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Arthur Smith is the Right Man for Falcons’ Rebuilding Job

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Arthur Smith has taken an offense that didn’t have its best receiver (Calvin Ridley), doesn’t have a consistent offensive line, shaped it around a gadget player (Cordarrelle Patterson) player that has broken Jeremy Shockey’s record for most receiving yards by a rookie tight end in the modern era (Kyle Pitts) and turned it into a respectable unit.

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PRESS ROOM: Ben’s Original™ Launches “My Original Recipe” Chef Stories with Chef Marcus Samuelsson

NNPA NEWSWIRE — BEN’S ORIGINAL brand has committed a total of $4.5 million over the next five years in support of inclusion and equity and to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table. This spring, in partnership with National Urban League and UNCF (United Negro College Fund), BEN’S ORIGINAL brand launched its SEAT AT THE TABLE™ Fund Scholarship for Black students who want to pursue food industry careers; this year’s recipients will be announced this fall. In Greenville, the company recently announced a new partnership with MolinaCares and Kroger Delta Division to bolster its $2.5 million investment focused on improving food access and education throughout the Mississippi Delta.

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Several Organizations Set to March on Washington

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “These laws suppress voting methods that enrich our democracy and lead to high turnout: banning ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, reducing early voting days and hours, restricting who can get a mail-in ballot, prohibiting officials from promoting the use of mail-in ballots even when voters qualify, even criminalizing the distribution of water to voters waiting in the long lines these laws create,” said the March on Washington organization.

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Arizona State University Renames Film School to Honor Sidney Poitier

NNPA NEWSWIRE — In an interview ahead of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s unveiling, University President Michael M. Crow said Poitier embodies everything that one would look for in an icon. “With Sidney Poitier, it’s his creative energy, his dynamism, his drive, his ambition, the kinds of projects he worked on, the ways in which he advanced his life,” Crow asserted, according to USA Today.

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