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More Than $28 Million in Funding Announced to Spur Fresh Thinking for Secondary Education in Developing Countries Published April 24, 2014

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A partnership of philanthropic organizations announced today $15,788,327 in grants and a commitment of an additional $13 million in the next year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education for economically disadvantaged and marginalized children in developing countries. The announcement was made at the Global Philanthropy Forum’s Annual Conference.

Through the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education, the MacArthur Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, Human Dignity Foundation, Intel Foundation, and an anonymous donor, announced 23 investments that will support innovative initiatives that provide learning opportunities and life and livelihood skills for underserved youth between the ages of 12 and 19 in East Africa, Nigeria, and India. The Partnership also announced its third request for proposals to support this work, and the addition of two new members to the Partnership’s ranks in 2014: Dubai Cares and Comic Relief. Both organizations have historically focused on primary education in developing countries, and join the Partnership in an effort to secure the transition of students from primary to secondary education.

The investments announced today and funding in 2014 will support projects that pilot new approaches, bring to scale successful models, and research critical questions about how to innovate in secondary education. Projects supported seek to equip marginalized children with livelihood opportunities through education, to improve teachers’ effectiveness, and to increase demand for, access to, and retention within formal and informal secondary schooling.

The grants include an investment of more than $5 million to support the Education Development Center in Rwanda, which will provide secondary students with work-readiness skills and school-to-work transition support and will incorporate these programs into the secondary education system nationwide.

“With our partners, MacArthur’s support for these innovative projects reflects our belief that more education for girls improves their lives and benefits society,” said MacArthur President Robert Gallucci. “Girls with higher levels of education on average marry later, have smaller families, survive childbirth at higher rates, experience reduced incidences of HIV/AIDS, have children more likely to survive to age five, earn more, and contribute to higher rates of economic growth at the national level.”

“Secondary education is a critical step in a young person’s journey to higher education or the workforce,” said Reeta Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. “This partnership is testing new ideas and scaling approaches that have the potential to transform how education is accessed, while improving the quality and relevance of what is being taught.”

Second round support from the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education:

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More Than $28 Million in Funding Announced to Spur Fresh Thinking for Secondary Education in Developing Countries A partnership of philanthropic organizations announced today $15,788,327 in grants and a commitment of an additional $13 million in the next year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education for economically disadvantaged and marginalized children in developing countries. The announcement was made at the Global Philanthropy Forum’s Annual Conference.

Through the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education, the MacArthur Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, Human Dignity Foundation, Intel Foundation, and an anonymous donor, announced 23 investments that will support innovative initiatives that provide learning opportunities and life and livelihood skills for underserved youth between the ages of 12 and 19 in East Africa, Nigeria, and India. The Partnership also announced its third request for proposals to support this work, and the addition of two new members to the Partnership’s ranks in 2014: Dubai Cares and Comic Relief. Both organizations have historically focused on primary education in developing countries, and join the Partnership in an effort to secure the transition of students from primary to secondary education.

The investments announced today and funding in 2014 will support projects that pilot new approaches, bring to scale successful models, and research critical questions about how to innovate in secondary JOHN E. SMITH JR.education. Projects supported seek to equip marginalized children with livelihood opportunities through education, to improve teachers’ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF effectiveness, and to increase demand for, access to, and retention within formal and informal secondary schooling.

The grants include an investment of more than $5 million to support the Education Development Center in Rwanda, which will provide secondary students with work-readiness skills and school-to-work transition support and will incorporate these programs into the secondary education system nationwide.

More than $28 Million Funding Announcement, Today’s Black Woman Expo, Black Heritage Awards Highlights

“With our partners, MacArthur’s support for these innovative projects reflects our belief that more education for girls improves their lives and benefits society,” said MacArthur President Robert Gallucci. “Girls with higher levels of education on average marry later, have smaller families, survive childbirth at higher rates, experience reduced incidences of HIV/AIDS, have children more likely to survive to age five, earn more, and contribute to higher rates of economic growth at the national level.”

