NNPA NEWSWIRE — Talented Florida artist Broadway Harewood, a majority owner of commercial real estate in Liberty City, has used the arts to reduce crime in the area. On Feb. 27, he will publicly unveil a mural honoring National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. The unveiling will take place at 2 p.m. in the Broadway Arts District at 6209 NW 18th Avenue. The Broadway Art District encompasses 18th Avenue, between 62nd and 71st street.
Miami Artist to Unveil Mural Honoring NNPA President and Civil Rights Leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.
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PRESS ROOM: Arizona Community Partners Launching COVID-19 Vaccine Sites for Underserved Populations
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “During Black History Month, myself and other leaders across black and brown communities have come together to discuss how we can better support the members of our neighborhoods at high-risk,” said Alan “AP” Powell, Chairman of AP & Associates – Strategic Alliances, U.S. Army Desert-Storm Veteran, and founder of HeroZona. “Research shows that minorities are getting vaccinated at a slower rate than normal, and we want to change that. We will provide the vaccine as well as other resources to help underserved populations in Phoenix stay safe against coronavirus.”
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PRESS ROOM: LMOGA, API Launch New Educational Partnership in Support of Workforce Development and Diversity
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The MSI initiative’s mission is to develop and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the natural gas and oil industry workforce by providing API’s industry standards catalog, with over 700 standards, to accredited higher education institutions. Today’s announcement welcomes Southern University and A&M College and Grambling State University as official participants in API’s ongoing effort to increase access to API’s standards and prepare the incoming industry workforce. This effort supports API’s commitment to expanding diversity in the vital talent poolsthat will help meet the industry’s future workforce demands.
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Wells Fargo Makes Major Investment in Six Black-Owned Banks
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Wells Fargo said it is also supporting each MDI’s development through a banking relationship in the form of a single touchpoint coverage model that will help them access Wells Fargo’s expertise and pursue strategic priorities like entering new markets, expanding locations, designing new products, and hiring staff to support loan growth.
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COMMENTARY: The Future of America is People of Color
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There is a diversity explosion taking place across the country, in the White House, in Congress, with women and with people of color. The new census reports confirm the importance of racial minorities as the primary demographic engine of the nation’s growth.
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Slavery Part IV: The Economic Engine of the New Nation
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Slavery may have ended in 1865, but a slaveholder mentality persisted, shaping the contours of American life for decades to come. This legacy of slavery is very much what African Americans have been fighting against from the moment of emancipation through the present.”
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The ‘Roots’ of Slavery and its Lasting Effects
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Still, those names come with a price because many agree that hate is as American as Apple Pie and baseball. And, victims of such hate not only include the once enslaved African American, but America is a country where it once was illegal for all women to vote.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade – Africans Urged to ‘Come Home’
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I hear time and time again from black Americans who traveled to Africa about how connected they felt and how different they found whatever country they traveled to from the images of Africa they grew up with,” said Roman Debotch, owner/contributor of the site Black Excellence.
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The Catholic Church Played Major Role in Slavery
In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school from financial ruin.
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Five Hundred Years Later, Are we still Slaves?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is Part 5 in the ongoing series.
