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(BPRW) Mayor Turner Will Serve as Honorary Chair of the Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity
(Black PR Wire) Houston, Texas Mayor, Sylvester Turner, along with a group of Houston business executives and civic thought leaders, announced the launch of the Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity.
The newly created phi...
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(BPRW) DON announces Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning Actions
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker released a memo announcing specific actions towards the Department’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The effort asks the Chief Diversity...
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(BPRW) Prominent Black Attorney and Activist, Zulu Ali, Receives the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award
(Black PR Wire) Attorney Zulu Ali has received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his achievement in law and activism. Recipients of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award are Ma...
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(BPRW) METROPOLITAN BLACK BAR ASSOCIATION TO HOST 37TH ANNIVERSARY AWARDS DURING VIRTUAL GALA
(Black PR Wire) New York, NY -- The Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) will host its 37th Anniversary Awards Gala virtually on Friday May 21, 2021. The event will be streamed live beginning at 7:00 pm. Each year, the...
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(BPRW) Delaware State Supreme Court Launches “Delaware Bench and Bar Diversity Project” Following Years of Advocacy From Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware
(Black PR Wire) WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- After years of tireless advocacy diversity by Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware and community partners, Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Colin Seitz Jr. announced the new...
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(BPRW) Media Matriarch – Gayle King
(Black PR Wire) Gayle King is a leading television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is...
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(BPRW) ESPN Cover Story: Joel Embiid Debuts Today Across ESPN
(Black PR Wire) The latest ESPN Cover Story featuring Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid debuted today across the network’s digital, linear and social platforms. ESPN Cover Story is the sports fan’s monthl...
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(BPRW) The George Floyd Memorial Center Launches the 5/25 Day of Enlightenment (D.O.E.)
(Black PR Wire) Raleigh, NC - The George Floyd Memorial Center (GFMC) announces it is declaring May 25th as the annual Day of Enlightenment (5/25 D.O.E.). Why? Because on May 25, 2020 the world watched an act of terror for 9 minutes an...
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(BPRW) More Than 85 Percent of Black Homicide Victims Killed With Guns, Study Finds
(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC — Guns are by far the most common weapon used to kill Black homicide victims in America, according to a new study by the Violence Policy Center (VPC). The study found that 86 percent of Black homicide vi...
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(BPRW) Wells Fargo launches Banking Inclusion Initiative to accelerate unbanked households’ access to affordable transactional accounts
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wells Fargo today announced the Banking Inclusion Initiative, a 10-year commitment to help unbanked individuals gain access to affordable, mainstream, digitally-enabled transactional acc...
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(BPRW) Angela Bassett headlines Know Diabetes by Heart’s virtual show from the Apollo Theater
(Black PR Wire) ARLINGTON, Va. and DALLAS (May 17, 2021) — Golden Globe®-winning and Academy Award®-nominated actress Angela Bassett will perform an original monologue based on her family’s personal experience with type...
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(BPRW) COMMISSIONER MIKE GELIN WELCOMES CYCLISTS TO TAMARAC FOR INAUGURAL BIKE WITH MIKE WEEKEND
(Black PR Wire) Tamarac, Fla. (May 14, 2021) – Tamarac City Commissioner Mike Gelin invites pro, semi-pro and leisure cyclists from the local community and throughout the nation to the inaugural Bike With Mike Weekend, taking place Sa...
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(BPRW) FAMU Law’s 2021 Graduate Devin Young
(Black PR Wire) ORLANDO, Fla – Devin Young is super excited about graduating from the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law this month. The New Brunswick, New Jersey native already has a job lined up in the legal field...
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(BPRW) Emergency Broadband Benefit Available For Eligible Households
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK (May 15, 2021) -- The National Urban League today announced it is working to promote consumer awareness about the Emergency Broadband Benefit, a new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program. T...
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(BPRW) Nissan donates $250,000 to Mississippi’s seven HBCUs
(Black PR Wire) CANTON, Miss. – Nissan is again making a donation to Mississippi’s seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmi...
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(BPRW) Prominent Black Attorney Wins Multiple Awards for His Digital Children's Series and Podcast Addressing Police Brutality and Systemic Injustice
(Black PR Wire) Attorney Zulu Ali has been recognized with six Communicator Awards through the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA).
The Communicator Awards is the leading international creative awards program honoring creative exc...
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(BPRW) A new generation of Black male teachers starts its journey in partnership with Apple
(Black PR Wire) For more than 100 years, teaching has run through Hillary-Rhys Richard’s family.
Growing up in Katy, Texas, Rhys, as he’s known to his friends, listened to his mother, Astrya Richard, tell stories of her ancestor...
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(BPRW) Making Clinical Trials More Accessible to All – A Top Priority at Miami Cancer Institute
(Black PR Wire) South Florida -- For cancer patients who have complex cancers with limited options or who have exhausted all other treatment options, clinical trials can be a beacon of hope. Such studies offer often-desperate patients acces...
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(BPRW) FPL's Power to Care initiative makes it happen in our communities
(Black PR Wire) Ahead of National Tell a Story Day on April 27, Juliet Roulhac, external affairs director at Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), filmed herself reading “An Orange in January” by Dianna Hutts Aston in Plantat...
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Chefs of the Caribbean brings the Caribbean to homes around the world
Brand and website offer a curated Caribbean lifestyle with tips, products and shopping for the entire family.
You can enjoy a Caribbean lifestyle no matter where you live, and Chefs of the Caribbean (chefsofthecaribbean.com) has everything...
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