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Weaver-UCONN Grad Donates Million to UCONN

By Mike Anthony-Newstime In deciding to support UConn student-athletes for generations to come with the largest athletic donation in the university history, Trisha Bailey recognized the immeasurable value of her own experience as a member of the Huskies’ track team in the 1990s.She came from abject poverty as a child in Jamaica, and from meager …

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U.S. Treasury Funding Gives Black-owned Bank Boosts in Helping Minorities and Lower-Income Communities

‘A great opportunity for Black banks across the country’ By Angela Swinson Lee Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Washington Informer (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The year 2022 has proven to be a big year for B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., president and CEO of Industrial Bank, based in the nation’s capital. Not only has he celebrated a …

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CT. to JA. Long Awaited Endeavor Finally Takes Place

WINDSOR LOCKS, CT – (Inquiring News Report) – State Representative Bobby Gibson Thursday was joined by Governor Ned Lamont, the Connecticut Airport Authority and Spirit Airlines to announce that the airline will be adding new, nonstop service from Bradley International Airport to Montego Bay, Jamaica. The announcement caps an effort from state officials – like …

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Dr. Arthur Johnson: Remembering “The Conscience of the Community”

By Dwight Bachman, Public Information Officer, Eastern Connecticut State University “Simply put, Art Johnson was a brilliant, renaissance man.” That is how legendary radio/television news reporter Lew Brown described the late Arthur Johnson, who was an exemplary orator, author, educator, Tuskegee Airman, journalist and civil rights icon. Johnson was 81 when he died on Sept. …

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MUCH NEEDED HUMANITARIAN FOOD GRAIN DEPARTS FOR ETHIOPA, SOMALIA AND KENYA, LIFTING BLOCKADE

Aug. 15, 2022 (GIN) – A U.N.-chartered vessel has been loaded with humanitarian food grain for Africa, in a first step toward releasing much needed food aid that had been trapped in the Ukraine. The vessel will carry 23,000 tons of grain for Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya as part of a U.N.-backed plan to move the …

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MILITANTS TAKE LIVES AT SOMALI HOTEL AS U.S. SPECIAL OPS DEPLOY IN SOMALIA

Aug. 22, 2022 (GIN) – Government forces say they have put down a siege at the popular Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu that began Friday and has reportedly left over 20 casualties. It is the largest siege in the country since Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected president in May. The Hayat is an upscale hotel frequented …

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