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August 12, 2020
The NAACP Arts, Culture & Entertainment Festival continues its exhibition of Black brilliance with the ACT-SO 42nd National Competition, Aug 12-15! ACTSO showcases talented African-American youth in STEM, humanities, business, and the arts! Join us now https://bit.ly/338zzk3
June 25, 2020
Photo: Mary W. Jackson/NASA WASHINGTON, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research…
May 29, 2020
A group of business, professional, academic, civic and public-sector leaders from Northern and Southern Ghana, and across the U.S. recently convened by video conference, in the first, inter-continental organizational board meeting for The Collaboration for IT and Communications Excellence. The attendees affirmed the non-profit organization’s mission statement, which is, “To help Ghana’s students and entrepreneurs…
April 20, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama launched a series of online video readings for kids with the classic picture book “The Gruffalo,” which the former first lady called the story of a mouse who uses his “wit and imagination” to get the best of a fox and other would-be predators. “Mondays with Michelle Obama” is…
April 15, 2020
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In a pre-dawn raid in food-starved Zimbabwe, police enforcing a coronavirus lockdown confiscated and destroyed 3 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables by setting fire to it. Wielding batons, they scattered a group of rural farmers who had traveled overnight, breaking restrictions on movement to bring the precious produce to one…
April 15, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Dr. James Derham rewindingblack.com Did you know that James Derham was the first African American man to formally practice medicine in the United States even though he never received his M.D. degree? Derham was born into slavery in Philadephia. Throughout his young life, he was owned by several doctors. One of his physician…
April 1, 2020
February 14, 2020
By Mogomotsi Magome ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG — The founder of the South African multi-Grammy-Award-winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Joseph Shabalala, has died at age 78, the group and the government announced Tuesday. Shabalala died at a hospital in the capital, Pretoria, Tuesday morning, his family told local media. He was globally known for his…
December 17, 2019
Photo: SPhotograph/shutterstock.con Mama’s Grits and Tea by Mama Here’s your dose of needed distraction to get you through the day. We know some love to mind celebrities’ business more than their own. ….Get your plane tickets ready! New Miss Universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi is having an official homecoming in South Africa. The date and details…
September 11, 2019
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress observed the 400th anniversary Tuesday of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in America at a time of renewed interest over the history of slavery and its continued impact on contemporary society. “We must tell the unvarnished truth,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during the ceremony…
September 17, 2020
By Kim Cook New York-based designer Glenn Gissler painted this New York loft in Benjamin Moore’s deep,...
September 25, 2020
By Beth harris ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Regina King and Uzo Aduba used the come-as-you-are fashion...
September 28, 2020
By JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The bombshell revelations that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in...
September 25, 2020
ABOVE PHOTO: Deion Sanders (Photo: DFree / Shutterstock) ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss.— Hall of Fame cornerback Deion...
September 17, 2020
BPT Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive and debilitating disease that leads to scarring of the lungs,...
September 25, 2020
All Signs: It’s been tough with Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn at odds with Mars. This week...
