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Tanzania: 3 More Eyeing Top Isles Post

Zanzibar — THREE more CCM cadres, including retired teacher and currently full-time peasant Haji Rashid Pandu, joined the Zanzibar presidential race yesterday, bringing to 13, the total number of candidates seeking to succeed outgoing President Dr Ali Mohammed

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Source: allAfrica.com

Abolishing the police is about customer service, not to protect and serve

READ MORE: Abolishing the police: It’s time to throw the whole system away and start over

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Source: theGrio

My Father’s Day Story: Finding Immeasurable Love After Death

For this Father’s Day, BET.com wants to share the stories of three different father relationships, in their own words, to provide a more expanded view of modern-day Black Tuesday, May 26, 2020, Smith Raoul buried his

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Grimké, Archibald Henry

Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849–1930, African-American author and crusader for black advancement, b. near Charleston, S.C. The son of a white father and a slave mother, he was graduated from Lincoln Univ. (B.A., 1870 M.A., 1872) and, with the help of his aunt, Sarah Moore Grimké , from Harvard

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Lankford Joins Bipartisan Reading of King’s Letter

Reading Held of King’s Birmingham Jail Letter

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Sen. Tim Scott Says His GOP Police Reform Bill Similar To Democrats’ Plan

In response to both the outcry for police reforms in the wake of the death of George Floyd and a Democratic police reform bill introduced last week, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced on Wednesday (June 17) a Republican proposal to address improving police accountability, transparency and

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Newswire: Rayshard Brooks police shooting was homicide, says Medical Examiner

The death of Rayshard Brooks, a black man killed by a white police officer in Atlanta on Friday, was a homicide caused by gunshot wounds to the back, the Fulton county medical examiner’s office has said, as the US headed into a fourth week of unrest over police

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

54th Massachusetts Regiment - 2nd Picture

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was the first Black unit organized in the North during the Civil War. Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, member of a prominent white abolitionist family, this unit displayed heroism unsurpassed by any fighting group, North or South, most notably during the assault of

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment

Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer, regiment composed of free Blacks of North, made famous charge on Fort Wagner in the Charleston, S.C., harbor.

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54th Massachusetts Regiment - 3rd Picture

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was the first Black unit organized in the North during the Civil War. Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, member of a prominent white abolitionist family, this unit displayed heroism unsurpassed by any fighting group, North or South, most notably during the assault of

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

NASCAR's only African American driver finds noose in garage stall

TALLADEGA, Ala. — NASCAR has launched an investigation after a noose was found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver in the elite Cup Series who just two weeks ago successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its

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Source: jacksonvilleprogress.com

‘Is That You???': Fans Baffled Over Alexis Skyy's Tan

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past

In the article below historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall recounts her role as a founder of the New Orleans Youth Congress and the early years of the Southern Negro Youth Congress. This account is part of her soon to be published

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Source: Black Past

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Anthony Davis: The Man Behind the Pulitzer Prize – Voice and Viewpoint

He just won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera about “The Central Park

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Clemson Has 14 More Football Players Test Positive

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson said 14 more football players tested positive for the coronavirus this week, bringing the team total to 37 members who have had the disease since the school reopened facilities for workouts earlier this

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These Political Candidates Are Embracing Their Criminal Records

It’s a story Simmons, a candidate for state representative in Kitsap County, Washington, has shared at countless campaign events, which these days are entirely online: How she lost her car, her house, her nursing license, her voting

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

WATCH: What You Need To Know — June 22, 2020: Trump Rally Flops — Coronavirus Update — Never Give Up

Trump Rally

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Source: Black America Web

Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors | Afro

Vanessa R. Williams has earned the description of the “glue that holds 650 African American mayors

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Nation's streets calmest in days, protests largely peaceful

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests were largely peaceful and the nation’s streets were calmer than they have been in days since the killing of George Floyd set off sometimes violent demonstrations over police brutality and injustice against African

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

The Truth is No Longer Color Blind

The dastardly “his-storical” truth is that it’s all in plain old Black and White for the world to see, and that’s as near a reality as the distance from Minneapolis to Houston is as this potentially great nation struggles with the mounting police miscarriages, exposing continual systematic

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Nigerians protest rising sexual violence: on streets, social media

Women in Nigeria have taken to the streets and social media to protest against the rising spate of rape in Africa’s most populous

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Ghana coronavirus: 14,154 cases; jumbo recoveries, high schools reopen

Confirmed cases = 14,154

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Morgan State Mourns Death of Theater Great Shirley Basfield Dunlap

The Morgan State University community is mourning Shirley Basfield Dunlap, a legendary stage director, producer and professor at the school who died June

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Source: The Washington Informer

Baton Rouge School Board Member Got Dragged For All The Filth By Black Activist Gary Chambers

Source: @garychambersjr / Instagram

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Source: Black America Web

America’s Segregated Schools: We Can’t Live Together Until We Learn Together | The Oklahoma Eagle

Would George Floyd be alive today had he and Derek Chauvin grown up together and attended the same

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Congress Moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Measure Forward – Voice and Viewpoint

The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Hall Johnson: Violinist, Composer & Musical Director in New York and Hollywood

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Source: Black Then

In South Africa, 2019 world best restaurant 'heats up' for post virus ops

A tiny beach restaurant in South Africa shot to fame last year when it was voted the world’s best eating house for unique

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Study: COVID is Hurting Renters More Than Homeowners. Here's How To Avoid Eviction

With some 50 million people renting and many perhaps incurring job or income misfortune because of the crisis, renters in 11 American states and Puerto Rico are among those at the greatest risk of enduring housing instability, according to a new analysis by The

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‘I Can Hardly Think Of Him Without Crying’: Pastor Clementa Pinckney Remembered Five Years After Tragic Charleston Church Shooting

Written by Antjuan Seawright

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

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