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Report: Warriors’ Stephen Curry Starting Golf Team at Howard University | Bleacher Report

African American Education, HBCU ...

TYLER CONWAY, Bleacher Report Jonathan Devich/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Stephen[/dropcap] Curry has already taken his love of golf to television. Now he’s doing the same at Howard University. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Golden State Warriors star will reportedly launch a golf program at Howard during a press conference Monday, per Casey Bannon of The Golfer’s Journal. […]

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We asked four black businesswomen how they got their start. Here’s what they said. | USA TODAY

#BuyBlack, African American Entrepreneurs ...

— Talis Shelbourne, USA TODAY Back in the 1950s and ’60s, Milwaukee bustled with African American-owned businesses. But a combination of changing demographics and concentrated poverty dimmed the community’s once-bright glow of entrepreneurship. In 2012, African Americans made up 22% of all business owners in Milwaukee County, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Recently, the city’s […]

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For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine

African American History, African American Music ...

I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and […]

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Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. | The New York Times Magazine

African American History, Black History ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ARTWORK BY ADAM PENDLETON. Featured Image [dropcap]My[/dropcap] dad always flew an American flag in our front yard. The blue paint on our two-story house was perennially chipping; the fence, or the rail by the stairs, or the front door, existed in a perpetual state of disrepair, but that […]

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3-year-old uses lemonade stand profits to buy diapers for babies in need | KMOV4

African American Commuities, KINDR'D ...

Associated Press, KMOV4 Photos: Ava’s Lemonade, Durham Rescue Mission via Facebook. Featured Image [dropcap]DURHAM[/dropcap], N.C. (AP) — A 3-year-old North Carolina girl and her mother have come up with a sweet way to help struggling mothers provide for their children. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Ava Lewis opened a lemonade stand in front of her mother’s hair salon, […]

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