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Black Investors Changing The World Through Technology

March 2, 2017 FreedomofSpeech black investors, co[founder, comcast, ecosystem, entrepreneur, food distributers, forbes, general catalyst, investors, mapping, medical analysis, startup, tech industry, ventures

Black Investors Changing The World Through Technology This is the Black History Month which is also called the National African American History Month. It’s an annual event to celebrate the achievements made by black Americans and a moment to recognize the roles they have played in the United States. Here are some black founders that…

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Oscars Moments You Definitely Didn’t See on TV

October 7, 2015October 9, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments 2015 Academy Awards, awards ceremony, Beyoncé, Chrissy Teigen, Dita von Teese, Elton John, Emma Stone, Governor's Ball, house DJ, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Hudson, jennifer lopez, John Legend, Julianne Moore, Justin Theroux, Lady Gaga, Lil Kim, Lupita Nyong'o, Meryl Streep, Miley Cyrus, Oscar selfie, Oscars Moments, Solange Knowles, The Oscars, The Sound of Music

Oscars Moments You Definitely Didn't See on TV The Oscars are a night to celebrate the greatest moments and performers in cinema. However, the most interesting moments might not come across the television screen. Check out what you missed behind the scenes of the 2015 Academy Awards. Friends don't let friends take pictures alone. Jennifer…

African American Issues Commentary

Why Dress And Appearance Matter At Black Colleges

September 14, 2015September 15, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments African American middle class, Atlanta University, Black Culture, black inferiority, Dillard University, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Dress And Appearance, educational system, elitism, Georgia State University, Harvard University, HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities, racial segregationist, respectability movement, white middle class

Why Dress And Appearance Matter At Black Colleges When the school year began at Dillard University, a historically-black institution (HBCU) located in New Orleans, returning male students asked everyone to wear professional dress to classes. This meant suits and ties, looking the part of the man of business affairs, politics or law. Maybe even a…

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Real Significance of The AFROPUNK Festival Is Already Much More Than Just Music Festival, It Became a Part Of Black Culture

August 28, 2015 Anastasia 0 Comments Afro Caribbean rhythms, Afro-punk spirit, AFROPUNK Festival, Alice Cooper, American rock, Bad Brains, Band Called Death, Black Culture, Black Rock Coalition, Brooklyn, celebration, death, Detroit band Death, Dope, film, funk rock, group of musicians, hard rock, hardcore, Ice-T, important cultural events, Jamaican immigrants, James Spooner, jazz, Music Festival, nonetheless, performances, punk historians, punk musicians, Significance of, The Who, United Kingdom

Real Significance of The AFROPUNK Festival Is Already Much More Than Just Music Festival, It Became a Part Of Black Culture! One of the most important cultural events in the history of the American rock experience recently took place in Brooklyn. The AFROPUNK Festival turned 10 years old in 2015; however, it is important to…

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5 Methods that Can Help to Heal the Angry Black Community!

August 27, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments activists, African American communities, african american leaders, Americans, Booker T. Washington, City planners, Crime, crowded areas, Diego Rivera, dilapidated environments, everyday people, Floral Landscaping, Flowers, Frederick Douglass, fresh air, future triumphs, harsh aesthetics, Jacob Lawrence, Jean-Michel Basquiat, lack educational resources, lack financial resources, lack political resources, lawyers, luxurious landscapes, minority areas, Muralists, Murals, National Park System, neglected African American communities, Organic Fruit Gardens, overcrowding, panacea, past successes, Planners, planting flowers, Poems, politically marginalized, politicians, poor, positive messages, poverty, powerless, preachers, preserving land, quotes, re-birth of the community, rich landscapes, Teddy Roosevelt, troubled neighborhoods, Unemployment, urban and rural African America, Vegetable Gardens, walk dogs

5 Methods that Can Help to Heal the Angry Black Community! Take a drive through any blighted urban inner-city or abandoned rural community and one hears the anguish of its people. These mostly minority neighborhoods, quite often African American, tell bleak stories of life in places that much of the nation chooses to forget. The…

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The Racial Wealth Gap is Growing for Minorities Despite Degree, Studies Show!

August 26, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments Academic institutions, African American graduates, college degree, college education, college financial aid, College graduates, college-educated African Americans, competition for top jobs, discrimination, educational institutions, federal student loans, financial debt, financial head start, financial security, foreclosures, high rates of unemployment, lower economic base, mainstream of society, national average, Racism, raised tuition, sallie mae, solid education, student loan program, The Housing Crisis, tuition, Unemployment

The Racial Wealth Gap is Growing for Minorities Despite Degree, Studies Show! Traditionally, a college education has been the expected way to enter the middle class, if not the elite, of society. Students would head off to school knowing that, over a lifetime, their degrees would amount to much more in earnings than that of…

African American Issues healthcare News

Find Out Why Almost Half of Atlanta’s Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients Have AIDS?

August 23, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Atlanta, CDC, CDC HIV Surveillance Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Harris, Emory University, FOCUS HIV program, Fulton County Health Department, Grady Hospital, HIV, HIV diagnoses, HIV infection, HIV Negative, HIV or AIDS, HIV positive, HIV testing, human immunodeficiency virus, WABE, WABE investigation

Find Out Why Almost Half of Atlanta's Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients Have AIDS? Public health officials in Atlanta are keeping a close eye on the growing rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and its associated disease, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). In 2012, Atlanta was ranked the number one American city in terms…

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The 10 Most Pressing Issues Facing 21st Century African Americans

August 20, 2015 Fab Breeze 0 Comments 1954, 1965 Voting Rights Ac, affirmative action, affirmative actions plans, African Americans, African Americans in the 21st Century, Barack Obama, black lives matter, Black Power Movements, Brown vs. Board of Education, civil rights movement., colorblindness, drugs, economic equality, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gang Violence, inner-city gangs, Jim Crow, Jim Crow segregation, Martin Luther King, Mass Incarceration, minorities, police brutality, post-racial America, poverty, Single Parent Households, Stokely Carmichael, Unemployment, urban riots, Voting Rights, War on Drugs, ystemic Racism

The 10 Most Pressing Issues Facing 21st Century African Americans African Americans still face a litany of problems in the 21st century. Despite gains since the end of World War II, especially the eradication of racial segregation (known as Jim Crow), serious economic, social and political issues persist in the community. Brown vs. Board of…

African American Issues Racism

See The Heartbreaking #LastWords of The Victims Of Police Brutality

August 20, 2015July 9, 2016 Anastasia 0 Comments #LastWords, African-American men, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, alarm, Amadou Diallo, an't breath, Black Men, black victims, communities, crime's going up, Eric Garner, excuse for this, Freddie Gray, homicide, interesting statistics, January, John Crawford, killed by the police, largest cities, Michael Brown, national television, need a pump, New Jersey, Newark, news outlets, peacefully, police brutality, police forces, remember, respects, rightful tribute, shame, Shirin Barghi, shocking statistic, social media phenomena, social media world, sound familiar, St. Louis Missiouri, swiftly forgotten, Tarika Wilson, unfortunate truth, united states, While deaths, Yvette Smith

See The Heartbreaking #LastWords of The Victims Of Police Brutality While deaths of Freddie Gray, John Crawford, and other African-American men have sent the social media world into alarm, it doesn't stop there. Police brutality is a very real thing, and it doesn't stay within the cases that make it to national television and news…

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