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Sep- 2019 -4 September
OP-ED: Ending Fair Housing Rule Removes Opportunities for All
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Of all the issues confronting Americans, none is more basic than that of housing. Whether renting or owning a home, every family needs a place to come…
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4 September
COMMENTARY: A Black and White Life Doesn’t Come Close to Technicolor Living
NNPA NEWSWIRE — A lot of the columns I’ve written were about those who prayed and rejoiced and breathed a sigh of relief at the mere thought of a new…
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4 September
CTA Expands Workforce and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Efforts
CHICAGO DEFENDER — The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has launched a series of innovative new outreach programs that will help create and expand opportunities for minority-owned companies and further diversify the…
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4 September
Revitalize the SBA 8(a) business program
FLORIDA COURIER — According to the Small Business Administration (SBA): “The federal government’s goal is to award at least five percent of all federal contracting dollars to small disadvantaged businesses…
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4 September
Whittier approves public artwork for York Field
WAVE NEWSPAPERS — The City Council Aug. 27 approved the Cultural Arts Commission’s June 24 recommendation for an Art in Public Places project at York Field Sports Complex, 9110 Santa…
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3 September
PRESS ROOM: SunTrust Foundation Awards $2.7 Million in Grants to Winners of the 2019 Lighting the Way Awards
ATLANTA TRIBUNE — The SunTrust Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 Lighting the Way Awards, giving a total of $2.7 million in grants to 36 nonprofit organizations across the…
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2 September
IN MEMORIAM: Baxter Leach, a Soldier for Labor
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mr. Leach and fellow sanitation workers rose up and in unison shouted to the world, “I AM A MAN.” They marched against the powers that be, earning…
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2 September
Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its…
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2 September
National Congress of Black Women to Honor Shirley Chisholm at Annual Brunch
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "We in the National Congress of Black Women consider it an honor to tell the stories of Black women and to remember them at our events as…
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2 September
Court-Ordered Mediation in Maryland HBCU Case Ends without Agreement
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2013, Judge Catherine Blake of the U.S. District Court of Maryland, found the state in violation of the 14th Amendment rights of its HBCU students and…
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