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David Smith, clock restorer – Photo: Nancy Warner, warnerphoto.com by Tam Putnam Time takes on an elastic quality at Smith Clock Co. A calm ticking fills the shop, while grandfather clocks chime at random hours. For David Smith, clock restorer...
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The Kalimba King brings music and fun from Africa to the Bay Area. Carl Winters, the Kalimba King, will perform at various locations throughout Black History Month. All shows are free and suitable for the whole family. Winters will play jazz,...
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City College, one of the largest colleges in the country, is free to San Francisco residents. by City College Board President Alan Wong San Francisco – City College of San Francisco adopted a policy to establish a climate action and sustainabi...
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Rashid is as renowned for his art as for his journalism. He created this drawing in 2010 and used it to illustrate his 2020 article raising the same issue he discusses here. He calls it “Defend Black Lives.” by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson A cop vio...
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Officials from the Department of Home Affairs represented the island at the Seventh Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking In Persons which took place on February 5 and 6, 2024 in Washington D.C. The meeting convened at the OAS Headquarters,...
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(CNN) – On Feb. 3, 2008, Mike Carey made history just by walking onto a football field. On that day in Glendale, Arizona, Carey became the first Black referee in a Super Bowl – and it happened to one of the most iconic games in NFL history. In...
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The ringing of a cash register isn’t a typical sound heard in an elementary school, but at Victor H. Hexter Elementary School, students are learning how to run and operate their own store. Known as “Hexter Market,” students in Heidi Zeko’s Functi...
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(CNN) – Millions of people deal with COVID-19 symptoms long after their initial infections. Two new studies – one looking at pregnant people and the other on children – give a better look at the burden from this health problem that doctors say often...
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(CNN) – In a first-of-its-kind report released Monday, the Department of Justice found hate crimes at schools have steadily risen since 2020 and schools were the third most common location for reported hate crimes to occur in the U.S. The number...
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(CNN) – The annual influx of Black History Month programming yields an out-of-this-world documentary in The Space Race, which recognizes pioneers in integrating the space program, the resistance they faced and even the Soviet Union preceding America...
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Martinique, an associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), wants deeper collaboration with the sub-regional group. Serge Letchimy, President of the Executive Council of the Territorial Authority of Martinique, made the pr...
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Scotty Barnhart, associate professor of jazz trumpet at the Florida State University College of Music and director of the Count Basie Orchestra, has won this year’s Grammy for “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” for Count Basie Orchest...
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By Michael Dean NNPA Newswire The Arizona Republic published a piece titled, “How Black History Month Came to Be” that was written by Amaris Encinas of USA TODAY. The article focused on the month-long commemoration created to reflect on the pa...
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If Democrats couldn't destroy Trump before, this news makes it almost impossible... The post SEC Clears Trump Social Media Deal Worth $10 Billion first appeared on The Black Sphere.
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The Student Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit organization supporting historically Black colleges and universities through debt relief and investments, has partnered with the Steinbridge Group to develop affordable housing on or near HBCUs’ and o...
