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“For me it is a sign that everyone is able to see me and those that look like me can create opportunities regardless of what others say we can do. We can create whatever we want,” Carter said.

Seventeen-year-old Faith Guilbault loves skydiving and horseback riding and has walked the runway at Fashion Week in New York City. She is also one of 61 million people in the US living with a disability.

Albert Holley, owner of three Rita's franchises, uses his business to give opportunity to young adults.

The Baltimore Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts & Entertainment District, an organization that works to promote local Baltimore artists, is hosting its first Black Artist Fair from April 30 to May 2.

Gary Bonner, 55, is the executive director of a nonprofit social enterprise called PCs for People. Since last summer, Bonner began leading an initiative to help close the digital divide in Baltimore.

Ricardo Ortiz took his talent as a political journalist in Mexico to Baltimore, becoming an organizer with CASA and documenting important moments for the Latino community

The Bidens got Champ from a breeder after Biden was elected vice president in 2008.

The sponsors of the GOP measures acted in the wake of the nationwide protests that followed George Floyd’s death.

Eleven U.S. mayors — from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma — have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in their cities, saying their aim is to set an example for the federal government on how a nationwide program could work.

Hundreds of top companies had already pledged last year to observe Juneteenth in the wake of the national reckoning on racism that followed. But most private companies take their cues from the federal government — the country’s largest employer — in drawing up their holiday calendars.

Biden announces that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the 150 days since he took office.

The White House made clear Friday that President Joe Biden was opposed to letting the federal gasoline tax rise at the rate of inflation to help pay for an infrastructure package that a bipartisan group of 21 senators is trying to craft.