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CNN  —  The United States Figure Skating team will receive a gold medal for their team event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, after Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva was handed a four-year ban Monday over a long-running doping controversy. Valieva, now 17, had led the Russian Olympic Committee to first place in the team […]

OMAHA — A North Omaha landmark, built more than a century ago, is part of a national wave of religious buildings that will share $4 million awarded last week under a program to protect the legacy of America’s Black churches. The former Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church, 3105 N. 24th St., is to benefit from a […]

By Jessica Pumphrey National (TN Tribune)-National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $4 million in its second round of Preserving Black Churches grants to 31 historic Black churches across the U.S. Notably, two of the churches selected for grants are located in Tennessee. Henderson Chapel AME Zion Church in […]

The Archivist of the United States awarded the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff funding to continue preservation of the history of the Black population of Lake Forest, Illinois, with Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Courtney Joseph and Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies RL Watson serving as faculty consultants. […]

The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds on the previous success of a […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds […]

Recipients of the City of Victoria’s annual International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) Youth Grant program have been selected for 2023. This year, five projects that support and empower Black youth in Victoria have been awarded funding.  “The return of this grant program is an important step towards making Victoria a more welcoming […]

New York, NY — Despite a gradual slowdown in investment opportunities for Black businesses, Daymond John is determined to rewrite the narrative through Black Entrepreneurs Day. John, CEO of FUBU and co-star of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” started Black Entrepreneurs Day in 2020 to celebrate innovation and enterprise in the Black community. Black Entrepreneurs Day, which […]

“We are proud to announce that Patricia Hill Collins is the winner of the 2023 edition of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture,” said Antonio Damasio, Chair of the Berggruen Prize Jury. “Her studies illuminate the material, social, and cultural conditions behind the mutilation of human possibilities while never failing to recognize the uniqueness […]

Last Updated: October 23, 2023, 07:04 IST Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins — known today as the “Harlem Park Three” — will each receive $14.9 million. (Image: Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project/Facebook) Baltimore to pay $48 million to exonerated Black men wrongly imprisoned for 36 years in high-profile case


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