(Black PR Wire) SEATTLE, Wash. – The Black Channel Partner Alliance (BCPA), along with title sponsor Microsoft, invites Black IT founders and technology entrepreneurs to its RISE event at 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, March 19, 2022. The free, one-day virtual celebration will introduce Black entrepreneurs to Microsoft tools and resources to help them grow their businesses and develop partnerships within the global technology community. Registration is open. “Technology touches every aspect of our lives, especially our work lives,” said Frank Valdivieso, co-founder of BCPA and president and chief executive officer of Gryphon Consulting, LLC. “Microsoft provides the world’s most-used…
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Montgomery County leaders will hold a ceremony Monday to sign a bill that will enable the county to rename the Silver Spring Library, the “Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library.” Brig. Gen. McGee, who passed away early this year at the age of 102, served as a fighter pilot and member of the 332nd Fighter Squadron, famously known as the “Tuskegee Airmen,” an all-Black unit in World War II, followed by combat missions in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. “He fought against racism and for equality his entire career and paved the way for many African American service members,” the…
Memphis, TN (TN Tribune)–The Transformative Justice Coalition and the Voting Rights Alliance, in honor of Black History Month, are reviving the daily special series devoted to sharing the legacies and stories of the sheroes, heroes, and events in the fight for Black suffrage. This series was created in 2017 and will add 9 NEW articles this year. In addition to these daily newsletters all February long, this series also incorporates daily social media posts; an interactive calendar; and, website blog posts to spread the word broadly. We encourage everyone to share this series to your networks and on social media…
JESUP, Ga. — Former president Donald Trump materialized on the projector screen, a life-size apparition flanked by the enormous wooden fish and water skis adorning the empty seafood restaurant, and told the small group of voters gathered here what to do. “Brian Kemp has to be defeated,” a steely Trump said, referring to the state’s Republican governor. “David Perdue must win for the good of the USA.” Left unsaid was that Perdue, the former Republican senator who lost reelection last year, may also have to win for the good of Trump — to protect both his image and his political…
NASHVILLE, TN –Susanna Yee’s grandmother, 89-year-old Yik Oi Huang, was badly beaten by a Black teenager in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley neighborhood in January 2019. For months, Huang hung onto her life but eventually died from her injuries in 2020. Since then, more than 10,000 Asian Americans, mostly elderly women, have been insulted or attacked, according to Stop AAPI Hate, Asian American Pacific Islander communities. “At the playground that my grandmother was attacked at, we are reclaiming this space by re-naming the playground in her name,” Yee said. The idea to commemorate Grandma Huang came from a Black staffer at…
By Johann Calhoun Joyce Abbott always wanted to be a teacher. For the Hamilton Elementary School educator, who is the namesake of the hit show “Abbott Elementary,” the road to becoming a teacher took some turns, but ultimately hit pay dirt at Cheyney University outside Philadelphia. “A lot of people don’t know, but I did my undergrad at Cheyney studying business and economics, because I thought that was something I really wanted to do at that time,” she said. “But the love for teaching has always been a part of my life with my family.” Abbott attributes her success as a…
Georgia Republican Senate candidate and former NFL star Herschel Walker is backing out of a planned speech at an event organized by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she attended a white nationalist conference. Walker, the frontrunner in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), was previously slated to speak at Greene’s “Second Amendment and Freedom Rally” in Rome, Ga. on Saturday. His campaign confirmed on Tuesday that he will no longer address the event. Walker’s decision was first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The rally is still expected to draw several other high-profile Republicans, including Sen. David Perdue…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Cheekwood Estate and Gardens announces its appointment of Eric Birkle as the new Curator. Birkle will begin his position on March 14. Originally from Lapeer, Mich., Birkle began his career at the Saginaw Art Museum, holding multiple positions before ultimately becoming Associate Curator. During his time there, Birkle organized small-scale and major exhibitions that ranged from 15th through 21st century graphic arts to installations of paintings, glasswork, and ceramic sculpture. He moved on to the Flint Institute of Arts in 2018, where he developed the notable exhibition Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity. In 2020, he…
By Marc Fisher, Ann E. Marimow and Lori Rozsa Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s choice to become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, was a “child of the ’70s,” as she puts it. Raised with an African name, dressed in early childhood in a mini dashiki, she was expected to reap the fruit of the boycotts and sit-ins of the 1960s, taking advantage of the opportunities and equality her parents’ generation had demanded. But if on paper Jackson’s career looks like a bullet train from the Miami suburbs to the nation’s highest court, her path was neither smooth nor straight.…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Pre-Kindergarten teacher Demetra Blackman has written her own children’s book James and Eugene Saves the Planet. Pre-sale is now and books will be released mid- March. Blackman is an educator in Nashville, TN. She received her B.S. in Communications and Theatre at Tennessee State University (TSU), her Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership, and is receiving her Ed.D in Education and Professional Leadership at Trevecca University. She is an avid thespian, traveler, and loves to read in her spare time. She resides in Nashville, TN, with her husband and two sons. Two brothers, James and Eugene, join forces on adventure…