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Florida Department of Economic Opportunity Announces Ten Consecutive Months of Job Growth, Lowering Unemployment Rate to 4.7 Percent

by Times Weekly Staff

ORLANDO ADVOCATE — “Under Governor DeSantis’ leadership, our state’s economy has bounced back tremendously from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dane Eagle, Executive Director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. “Floridians are resilient, and it is impressive to see Florida’s unemployment rate plummet as they return to work and more jobs are created.”

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PRESS ROOM: Fintech Startup Greenwood Raises $40 Million in Funding to Provide Black and Latino Banking Services

by Times Weekly Staff

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Greenwood, the digital banking platform for Black and Latino individuals and business owners, will feature best-in-class online banking services, innovative ways to support Latino and Black-owned banks and give-back programs focused on Black and Latino causes and businesses. “We think it is critical that our actions live up to the promise of our name,” said Ryan Glover, Chairman and Co-founder of Greenwood, referring to Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District of the early 20th Century, which included the prosperous “Black Wall Street.”

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API Lays Out Initiatives, Including Partnerships with Communities of Color

by Times Weekly Staff

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In fact, API has had a program for over a decade, which brings a minority and underrepresented communities together to talk about, jobs and initiatives within the oil and gas sector,” API President and CEO Mike Sommers said during a news conference on Thursday, March 25. “It’s an important priority of both the API board of directors and the API team in Washington. We’ll continue to grow those alliances over time because we know, based on the studies that we have done in this space, we expect that 50 percent of the jobs in oil and gas in the next 20 years are going to be filled by women and minorities.”

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‘Twenty Pearls’ AKA Documentary Shows the Vision and Impact of Black College Women

by Times Weekly Staff

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Executive Producer and Alpha Kappa Alpha member Kimberly Esmond Adams believes anytime is the right time to tell this type of American story. “This story talks about the role that a group of college women, who were still finding their way in the world, yet were intelligent enough to understand that the world was bigger than them and they could do something concrete to make it better for everyone.”

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