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Third Annual Black Entrepreneurs Week Spotlights Black Entrepreneurs and Community Empowerment Efforts

Equiliberty joins forces with Chase and an array of partners to uplift local Black-owned businesses and community capital initiatives.

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Republicans Continue to Work On Health Care. They Can't Afford Not To

With a new week before them, Republican leaders continue the hunt for the 216 votes they need to repeal and replace Obamacare, a kind of Groundhog Day exercise that has consumed the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, the GOP's agenda and irritated some who fear the process has gone off the rails.

Where lions operate, grazers congregate … provided food is great

Study: Lion danger can foster mixed-species herds in Africa's Serengeti

Meals are typically family affairs for zebras, gazelles, cape buffalo and other grazing species in the African Serengeti, but in one of the first studies of its kind, ecologists have found grazing species can be more willing to share meals in areas frequented by lions.

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Habitat and species loss leaves just 3% of world's land ecosystems intact, study suggests

Just under 3% of the world's land remains ecologically intact, with undisturbed habitat and minimal loss of its original animal species, a new study suggests.

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Will Trump receive a get out of jail free card

The federal indictment of Donald Trump – the first federal indictment of a former president in U.S. history – poses the question. Trump’s enraged reaction – calling it the “greatest witch hunt of all time” and denouncing special counsel Jack Smith, a career prosecutor, as a “deranged lunatic” – makes the question unavoidable. Obviously, Trump deserves a fair trial, his guilt or innocence determined by a jury of his peers. But every candidate for president should be asked if they would pardon Donald Trump if they were president. As Gerald Ford proved when pardoning Richard Nixon, a presidential pardon can be issued before a trial, or even before formal charges are brought, so the question needn’t wait on the trial.

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Latino Victory Project Calls on Democrats to Reject Trump's Demand for Border Wall Funding in Appropriations Bill

Latino Victory Fund called on Democrats in Congress to reject President Trump’s demand for $5 billion in funds for the border wall. Cristóbal J. Alex, Latino Victory Fund president, issued the following statement:

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Houston Hiring Freeze, County Tax Revenue Drops, Houston Symphony Strives for More Diversity, And More

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has frozen hiring and promotions across city government. The Mayor instructed department directors seeking “critical” hires to meet with him or his staff in person.

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Two Atlanta HBCU’s Will Shift To Digital Learning This Fall

Morehouse and Spelman Go Digital In Fall 2020

Morehouse and Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, announced on Monday that students will not be returned to campus for the Fall 2020 semester due to the recent spike in COVID-19.

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Hidden Figures Beats La La Land As Best Grossing Oscar Nominee

We bet a lot of folks in Hollywood and beyond didn’t see this coming. We’re talking about the fact that “Hidden Figures” is now the highest grossing Oscar nominated film of the year.

Retired Law Enforcement Officer and Glass House Group CEO Kyle Kazan Urges President Trump to Pardon Parker Coleman, Jr.

Parker Coleman Is Currently Serving a Six-Decade Sentence for a Nonviolent Marijuana Conspiracy Offense At The Same Time Many Thousands of Investors Are Making Millions of Dollars While Violating Essentially The Same Federal Marijuana Laws

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Halle Bailey's Performance of Part of Your World From Disneyland

Halle Bailey’s performance of Part of Your World from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” is available now. The singer-actress, who stars as Ariel in the upcoming live-action film, performed the song for hundreds of fans in front of Sleeping Beauty’s castle at the Disneyland Resort. A new featurette on Bailey is available now as well. The Little Mermaid,” helmed by visionary filmmaker Rob Marshall, opens exclusively in theaters nationwide May 26, 2023.

Lost Hollywood Haute Couture Collection of Emmy Nominated and Award-Winning Jerry Skeels and Randy McLaughlin of Jeran Designs Rediscovered by Kruse GWS Auctions

Classic Gowns Worn by Hundreds of Stars Exclusively Created by the “Glamour Kings of Hollywood” Will Hit the Auction Block Before a Host of Celebrities and the General Public in a Runway Fashion Show Auction on November 9, 2019 at Hollywood’s Hard Rock Cafe

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Harris Health Dedicates Permanent Site for COVID-19 Pandemic Memorial Exhibit

Nearly 1,000 photographs of people who died during the COVID-19 pandemic from greater Houston are now permanently memorialized on the walls of Harris Health Quentin Mease Health Center through an art exhibit called Living ICONS, A Commemoration of Victims of Houston’s COVID-19 Pandemic, by Houston artist Joni Zavitsano.

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GM job cuts: This is what transforming a century-old company looks like

Mary Barra is on a mission to ensure General Motors doesn't get left behind in the evolving auto industry that it helped pioneer.

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Atlanta school under federal investigation after allegations principal assigned Black students to classes based on race

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes.

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Atlanta school under federal investigation after allegations principal assigned Black students to classes based on race

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into an Atlanta public elementary school after allegations the principal was assigning Black students to certain classes.

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The job hunt can be exhausting. Here's how to cope

Are upper middle class and affluent shoppers starting to feel the pinch from higher prices and geopolitical concerns? If so, what does that mean for the rest of American consumers?Amid America's Great Resignation, millions of workers continue to leave their jobs. In February, 4.4 million employees quit, according to the Labor Department, and the unemployment rate dropped to a pandemic-era low of 3.6% in March.

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Shooter in deadly Illinois rampage was not supposed to own a gun, police say

Gary Martin took a gun into work Friday, a pistol he didn't legally own.

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Chicago Columnist Slams Chance The Rapper For Child Support Drama

Just days after Chance the Rapper took $1 million out of his pocket and handed it the financially-strapped Chicago Public Schools, a columnist from the Chicago Sun-Times decided to write about the artist…but not about his donation.

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Tiffany Haddish Makes History With SNL Debut — Becomes First Black Woman Standup Comedian to Ever Host the Show!

Comedian Tiffany Haddish is making headlines for her hilarious debut appearance on Saturday Night Live. She is reportedly the first Black woman standup comedian to ever host the legendary show in the show’s entire history.