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The first Barack Obama Elementary School opened today in Maryland
The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George’s County.
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The Justice Department is looking for “ebonics” speakers to translate for the DEA
The Justice Department is looking for nine linguists with a knowledge of American street slang to “monitor, translate and transcribe” DEA recordings of drug dealers.
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The Negro Motorist Green Book: Looking back to a time when Blacks had no choice but to support Black business
For almost three decades beginning in 1936, many African-American travelers relied on a booklet to help them decide where they could comfortably eat, sleep, buy gas, find a tailor or beauty parlor, shop on a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, or go out at night.
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Pew report shows African Americans regard high speed internet as an equalizing advantage
In every major category, from job opportunities to acquiring health information, more African-American and Hispanic adults regard lack of broadband access as “a major disadvantage” than whites do.
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Price of African American art work growing dramatically
Thom Pegg predicts that Black Art’s value will increase from an investment standpoint. There’s some history there and a heritage there. It just wasn’t really well known.
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Maryland elects first Black woman appellate court judge
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is set to swear in the first black woman to an appellate court in the state Tuesday.
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Suspect held in connection with serial killing/stabbing of 18 African Americans
Authorities have identified the man arrested Wednesday at the Atlanta airport as Elias Abuelazam, 33, in connection with the stabbings of 20 people in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.
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Naomi Campbell exposes the diamond industry’s role in African wars
The diamond industry has given almost nothing back to Sierra Leone, despite the critical role diamonds played in the war. In nearly every armed conflict or instance of a highly corrupt regime a network of reputable financial institutions facilitates and exacerbates the world’s worst abuses.