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NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 2024 / U.S. Bank: Bank donates $100,000 in grant funding to help support Crenshaw District revitalization Originally published on U.S. Bank company blog The ongoing U.S. Bank Black History Month celebration included a block party and ribbon cutting event at the newly renovated Slauson and Crenshaw branch, the […]
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / February 26, 2024 / U.S. Bank: Bank donates $100,000 in grant funding to help support Crenshaw District revitalization
U.S. District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, was honored with a U.S. postal stamp in her image, unveiled on Wednesday as the 47th in the Black Heritage series. The unveiling came at the Black History Month celebration in Hempstead at the Joysetta & Julius Pearse African […]
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press 5 mins ago The sculpture of Viola Liuzzo in Detroit park that bears her name is shown on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate the white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with […]
FAYETTEVILLE — Nelson Hackett’s place in the city’s history was marked Friday at the downtown square about 180 years after he escaped slavery. Hackett was the first and last enslaved person to be extradited from Canada back to the United States. His journey set off an international discourse on extradition policy. A marker telling Hackett’s […]
WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, who brought to life the Great Plains of Nebraska, is now honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol, becoming the 12th woman represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection. U.S. and Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled the bronze figure of the woman who wrote the widely acclaimed […]
WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, who brought to life the Great Plains of Nebraska, is now honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol, becoming the 12th woman represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection. U.S. and Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled the bronze figure of the woman who wrote the widely acclaimed […]
WASHINGTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, who brought to life the Great Plains of Nebraska, is now honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol, becoming the 12th woman represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection. U.S. and Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled the bronze figure of the woman who wrote the widely acclaimed […]
U.S. women’s soccer team fans started their week in brightly-colored fashion when Nike unveiled the team’s World Cup jerseys early Monday morning. The centerpiece primary jersey is white with a blue “drip paint” pattern. It also has some standout gold elements, the Nike swoosh and the four World Cup title stars above the crest.
“When Xernona came here in (in the mid-1960s) there was nothing here,” said former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young. “This city has been reborn by the citizens and energy that came out of the civil rights movement. And Xernona is part of that.” Current Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens put it simply: “She has had a front-row […]