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Obatala Sciences Closes $3 Million Series A Funding Round Co-led by être Venture Capital and Ochsner Health P4 FREE | VOL 58 | ISSUE 31
T.J.Maxx and “Find Your Maxx” Partner and Mentor Yvonne Orji Launch Interactive Workshop Series for Women Everywhere P5 Dr. Haki Madhubuti, founder of Third World Press is one of 11 writers recognized by The Poetry Foundation with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE POETRY FOUNDATION.
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HONORS WRITERS WITH 2022 PEGASUS AWARDS Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti founded Third World Press in 1967 in his basement apartment in Englewood on 62nd and Ada, with $200 and a lithograph machine. The idea was that Black people needed to read books unfiltered and uncensored. His love of books began when he read Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” at the age of 14. P2
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