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(NAFJ) Beverly Farris is one of the National Program Managers who lives in Washington State. National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ) is a nonprofit association of criminal justice professionals and community leaders, whose mission is to promote the value of the inclusion of faith in addressing prevention, consequences, and resolutions of crime with emphasis upon the most culpable and vulnerable issues and stakeholders.
(NAFJ) Beverly Farris is one of the National Program Managers who lives in Washington State. National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ) is a nonprofit association of criminal justice professionals and community leaders, whose mission is to promote the value of the inclusion of faith in addressing prevention, consequences, and resolutions of crime with emphasis upon the most culpable and vulnerable issues and stakeholders.
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D’ART Shtajio is Japan’s First Major Anime Studio Owned by Black Animators - AfroTech
Black creators are versatile in every way both inside and outside of traditional Black culture. Two Black background artists, Arthell and Darnell Isom, alongside animator Henry Thurlow, founded D’ART Shtajio — a 2-D animation studio in Tokyo — making it the “first major anime studio created ...
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The untold story of the great Nubian Queen Shanakdakhete who ruled without a king - The African History
Queen Shanakdakhete took the Throne of Kush Empire in ancient Nubia from 170 to 150 BC. The Queen ruled with absolute power in the Meroë Empire as well. As a result, the Queen became known as the Lord of the Two Lands. The Queen also exercised power without the support of a king, which was unusual ...
Teen Who Recorded George Floyd's Murder Earns Pulitzer Prize Special Citation
Darnella Frazier -- the teenager who recorded George Floyd's death under Derek Chauvin's knee -- has just earned a special citation in this year's Pulitzer Prize.
@darnella_frazier03 was just awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her bold courage filming the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department.
Pulitzer citation awarded to Minneapolis teenager who recorded George Floyd's death
With her cellphone, Darnella Frazier documented a murder that galvanized a movement against police brutality and for an end to racial injustice.
RTD columnist Michael Paul Williams wins Pulitzer Prize
Michael Paul Williams, a veteran journalist and longtime columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has earned a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for his work in 2020.
Meet the Black Woman Helping Incarcerated Youth and Men 16-24 to Become Entrepreneurs and Inventors
Nationwide — Dr. Shanna Carter, known as “The Purpose Resuscitator,” has overcome many obstacles in her life but the reward of empowering and encouraging people, especially youth and incarcerated males, […]
Pharrell Williams Plans To Open Private Schools For Low-Income Families | The Breakfast Club
Williams' nonprofit has run summer programs for students during the past decade and plans to expand.
Black appraisers call out industry's racial bias and need for systemic change
The largely insular appraisal industry of 78,000 is skewed over 85 percent white with less than 2 percent of appraisers identifying as Black.
Olympic Sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Scores World’s Fastest Women’s 100M In More Than Three Decades
She’s running for the gold! Olympic sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce recently scored the world’s fastest women’s 100m in more than three decades, Blavity reports. Fraser-Pryce is already a two-time champion in the 100m, recently breaking another record at a meet in Kingston, Jamaica, this past...
Kamba Cua: The Little Known Kenyan Tribe Living In South America For 200 Years - Travel Noire
There are two subtribes of Kenya’s Kamba community still thriving in the South American nation of Paraguay: Kamba Cua and the Kamba Kokue. They...
High school senior headed to Harvard donates her $40K scholarship to others
Verda Tetteh wants the money to be given to a student attending community college, which her mother attended in her late 30s.
America Is a Community of Individuals, not Races - Color Us United
Our media leaders and politicians have advanced a narrative where Americans are encouraged to see themselves through the lens of race. Or more specifically, that to be White is to be privileged (and therefore evil), and to be “of color” is to be oppressed...
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Fortifying Simone’s legacy, “Feeling Good” depicts generations of Black joy and boundless self-expression through beauty and hair to elevate Black stories, ...
Happy birthday, Sasha! You’ve grown so much, and it’s been a joy to watch you become the person we always hoped you’d be. Your mom and I can’t wait to see where life takes you next.
SC students react to being selected as a CCF Rev. Pinckney Scholar for 2021
Students in coastal South Carolina who applied for the Rev. Pinckney Scholarship Program of CCF were informed by Zoom in March of 2021 that they were awarded...
