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A Vicious Cycle: Louisiana Appleseed to Host Household Debt Community Forum in Shreveport
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Louisiana Appleseed recently released its report, "A Vicious Cycle: How Predatory Lending and Court Fines & Fees Continue to Trap Communities of Color in Debt," which discusses its findings on financial stability in low-income and communities of color. As a part of a statewide tour to inform communities of these issues, Louisiana Appleseed is now taking these findings to Shreveport.
Louisiana Appleseed to Host Event in Lafayette to Help Reduce Debt in Local Low-Income Communities
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Last month, Louisiana Appleseed released its findings on financial stability in low-income and communities of color in its report "A Vicious Cycle: How Predatory Lending and Court Fines & Fees Continue to Trap Communities of Color in Debt."
Black Arts Movement Author Horace Mungin Celebrates 50 Year Career Anniversary with Re-Release of 10 Literary Works
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- It was 1968 when literary giant Horace Mungin penned his first published work, "Dope Hustler's Jazz," part one of a two volume set of anti-drug poetry. "Dope Hustler's Jazz" was the beginning of a writing career that started in the Black Arts Movement. Horace Mungin Books is celebrating 50 years of intellectual success with the re-release of ten books.
African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church) Installs New Senior Bishop, Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr.
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- On June 26, during the AME Church's Annual Council of Bishops and General Board Meeting Worship Service, at the Birmingham-Jefferson County Convention Center in Birmingham, Alabama, the Right Reverend Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr. was installed as the Senior Bishop of the AME Church.
REV. STEF and JUBILATION’s 20th Anniversary Concert on June 22nd at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Ask world-renowned choir director Reverend Stefanie Minatee what the core revelation of her New Jersey community choir Jubilation's 20th Anniversary Celebration is, and she will tell you in a single word: GOD. Through the guarantee of life's trials and tribulations, it's nothing but GOD that gets you to the finish line of Jubilation.
Democrat Deon D. Jenkins Announces 2020 Run for President on Platform of Reparations
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Deon D. Jenkins, also known as grass roots hip hop organizer Alpha Leo, announced today that he has filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) as a Democratic Presidential Candidate in California, for the 2020 election.
First Climate Literacy and Ocean Conservation Living Museum initiative heralds Awareness to Action in San Francisco
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Delivering the inaugural Black History Month welcome remarks, Bay Ecotarium and Smithsonian Affiliated Aquarium of the Bay President and CEO, George Jacob shared his vision for the $260 million Climate Literacy and Ocean Conservation Living Museum in the making in San Francisco.
Grammy Award Winning NJ Choir, Rev. Stef and Jubilation Presents ‘From The Middle Passage: An African American Journey’
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- IN CONCERT: Friday, February 8 - 8 p.m. - UCPAC's Hamilton Stage in Rahway, N.J. The group of people (over 100+ voices) that make up the powerhouse choir, JUBILATION, are a force in the industry.
Rising Track Stars Celebrate Opening of 45th Anniversary Colgate Women’s Games with an Early 2018 Season Record and Personal Bests
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Personal best performances and a record tying high jump marked an exceptional early start to the indoor track season, as thousands of girls and young women from all over the East Coast competed in the opening preliminaries of the 45th anniversary Colgate Women's Games this past weekend (Dec. 15-17) at Pratt Institute this weekend.
Music Video: Soul Singer-Songwriter KEA MICHAELS Presents Debut Video for Poignant Ballad ‘I Love You’
eNewsChannels NEWS: -- One inspired night in 2015, singer-songwriter Kea Michaels sat down to write a poem like a lullaby entitled "I Love You" for one of her daughters...heartfelt prose enriched with motherly adoration. She later turned that poem into a song thinking about an older daughter that had been battling, since birth, kidney hydronephrosis. KEA thought she was about to lose her to the debilitating disorder.