“Secondary education is a critical step in a young person’s journey to higher education or the workforce,” said Reeta Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation. “This partnership is testing new ideas and scaling approaches that have the potential to transform how education is accessed, while improving the quality and relevance of what is being taught.”

Second round support from the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education:

This issue focus on some of the highlights from some events such as Today’s Black Woman Expo produced by Merry Green Productions and 2014 Black Heritage Awards produced by Mary L. Swopes.

We also take a look at how Byron Allen, former stand-up comic has become the “Walmart of Television” with his production company Entertainment Studios.

There are still untapped opportunities available. You have to keep your mind and eyes open. Stay positive, prepare yourself, and if necessary reinvent yourself.

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Mass

Kidnapping of Nigerian

Girls

If it had happened anywhere else, this would be the world’s biggest story.

Need International Outcry

More than 230 girls disappeared, captured by members of a brutal terrorist group in the dead of night. Their parents are desperate and anguished, angry that their government is not doing enough. The rest of the world is paying little attention.

Frida Ghitis The tragedy is unfolding in Nigeria, where members of the ultraradical Islamist group Boko Haram grabbed the girls, most believed to be between 16 and 18, from their dormitories in the middle of the night in mid-April and took them deep into the jungle. A few dozen of the students managed to escape and tell their story. The others have vanished. (Roughly 200 girls remain missing.)

The latest reports from people living in the forest say Boko Haram fighters are sharing the girls, conducting mass marriages, selling them each for $12. One community elder explained the practice as “a medieval kind of slavery.”

While much of the world has been consumed with other stories, notably the missing Malaysian plane, the relatives of the kidnapped girls in the small town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria have struggled for weeks with no resources to help them. The Nigerian government allayed international concerns when it reported — incorrectly — that it had rescued most of the girls. But the girls were still in captivity. Their parents raised money to arrange private expeditions into the jungle. They found villagers who had seen the hostages with heavily armed men.

Relatives are holding street protests to demand more help from the government. With a social media push, including a Twitter #BringBackOurGirls campaign, they are seeking help anywhere they can find it.

Nigerians demand government do more to save abducted girls It’s hard to imagine a more compelling, dramatic, heartbreaking story. And this is not a one-off event. This tragedy is driven by forces that will grow stronger and deadlier if the captors manage to succeed.

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Black Teenage Lawyer-Florida Resident of Bahamian Descent An American teenager has become the youngest person in more than 600 years to become a qualified barrister in England and Wales. At the age of just 18, Gabrielle Turnquest is not even old enough to buy an alcoholic drink in her home town of Windermere, Florida, but she has become the youngest person ever to pass The Bar exams. The average lawyer pass-

es the Bar Professional Training Course at the age of 27, but Gabrielle was called to The Bar last month through the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn after passing her Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of England. Law when she was just 17.

So much, so young: Miss Turnquest made history at her last university when she became its youngest undergraduate, gaining a psychology degree at just 16

Trainee lawyers did have to be at least 21 to be called to The Bar before a change in the law in 2009. Now that she’s passed, Gabrielle is to attend the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in a bid to break into the niche market of fashion law. Gabrielle also hopes to sit the multi-state Bar in the US. Nigel Savage, President and Provost at The University of Law, said: ‘Like Gabrielle, students from across the globe are recognizing the importance of having a legal qualification that is widely recognized in other legal jurisdictions.

‘The growing globalisation of law firms and the need for more international expertise means that it is becoming increasingly more important for young legal professionals to have experience across different legal markets if they are going to maximize the number of job opportunities that are available to them.’

Ambitious: Miss Turnquest will not work as a barrister in the UK, but will instead return to her native America where she hopes to become a fashion lawyer.

