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15-Year-Old Looks To Fly Into The Record Books

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Kimberly Anyadike is hoping to become the youngest African-American female to fly a plane cross country.

 

Dazzling Exhibition of Jamaican Artist on display at African-American Research Library

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Elgo is an artist of international reputation, and is a favorite of the Jamaican Tourist Board and a frequent exhibitor in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

Transition into Your Career of Choice

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Explore your options when finding a new occupation.

Child’s Garden of Hip-Hop (for Mom to Love, Too)

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“Hip Hop Speaks to Children” has anthologized lyrics by rappers like Kanye West and verse by poets like Maya Angelou.

Denzel & Wife, Pauletta celebrate 26 years of marriage

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Having fallen in love in 1977 on the set of Wilma– Washington’s first foray on screen– Denzel and Pauletta said “I do” on June 25, 1983.
 

Civil War medals still available for Black veterans’ descendants

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West Virginia still has about 4,000 medals available for the descendants of Union soldiers who earned them during the Civil War.
 



Mount Vernon High School In the Spotlight

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Mount Vernon High School prepares its culturally diverse student body for the future through a rigorous course of study in a positive and supportive environment.

Alpha Kappa Alpha awards $13,000 in scholarships to local high school seniors

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Over the past 27 years, the Xi Kappa Omega Chapter has provided 164 college scholarships totaling more than $107,000 to high school seniors in Ventura County.
 

World Bank study finds major Africa improvements

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Several African nations are among those that have made great improvements in how their people are governed, with Botswana even on a par with many more-developed Western nations.
 

The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home

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Instead of joining a congregation in Washington, Obama will follow in Bush’s footsteps and make his primary place of worship Evergreen Chapel, the nondenominational church at Camp David.
 

CEO of Africa’s biggest electricity company

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Jacob Maroga, 50, is CEO of Eskom, whose rise has been impressive, is understated, with a tendency to talk in abstract business school jargon.
 

NCAA to recommend schools test for sickle cell trait

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 The NCAA has agreed for the first time to recommend to its membership that it test for the condition that affects one in 12 African-Americans.
 

Honoring African American loggers’ Oregon roots

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Everybody knows loggers shout “Timber!”  But African American lumberjacks who worked in northeast Oregon in the 1920s had other ideas.
 

 

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