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BPRW Women Grow Strong and Black PR Wire to Host a Fashion Webinar with I Am CHIC on March 26th
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BPRW Women Grow Strong and Black PR Wire to Host a Fashion Webinar with I Am CHIC on March 26th

Sentinel News ServiceMarch 22, 2019

Do you have a passion for fashion? Women Grow Strong and Black PR Wire encourage you to stay in style during Women’s History Month and all year round!  The organizations are partnering up with Christie Grays, the Commander-In-Chic of I Am Chic, to hold a fashion forward webinar on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 from 2:00 – 3:30 PM (ET).  The webinar is entitled “Be CHIC on Purpose: Style Tips and Spring Trends” and will be presented by Grays.

Choice Canning Company, Inc. Recalls Chicken Fried Rice Products Due tto Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
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Choice Canning Company, Inc. Recalls Chicken Fried Rice Products Due tto Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens

Sentinel News ServiceMarch 15, 2019

Choice Canning Company, Inc., a Pittston, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 35,459 pounds of chicken fried rice products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products contain milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label.  

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Chargers Agree to Terms with Tyrod Taylor

Sentinel News ServiceMarch 15, 2019

Taylor has appeared in 62 games with 46 starts. The 2011 sixth-round selection by the Baltimore Ravens has passed for 9,529 yards with 53 touchdowns to 20 interceptions while completing 61.6 percent of his passes. On top of his passing, Taylor has rushed for 1,836 yards for 16 touchdowns while sporting a 5.6 yards-per-carry average.

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book Review
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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Book Review

Kam WilliamsMarch 8, 2019

Over the course of the 150+ years since Emancipation, the descendants of slave owners have continuously operated to prevent Blacks from pursuing the American Dream. In the face of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, southern municipalities, cities and states passed Jim Crow laws denying African-Americans the right to vote, travel, buy land, possess a gun, get an education, and so forth. 

Excising America’s Cancer of Racism: Turning Left from the Far Right Lane
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Excising America’s Cancer of Racism: Turning Left from the Far Right Lane

Dr. Maulana KarengaFebruary 7, 2019

It is all there, the beginning of another myth-making drama of an America honestly engaged in coming to terms with its racist past and present, openly discussing the grievous hurt and harm White racism causes to its victims, and making a united front and consensus call for the resignation of a governor caught with his white Klan cape up and his blackface guard down in a pre-selfie photo for his med school yearbook. Clearly, it must be an important issue, for it is on all the media: corporate, social and otherwise. And if it drags out long enough, it could inspire the making of a movie or at least lead to other goodwill tours inside the alternating racist and reformist mind of America.

The Next Attorney General Must Enforce Civil Rights Laws. William Barr Won’t.
Marc MorialOpinion

The Next Attorney General Must Enforce Civil Rights Laws. William Barr Won’t.

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban LeagueJanuary 30, 2019

As the nation’s top law enforcement officer and leader of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Attorney General is responsible for safeguarding our civil and constitutional rights. In light of this Administration’s relentless attacks on the enforcement of our civil rights laws, our nation desperately needs and deserves an Attorney General who is committed to that mission and to our country’s ongoing progress toward equal justice and racial equality.  

Victoria Rowell’s New Film Unveils The Tragedy Behind Opioid Epidemic
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Victoria Rowell’s New Film Unveils The Tragedy Behind Opioid Epidemic

Contributing Writer, Shaquille WoodsDecember 13, 2018

The opioid epidemic continues the shatter the lives of many families. Millions have been affected by the lack of resources presented to those suffering. The crisis has sparked a national conversation on how the government handles addicts. Actress, director, and producer Victoria Rowell has taken the role to uncover the effects of opioid addiction.

Black Lawmaker Renews Call Against Texas Confederate Plaque
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Black Lawmaker Renews Call Against Texas Confederate Plaque

Paul J. Weber, Associated PressNovember 30, 2018

A Black Democratic lawmaker called on Texas to immediately remove a Confederate plaque in the state Capitol that rejects slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War after the state’s attorney general said Wednesday that a legislative vote isn’t needed.

Breaking the Gubernatorial Glass Ceiling
Marc MorialOpinion

Breaking the Gubernatorial Glass Ceiling

Marc H. Morial, President and CEO National Urban LeagueSeptember 14, 2018

In the 240-year history of the United States, four African American men have presided as the chief executive of a state or commonwealth. Only two were elected in their own right – Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, in 2006, and Douglas Wilder of Virginia, in 1989. David Paterson of New York was elevated to the office upon the resignation of Eliot Spitzer in 2008

Use of the ‘N-Word’ is Far From the Only Measure of Racism
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Use of the ‘N-Word’ is Far From the Only Measure of Racism

Rev. Jesse JacksonAugust 30, 2018

Omarosa Manigault Newman, the president’s former aide, claims there is a tape of him using the vile racial slur. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she “can’t guarantee” that a tape doesn’t exist. Trump tweeted, “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary.” The press pursued the question as if this would establish for one and for all whether Trump is a racist.