Black Heritage Awards 2014 Highlights John E. Smith Jr. Photography

Thelma Ware & Kim Lewis

Rev. Helen Cooper

Dr. Marie Tolliver and guests

Dr. Marie Tolliver

Dr. Mildred C. Harris

Dr. Louverta Hurt

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Mary Swopes & S.African Consul General- Vuyiswa Tulelo

S. African Consul General- Vuyiswa Tulelo Red Carpet Interview

Judge Dorothy Jones, Red Carpet Interview

Mary Swopes & Sis. Claudette Muhammad

Ayinde Jean Baptiste, Ayinde’s guest & Lionel Jean Baptiste

Kathryn Davis, guest (standing), Ruth-Eva Konna, & Dr. Mildred Harris (seated)

Greg McDonald, Mary Swopes, & Vernon Lloyd

Beverly & Vernon Lloyd

Joy Binion & Dr. Phalese Binion

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Cynthia Stutts & Dr. Phalese Binion

Mary Swopes , Greg McDonald, & Dr. Mildred Harris (l-r, clockwise)

Deborah Ross, vocalist

Black Heritage Awards 2014 Highlights John E. Smith Jr. Photography

Mary Swopes

S. African Consul General -Vuyiswa Tulelo & Paul J. Adams III

Congressman Danny K. Davis, & Mary Swopoes

Paul J. Adams III, 2014 Black Heritage Award Recipient, Mary l. Swopes, Congressman Danny K. Davis

Dr. Mildred Harris, 2014 Black Heritage Awards Recipient

Dr. Marie Tolliver, 2014 Black Heritage Award Recipient

Joy Binion, vocalist

Ayinde Jean Baptiste, Guest Speaker

John Blair, 2014 Black Heritage Award Recipient

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Forest Whitaker talks 'The Butler,' 'Fruitvale Station' Oscar snubs The Oscar winner said he isn't too bothered that 'The Butler,' which he starred in, and 'Fruitvale Station,' which he co-produced, did not receive any nominations.

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Forest Whitaker isn't much bothered by being one of the season's biggest Oscar snubs.

Although he's won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, it's always been about the craft for the veteran actor. So repeated comments that he deserved a nomination for his leading role in "Lee Daniels' The Butler" and for "Fruitvale Station," which he co-produced, just roll right off.

"I've been doing this for years and my goal is purely to expand the human experience, to expand myself and connection with other people," he said in a recent phone interview to promote his new film "Repentance." "That's my real goal. It's always nice when people celebrate me or my work. But that's not

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Bronzeville Diva, Senabella showcase at Memorial Theater Dedication

Bronzeville Diva, Senabella with Robert “Baabe” Irving III- keyboards, Frank Russell-bass, Kwame Steve Cobbs-drums, D-Rainee-sax, guitar were the featured performers at Princena Scott Oaddams Memorial Theater , dedicated to Robert L. Scott Sr.’s mother at One Stop Productions, Chicago, IL. The event was hosted by Emcee Lofton Emenari- WHPK, The Sherard Show & guest performers were Chuck-a-luck, Johanna and Fanta Celah.

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Diva, Senabella showcase at Memorial Theater Dedication

Bronzeville Diva, Senabella with Robert “Baabe” Irving III- keyboards, Frank Russell-bass, Kwame Steve Cobbs-drums, D-Rainee-sax, guitar were the featured performers at Princena Scott Oaddams Memorial Theater , dedicated to Robert L. Scott Sr.’s mother at One Stop Productions, Chicago, IL. The event was hosted by Emcee Lofton Emenari- WHPK, The Sherard Show & guest performers were Chuck-a-luck, Johanna, and Fanta Celah.

John E. Smith Jr. Photography

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Macy’s Flower Show, “The Secret Garden”

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The annual Macy’s Flower Show opened the gates to the beautiful and mysterious Secret Garden! On the 9th floor, you could wander winding paths with a multitude of floral displays put together by a reknown team of floral designers. There were games, cooking demostrations, arts & crafts, a garden inspired fashion show, performances and more. The show was sponsored in part by HGTV Magazine, Homewood Suites by Hilton, and Royal Caribbean International.

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