By The Associated Press The U.S. Navy has welcomed its first Black female tactical aircraft pilot. “MAKING HISTORY!” the U.S. Navy tweeted July 9 in response to a post that Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle had completed naval flight school and would later this month receive the flight officer insignia known as the “Wings of Gold.” […]
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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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Maryland AG Criticizes Governor’s Plan to Conduct Election
By Brian Witte The Associated Press Maryland’s attorney general warned July 10 of “devastating consequences” if all eligible voters are not directly sent ballots to mail in for November’s election due to safety concerns about the coronavirus, instead of Gov. Larry Hogan’s directive to mail applications for voters to request absentee ballots if they want […]
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Maryland Gov. Says GOP Needs ‘Bigger Tent’ after Trump
By The Associated Press A Republican governor rumored to be eyeing a run for the White House in 2024 said July 12 that the GOP needs to be a “bigger tent party” after President Donald Trump leaves office. Maryland’s Larry Hogan, who has been known to break with Trump, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that […]
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Trump Lags Biden on People of Color in Top Campaign Ranks
By Darlene Superville The Associated Press Amid a summer of racial unrest and calls for more diversity in leadership, President Donald Trump lags Democratic rival Joe Biden in the percentage of people of color on their campaign staffs, according to data the campaigns provided to The Associated Press. Twenty-five percent of the Republican president’s senior […]
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AFRO FACTS – THE START OF THE NAACP
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green gives us the facts on the first beginnings of the NAACP…
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Coronavirus Deaths Take Long-Expected Turn for the Worse
By Mike Stobbe and Nicky Forster The Associated Press A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like […]
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THE RUN DOWN – YEEZY for PREEZY
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green talks Kanye for president and trending stories in this weeks AFRO American Newspaper.
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China Carries Out First Coronavirus-Related Execution
China put a 24-year-old man who fatally stabbed two inspectors at a checkpoint to death in the country’s first coronavirus-related execution. Ma Jianguo was executed Thursday by officials in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province in southwestern China, Beijing’s Supreme People’s Court said in a statement. Ma was said to be on […]
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NBC News Sets Goal of a Workforce that is Half Minority
By David Bauder AP Media Writer NBC News leader Cesar Conde, in one of his first public acts in the job, has committed to building a workforce at the news organizations he supervises where at least half of the employees are minorities. The staff is currently nearly 27 percent minority, including 8 percent each of […]
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14-Year-Old Girl ‘Sold’ to 64-Year-Old Kenyan Man
By Anne Macharia Zenger News Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old man a few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. “I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and schools will never reopen,” she said. […]
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Five Years Later – Five Years Too Late: Reflections on Broken Baltimore 5 years after the Uprising
By Bishop Douglas Miles As I look at Baltimore five years after the Freddie Gray uprising the saying “Three strikes you are out” keeps coming to mind. The nation once again in chaos because another Black man has been killed by the police or White men. The names change-Eric, Trayvon, Freddie and now George. The […]
