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• Meet Rev. Frederick Haynes III: Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Successor

  16-07-2023 15:30
  
  On Sunday, Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. is expected to officially transfer leadership of Rainbow PUSH to Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes III of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas.
  Rev. Haynes III will serve as Rainbow PUSH’s new president, while Rev. Jackson transitions to an emeritus role over the organization he founded over 50 years ago.  
  In Rev. Haynes III, Rainbow PUSH gets a pastor, social activist, educator, orator and author committed to social and economic justice. 
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• Obama Foundation Expands Programming to Provide Meals to Chicago Youth

  16-07-2023 15:19
  
  Foundation Partners with Local Lunchbox to Provide Healthy Food Options to More Than 1,000 Young People across Chicago
  Today, the Obama Foundation announced the expansion of its successful healthy meals program, Local Lunchbox, that is providing culturally-relevant food from local, diverse chefs to young people. What began as a pilot program last summer that aimed to serve young people on the South Side will now expand to include more youth across the city’s South and West Sides.
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• EPIC Academy’s LeeAndra Khan Educates and Empowers Chicago Teens

  16-07-2023 15:00
  
  An extraordinary leader must go against the grain and lead with innovation, creativity and grit. Meet LeeAndra Khan, the Southside native who is in the business of putting the teens of Chicago first. 
  As the Executive Director at EPIC Academy, she has taken on the task of building a $22 million facility for her students. If you know Khan, this is very much on brand as she carries BIG BOSS energy in any space she enters. The 2022 Chicago Defender Women of Excellence honoree shows us what aut
  
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• Clarence Thomas hates Black people

  16-07-2023 13:29
  
  by Juliane Malveaux
  (TriceEdneyWire.com)—As a child in Pinpoint, Georgia, Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was hazed by his classmates with the monicker “America’s Blackest Child.”   Such hazing may have had long-term effects, rendering Thomas incapable of transcending his background. It may have given him an inferiority complex that expresses itself in his self-hatred, hatred of other Black people, and self-absorption.
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