By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL MEDIA Claudette Colvin denied to be the face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement.
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Schools Scramble to Feed Students After Coronavirus Closures
By CUNEYT DIL and HOPE YEN, Associated Press ELK GROVE, Calif. (AP) — Kiyana Esco needs free school lunches and breakfasts to feed her six children. But with schools shutting down over coronavirus concerns, she’s scrambling to pick up the meals, care for her kids and keep her job. Esco, a single mother who was […]
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Trump Declares Virus Pandemic A National Emergency
By ANDREW TAYLOR, ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency, as Washington struggles with providing Americans with relief and officials race to slow the spread of the outbreak. Speaking from the […]
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Women’s History Month
By AFRO Staff Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885 – 1937): Lucy Diggs Slowe was appointed as the first dean of women at Howard University in 1922. This promotion would earn her a spot in history as the first Black female dean of women at an American University. This accomplishment came shortly after her founding of the […]
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Media Pioneer Shares Wit, Wisdom With Students
By Shayla Farrow, Tia Humphries and Rebecca Johnson NewsVision and Howard University News Service Celebrated media maven Cathy Hughes, the namesake of Howard University’s School of Communications, kicked off Women’s History Month on March 2 by reminding students to persevere, never give up and stay focused on their goals in life. Senior journalism student Amber […]
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Larry Reeves: From Luggage to Leadership
By Ariel Chrysann Special to AFRO There comes a time in every man’s life where he must step up and stand tall. For Larry Reeves, the youngest and first African-American president of the 1776 Local Lodge of American Airlines, his time has come. After 20 years of selfless service in the industry, Reeves now serves […]
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NBA Suspends Season Over Coronavirus
By Tim Reynolds Associated Press The NBA has suspended its season “until further notice” after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the league’s owners were leaning toward playing games without fans in arenas. Now there will be no games at all, […]
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Thousands On Virus-Hit Cruise Ship Wait Their Turn To Leave
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of increasingly bored and restless passengers aboard a cruise ship struck by the coronavirus waited for their turn Tuesday to get off the vessel and go into two weeks of quarantine at military bases around the U.S. Passengers wearing masks trickled […]
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THE RUN DOWN – Comedian Tommy Davidson Releases New Book “Living in Color”
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green speaks on Tommy Davidson’s new book, and whats trending in the AFRO American Newspaper.
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A Louisiana Girl with California Wine
By Candace J. Semien Jozef Syndicate Reporter (NNPA Newswire) — Dawna Jones remembers having an amazing childhood in Opelousas, La., with her parents, Randolph and Priscilla Darjean, and three siblings. But one distinct memory may have unintentionally guided the 43-year-old plant pathologist into the winemaking business. “My mother dabbled in making various fruit wines when […]
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Study: African Americans Poorer Today Than Five Years Ago
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent African Americans were more likely to be unemployed than Americans overall in 2018 than they were in 2013, according to a new study that details the economic and financial progress African Americans have made over five years. Researchers at Lending Tree, the popular website that connects borrowers […]
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60 Years Later, ‘An Appeal for Human Rights’ Still Resonates
By Michael Warren The Associated Press Sixty years have passed since Roslyn Pope came home from Europe to a segregated South and channeled her frustrations into writing “An Appeal for Human Rights.” The document published on March 9, 1960, announced the formation of the Atlanta Student Movement, whose campaign of civil disobedience broke a suffocating […]
