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May 17, 2013 - The Buffalo Bills recently promoted assistant general manager Doug Whaley to general manager, making him the first African-American GM in that team’s history and the seventh ever in the NFL. more
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Arts & Entertainment
May 17, 2013 - He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations. more
Scandal' Cast Performs Finale Live for Academy- Baltimore Youth Filmmakers and Photographers Challenge Negative Perception of Their City at Film Festival
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News from Around the Web
April 26, 2013 - German youth respond to the violence they are subjected to because of their mixed race darker skins. It is their music that units them. "Yes I AM" is a movie about how the German musical group "Brothers Keepers" came together in the unforgiving racist environment that unfortunately continues to pervade today's Germany. more
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The county that includes Cleveland said May 16 that it will strengthen efforts to locate missing people following the discovery of three women who said they were held captive in a home there for about a decade.more
Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa.more
The new Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy at the University of Southern California will offer a curriculum aimed to help young innovators create the next iPod or Facebook.more
Authorities have arrested three people on allegations that they used cocaine and operated a prostitution ring out of a senior citizen housing complex in Englewood, N.J.more
Jason Collins would always make excuses for why he wasn't interested in the women his twin brother and sister-in-law would set him up with on dates.more
NAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group’s former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home.more
University of California, Irvine officials pledged to work on race relations on campus after a Black student found a hand-scrawled note in her backpack calling her a slave, making it the second racist incident that has offended Black students in recent weeks.more
Advocacy groups are praising a new Minnesota law that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about criminal backgrounds in the initial stages of the hiring process.more
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother's Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate again.more
Although he did not meet his own father until he was 18 years old, Brandon Frame never rejected the importance of strong male influences in childhood development.more
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Health
Congressional leaders and anti-hunger advocates expressed outrage over a U.S. House committee’s passage of a bill which includes a $21 billion slash in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program.more
(Updated 5/18/2013) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the winners of the Reducing Cancer Among Women of Color Challenge, a first-of-its-kind effort to address health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities with the development of mobile device applications to help women of color prevent and fight cancer.more
Howard University Hospital officials have designated a haven for cancer patients in honor of Zora K. Brown, a three-time survivor of the disease who worked tirelessly to increase awareness among African American women about the benefits of self-examination and regular mammograms to protect themselves from breast cancer.more
Sisters Network, the only national African-American breast cancer survivors’ organization in the United States, has launched a new online program geared toward younger women.more
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