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Tag: Discover The Unexpected

The local double-dutch team, Jump DC, shows off their skills at the District of Columbia's Juneteenth Celebration on Black Lives Matter Plaza. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
Posted inUncategorized

Celebrating Juneteenth, Unity, Freedom on Black Lives Matter Plaza

by WI Web EditorJune 21, 2023June 21, 2023

On a day commemorating the last enslaved people learning of their freedom in Texas in 1865, District residents and visitors alike took to Black Lives Matter Plaza to celebrate Juneteenth for the area’s annual block party.

The 2019 DTU Journalism Fellows are Tyla Barnes (Hampton University), Sharon Joy Washington (Florida A&M), Miana Massey (Howard University), Tedarius Abrams (Bethune-Cookman), Emani Nichols (Morehouse College) and were Elae Hill (North Carolina A&T).
Posted inStacy M. Brown

Chevrolet Hosts Closing Ceremony for DTU Fellows

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 27, 2019December 21, 2021
Chevrolet Discover the Unexpected Fellows Tedarius Abrams, Elae Hill and Sharon Washington spent their Informer internships with Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman, conducting interviews with both local and national newsmakers, including NNPA head Dr. Benjamin Chavis, all while moving through a video production of the 1959 Negro Motorist Green Book. (Shantella Y. Sherman/The Washington Infomer)
Posted inBlack Experience

Mapping Segregation

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 17, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inNNPA Events

Chevrolet Partners with America’s Black Publishers to Help HBCU Students Discover the Unexpected

by WI Guest AuthorMay 13, 2019December 21, 2021
Cherie Wilson is the Director of Federal Affairs for General Motors. Her responsibilities at GM include developing and executing legislative and political engagement in vehicle finance, corporate sustainability and diversity. (Courtesy of NNPA Newswire)
Posted inNNPA Events

GM Rep Talks Diversity During Fireside Chat at Black Press Week

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 23, 2019October 31, 2020
Telva McGruder, president of the General Motors African Ancestry Network (GMAAN) and director of facility engineering and manufacturing operations
Posted inBlack Experience

General Motors Doing Even More for African Americans

by WI Guest AuthorSeptember 18, 2018October 31, 2020
Lester A. Booker Jr. (center), the Corporate Giving Communications Lead for General Motors, accepts the 2018 National Meritorious Leadership Award on behalf of the global automaker at the NNPA's annual convention in Norfolk, Va. NNPA Chairman Dorothy Leavell (left) and NNPA President and CEO Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. present the award. (Mark Mahoney/NNPA)
Posted inNNPA Events

NNPA Honors General Motors with 2018 National Meritorious Leadership Award

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 9, 2018October 31, 2020
The 2018 NNPA Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellows are (from left) Tyvan Burns of Norfolk State University, Denver Lark of North Carolina A&T University, Ila Wilborn of Florida A&M University, Daja E. Henry of Howard University, Diamond Durant of Morgan State University and Natrawn Maxwell of Claflin University. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA)
Posted inBlack Experience, Education, NNPA Events

NNPA, Chevrolet Launch 2018 ‘Discover the Unexpected’

by WI Guest AuthorJune 13, 2018October 31, 2020
Darrell Williams
Posted inEducation

Morehouse Student Follows His Passion, Finds the Black Press

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 14, 2017October 31, 2020
Discover The Unexpected fellows Noni Marshall (left) and Alexa Imani Spencer (right) sit down with Roland Martin to discuss the state of HBCUs.
Posted inBlack Experience, Education

Roland Martin Launches Initiative to Fund HBCUs

by WI Guest AuthorJune 7, 2017October 30, 2020

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