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Meet the 24-year-old female rocket engineer on the NASA project to send men to Mars

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire Tiera Guinn Fletcher is not your average lady. When asked what she desired to know as a kid, she replied wanting to know how to build planes. Today, she continues her impressive run, working with Boeing and serving as one of the designers and structural analysts building the Space Launch System for NASA which is set to send people to Mars. The work Guinn is involved with is very crucial given U.S. President Donald Trump has tasked NASA to return humans to the Moon by 2024, five decades after the Americans chalked the feat. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) African-American graduate, who majored in aeronautics and astronautics, holds a Bach

President Trump cancels automatic citizenship for children of US citizens born abroad and children of non-citizens born in US (video)

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A new policy alert released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Trump's administration, has cancelled automatic citizenship for the children of some US service members and US government employees living abroad and children of non-citizens born in the United States.  Under the new citizenship policy which will be effective from October 29 as announced on Wednesday August 28, US citizens who gave birth to their children abroad are expected to apply for U.S. citizenship ahead of the child's 18th birthday. Non-citizens are also expected to stay for at least 6 weeks in the US before their children born in the country will be

The new technique for assessing covert discrimination in banking

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire Investment banks have got a gender issue. The industry's  gender pay gap  is well-documented, as is its shortage of  women beyond the mid-ranks , as are the small acts of subtle discrimination that can make it hard to get ahead. "It's a systematic and cultural problem," claims one senior female banker at a U.S. house. And it's not limited to women:  demographic figures for staff at different levels  in Goldman Sachs suggest it's hard to progress if you're hispanic or black too. Goldman certainly isn't alone in this.  None of this is new, however. Banks have been trying to tackle discrimination for decades, with negligible

What Black Female Entrepreneurs Need To Know About Scaling Their Company Successfully

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire When Target decided to test the market on natural hair care products, they added four brands to their shelves. Among them was Mahisha Dellinger’s, Curls. At the time, Dellinger was still a new entrepreneur, with her products in just 100 retail stores. A year and half later, she had hit six figures. Now, seventeen years since launching, Curls is a multi-million-dollar brand on the shelves of 100,000 stores.  It’s a success story that defies the odds.  Eighty percent of businesses fail before year five , and l ess than 4% of Black women entrepreneurs make it to the million-dollar mark.  Chelsea Crowder, a private wealth advisor with Goldman Sachs noted that,

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vows Japan investment of over $20 billion to Africa in 3 years

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday renewed Japan's pledge to boost investment in Africa from the country's private sector to more than $20 billion over the next three years, in the hope of facilitating the giant continent's development. "We will do whatever it takes to assist the advancement of Japanese companies into Africa," Abe told African leaders who gathered for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development. In a speech at the opening ceremony of the three-day conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Abe said Japan has long emphasized human resource development in Africa, adding, "We are in an era in which the c

Harvard student sues Ugandan President Museveni for blocking him on Twitter

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A Harvard University student has sued Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for blocking him on Twitter. Mr Hillary Innocent Seguya Taylor, a Ugandan, also sued government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo and the police Chief Political Commissar Asan Kasingye, saying they too have blocked him from accessing their official Twitter accounts. In his lawsuit filed before the High Court in the capital Kampala, Mr Seguya states that he is a Ugandan citizen pursuing a Master’s degree in International Relations. He says that the President and the two officials use their Twitter accounts as public forums to disseminate information about activities of their state-mandated

Foreigners attacked in South Africa after a Taxi driver was murdered by drug dealers in Pretoria (videos)

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NoireTv  Africa     If you live in the USA, NoireTV now showing nationwide on Verizon Fios on channel 269. Press 269 on  your remote control.   NoireTV now on Verizon Fios Channel 269. Press 269 on your remot e control. Follow us on Instagram   @ no i r etv afri ca   and on Fa c ebook  ...  www.facebook.com/caspennoire A reprisal attack was launched against foreigners by South Africans, following the murder of a Taxi driver by suspected drug dealers in Pretoria CBD on Tuesday August 27.  The cabbie was shot dead after he alongside other Taxi drivers confronted suspected drug dealers in the community in bid to clean the city’s streets. “The taxi operators took the law into their own hands. They apparently approached the drug addicts in the CBD. Then there was a commotion and shots were fired, and one taxi operator was shot and killed"  Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) spokesperson, Isaac Mahamba said. It was further learnt that after the taxi operators f