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Jobs With Justice's Erica Smiley among Women's Media Center honorees
Years ago, Erica Smiley, executive director of Jobs With Justice, took part in a media training session at the Women's Media Center (WMC).
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
After firing Tom Thibodeau as their head coach, what's next for the Knicks?
Tom Thibodeau is gone, fired by the Knicks' executive leadership team on Tuesday after a five-year tenure as their head coach.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello continues to push her dominant squad
The New York Liberty look unstoppable early in the WNBA season and now sit at a perfect 7-0 after a 100-52, the second-largest victory in league history, matching a franchise record by nailing 19 three-pointers in a win over the Connecticut Sun at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The team has won those seven games by a combined 144 points.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Temple University scholar authors books about Black male student-athletes
The recently published “Playing the Game, Self-Presentation, and Black Male College Athletes: A Critical Understanding of the Holistic Experience” outlines how Black male student-athletes often feel compelled to alter their self-presentation.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
With Weaver down, Devin Williams gets another chance as Yankees' closer
Devin Williams is back where he began this season for the American League East-leading Yankees.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
A Spirited Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to the Brooklyn Academy Of Music June 5-8
This summer, June 5-8, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (AAADT) returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) with a program that includes a world premiere from renowned choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in collaboration with two outstanding Ailey dancers, Samantha Figgins and Chalvar Monteiro.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Parties come together to shut out Surinamese government
An interesting phenomenon has taken root in the Caribbean Community nation of Suriname, as six political parties of varying and even contrary political ideologies have come together to shut out the main player in a multiparty coalition that had run the country for the past five years.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
To sustain long term growth, women's sports needs a thoughtful path forward
The Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) had just closed its second season with the Minnesota Frost back-to-back Walter Cup Champions when talk turned to imminent expansion. After playing its first two seasons with six teams, the PWHL will expand to eight teams for 2026.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Brooklyn's Richardson Hitchins headlines boxing card at MSG
Undefeated IBF World Junior Welterweight champion and Brooklyn native Richardson Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) will face former unified champion George Kambosos Jr. (22-3-0, 10 KOs) next Saturday at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Supernatural stories coming out this summer
Now that you've seen “Sinners,” surely you're hankering for some more playtime with the otherworldly, the un/dead, and all things fantastically Black. Tf so, thi your lucky summer. Three novels by Black authors that are on sale in the coming weeks delve, in their own distinct ways, into supernatural realms that feature adventures in Black culture, family, and community.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Cowboy Carter
Performed in a denim dress, unbothered by the weather. “I love you through the rain and shine,” she proclaimed to the crowd. Daubon said the weather transformed the concert into a “magical” experience. “It was my first time seeing her in the rain — the difference was undeniable,” she said.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Lenny Kravitz, Maxwell, Tems, Miguel highlight 17th Annual Roots Picnic
Imagine seeing Lenny Kravitz, Maxwell, Tems, Miguel, Jagged Edge, Total, and others on one stage over a single weekend.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
'Joy Goddess, A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance' - a review
As described by the publisher, \"Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance\" is indeed a very fine book, a \"vibrant, deeply researched biography\" of the only daughter of Madam C.J. Walker, written by A'Lelia Bundles, her great-granddaughter. A dramatically engrossing tale, Bundles' saga of A'Lelia Walker (née Lelia McWilliams, later, after three marriages, Robinson, Wilson, and Kennedy; later dubbed the \"Joy Goddess of Harlem\" by Langston Hughes) is related with the assurance of the consummate storyteller.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Public Advocate rolls out mayor and comptroller endorsements
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the second-highest ranking elected official in the city, rolled out his endorsements for the mayoral and comptroller races last week.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
A Q&A with A'Lelia Bundles, author of 'Joy Goddess'
In a short twenty-year span, A'Lelia Bundles has written four biographies that document her larger-than-life, from rags-to-riches ancestors.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
The Thunder and Pacers bring a new paradigm of the NBA to the Finals
On the surface, the personalities of Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his counterpart, the Indiana Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton, may be dissimilar, yet they have much in common in uplifting their respective teams to the NBA Finals.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Mayor Adams rolls out youth summer program funding to bolster public safety
Mayor Eric Adams kicked off summer by announcing $13 million in community-based safety initiatives to keep the kids busy during the hottest — and most violent months.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
After crossing the border for better schools, some parents are pulling their kids and leaving the US
For the last two months of their life in the United States, José Alberto González and his family spent nearly all their time in their one-bedroom Denver apartment. They didn't speak to anyone except their roommates, another family from Venezuela.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
In Uganda, an affordable alternative to dirt floors is a big boost to human health
Simon Tigawalana JINJA, Uganda dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world's poorest countries, making them over with concrete was simply out of reach.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, was intentionally set, investigators said Wednesday.
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June 05, 2025
New York Amsterdam News
Dance Calendar June 2025
The Tabula Rasa Dance Theater tops this month's dance calendar with an evening titled \"Sin Fronteras - No Borders,\" \"...a bold contemporary dance program inspired by the heritage and lived experiences of Mexicans in both their homeland and across borders.
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June 05, 2025
Scoop USA Newspaper
DHS highlights efforts to improve maternal care and access across Pennsylvania at Black Maternal Caucus' Black Maternal Health Week Summit
Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Dr. Val Arkoosh and Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Dr. Latika Davis-Jones joined the first statewide PA Black Maternal Health Summit as part of Black Maternal Health Week.
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ScoopUSA Digital, Vol. 6, No. 10
Scoop USA Newspaper
Vernon Daurice Jarrett
Vernon Jarrett was a Chicago journalist and advocate for education.
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ScoopUSA Digital, Vol. 6, No. 15
Scoop USA Newspaper
PA (DOL) launches pilot program to help recruit and retain more Bilingual workers
Office of Administration (OA) Secretary Neil Weaver and Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Nancy A. Walker announced a new pilot program at L&I to recruit and retain more bilingual employees. The pilot program will initially focus on bilingual state employees who serve Pennsylvanians seeking employment services and unemployment compensation (UC) benefits and services.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 9
Scoop USA Newspaper
ScoopUSA Black History Corner
Jane Matilda Bolin was the first black woman judge in the United States.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 9
Scoop USA Newspaper
Former Gov. George Wallace was against integration. Trump is against inclusion. Two nickels or a dime?
Integration and inclusion: If they are not identical twins--they are siblings.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 12
Scoop USA Newspaper
Mayor John Carney and Wilmington City Council announce next round of senior home repair lottery set for June 4th
Mayor John Carney and Wilmington City Council announced that the next round of the City’s Senior Home Repair Lottery will take place on Tuesday, June 4, at 12:30 pm. The event will be broadcast live on WITN TV (Channel 22 on Comcast) and online at www.witn22.org.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 13
Scoop USA Newspaper
BMI honors John P. Kee & Gospel Music Luminaries at 2025 BMI Trailblazers Awards
Praise and Worship
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ScoopUSA Media, Volume 65 - Number 17
Scoop USA Newspaper
Don't call them 'potential conflicts of interest'
Words matter. When the media points out Trump’s “potential conflicts of interest,” as it has in recent days when describing Trump’s growing crypto enterprise, it doesn’t come close to telling the public what’s really going on — unprecedented paybacks and self-dealing by the president of the United States, using his office to make billions.
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ScoopDigital, Vol. 6, No. 13
Scoop USA Newspaper
National Action Network Convention
Reverend Al Sharpton speaks during last day of National Action Network Convention at Sheraton Times Square in New York on April 5, 2025.
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