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, @StacyBrownMedia 8B Education Investments, which built the first platform that connects high-potential African students with world-class colleges and universities and the tools needed to level up their applications and financial options, announced a partnership with Nelnet Bank to originate $30 million of loans over three years. The partnership, […]
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Op-ed: NWSA Stands in Solidarity with Iranian Protestors
we fight because we mustwe rise up because there is no other path to freedomexcept straight through the road of resistancebuilt by the hands of our oppressors By Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) is more than just an academic association. We are activists. We are freedom fighters. We are feminists. […]
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Uncovering the roots: How African Americans are tracing their lineage using DNA
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer,Report for America Corps Member, msayle@safro.com Founded in 2003 by Dr. Rick Kittles and Gina Paige, African Ancestry is the largest database of African maternal and paternal lineages across the world. With over 30,000 indigenous African DNA samples spanning 40 different countries, the company has helped more than one million […]
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Members of UN General Assembly call attention to Africa and HBCUs
By DaQuan Lawrence, Politics Reporter, Howard University The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) recently held the first in-person session since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Officials arrived on Sept. 13 at the UN Headquarters in New York City for the 77th session. Members of the UNGA, world leaders and key officials from historically Black colleges and […]
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Debutant Amos Kipruto of Kenya wins London Marathon
By The Associated Press Debutant Amos Kipruto won the men’s race at the London Marathon on Oct. 2, with Yalemzerf Yehualaw triumphing in the women’s. Kipruto, a world bronze medallist in Doha in 2019, finished in a time of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 39 seconds. The 30-year-old Kenyan beat Leul Gebresilase of Ethiopia into second […]
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Former cop attacks Thai day care center, kills at least 36
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and DAVID RISING, Associated Press UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a day care center Thursday in Thailand, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers and then shooting more people as he fled. At least 36 people were slain in the deadliest rampage in […]
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Guinea sets trial date 13 years after 2009 stadium massacre
By Boubacar Diallo, The Associated Press Guinea will try the alleged perpetrators of a 2009 stadium massacre that killed at least 157 people and left dozens of women raped, the justice minister announced Sept. 16, drawing praise from victims’ families who have waited nearly 13 years. Justice Minister Charles Alphonse Wright said he hoped the […]
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The ‘Woman King’ makes revolutionary debut
By Stephane Dunn, Ph.D., and Beverly Guy-Sheftal Ph.D., Chicago Defender Back in a 1974 review of the Bond-like Cleopatra Jones movie starring Tamara Dobson, Feminist and former Ms. Magazine editor Margaret Sloan spoke volumes about Black female spectatorial desire. Damn, that felt good she wrote. After viewing The Woman King, we know exactly what she […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Maryland Fleet Week brings ships from around the globe and Black service members to Baltimore
By AFRO Staff Fleet Week took place from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 in the Baltimore Inner Harbor, bringing Black service members, U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, elected officials and visitors to Charm City. Ships from as far as Denmark made an appearance. “Fleet Week is a tradition for Baltimore and the U.S. Navy […]
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Queen Elizabeth II, UK’s longest-serving monarch, dead at 96
By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday. She was 96. Buckingham Palace said she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had […]
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Gunmen storm hotel in Somali capital, leave 20 dead
By Omar Faruk, The Associated Press Islamic militants have stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces that left at least 20 people dead, according to police and witnesses. In addition, at least 40 people were wounded in the late night attack on Aug. 19 and […]
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UK museum agrees to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
By Danica Kirka, The Associated Press A London museum agreed Aug. 7 to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under pressure to repatriate artifacts acquired during the colonial era. The Horniman Museum and Gardens in southeast London said […]
