Elias Meseret | AP, The Washington Post AFP/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]ADDIS[/dropcap] ABABA, Ethiopia — Eritrea has partially closed two border crossings with Ethiopia that opened this year after the former East African rivals made peace and restored relations, an Ethiopian official said Friday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Thousands of people have crossed the border that had been closed […]
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21-Year-Old From Viral Howard Homecoming Photo Lands Cover Of Elle Magazine | Blavity
After getting attention at Howard’s homecoming, an emerging model graces the pages of Elle…
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Kwanzaa 101: A Beginners Guide To Having A Happy Kwanzaa | Blavity
Created in 1966 by Dr. Mulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a holiday focused on connecting African-Americans with their heritage and culture. A celebration with genesis in the Black Panther and freedom movement era, Karenga’s goal for the pan-African holiday is to, “give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history.”
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Meet Tytianna Smith 4.6 GPA, 29 ACT Score, 1.7 Million In Scholarships And Headed To HBCU Norfolk State University | Campus Lately
Tytianna Smith is a graduating senior from Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Alabama.
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Gladys West, the ‘hidden figure’ of GPS, inducted into Air Force hall of fame | The Hill
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
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Meet Haitian-Puerto Rican artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, on what would have been his 58th birthday | Face2Face Africa
Perhaps you first heard about Jean-Michel Basquiat earlier in 2017 when his painting, Untitled (1982), sold for a record $110.5 million, making his art the most expensive American painting of all time.
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Dawoud Bey: 40 Years of Photos Affirming the ‘Lives of Ordinary Black People’ | The New York Times
A new retrospective book “Seeing Deeply” reveals his decades-long exploration of community, memory and photography.
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Buhari, Tinubu, Ofeimun mourn as Sophie Oluwole dies at 83 | Punch
Renowned philosopher and scholar, Prof Sophie Oluwole, has died at the age of 83.
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Black student leader sued her racist online harassers and wins groundbreaking settlement | TheGrio
Taylor Dumpson hopes the victory will send the message to white supremacist trolls that they will be held accountable.
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Mo’ne Davis, Little League World Series Legend Is Headed To Hampton University | HBCU Buzz
HBCU Editors , HBCU Buzz [dropcap]Mo’ne[/dropcap] Davis, who four years ago hurled her way into the annals of the Little League World Series and the hearts of the sports world as a pitcher for the Taney Dragons of South Philadelphia, has decided she will attend Hampton University next fall. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Davis, who used a […]
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