By Megan Sayles AFRO Business Writermsayles@afro.com Progressive Insurance and Hello Alice, a small business resource platform based in Houston, are in the midst of a legal battle with America First Legal (AFL) over a grant program that targeted Black businesses. The conservative nonprofit law organization filed a class-action lawsuit against the pair regarding the Driving Small […]
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Edward Garrison Draper’s Maryland Bar acceptance a long time coming
By Jannette J. Witmyer, Special to the AFRO Sometimes it takes an incredibly long time to right a wrong, as is the case with the late attorney Edward Garrison Draper. After being denied admission to the Maryland Bar on Oct. 29, 1857, Draper will be admitted posthumously during a special session of the Supreme Court […]
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Black student suspended for hairstyle with twisted locs
By Cheyanne Mumphrey,and Juan Lozano, The Associated Press A Black high school student in Texas has served more than two weeks of in-school suspensions for wearing twisted locs to school. After being punished, 17-year-old Darryl George returned to school with the same hairstyle and was suspended again, his mother said. George, a junior at Barbers […]