Category: News
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Sony Identifies First Round of Creative Organizations to Receive COVID-19 Pandemic Funds
Sony Global Relief Fund for COVID-19 to Reinforce Artistic Efforts in Critical Content Creation Communities
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KIA MOTORS RANKED #1 BRAND IN INDUSTRY IN J.D. POWER U.S. INITIAL QUALITY STUDY
Kia ranked number one in the industry1 today by J.D. Power in the 2020 U.S. Initial Quality Study
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace…
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Dr. Charles R. Drew
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He was born on June 3, 1904  into a middle-class African-American family in Washington, D.C. His father was a carpet layer and his mother was a teacher. Drew and three of his four younger siblings grew up in Washington’s largely middle-class and interracial Foggy Bottom neighborhood. Drew won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts,[7] from which he…
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The George Floyd Monument Project Seeks to Build a Symbol of Equality Never Before Seen by African Americans
In an effort to create a symbol of equality and unity, and in tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement ignited in the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd by a police officer in May,
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Step Up Your Culinary Game with 3 Easy Recipes!
It’s June Dairy Month – Find Inspiration in Your Local Dairy Aisle
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Celebrate Juneteenth
#Juneteenth marks the complete end of slavery in the #UnitedStates. Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth; also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day is a holiday celebrating the liberation of those who had been held as slaves in the United States. https://tnc.network/celebrate-juneteenth/ #Juneteenth Moments in History: Garrett A…
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NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover – Countdown to Mars (Media Briefing)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Follow the road to launch for our next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview the upcoming mission at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, June 17. Â Briefing participants will be: – NASA…
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Aunt Jemima Brand To Remove Image From Packaging And Change Brand Name
Brand Commits to Making Meaningful Changes, Including Multi-Million Dollar Commitment to Black Community