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• President Joe Biden Meets with Black Detroiter’s at CRED Café Ahead of NAACP Keynote Address

  19-05-2024 22:01
  
  President Joe Biden is making his rounds with Black voters across the country.
  Today, President Biden is in Detroit to deliver the keynote address for the Detroit NAACP’s 69th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. After landing in Detroit shortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, Biden made his way straight to Detroit’s CRED Café, in Rivertown to have a private conversation with Detroit residents. 
  CRED Café, which is the brainchild of former NBA athletes and sibling
  
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• Tesa Anewishki: Championing Equity and Transformation in Healthcare

  19-05-2024 16:00
  
  Before Tesa Anewishki became the first African and Native-American CEO of Loretto Hospital, she received an early holiday lesson in her youth about the importance of giving and selflessness. 
  It came via a bearded man — not the one you’re thinking of — on a downtown Chicago street when she was around 13. This man had a garbage bag and icicles in his beard.
  So, Anewishki’s mother pulled over, got out of the car, and disappeared into a department store. 
  An hour l
  
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• Why I Want Cardi B to Vote

  19-05-2024 15:45
  
  “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues, the candidates, and what’s at stake for Black America in the 2024 presidential election.
  by Keith Boykin
  Cardi says she’s not voting. But if voting didn’t matter, Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop us from doing it.
  In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Cardi B explained why she won’t be voting in the November
  
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• King College Prep Principal Brian Kelly Wins 2024 Golden Apple Award

  19-05-2024 15:00
  
  Principal Brian Kelly of Martin Luther King College Prep receives the Golden Apple Award (Photo-Golden Apple Foundation).
  The Golden Apple Foundation, the leading Illinois-based nonprofit committed to preparing, mentoring, and honoring great educators who advance educational opportunities for students, recently surprised Brian Kelly, principal of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep High School in Chicago, with the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Leadership, presented in honor of foundin
  
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• Black Teen Accepted Into 122 Schools, Earns Over $5 Million In Scholarships

  19-05-2024 14:30
  
  Photo: Getty Images
  An Oakland, California high school student has raked in over 100 college acceptances.
  According to NBC Bay Area, Helms Ategeka, a Head-Royce School student, garnered $5.3 million in scholarships from 122 colleges.
  “I feel really lucky that there are people out there, that there are institutions out there that see the value that I have to give,” Helms said.
  Helms said he believes his array of extracurriculars, including choir, theater, and a club he started himself
  
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