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THE AFRICA CHANNEL announces 20 new primetime series for 2019

February 17, 2019 / Front Page, Uncategorized

Celebrating a banner year for content acquisitions, The Africa Channel will air a collection of 20 new primetimes series representing premium drama, lifestyle and news programming from Africathroughout the year. In addition, the company will stream over 50 hours of content in support Black History Month on Comcast’s Xfinity platform. VP, Programming & Acquisitions Karen Juve says, “We have been extremely fortunate to be able to tap into the increasing pool of talent from the continent and beyond, and present world-class content that […]

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Kentucky/Ohio asked to honor its Native Son Black Veterans Salute the Legendary Buffalo Soldier Colonel Charles Young for Black History Month…………

February 4, 2019 / Front Page

By: Charles Blatcher, III Chairman – National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations Photo by: Regina Lang Colonel Charles Young Veterans Flag Memorial Kentucky Center for African American Heritage – Louisville, Kentucky The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, KCAAH, unveiled the Colonel Charles Young Veterans Flag Memorial in the City of Louisville on Veterans Day. The memorial was conceived by the Louisville chapter of the National Association of Black Veterans as an expression of patriotism. I […]

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Black Veterans Salute the Legendary Buffalo Soldier Colonel Charles Young for Black History Month

February 4, 2019 / Front Page, Uncategorized

By: Charles Blatcher, III Chairman – National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations The Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, KCAAH, unveiled the Colonel Charles Young Veterans Flag Memorial in the City of Louisville on Veterans Day. The memorial was conceived by the Louisville chapter of the National Association of Black Veterans as an expression of patriotism. I attended by the invitation of KCAAH to offer a few words in support of the program. The museum has done an […]

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Harlem World – Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling

January 21, 2019 / Front Page, Video Channel

The Museum invites attendees join together to march for peace and unite with neighbors honoring diversity and harmony throughout humankind. Visitors will also celebrate the right to use our voices and demonstrate a desire to live in a fair world through an energetic session of music, stories, and poster-making activities prior to kicking off the neighborhood’s annual March for Peace. For children and adults The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling is a great place to visit all […]

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“Spirit of Our Ancestors” Celebrates the Clotilda Descendants, Africatown Founder Festival’s Keynote Speaker is Dr. Natalie Robertson, Author of The Slave Ship CLOTILDA and the Making of Africatown, USA

January 21, 2019 / Front Page

The ” Clotilda” was a illegal slave ship that was burned and sunken in the Mobile (Alabama) River Delta to hide the crime of importing enslaved Africans — as story and search for the remains of the ship that has been undertaken by the National Geographics. The descendants of the Clotilda now extend a warm public invitation to its first annual festival, “Spirit of Our Ancestors” on Saturday, February 9th, 2019, from Noon to 4 PM at Mobile County Training School in honor […]

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On King Holiday Commemoration: 600 Black Legislators Resolved to Push Policies for Economic Justice Resolution considered new win for Black Wealth 2020 By Hazel Trice Edney

January 21, 2019 / Front Page

It was three years ago that a group of national business leaders launched a movement called Black Wealth 2020 partially based on the economic vision articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King said in his final speech on April 3, 1968: “It’s all right to talk about streets flowing with milk and honey, but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here and his children who can’t eat three square meals a day. It’s all right […]

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On MLK Day 2019, Finding A Blueprint Remains Our Goal Opinion Editorial By Kevin C. Peterson

January 21, 2019 / Front Page

Less than a year before he was assassinated, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. paid a visit to Philadelphia for a massive rally that would be held at the newly constructed Spectrum — a sprawling professional sports arena that would house the 76ers and the Flyers for decades. Before the rally, King visited the now closed Barrat Middle School, which was located in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods in the soutwest section of the city. The school would become […]

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated Celebrates 99 Years of Service – inducts Wynona Kidd, founder’s daughter

January 21, 2019 / Front Page

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, a leading women’s service organization, concluded its international executive board meeting at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, Nassau, Bahamas on Jan. 12, 2019 with the induction of Wynona Kidd as an honorary member. Kidd is the daughter of Viola Tyler Goings and niece of Myrtle Tyler Faithful, two of the sorority’s founding members. At 95 years young, Kidd is the oldest living descendant of the organization’s five founding members. “As we celebrate 99 years of service today, and prepare for our Centennial in […]

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Number of Fortune 500 Boards With Over 40 Percent Diversity Doubled Since 2012

January 21, 2019 / Front Page

Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD) and Deloitte study shows women and minorities comprise an all-time high of 34 percent of board seats among Fortune 500 companies, up from 30.8 percent in 2016 The number of Fortune 500 companies with greater than 40 percent diversity has more than doubled from 69 to 145 since 2012, according to the “Missing Pieces Report: The 2018 Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards,” a multiyear study published by the Alliance for Board […]

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