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Sep- 2019 -10 September#NNPA BlackPress
Backlash sinks magazine cover deemed racist by many
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The magazine featured caricatures of three mayoral candidates — Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer, incumbent Mayor Jim…
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6 September#NNPA BlackPress
OP-ED: DJ Envy’s Wisdom
NNPA NEWSWIRE — My path to becoming a Discover the Unexpected ambassador started when I made the decision to go…
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6 September#NNPA BlackPress
‘Talk About It Tuesday’ tackles 400 years of trials, triumphs
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — The Withers Collection teamed with the Memphis Branch of the Association for the The Withers Collection and…
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Aug- 2019 -30 August#NNPA BlackPress
LeMoyne-Owen College ceremony marks 400-year odyssey of Africans in America
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — It was 400 years ago when the first Africans arrived in Jamestown, Va., marking the beginning of…
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30 August#NNPA BlackPress
Author Pam Bailey’s Ancestry Search Led to First Time Reunion with Close Family in South Florida
THE WESTSIDE GAZETTE — America’s dark tragic past with African Americans through slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow laws led to many…
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28 August#NNPA BlackPress
How to Be an Anti-Racist, according to Ibram X Kendi
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi’s] towering Stamped from the Beginning... Never wavering... Kendi methodically…
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27 August#NNPA BlackPress
OP-ED: How one decision set voting rights back 50 years
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Ray Curry, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW — “What a lot of people don’t realize is that many aspects of…
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27 August#NNPA BlackPress
Butterfield Introduces ‘BRIDGE Act’ to Push STEM Education, Employment
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Butterfield’s legislation would provide teacher education, including the provision of preservice teacher training and in-service professional development…
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22 August#NNPA BlackPress
‘Weeping Time’ Author, Historian Anne C. Bailey Discusses Slave Auctions and her Involvement in NY Times’ 1619 Project
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An auction took place on March 2 and 3, 1859, at the Ten Broeck Racetrack, where slaves…
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19 August#NNPA BlackPress
THE WORLD IN THEIR HANDS: The Center for Puppetry Arts’ creative African-American ensemble are sharing art and inclusion with international audiences
ATLANTA VOICE — Their hands morph into talking, singing, dancing mop heads. Using recycled materials, African-American puppeteers Greg Hunter and…
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