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IN MEMORIAM: Civil Rights Icon Vernon Jordan Dies at 85
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IN MEMORIAM: Civil Rights Icon Vernon Jordan Dies at 85

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentMarch 4, 2021

NAACP President Derrick Johnson said the world lost an influential figure in the fight for civil rights and American politics. “An icon to the world and a lifelong friend to the NAACP, his contribution to moving our society toward justice is unparalleled,” Johnson declared. “In 2001, Jordan received the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal for a lifetime of social justice activism. His exemplary life will shine as a guiding light for all that seek truth and justice for all people.”

NBA Legend Isiah Thomas Sets Up to Dominate the Pan-American Cannabis Space
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NBA Legend Isiah Thomas Sets Up to Dominate the Pan-American Cannabis Space

Staff and Wire Report (NNPA Senior Correspondent Stacy M. Brown contributed to the article)March 4, 2021

Superstar and NBA Icon Isiah Thomas, whose Cheurlin Champagne is one of the best-selling in the world, announced that his company, ISIAH International, LLC, will invest $3 million into One World Pharma, Inc., a U.S. based, fully licensed, pure-play hemp and cannabis ingredient producer in Columbia.

Arizona State University Renames Film School to Honor Sidney Poitier
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Arizona State University Renames Film School to Honor Sidney Poitier

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentFebruary 4, 2021

In an interview ahead of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s unveiling, University President Michael M. Crow said Poitier embodies everything that one would look for in an icon. “With Sidney Poitier, it’s his creative energy, his dynamism, his drive, his ambition, the kinds of projects he worked on, the ways in which he advanced his life,” Crow asserted, according to USA Today.

A Tribute to a Living Legend: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
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A Tribute to a Living Legend: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis

Stacy M. Brown NNPA, Newswire Senior CorrespondentJanuary 9, 2020

In 1965, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led what was planned as a peaceful 54-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. The march, a protest of the discriminatory practices and Jim Crow laws that prevented African Americans from voting, would be remembered in history as “Bloody Sunday,” one of the most dramatic and violent incidents of the American Civil Rights Movement.

U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman
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U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman

A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 13, 2019

In the fantasy of White supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased.

Purple Reign Prince Rogers Nelson, Dead at 57
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Purple Reign Prince Rogers Nelson, Dead at 57

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw, Contributing WriterApril 28, 2016

There are moments that mark us. Those are the moments where you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. On Thursday, April 21, 2016, we heard the news that Prince Rogers Nelson had died at his Paisley Park home and studio in Chanhassan, Minnesota (about 20 miles outside Minneapolis). He was 57 years young.