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Blacks, Don’t Fall for the President’s “Rope-A-Dope” on Churches Reopening

Editor’s Note: This commentary is Special to California Black Media partners courtesy of Hardy Brown, Sr., Publisher Emeritus, Black Voice News, and co-founder of California Black Media

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Stevie Wonder

Occupation(s) Stevland Hardaway Morris (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins; May 13, 1950),[1] known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercial

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Source: ThoughtCo

dream hampton On Our Fascination With Cops, Defunding The Police & Why Patriarchy Is Her Biggest Fear

Recently, Color of Change (COC) published a report, Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre about how the crime genre glamorizes policing to the detriment of the entire country, but Black people, the victim of police

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Source: MadameNoire

White Motorist Charged with Murder of Black St Paul Man

In the late evening of May 1st, Douglas Lewis was killed after he was shot four times by Watertown resident Anthony Trifiletti after a minor traffic

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Worst Virus Fears Are Realized in Poor or War-Torn Countries

By GERALD IMRAY and JOSEPH KRAUSS, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

D.C. protesters try to tear down Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Park

Protestors attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in

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Source: theGrio

History of African Americans in Chicago

The history of African Americans in Chicago dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable’s trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable is the citys founder.[1] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city’s first black community in the 1840s. By the late 19th century, the first black person had

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Source: ThoughtCo

Florida sheriff tells residents to shoot looters as more rioting follows George Floyd’s death

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Source: South Florida Times

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

WARREN, C.J., Opinion of the Court

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Source: Black Past

How Rwanda is spurring a generation of women in technology

The government of Rwanda has been a foremost champion of women in ICT and in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (also known as STEM), by driving initiatives like the establishment of the Carnegie Mellon University-Africa campus, for which the Bank provided

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Bio of South African Leader Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd

National Party Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination on 6 September 1966, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was the chief architect of Grand Apartheid, which called for the separation of races in South

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Source: ThoughtCo

Black Lives Matter Wants to Oust First Black Los Angeles DA | Afro

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For nearly three years, Melina Abdullah has led dozens of demonstrators once a week outside the Hall of Justice to call for the ouster of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey for failing to prosecute killings by police

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Kayleigh McEnany and the Women Who Do PR for White Supremacy

Opinion

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

Black workers more likely to face retaliation for raising virus concerns –

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the

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Source: Daytona Times

PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers in D.C. confound predictions of violence

After weeks of media coverage about rioters and looters who hijacked protests following George Floyd’s death, Washington D.C. held its breath as Juneteenth marches wound up their springs on

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

I Was Just Thinking: Big Question For See-No-Evil Backup Cops–Why Did You Not Step In?

Floyd died on Memorial Day, May 25 after then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Mississippi Lawmakers Vote to Remove Rebel Emblem from Flag

By Emily Wagster Pettus

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

White Motorist Charged with Murder of Black St Paul Man

In the late evening of May 1st, Douglas Lewis was killed after he was shot four times by Watertown resident Anthony Trifiletti after a minor traffic

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Racial Divide of Coronavirus is Real, So are Innovations that Can Help

While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate impact on minority communities is unmistakable and points to a deeper crisis of racial disparities in health care that have persisted long before the onset of this

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Now you know and you can’t pretend you don’t

By Mungi Ngomane, Advocate for Human Rights, Business Operations Manager for

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer

(Kaitlin

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

‘We Can’t Breathe’ | Afro

The murder of George Floyd by a White Minneapolis police officer has sparked uprisings in all 50 states and even around the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Rayshard Brooks Update: Arrest Warrant For White Woman Suspected In Wendy’s Fire Issued

Officials in Atlanta have issued an arrest warrant for the woman seen in a surveillance video setting fire to the Wendy’s restaurant where Rayshard Brooks was shot to death by a police officer who had tried to arrest

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

How Is COVID-19 Coronavirus Testing Really Going? What You Need To Know

Although this may sound like an ad for standardized test scores, it is presumably referring COVID-19 coronavirus testing, claiming that the U.S. is leading the world in such

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Source: https://www.forbes.com

The Congressional Tri-Caucus Statement on the Lynching of Ahmaud Arbery

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Protesters Call Attention to Deaths of Two More Black Men | Afro

By Russ Bynum and Ed White

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Minority Officers Allege Discrimination Over Chauvin Booking | Afro

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eight minority corrections officers who work at the jail holding a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd allege that they were barred from guarding or having contact with the officer because of their

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

The Sword of The Black Press

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

White People Becoming Minorities In America Sooner Than Expected, New Census Data Confirms

While it has already been reported that white people were edging toward living in a country in which they would not be the majority, new data shows that may happen a lot sooner than

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Source: Black America Web

Trump's rally in Tulsa invokes the horror of the 'Red Summer' for Blacks

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty

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Source: theGrio

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