To Infinity and Beyond! The Famous Black Astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison is known as the first African American woman in go into space. She was born on October 17th, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama. She is the youngest child of Charlie and Dorothy Jemison. Jemison
80-Year-Old Woman Fulfills Lifelong Dream By Graduating from Alabama A&M University
It’s never too late to chase your dreams! Donzella Washington just fulfilled her lifelong goal of earning her bachelor’s degree, graduating from Alabama A&M University at 80-years-old, Rocket City Now reports. Washington is inspiring people around the world with her story of resilience and t...
Philadelphia Twins And First Generation College Students Set To Graduate As Valedictorian And Salutatorian
Twin power! A pair of Philadelphia twins are graduating at the top of their class, 6 ABC News reports. Janaya and Jonathan Boston McCray are graduating seniors at William W. Bodine High School in North Philly. The twins were born just one minute apart, always relying on each other and their family.....
Cornelius Marion Battey: Early Photographer of Black Americans in Pictorial Style
Cornelius Marion Battey was an African-American photographer who shot photographic portraits of black Americans in a pictorial style. His photograph of black leaders appeared on the cover of the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, beginning in
Debbie Allen Reacts to the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors
Watch the 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT on CBS and stream on Paramount+.The 2020 Kennedy Center Honors, which ...
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Val Demings for Senate | Join our team now!
We’re building a massive grassroots movement to defeat Marco Rubio – will you add your name now to join Team Demings for Senate?
Middle school drops Confederate soldier’s name to take NASA’s Katherine Johnson’s
Victory! Simone Biles Sets Yet Another Record With Her 7th National Championship Win
Simone Biles won the 2021 US Gymnastics Championships, racking up a record seventh national all-around title.
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Howard swimmer will make school history at the U.S. 2021 Olympic Trials
The 2021 Olympic games are less than two months away, and Howard University sophomore Swimmer Miles Simon is making history. Miles will be only the 2nd swimmer in school history to compete in the Olympic Trials. Miles current coach Director of Swimming & Diving Nicholas Askew was the first. "When I....
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Sarah Boone patented her design for the ironing board in 1892. Prior to her invention, most people ironed using a piece of wood placed between two chairs or tables. Boone sought to make the task more efficient and especially help make it easier to iron womens dresses. Similar to modern day ironing boards, her design was a narrow wooden board that had collapsible legs and a padded cover.
We're remembering #BreonnaTaylor today, which should have been her 28th birthday. 🕊❤ #RestInPeace #SayHerName
Meet the Attorney Who Won $1.25 Billion For Black Farmers, the Largest Civil Rights Settlement Ever
Attorney Greg Francis, a champion for the rights of Black Americans, led and won the largest civil rights settlement in the history of civil justice in the U.S., demanding justice for 33,000 Black farmers.
Dorothy West born on June 2, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts was a #storyteller and short story #writer who became famous during the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays, about the life of an upper-class black family.
West wrote her first story at the age of seven. Her first published work, a short story entitled "Promise and Fulfillment", appeared in The Boston Post when she was 14 years old. West attended Boston University and the Columbia University School of Journalism.
In 1926, she tied for second place in a writing contest sponsored by Opportunity, a journal published by the National Urban League, with her short story "The Typewriter". The person West tied with was novelist Zora Neale Hurston. "The Typewriter” appeared in Dodd Mead's annual anthology The Best Short Stories of 1926 alongside work by Ernest Hemingway.
#DorothyWest moved to Harlem and became a founding member of the Harlem Renaissance, along with Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Wallace Thurman. Hughes gave West the nickname of "The Kid”.
During the Great Depression, West's published the magazine Challenge, which she founded with $40 in 1934. She also published the magazine's shortlived successor, New Challenge, which published Richard Wright's groundbreaking essay "Blueprint for Negro Writing”. In 1947 where is she wrote her first novel, The Living Is Easy. For the next four decades, West worked as a journalist, primarily writing for a small newspaper on Martha's Vineyard.
In 1982, The Feminist Press brought The Living Is Easy back into print, giving new attention to West and as a result of this renewed attention, at the age of 85 West finally finished a second novel, entitled The Wedding. The novel was a best-seller and resulted in Oprah Winfrey's production company turned the novel into a two-part television miniseries, The Wedding in 1998. Two years before she died, West won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. West died on August 16, 1998, at the age of 91.
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