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Former College Basketball Standout’s New Book Teaches ‘How to Play Basketball the Fun Way’By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Jenarie Davis-Middleton is a self-described unconventional...
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Karen Jackson, Sisters Network Founder inspires others in new BookBy Dominique Talbert, Defender News Network When four-time breast cancer survivor, Karen Jackson was first diagnosed with breast cancer,...
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Defender Book Corner: 5 questions with… Tiffany L. WarrenBy Defender News Service What’s the book about? The Outside Child started off as a romance – Chenille, the girl who has issues with...
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“Parenting During This Pandemic Requires An ‘Anointing’ Many Already Possess,” Said Louisiana CounselorBy Candace J. Semien, Jozef Syndicate Reporter, The Drum Newspaper With today’s coronavirus pandemic, parents and grandparents are facing a...
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Mother-son nonprofit looking to drive home Easter’s spiritBy Karanja A. Ajanaku, The New Tri-State Defender Child’s Dream International’s 2nd annual “Easter Basket Giveaway” is going forward – far...
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Black history interwoven with suffrage centennial2020 also marks sesquicentennial of 15 th Amendment By Our Weekly, Los Angeles “The right of citizens of the United States to vote...
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Attorney Ben Crump Talks New Book, ‘Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People’By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Famed Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump has written a new book that...
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PRESS ROOM: Monday, Dec. 9: ‘Hidden Figures’ inspiration, Dr. Christine Darden, to be honored in the CapitolDr. Christine Darden, inspiration for “Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation...
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Stacey Abrams to executive produce CBS dramaAtlanta Voice Political powerhouse Stacey Abrams is stepping into the entertainment industry. According to The Hollywood Reporter ,...
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Powerful Book For Young Black Boys Celebrates 25 Years With a Pledge to Get 1 Million New ReadersJerald LeVon Hoover became the published author of a Young Adult (YA) title, one of a few books targeted toward young Black and Brown boys ages...
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The Making of A Slave – The Infamous “Willie Lynch Letter”The Pasadena Journal This speech was delivered by a white slave owner, William Lynch in 1712, however in recent years, both White and...
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Christians’ features a 1960s Louisiana love storyBy Cora Lester, The Drum Newspaper The Christians, book one, follows the life and love of Mary Jean Woods, a young, Christian woman in 1960...
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Redemption: Cyntoia Brown Finds Her VoiceBy Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor To say Cyntoia Brown’s life has been complicated is an...
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Illinois Prison Bans Black History BooksOfficials Claim the Works are ‘Racial’ By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In the 1800s, many...
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‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson Turns 101By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Katherine Johnson, one of the African American women whose stories received...
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The ALOUD series hosts Coogler and Coates for intimate conversationAuthor Ta-Nehisi Coates and Director, Ryan Coogler Sat Down for an Intimate Conversation Surrounding the Black Experience and Coates debut...
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Antwone Muhammad explains how cancer saved his lifeBy Eddy “Precise” Lamarre According to the American Cancer Society, about 2,670 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this...
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New visual book relives life and commerce along the Mississippi RiverBy Sydney Odom The murky, muddy waters of the Mississippi River go on for miles and can be seen treading beneath the many boats and barges...
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De’Vonna Pittman shares love for Minneapolis and Minnesota Black Authors ExpoBy Rolling Out Many have a deep and abiding love for North Minneapolis and an appreciation of Black literature and Black authors. That love...
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#ACCESS901: Memoir provides lens to ‘see’ Cyntoia Brown-LongBy Joy Doss, Special to the New Tri-State Defender Cyntoia Brown’s story sent waves of nausea across my stomach and a riptide of ire through...
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Makeup artist Melissa Hibbért discusses her new book, ‘Face Your Beauty’Cassidy Sparks Jamaican-born Melissa Hibbért is a makeup artist, author, life coach, and marketing expert. The Fisk University graduate had a...
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Speaker, Author Cheron Griffin is on a Mission to Stem Epidemic of Suicide Among Black Youth with New BookBy Nadine Matthews, Shocked and saddened by what she was hearing in her classrooms when she worked as a substitute teacher a few years ago,...
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Rev. Dotson’s ‘Soul Reset’By Jessica Dortch September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and the Rev. Junius B. Dotson tackles that topic, along with many others,...
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Dickerson library hosts family game nightsBy The Daytona Times Families can stop by the John H. Dickerson Heritage Library, 411 S. Keech St., Daytona Beach, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m....
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New Staircase to Replace Broken Escalators in BPL by February 2020By Erica Wright After years of inoperative escalators, the Central Birmingham Public Library downtown will begin construction of a new...
