Even without live sports, media disses women athletes

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The Best Dressed Black Creatives On Instagram This Week

Photo: Instagram/ week our favorite fashionistas are back on the gram after being pretty silent for a few

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Ben Carson Tells U.S. To 'Grow Up' Over Racist Gripes; Stacey Abrams Calls Him 'Infantile'

Abrams, a Georgia gubernatorial candidate in 2018 and possible vice presidential pick, lashed Carson’s take as an “infantile response,” on ABC’s “This

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Lesotho: Claims Thabane Is Now On His Death-Bed Refuted

However, Mr Thabane Jr and Ms Sibolla have rubbished the claims in their court papers this week asking the High Court to allow them to oppose 'Maesaiah's bail

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda Wants People to Leave Flooded Wetlands - and Not Come Back

This year's flooding may have helped their case

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Ethiopia: Opinion - Ethiopia Is On the Brink of Failure

Delayed elections and ethnic tensions are undermining Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's reform

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Taylor Swift: ‘Makes Me Sick’ Monuments To ‘DESPICABLE’ Racists Are Still Standing

Singer Taylor Swift has no time for statues dedicated to commemorating dead racists in her home state of

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Stormzy Announces Plans To Finance British Black Empowerment Organizations

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Black with a Capital “B”: Mainstream Media Join Black Press in Upper-casing Race

Last week, Norman Pearlstine, the editor of the LA Times, sent a memo to staffers announcing that the publication will begin capitalizing “B” in the word Black in its articles when referring to a race of

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

Zimbabwe gives civil servants 50% salary hike, adds coronavirus allowance in US dollars

The Zimbabwean administration of President Emerson Mnangagwa, which has been facing unrest amid rapidly rising inflation, has hiked civil servants' salaries in local currency by 50% and also awarded them a US$75 Covid-19 allowance starting this

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Aunt Jemima’s Great-Grandson Isn’t Happy About The Brand Being Discontinued

Quaker Oats announced last week that they are going to retire their Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup due to it being based on a racial

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AP changes writing style to capitalise 'b' in Black

The change conveys “an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African Diaspora and within Africa,” John Daniszewski, AP's vice-president of standards, said in a blog post

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A Taco Bell Employee Was Fired For His Black Lives Matter Face Mask

A Taco Bell employee in Ohio was fired for his support of Black Lives Matter and posted the whole ordeal on social media

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Uganda: Counting the Costs of Lockdown Rights Abuses

Since the government announced first a partial and subsequently a total lockdown to enforce the sets of measures under the Public Health Act of 1935, security personnel have used excessive force to commit gross human rights

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Source: allAfrica.com

Perverts take aim at children

THE police have made two more arrests in connection with the alleged rape of young girls across the island, at a time when child protection agencies are expressing concern that Jamaica's children, who are out of school, are at

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

Uganda wants people to leave flooded wetlands

The Ugandan government has said people like Musasizi are partly to blame for the floods, and wants them to leave the wetlands for

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Source: The East African

Transition to CBC enters homestretch, says Magoha

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Mayor Bottoms appoints members to Use of Force Advisory Council

ATLANTA—Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the appointment of members to her Use of Force Advisory Council, which was created through an Administrative Order issued last

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Byo residents pursue independent water tests

BULAWAYO residents have engaged private laboratories to run independent tests on the city’s water after five children reportedly succumbed to diarrhoea due to contaminated water being pumped to Luveve high-density suburb by the local

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Africa: Scourge of Racism Violates UN Charter

Allow me to quote from the letter he sent last week to all UN staff: "The position of the United Nations on racism is crystal clear: this scourge violates the United Nations Charter and debases our core

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Source: allAfrica.com

TV Stars Learn the Hard Way That Racism Doesn't Pay

The week started with the firing of actor Hartley Sawyer, who has been a regular cast member on the last few seasons of The CW superhero series The

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

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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Kenya: 400 Chinese to Flee Nairobi for Home Over Coronavirus Fears

The Chinese have obtained an order from a High Court in Nairobi directing the Kenya government to allow them to leave on June 16, arguing that Kenya's health system does not have the capacity to handle the Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

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

Source: @garychambersjr / Instagram

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Source: The Urban Daily

Covid-19: Zimbabwe health minister charged over kit scam

Zimbabwe’s Health minister was on Saturday released on bail, a day after he was arrested over allegations of corruption after the government bought $60 million worth of medical equipment from an unregistered

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Source: The East African

The ‘Mis-education of the Negro’ remains in full effect today

We have been overwhelmed with support from the community in response to my last editorial in regard to the backlash received on the decision to remove two racist statues in Houston public areas, and place one of them — The Spirit of The Confederacy – in the Houston Museum of African American

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Djokovic relishing fan influx at charity tournament

BELGRADE, (Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic is looking forward to returning to action in front of fans at the Serb’s charity tennis tournament in Belgrade this

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City councilors question police dept. funding

The Boston City Council is set to decide on June 10 whether or not to approve the $414 million allocated to Boston Police Department (BPD) in the city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Brother of Robert Fuller, California Man Found Hanged In Tree, Gunned Down by L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies a Week Later In Nearby City

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the half-brother of Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanged in a tree in a Southern California town earlier this month, after a traffic stop in the city of Rosamond on the afternoon of Wednesday, June

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Africa: Support Pours in for AfDB's Adesina

There has been overwhelming endorsement of African Development Bank President, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, as various individuals and organisations commend his stewardship of the bank, and reiterate their support for his re-election, writes Demola Ojo

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