Democratic convention opened in Miami Beach

Mule cop! - St James constable says she was offered US$2,000 to carry drugs

Based on an affidavit presented to a US judge by an ICE agent, Gooden reportedly stated that her colleague, Constable Dremar Graham, who was later arrested, was the mastermind behind the smuggling operation, which also resulted in the arrest of Constable Travonne

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Trump too busy golfing to quickly delete 'white power' retweet: report

President Donald Trump received backlash for retweeting a clip of one of his supporters shouting “White

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Source: theGrio

Shirley optimistic about Dolla Financial's purpose

It may even seem like a minor job for the elder statesman of finance, former executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, and top executive of leading Jamaica financial institution, National Commercial Bank for 35 years, yet it is anything but

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

JHTA calls for clarification on COVID pretesting regime

Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson says there needs to be further clarification on the pretesting regime for visitors from certain American states as part of Jamaica’s COVID-19-prevention

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Black Progressive Candidates Win Support In Primary Elections

President Trump retweeted and then deleted a video that shows a supporter yelling "white power" at a protester in a retirement community in Florida.

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Source: Stories About Black History

Baltimore Sees Steady Progress in COVID-19 Battle | Afro

While the city has seen a significant decline in the number of new cases of infections resulting from the virus, concern remains that moving too quickly to a sense of normalcy is risky and could erase any progress made to

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power”, a racist slogan associated with white

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's see-no-evil posture on coronavirus | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump’s persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don’t look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Jackson, Jessie Louis, Sr. (1941- )

Long before he became a minister, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation Breadbasket, Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), and founder of the Rainbow Coalition, Jesse Louis Jackson impressed his family and close friends as a person destined for greatness. Born

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Source: Black Past

Oct

8

1941

Burke, Yvonne Braithwaite (1932- )

Born Perle Yvonne Watson on October 5, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, Yvonne Burke became the first black woman elected to the California legislature (1966), the first black woman elected to Congress from California (1972), and the first black woman to serve as Chair of the Los Angeles County

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Source: Black Past

Oct

5

1932

Saharan Dust Storm Lands In U.S.

An area of high pressure, or dry conditions, is allowing the dust to settle in throughout the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Disney Changing Splash Mountain, Ride Tied to Jim Crow Film

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Amid calls to change the Splash Mountain theme park ride over its ties to “Song of the South,” the 1946 movie many view as racist, Disney officials said Thursday it was recasting the ride based on “The Princess and the Frog,” a 2009 Disney film with an African American female

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Source: Black America Web

Keep wearing masks. Masks save lives

In error, President Trump believes that if he no longer talks about the coronavirus, or fails to wear a mask, it may

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

NBA, NBPA agree to final terms to resume season

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association Fridayday finalized terms of the deal that will allow the league to restart the season next month at the Disney World campus near

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week | The Atlanta Voice

On Tuesday, June 23 — the same day as New York state’s primary election — an image of the tweet supposedly posted by Ocasio-Cortez circulated rapidly on Twitter, Facebook and

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

PRETESTING U-TURN - New hurdle for visitors from high-risk COVID US states

Visitors from the high-risk American states of Florida, New York, Arizona, and Texas are now required to pretest for the new coronavirus before travelling to Jamaica, says Prime Minister Andrew

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm, a New York Democrat, is the 1st African American woman elected to Congress.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

5

1974

Portal:African American

African Americans, also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are citizens of the United States who have total or partial antebellum ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.[1] Specifically, most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are

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Source: ThoughtCo

Mayor's Milk Initiative to begin fifth round of milk giveaways | Dallas Weekly

During the first round of distributions, the Mayor’s Milk Initiative handed out 12,595 gallons of milk and approximately 230,000 pounds of food from the North Texas Food

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Sunbelt States Rush To Line Up Hospital Beds, Not Barstools

By TAMARA LUSH and JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

New COVID pre-testing requirement for some US visitors

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced new COVID pre-testing requirements for visitors to Jamaica from high-risk US

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Allegheny County reports 186 new COVID cases this weekend, with Saturday and Sunday setting new daily records

Allegheny County reported 96 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, its largest single-day increase since the county started reporting the coronavirus case count in

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Black Men and Women Elected To Congress

A record number of Black congressmen and the first Black woman representative were elected to Congress. The nine Black congressmen and Sen. Edward W. Brooke topped the previous high of eight in the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875-77. The first Black woman representative, Shirley Chisholm of the

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

5

1968

16 NBA players test positive for coronavirus before start of renewed season

(Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Report: Kings’ Parker seen playing tennis after positive test

Three days after announcing he had tested positive for COVID-19, Sacramento Kings forward Jabari Parker was spotted playing tennis in Chicago without a mask, after reportedly going out to a restaurant

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Foutanga B. Sissoko, the man who scammed a Dubai bank of $242m - and has never faced justice

Alleged to have used black magic, he got the Dubai Islamic Bank to give him over $200 million dollars, and to date, the once fabulously wealthy man has never spent a day in jail for the bank

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Connecticut Brothers Charged For Allegedly Chasing Group of Black Teens, Stealing One of Their Bikes

Two Connecticut men face a slew of charges after they reportedly ran a group of Black teens off a road and shouted racial slurs at

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

10 Famous African American Women You Should Know About

It is not untrue when they said it’s a men’s world. One hardly see equal ratio of man and woman, be it in a workplace setting, educational institute or sports. Men always tend to stay ahead of women throughout the history. Even in the twenty-first century we see a huge pay gap between two genders

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Source: Famous African Americans

VanVleet loathes NBA restart timing

Raptors guard Fred VanVleet is already in Florida with the rest of his Toronto teammates, and he knows the time to take a stand and counter the NBA plan to restart the 2019-20 regular season has

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

What to wear: Feds' mixed messages on masks sow confusion | The Atlanta Voice

But the messaging disconnect from Washington was evident as recently as Friday, when Vice President Mike Pence defended Trump’s decision to stage two big mask-scarce gatherings in the past week in states with big surges in infections and, in one case, local rules requiring

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

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