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Smith & Hannon Bookstore, which is believed to be Cincinnati’s only free-standing bookstore owned by an African American, is relocating to Over-the-Rhine. The bookstore is scheduled to open at 1405 Vine St ... The retailer, which sells African American literature, is leasing a nearly 1,150-square-foot space from Cincinnati Center City Development Corp ... ....

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African and Filipino grocery opens at former Jamestown bus depot

The Jamestown Sun 13 Apr 2019

Konah and Munah Tarr said the growing West African community in Jamestown enjoy their native foods and that a local store can save a long drive to shop ethnic markets in other cities. The couple pooled their resources to lease the building that is now Munah’s African Market at 119 2nd Ave....

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Nigeria: Govt Seeks Investors for Aircraft Leasing

All Africa 10 Apr 2019

Nigeria plans to set up an aircraft leasing company to help domestic and African carriers obtain new planes and is seeking private partners for the venture, the government said on Monday .......

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Cele 'vindicated' as court sets aside 2012 decision to axe him as top cop

Independent online (SA) 09 Apr 2019

Then public protector Thuli Madonsela tabled two reports concerning two lease agreements in Pretoria and Durban worth more than R1.7 billion that the South African Police Service (SAPS) wanted to sign with businessman Roux Shabangu between March and July 2010....

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Global Oil and Gas Bid Round Outlook, Q1 2019 - Africa and Asia Lead Licensing Opportunities - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The Oklahoman 26 Mar 2019

Advertisement ... In Q1 2019, 28 licensing rounds are open with 13 scheduled to close in the quarter ... Six countries in Asia are hosting eight licensing rounds, whilst five sub-Saharan African countries are hosting one round each. The Lease Sale 252' bid round in the US is offering the largest volume of acreage of 317,843 sq.km. Scope ... Reasons to Buy ... 1.1 ... 2....

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“An affordable emergency response measure”

The Capital Journal 22 Mar 2019

Criticism of prison labor dates to the years after the Civil War, when southern state prisons began to lease convicts out to private companies. Most of these convicts were African-American former slaves assigned multi-year sentences for nonviolent offenses laid out in the southern “Black Code” laws ... “They’re not allowed to unionize ... .......

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China’s Plans For World Conquest? Easy Credit

The Daily Beast 21 Mar 2019

The strain on Colombo has been so great that a 70-percent share of the island nation’s Hambantota Port was handed over to a Chinese state-owned firm on a 99-year lease ... On the African continent, China now owns 70 percent of Kenya’s foreign debt, a tenfold increase in five years....

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African Americans Bear Brunt of Subprime Crisis

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

The African Americans community is used, bled dry, and then criminalized and blamed for the problem ... For more than 70 years thousands of African people were rounded up under Jim Crow laws, kept in work camps and leased out by state governments to plantations, limestone and phosphorus mines, road gangs and logging teams....

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SiSebenza partners with We Work to open first WeWork local location

Independent online (SA) 13 Mar 2019

SiSebenza has access to prime office space for the shared office environment and is working closely with WeWork to finalise possible leases across major South African cities ... The partners in SiSebenza all have long and celebrated track records of bringing business success and social good to the South African economy....

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What Happened (And What Didn’t) With Portland’s Creative Space Plan

Herald and News 11 Mar 2019

Parks has turned to a group of community stakeholders to help develop a new plan to lease out IFCC for arts events at below-market rates, with a preference for African-American arts groups ... Wonky stuff, but it’s a holy grail for many arts groups tossed from one leased space to another....

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The busy bygone years of Gerber

Red Bluff Daily News 08 Mar 2019

Inez M. Borror in the 1985 Tehama County Memories wrote “Trains all Stopped at Gerber in Busy Bygone Years .”. “Gerber, Tehama County’s youngest town, has the county’s oldest park ... There were to be no Africans, Mongolians, Hindus or Japanese permitted to own, lease or occupy land in Gerber. There was to be no tannery, slaughterhouse, or pigs ... “W. E ... E ... E ... E....

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Everett Aviation Signs with Lobo Leasing for Its First Sikorsky S-92A™ Helicopter

Market Watch 05 Mar 2019

Everett signed a contract with Lobo Leasing Limited for a utility S-92A helicopter that will support oil and gas and utility operations ... "All of us at Lobo Leasing are very pleased to be partnering with Everett Aviation and Sikorsky in introducing the S-92A into the East-African market," said Lobo CEO Bill Wolf ... About Lobo Leasing....

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Museum Around the Corner: A fine businessman

South Strand News 27 Feb 2019

William Christopher Atkinson, one of the most respected African-American businessmen of his day, began his life on Dec ... He was converted about 1886 and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church ... since about 1865, Bill was the first successful African-American family business....