1.6 million dollars will be allocated towards rental assistance for the Los Angeles areas in the First District.
Thursday, May 14, The Los Angeles Operation Center shared news surrounding the adjustments made in the COVID-19 recovery
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Florida’s Failed Unemployment System Faces New Scrutiny – Free Press of Jacksonville
But more disturbing is that 1.2 million Floridians filing claims brought on by the corona pandemic cannot navigate the state’s online system to get
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Caribbean Resort Starts Relief Fund For Staff | Dallas Weekly
Bay Gardens Resorts in St. Lucia is offering resort credits on future stays to travelers who donate to a relief fund created to support its staff members during the Coronavirus Disease
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Whiskey, addiction, breakups: Kalie Shorr is the new queen of country
“I’ve never been worse, thanks for asking,” Shorr sings on the album’s opening
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Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson
Bishop R. C. Lawson died July 2, 1961 in New York
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Women at Risk as COVID-19 Strikes State Prisons in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties | Black Voice News
Across California there are at minimum 436 incarcerated persons—men and women—confined and struggling to stay alive with active cases of
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Restaurants Team Up To Feed Seniors
Great Plates is based on a model called Family Meals, created by Patrick Mulvaney, owner of the midtown restaurant
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From Finland to “Not in My Neighborhood”: Antero Pietila's Journey To and Through Racially Divided America
In the article below Antero Pietila, longtime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, describes his arrival as a Finnish immigrant in the United States as the nation was being convulsed by the Civil Rights Movement.  Pietila describes his initial introduction into the nations racial dilemma through Harlem
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New York churches serve Black, Latinx communities with COVID-19 testing
Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of 11 churches across the city as well as Nassau County and Westchester that has begun testing for the virus on May 13, 2020 in New York
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Rwanda: Felicien Kabuga to Be Arraigned in French Court On Tuesday
Rwanda's most wanted genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga is expected to be arraigned before a Paris court on Tuesday, French lawyer Emmanuel Altit told
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What is Trump trying to achieve with 'Obamagate?' | The Atlanta Voice
What’s clear is that President Trump is attacking Obama with the goal of discrediting his opponent in 2020: Joe
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Rwanda: UN Prosecutor Wants Kabuga Temporarily Transferred to the Hague Due to COVID-19
The Prosecutor of the of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT) has requested that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga is temporarily transferred to the The Hague in The
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‘LHHATL’’s Arkansas Mo Charged With Fraud After Spending Loan On Jewelry, Rolex
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City of Dallas offers COVID-19 mobile testing to underserved communities
“COVID-19 testing is critical to both our public health response and our economic recovery efforts,” said Mayor Eric
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Top Money Managers Share Investment Strategies for a Pandemic-Driven Market – Free Press of Jacksonville
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to produce market uncertainty and investor anxiety, John Rogers Jr. and Mellody Hobson, co-CEOs of Ariel Investments L.L.C. (which ranks No. 1 on the BE 100s ASSET MANAGERS list) assembled some of the nation’s most successful value investors for last
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London Transit Worker Dead from Coronavirus After Man Claiming to be Infected Reportedly Spat on Her
Belly Mujinga and another worker were on duty at the Victoria transit station in central London on March 22 when they were approached by an unknown man, reported The
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Africa: Pandemic Adds to String of Disasters That Render Africa Perpetually Hungry
Recurrent floods since late 2019, an upsurge in locust invasion, and now the Covid-19 outbreak, all make for disaster for food security in East African countries, experts are
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Source: allAfrica.com
Africa: Powering Health Across Africa Through COVID-19 and a Changing Climate
Many health facilities across sub-Saharan Africa use diesel backup generators or do without power  during
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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves
The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special
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60 Million People Will Fall Into Extreme Poverty Due to Coronavirus According to World Bank
The World Bank Group announced 60 million people could fall into extreme poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic, erasing three years of progress
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The responsibility to preserve
Jiménez-Frei said anyone in the community is welcome to donate to the archive, just as this handmade cross stitch was donated to the archive by history student Katie
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAUNCHES NEW WIFI LOCATOR TOOL TO HELP RESIDENTS GET ONLINE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAUNCHES NEW WIFI LOCATOR TOOL TO HELP RESIDENTS GET ONLINE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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Celebrating World Whisky Day
And that is what Glenmorangie—a premium single malt whisky made in the Scottish Highlands—has done for its East African
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WWII VE Day75 Tribute: The Silent Six Triple Eight | Afro
Elizbeth Helm-Fraizer, US Army
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Porsches, popcorn and social distancing at Dubai drive-in cinema
With social distancing mandatory in the United Arab Emirates to help curb the spread of the virus, VOX Cinemas says viewers will be limited to two per car at the open-air venue, which opens on Sunday and can accommodate up to 75 cars at
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KU declares pay cut for lecturers
Kenyatta University has announced a suspension of salaries for staff on contract due to what it terms a decline in revenue attributed to the Covid-19 outbreak which has paralysed services in higher learning
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Ethiopia coronavirus: 261 cases, president calls for global solidarity
May 10: 239 cases, Abiy appreciates US support
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Angola: Cacuaco Administration Hands Out Free Meals
Luanda — Over 12,000 disadvantaged residents of Cacuaco municipality, in Luanda, benefit from free meals supplied by the local administration, within the fight against Covid-19
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Source: allAfrica.com
Guinea Bissau: President Calls for Amendment of the Constitution
Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has called for the amendment of the country's constitution, and set up a committee to come up with
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940),[2] was a proponent of Black nationalism in Jamaica and especially the United States. He was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism and he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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