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Dionne Warwick, Donny Hathaway & More to Receive Special Merit Awards

January 1, 2019 / African American, Front Page

The Recording Academy has announced this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY Award recipients This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Black Sabbath, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, Billy Eckstine, Donny Hathaway, Julio Iglesias, Sam & Dave and Dionne Warwick. Lou Adler, Ashford & Simpson and Johnny Mandel are Trustees Award honorees; and Saul Walker is the Technical GRAMMY Award recipient. A special award presentation ceremony and concert celebrating the honorees will be held on May 11,2019, in Los Angeles. A special thanks to Angelo Ellerbe.

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ESSENCE Beauty Carnival Hits the Road in 2019 — World’s Largest Beauty Experience for Black Women

January 1, 2019 / African American, Business World Index, Front Page

Tickets On-Sale Now for Kick-Off in New York City April 27-28, 2019 The ESSENCE® Beauty Carnival ™, recognized as the world’s largest beauty experience for Black women, is hitting the road in 2019—newly reimagined as an expanded, multi-city tour. Tickets are on-sale now for this epic celebration of Black beauty—convening a community of enthusiasts, experts and influencers at New York City’s Pier 36 on April 27-28, 2019. “As the leading global destination for Black women, ESSENCE® celebrates diverse beauty and inspires inclusivity in a way that only […]

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50+ CEOs Outpace Their Global Peers in Advancing Women For Second Consecutive Year

January 1, 2019 / Business World Index, Front Page

For the second year in a row, Catalyst CEO Champion For Change companies collectively have a higher representation of women in leadership positions at every level than their global peers—more women board directors, executives, senior managers, and managers. Since March 2017, the Catalyst CEO Champions—more than 50 top industry leaders—are demonstrating that progress is possible. We are still far from gender equality in the workforce and society, but as the Catalyst CEO Champions have proven, commitment that leads to action can effect change. The Catalyst […]

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W.K. Kellogg Foundation Names Global Leaders to Solidarity Council on Racial Equity

January 1, 2019 / African American, Business World Index, Front Page

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) named and convened 20 individuals who will serve on a newly established Solidarity Council on Racial Equity (SCoRE). These inaugural members are luminaries and thought leaders from advocacy, the arts, entertainment, business, education and media. At the council’s first meeting today in Washington, D.C. they began setting a course for two years of unified action to place racial equity center stage in public awareness. Their collective efforts will culminate in a global symposium in September 2020. “Every one […]

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The Asian American Business Roundtable to host “Making Impact: Diversity and Inclusion IS a Business Strategy,” an Exclusive One-Day Summit with the Nation’s Top Business Leaders, January 16 in New York City.

January 1, 2019 / Business World Index, Front Page

The fourth annual Asian American Business Roundtable will host discussions and drive practical outcomes at its exclusive one-day Summit on “Diversity and Inclusion IS a Business Strategy” at New York University in Manhattan on January 16, 2019. Keynotes from some of America’s biggest brands will join Asian, Latino and African American senior executives, diversity experts and workplace leaders to go beyond words to concrete solutions, it was announced by John Wang, Founder and President of the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC), the Summit host. Delivering […]

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker will return to Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville, Florida – to be honored during the historic 30th Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities

January 1, 2019 / African American, Front Page

Producers of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (ZORA! Festival) will pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize recipient Alice Walker, during its 30th anniversary banquet Saturday, February 2, 2019, 6:00 pm at University of Central Florida Pegasus Ballroom. The first ZORA! Festival was presented in 1990 by the Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.), a small, non-profit, historic preservation/cultural arts organization which was doing everything in its power to protect Eatonville, Florida, known popularly as […]

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Focus on history: Remembering John Hope Franklin (birthday January 2, 1915) and his perspectives on The Emancipation Proclamation (issued January 1, 1863)

January 1, 2019 / African American, Front Page

John Hope Franklin earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University before embarking on a career as one of the most renowned historians of his time. His book on the Emancipation Proclamation(ISBN-13: 978-0882959078) offers useful insights as noted by reviewers: “While many historians have dealt with the Emancipation Proclamation as a phase or an aspect of the Civil War, few have given more than scant attention to the evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln, the circumstances and conditions that […]

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Dr. Ariana Curtis, an Afro-Latina researcher, curator and storyteller, welcomes a more inclusive ‘history’

January 1, 2019 / African American, Business World Index, EDUstation, Front Page

Dr. Ariana A. Curtis, Curator for Latinx History and Culture at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, shared her perspectives during a recent TED Conference: “Who deserves to be in a museum? For too long, the answer has been “the extraordinary” — those aspirational history-makers who inspire us with their successes. But those stories are limiting.” View her Ted talk (click here) — As noted on the TED X site, “She imagines how museums can more accurately […]

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LGBTQ Students Encouraged to Apply for Scholarships

November 4, 2018 / Business World Index, Front Page, LifeStyle, National

Point Foundation Accepting Applications Beginning November 1 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students enrolling in undergraduate or graduate programs for the 2019-2020 academic year are encouraged to apply online for a Point Foundation Scholarship. Point Foundation (Point) is the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit and currently is providing financial assistance and programmatic support to 97 students. Applications open online November 1, 2018 at www.pointfoundation.org/apply Students may submit their application until 11:59 p.m. PST January 28, 2019. A short application […]

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