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Pamela Uba makes history as the first Black Miss Ireland

September 17, 2021 - 02:10 PM NATIONWIDE (BAMM Network) — After winning the Miss Galway crown, Pamela Uba continues to break barriers with her recent coronation as Miss Ireland 2021. And for the first time in 74 years, she became the first Black woman to hold the title since 1947. The 26-year old part-time model and medical scientist, Pamel Uba, makes history after being crowned as Miss Ireland 2021. Originally, she came from South Africa but moved to Ireland with her family when she was 8-years-old as an asylum seeker. In her recent interview with The PUNCH, Uba has mentioned that she takes pride in her ...

TRiBL founder announces plan for a new Black Wall Street

August 24, 2021 - 10:10 AM ATLANTA, GA (BAMM Network) — With the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the infamous Tusla Riots, Founder & CEO of TRiBL, Ikechi Nwabuisi, offers a daring vision of building a new Black Wall Street that will create generational wealth. He believes that with so many lessons learn...

Nagast Footwear CEO to support student-athletes under the new NCAA ruling

August 17, 2021 - 01:09 AM Atlanta, GA (BAMM Network) — With the new NCAAA ruling allowing student-athletes to profit from sports revenue, Tarik Edmonson, founder of a Black-owned sneaker company, announces his intention of supporting and educating them to avoid getting taken advantage of. The approval from the N...

New Orleans Entrepreneur & Music Executive donating 500+ toys to families in need on Christmas Eve

December 22, 2020 - 04:24 PM NEW ORLEANS, LA. (WTDN) – After spending ten years in prison, Generra Woodfork is on a mission to keep youth in New Orleans from following the destructive path that lead to his conviction in 2007. The now 32-year-old is working to encourage young people to stay dedicated to their education, an...

Louisiana sheriff adding portraits of 19th C Black sheriffs

October 26, 2020 - 01:05 PM HOUMA, La. (AP) — A south Louisiana sheriff is adding photographs of five 19th century African American sheriffs — two of whom went on to be state senators — to the portraits displayed in his office’s waiting room. “Terrebonne Parish’s African-American sheriffs p...

Grant offers New Orleans Black-owned companies free marketing and advertising services

September 02, 2020 - 03:14 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. – A group of New Orleans-based creative and media agencies have partnered to create the inaugural V.I.B.E. Creative Marketing Grant. The V.I.B.E. (Venture to Ignite Black Entrepreneurship) grant, which is valued at more than $10,000, was created to help black-owned New O...

Peaceful protest urged in fatal police shooting of Black man

August 24, 2020 - 02:55 PM By JANET McCONNAUGHEY (AP) — Protesters marched through a Louisiana city holding signs and blocking traffic in response to the fatal police shooting of a Black man that has heightened tensions between community activists and local leaders. The march Sunday followed an event at Lafayette City ...

Lusher Charter School Students march for change within their school community

July 06, 2020 - 05:00 PM Casey Ferrand (WTDN)-- Hundreds of Lusher Charter school students, parents, alumni and supporters gathered Saturday to march and protest for the name of the school to be changed.The crowd of possibly 1,000 people marched a mile from Lusher's elementary school campus on Willow Streer to the middle an...

Police walk with citizens in peace rally in New Orleans East

June 27, 2020 - 04:07 PM Casey Ferrand (WTDN)-- Hundreds of New Orleans East residents joined New Orleans police officers in a march for peace Saturday morning. The Peace with the Police Rally was organized by Anthony Jackson, Jr, President of the NOPD Community Advisory Board 7th District. The crowd met for prayer and conv...

Suited men march to the Capitol in solidarity

June 22, 2020 - 05:14 PM Casey Ferrand (WTDN)-- Saturday, about 60 men, women and children in their finest suits marched through the streets of Baton Rouge, leaving from the Old State Capitol and headed to the new building. Calvin Mills said he organized the Inaugural Louisiana Suit March to the State Capitol as a sign o...

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Pamela Uba makes history as the first Black Miss Ireland

TRiBL founder announces plan for a new Black Wall Street

Nagast Footwear CEO to support student-athletes under the new NCAA ruling

New Orleans Entrepreneur & Music Executive donating 500+ toys to families in need on Christmas Eve

Louisiana sheriff adding portraits of 19th C Black sheriffs

Grant offers New Orleans Black-owned companies free marketing and advertising services

Peaceful protest urged in fatal police shooting of Black man

Lusher Charter School Students march for change within their school community

Police walk with citizens in peace rally in New Orleans East

Suited men march to the Capitol in solidarity

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