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President Barack Obama to Deliver Howard University 2016 Commencement Address
Washington, DC – Howard University President, Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick, announced today that United States President, Barack H. Obama, will deliver the keynote address during Howard University’s 2016 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 7, 2016. The President will address members of the Class of 2016 and their families, University trustees, officers, faculty, staff, and […]
Gilbane Building Company Appoints Linda Graves as Vice President of Diversity and Community Affairs
Providence, RI – Gilbane Building Company announced that Linda Graves has been named as Vice President of Diversity and Community Affairs. As a ten-year veteran with Gilbane, Graves will serve in this National leadership role positioning Gilbane’s diversity and inclusion efforts as a comprehensive strategy to achieve business and workforce commitments. In her role, Graves […]
Cox Communications Announces Major Effort to Close the Digital Divide With U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) ConnectHome Initiative
Cannabis Activist Ed Forchion Challenges New Jersey on Race, Reefer and Religion Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Trenton, NJ – In perhaps one of the boldest moves in the recent history of marijuana activism, long time cannabis advocate and Trentonian newspaper columnist, Ed Forchion aka NJWeedman, and his lawyers, New Jersey attorneys Allan Marain, Esq. and John Vincent Saykanic, Esq., are challenging the state of New Jersey before the United States Supreme […]
Nation’s Leading African American Entrepreneurs and Corporate Executives To Gather In Miami At The 21st Annual Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit
New York, NY – Where Innovation and Capital Meet. Join BLACK ENTERPRISE at the 2016 Entrepreneurs Summit hosted by Nationwide on Wednesday, May 4 through Saturday, May 7, at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, with a powerhouse lineup of some of the nation’s most accomplished and celebrated entrepreneurs and motivational speakers. The three-day power conference, […]
The American Black Film Festival Continues to Expand its List of Talent Discovery Programs in Partnership with HBO®, Comcast NBCUniversal, TV One and McDonald’s
NoVo Foundation to Invest $90 Million in Future of Women of Color
By Lauren Victoria Burke – The NoVo Foundation, which is run by the son and daughter-in-law of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, has announced they will pledge a $90 million investment in girls and young women of color in the U.S. The foundation is calling the effort the largest ever made by a private foundation to […]
Urban League of Greater Atlanta Joins the Atlanta Citizens Review Board
Atlanta, GA – President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Atlanta (ULGA), Nancy Flake Johnson, recently announced the organization’s membership on the Atlanta Citizens Review Board (ACRB), following a unanimous vote by the Atlanta City Council at its Monday, March 21, 2016 meeting. “We have been working directly with other nonprofits and government […]