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(BPRW) NAAIA National Board of Directors Names Omari Aarons as Executive Director

(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – The National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA) announces the appointment of Omari Jahi Aarons as its Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. Effective October 1st, Aarons is r...

(BPRW) Physicist Wesley Sims '09 Steers $900,000 in Grants to Advance Quantum Research

(Black PR Wire) Dr. Wesley Sims '09, an assistant professor of physics at Morehouse College, has received nearly $900,000 in grants to expand the work of his Micro/Nano Optics Research & Engineering Laboratory and to introduce...

(BPRW) Chase’s 3C Initiative Aims to Bridge Racial Wealth Gap

(Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA—Over the next three years, the Connecting Capital and Community (3C) initiative, funded by JPMorgan Chase, will attempt to address the racial inequities at the core of the housing ecosystem. Workin...

(BPRW) Clark Atlanta University Office of Alumni Relations and Engagement to Host Inaugural 40 Under 40 Young Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony

(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA, GA – Clark Atlanta University’s Office of Alumni Relations and Engagement will host the university’s first 40 Under 40 Awards Ceremony to highlight its graduates and their advancement in...

(BPRW) Top Health Concerns Impacting Black Men & Screening Guidelines

(Black PR Wire) Black men continue to endure far worse health statistics than any other racial group. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), Blacks maintain lower life expectancy than Black women, white men, and white wom...

(BPRW) Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business Announces Inaugural Executive in Residence Tarik Brooks, President of Combs Enterprises

(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – The Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business at Howard University recently announced Howard alumnus Tarik Brooks (B.A., '97), president and Co...

(BPRW) NAACP to Award Powershift Entrepreneur Grant at Third Annual Black Entrepreneurs Day

(Black PR Wire) New York, NY –Daymond John, the founder, and CEO of FUBU and Co-Star of ABC's four-time Emmy Award-winning show, Shark Tank, has announced the third annual Black Entrepreneurs Day presented by Chase. In conju...

(BPRW) DANA JOHNSON RECOGNIZED AT TENTH ANNUAL GREEN ROOM AWARDS RECEPTION HOSTED BY VESTIGE STRATEGIES

(Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. — Demonstrating national leadership in the environmental justice movement through advocacy and policy-setting, Dana Johnson, Senior Director of Strategy and Federal Policy at WE ACT for Environme...

(BPRW) Billions of Dollars in Contracting Opportunities to be Presented at Florida's 40th Annual MEDWeek Business Matchmaker Conference - October 21-22, 2022

(Black PR Wire) MIAMI – The premier event for small, minority, women and veteran-owned businesses in Florida is just around the corner! M. Gill & Associates and its MBDA Programs will present Florida's 40th Annual MEDWeek&nbs...

(BPRW) BET FOUNDER BOB JOHNSON JOINS WITH THE THREE LARGEST 401(k) RECORD KEEPERS TO SAVE $619 BILLION IN RETIREMENT INCOME FOR BLACK AMERICAN WORKERS OVER A GENERATION BY ELIMINATING EARLY CASH OUTS OF 401(k) FUNDS

(Black PR Wire) Retirement Clearinghouse, LLC (RCH), an RLJ Company, Fidelity Investments, Vanguard, and Alight Solutions announced that they have collaborated to create a consortium of workplace retirement plan recordkeepers, Portability S...

(BPRW) Music Executive, Entrepreneur, and Humanitarian Courtney Stewart to Donate $100,000 to ASU During Homecoming Game

(Black PR Wire) Founder and CEO of Right Hand Co, Right Hand Foundation, and The Network ATL, Courtney Stewart, is making dreams come true at his alma mater Alabama State University. Stewart, who’s best known for discovering and devel...

(BPRW) The Africa Center and Independent Curators International Announce States of Becoming, Opening October 14

(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK, NY – The Africa Center announces States of Becoming, an exhibition curated by Fitsum Shebeshe and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI) on view at The Africa Center at Aliko Dang...

(BPRW) Google Cloud Joins the Alfred Street Baptist Church as the Title Sponsor of the Fall 2022 HBCU College Festival

(Black PR Wire) Alexandria, VA — Google Cloud and the Alfred Street Baptist Church have partnered for the second time for the 20th Annual ASBC Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Festival, taking place virtually o...

(BPRW) N.C. A&T’S SMITH RECEIVES GRANT TO STUDY SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ON BLACK WOMEN’S HEALTH

(Black PR Wire) EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. – Kalynda C. Smith, Ph.D., of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s John R. and Kathy R. Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences, has received a f...

(BPRW) Amazon to Invest $150 Million in Funds That Provide Underrepresented Entrepreneurs with Access to Capital

(Black PR Wire) SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced Amazon Catalytic Capital, a new initiative to invest $150 million in venture capital (VC) funds, accelerators, incubators, and venture studios that provide fun...

(BPRW) 13 Year Old Creates 'AwesomeLiYou' Leak Proof Period Panty With Heating Pad

(Black PR Wire) A recent survey in 2021 found that more than 7 in 10 teens had questions about their periods. Additionally, nearly 8 in 10 agreed that they were taught more about the biology of frogs than of the human female body in school....

(BPRW) Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story Closes Multi-Year Licensing Deal Launching Exclusively on Hulu

(Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA - In late Sept. 2022, Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story closed a multi-year licensing deal with Hulu and Multicom Entertainment Group in conjunction with Locomotive Entertainment (Simon Ba...

(BPRW) Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story Closes Multi-Year Licensing Deal Launching Exclusively on Hulu

(Black PR Wire) Los Angeles, CA - In late Sept. 2022, Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story closed a multi-year licensing deal with Hulu and Multicom Entertainment Group in conjunction with Locomotive Entertainment (Simon B...

(BPRW) Report: Tobacco industry continuing decades-long targeting of Black communities, women, youth with menthol products

(Black PR Wire) DALLAS — The massive growth in popularity of menthol cigarettes over several decades is the result of the tobacco industry’s intense and persistent targeting of Black communities, women and youth – a campai...

(BPRW) Houston Black College Expo™ Awards Thousands of Dollars to Students

(Black PR Wire) Diamond Bar, CA – The 13th Annual Houston Black College Expo™ is back in-person again Saturday, October 8, 2022, from 10 am to 5 pm at the NRG Center, 1 NRG Park, Houston, TX 77054. Students can meet w...