Music and community go hand in hand, and the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Vocal Workshop shows just how much....
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STEMpact program equips educators to foster love of science in students
For the fourth year, a select group of St. Louis-area and Metro East educators have been spending two weeks – July 13 to July 24 – learning how to better teach their students in...
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Bobbi Kristina Brown Dead At 22 Following Long Hospitalization
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died Sunday, according to Entertainment Tonight. She was 22 years old....
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Black Is Beautiful: W Magazine’s Fall Fashion Spread Features All Black Models With Natural Hair
They’re breathtaking visuals....
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Black Women, This Is What Self-Care Looks Like
A photography exhibit sponsored by Durham, N.C.’s the Beautiful Project focuses on how women of different ages and backgrounds care for themselves....
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23 Black Stars Who Shined On Broadway Through The Years
These actors and actresses slayed the stage!...
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Report: Gunman Opens Fire in La. Movie Theater, Three Dead
A 58 year old man stood up and started shooting down into the crowd, according to a witness, who said the movie was about 20 minutes in when she heard the first shot....
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Convoy of Hope rolls into Ferguson
Ferguson – scene of countless protests since August 9, like this one on August 30 – will become the focus of a “Day of Hope” this Saturday, July 25....
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Community-Led Cooking Classes In African Cuisine Are Helping People Lose Weight, Eat Healthier
The classes encourage “reconnecting to healthy eating as cultural identity.”...
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Muslim Organizations Raised $100,000 To Rebuild Torched Black Churches
Muslim organizations have banded together to raise $100,000 in an effort to help rebuild Black churches in the South that were torched in recent months...
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Dozens Killed In Nigeria As Mosque, Market Bombed
The death toll from multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday has risen to 37, with 105 others injured, a Red Cross official said on...
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Andre Anderson named new interim police chief of Ferguson
Police commander Andre Anderson of Glendale, Arizona will assume the position of interim police chief in Ferguson....
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‘Light You Up’ Cop Threatens to Use Taser on Sandra Bland in New Dash-Cam Video
Things escalate when the officer becomes upset that Bland is smoking a cigarette....
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13 Inspirational Instagram Accounts That Prove That Black Yogis Rule
Turn your “na, I’ma stay in bed” to “namaste.”...
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NYC Swim Team Breaking Records and Busting Myths
They are called the Piranhas, and there is no doubt these swimmers are devouring the competition....
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Sandra Bland’s Death Will Be Treated Like A Murder Investigation
The death of an Illinois woman found hanged in her Texas jail cell in what local authorities said was a suicide will be investigated as thoroughly as a murder, the local district attorney said...
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Shalom’s ‘Simply Amazing’ holds No. 3 on Billboard Gospel Chart
“I’m trying to find a way to say something other than ‘simply amazing,’ but that’s what it is,” said Pastor F. James Clark, senior pastor of Shalom Church (City of Peace)....
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One-on-One With Afro-Cubans: What It Means to Be Black in Cuba
As U.S. relations with Cuba warm up, we turn to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s exploration of blackness on the Caribbean island and how the revolution’s anti-racism stance failed to meet its promise....
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President Obama Meets With Emma Didlake, Oldest Living U.S. Veteran
Obama noted that she’s “110 years young.”...
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