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		<title>New jazz fellowship honors the genre&#8217;s elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Bertha Hope was only three years old when she started playing Brahms’ “Lullaby” on the piano just from hearing it on the radio. “How did you do that?” asked her shocked parents, both entertainers. “That’s when they really started paying attention to the fact that I had some talent that needed [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Marc BrownAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward companies that haven’t pulled back from diversity, equity, and inclusion programs under conservative pressure, and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by — or reversed — past commitments to DEI. The [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Philadelphia turns green on Valentine’s Day to celebrate Super Bowl champions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Maryclaire Dale and John SeewerAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia was awash in green on Valentine’s Day to celebrate its Super Bowl champions.Swooning fans screamed and cheered Friday as MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie took turns hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the start of the team’s victory parade through [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students&#8217; academic progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Collin Binkley and Bianca Vazquez TonessAP Education Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal research agency that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work. It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Eagles deny the Chiefs a Super Bowl three-peat with dominant defense in a 40-22 rout</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Rob Maaddi AP Pro Football Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cooper DeJean, Josh Sweat, and the Philadelphia Eagles’ ferocious defense denied Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs a Super Bowl three-peat.It wasn’t even close.DeJean got a pick-6 on his 22nd birthday, Sweat tormented Mahomes, and the Eagles routed the Chiefs 40-22 [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Coco Gauff donates $100,000 to UNCF for a scholarship program at historically Black schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennis star Coco Gauff donated $100,000 to UNCF to provide scholarships for students playing competitive tennis at historically Black colleges and universities.UNCF will administer the Coco Gauff Scholarship Program, which was announced Tuesday.“My family has a deep-rooted history with HBCUs, going back to my great-great-grandfather. From aunts and uncles to cousins, HBCUs [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Which US companies are pulling back on diversity initiatives?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by The Associated Press undefined A number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that much of corporate America endorsed following the protests that accompanied the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in 2020.The changes have come in response to a campaign by conservative [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Black History Month, its origins, celebrations and myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Haya Panjwani, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums, and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month –- a celebration of Black history, culture and education.The history of the month dates back almost a century, and the way it is celebrated and evolved has created history [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8216;High-impact&#8217; air ambulance crash, leaves seven dead 19 injured</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Matt Rourke and Marc LevyAssociated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person in a car was the seventh fatal victim of the fiery crash of an air ambulance onto a busy Philadelphia street, authorities said Saturday, as investigators sifted through burned cars, damaged homes, and charred debris for clues to determine why the aircraft plummeted [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Trump makes moves to expand his power, sparking chaos and a possible constitutional crisis</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by Nicholas RiccardiAssociated Press Just a little over a week into his second term, President Donald Trump took steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years. The new administration’s most provocative [&#8230;]</p>
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