Even without live sports, media disses women athletes

Will charges be brought in Rayshard Brooks homicide? [VIDEO]

Maybe the grilling was due diligence, maybe the cops were giving Rayshard Brooks an opportunity to get it together, but in the end, one officer’s decision to shoot the 27-year-old husband and father twice in the back as he fled on foot is another law enforcement

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

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

This year's flooding may have helped their case

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Source: allAfrica.com

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

1.5 Million More Laid-Off Workers Seek Unemployment Benefits

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some people back to

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Source: Black America Web

Viral Video Of Black Boy Hiding From Police While He Shooting Hoops Catches LeBron James’ Attention

Surveillance video showing a young Black boy in Connecticut hiding from a police car as it drives by his house has gone viral for painting a tragic picture of the Black community’s fear of the

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

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

Prince Harry Supports Decision To Review Singing Of Slave Song At Rugby Games

The Rugby Football Union announced last week that, in light of recent events, it would review the controversial use of the slave spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” which is routinely sung by fans of the England rugby union

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

As Police Reform Takes Center Stage, Officers Resign Nationwide

As demonstrations and conversations of change continue, many police departments are taking a deeper look in how they operate, and instead of staying during the possible changes to police reform, some officers are opting to leave their

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Source: Black America Web

Leopold II: Belgium ‘Wakes Up’ To Its Bloody Colonial Past | Afro

Inside the palatial walls of Belgium’s Africa Museum stand statues of Leopold II – each one a monument to the king whose rule killed as many as 10 million

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

NYPD Defends Blooding Black Teen Because ‘He Was So Tall’

Jahmel Leach is only 16-years old and ended up bloodied in the hospital with a serious gash on his face after a disturbing interaction with the New York Police Department

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

NFL Commits $250 million Over 10 Years To Fight Systemic Racism

According to an NFL spokesperson, the league would be willing to work with Kaepernick on social justice

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‘White Lives Matter’ painted on statue of African American tennis great Arthur Ashe

A statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe in Virginia was defaced with the words “White Lives Matter,” police said

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Source: New York Post

Silence Is NOT An Option | Afro

The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck and the police officers who stood by and watched didn’t just murder George Floyd, they stole

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

An Apple Siri Shortcut Will Atuomatically Record Police Encounters

Apple’s Siri Shortcut Automatically Opens Your Camera And Records the police has become an essential tool for exposing harassment and racism by

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

Black Enterprise CEO: “I Am Tired…The Pandemic Of Racism Must End”

Tired of the media-driven, negative stereotypes that shape the dangerous narrative surrounding young black

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Bill Banning Police From Using Deadly “Sleeper Hold” Introduced in California Assembly

Last week, reacting to the violent death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minnesota, California Assemblymember Mike A. Gipson (D-Carson) introduced a new

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

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

State of Emergency declared in Kingston Western and Central Police divisions

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a State of Public Emergency in the Kingston Western and Kingston Central Police divisions, initially for 14

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Texas Democrats urge Abbott to call special session as details emerge showing Javier Ambler's death at the hands of sheriff's deputies

Local and state leaders are calling for the resignation of Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody and for the deputies involved in Javier Ambler’s death to be

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Will charges be brought in Rayshard Brooks homicide? [VIDEO]

Maybe the grilling was due diligence, maybe the cops were giving Rayshard Brooks an opportunity to get it together, but in the end, one officer’s decision to shoot the 27-year-old husband and father twice in the back as he fled on foot is another law enforcement

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Zanu PF’s paranoia is growing again, and this is a threat to us all

At Zanu PF headquarters on Wednesday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa had an explanation for the economic crisis; it was the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Burundi: Nkurunziza Leaves Mixed Legacy, Poor Human Rights Record

The sudden death of outgoing Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza Tuesday came as a shock to everyone on the African political

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe health minister arrested over coronavirus supplies scandal

Zimbabwe's health minister Obadiah Moyo was arrested on Friday for alleged corruption related to the supply of medical materials to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the anti-graft agency

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Source: https://www.news24.com

South Africa: More Industries to Reopen Soon

When President Ramaphosa announced in May that the country would be moving to alert level 3 from 1 June, he said government would give consideration to re-opening other sectors of the economy, if the necessary safety precautions were put in place and

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Source: allAfrica.com

The partisan chasm over 'systemic racism' is on full display | The Atlanta Voice

In surveys by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, Americans who support Trump were far more likely than those who don’t to say that police shootings of black men are only isolated incidents and to claim that discrimination against whites is now as great a problem as bias against

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

College Football Star Threatened Boycott Over Coach's Support For Far-Right Channel

Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET

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Source: Stories About Black History

#AAMAM: “Just A Shot Away” – Rediscovering Legendary Session Singer Merry Clayton (LISTEN)

Back in March 2014, as she was experiencing 50 years in the music business, legendary session singer Merry Clayton got one more chance at stardom when the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, about the world’s most renowned backup singers, won the Best Documentary

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Kenya Budgets to Fight Locusts, Floods and Virus

Kenya has allocated Ksh48 billion ($480 million) to agriculture, and an additional Ksh4.3 billion ($43 million) from the World Bank has been set aside to combat the spread of the desert

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Source: allAfrica.com

Sudan's Dearth of Doctors

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, a civil society group pivotal in the revolution that ousted former president Omar al-Bashir, said attacks on medical teams by security forces and civilians had become a common phenomenon, especially in emergency units when security of health personnel is

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Source: allAfrica.com

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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