Fans return to the Emirates as Arsenal win

Volunteers seek to restore Compton’s Woodlawn Cemetery -

COMPTON — On Mother’s Day this year, Celestina Bishop and Michael Baker had the same idea. Each wanted to visit their mother’s grave at the closed Woodlawn Cemetery. They met for the first time after hopping the fence to get into the cemetery. Once inside they found grass that was knee high in some

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Kawhi Leonard Leads Clippers to the Second Round - Los Angeles Sentinel

Los Angeles Clippers closed the series in a 111-97 victory over the Dallas Mavericks and, Kawhi Leonard led the way with seven assists and 14 rebounds. The post Kawhi Leonard Leads Clippers to the Second Round appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.

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Opposition wins historic rerun of Malawi’s presidential vote

The opposition has won Malawi’s historic rerun of the presidential election, the first time a court-overturned vote in Africa has led to the defeat of an incumbent

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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that's broadly condemned as

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Formula One fires up, four months late and without a crowd

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Covid-19: men more likely to end up in ICU than women

The Monash University-led research analysed data from 76 ICUs across the country treating 149 suspected Covid-19 patients since March

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Telcos, health ministries partner on a Covid-19 mobile platform

The initiative dubbed Africa Communications Information Platform (ACIP) is based on a partnership between ECA, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), telcos and ministries of

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DIVA DISH! The TALK Welcomes Two New Hosts. Tina Turner's Light Is Shining. Support Giving Tuesday! - DivaGalsDaily

The Talk's new hosts were announced today! THE TALK announced live today on-air that Amanda Kloots and Elaine Welteroth will join season 11 as new hosts of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show alongside Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and

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Don’t Let High Turnout Distract You From the Reality of Voter Suppression

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Cam Newton embraces new challenge, fresh start with Patriots | The Atlanta Voice

Cam Newton is the first to admit he’s still getting used to his new life as a member of the New England Patriots. Everything feels strange, from his morning ride to the stadium, to just putting on gear with different colors and insignia for the first time in nine NFL seasons. But a week into this

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Separate Celebration: Formerly Conjoined Twins Turn 2 After Surgeries - Free Press of Jacksonville

Two-year-old twins Prefina and Ervina recently celebrated their birthday in a unusual way – as individuals. The previously conjoined twins, connected at the head, were successfully separated after several surgeries by skilled surgeons and nurses [...]

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Gender equality – Not a woman issue but a human issue

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2020: Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many - that Bio’s “New Direction” was serious about

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Dana Canedy is Simon and Schuster's First Black Executive to Become its Top Publisher

By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Bebeto Matthews/AP A renowned author, Pulitzer Prize administrator, and writer who worked for the New York Times has finally earned her rightful place in the history of Black America and the world. According to National Public Radio, Dana Canedy (pictured) is the

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Motown Museum To Welcome Back Visitors July 15

Motown Museum today announced it is reopening its doors on Wednesday, July 15, offering guests a safer, more personalized museum experience in the wake of

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Protesters Circle The Fish Market Following Racial Incident

A family-run eatery in Prince George's County known for its seafood, service and house band, and a favorite among the local African-American community, now finds itself under fire after a reported racial incident between the owner and

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Movie review: ‘The King of Staten Island’

If you haven’t found Pete Davidson funny after six years on “Saturday Night Live,” two hours watching his semi-biographical film “The King of Staten Island” likely won’t change your

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The lunge for the tape

A birthday – even an 87th birthday which is leaving it a bit late in the day – is a good time to see if there are any aspects of life which need some sort of

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Fired! Hair Stylist Accused Of Not Cutting Black Peoples Hair Loses Her Job

A Massachusetts Supercuts was under fire.

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Celebrating Bro. Malcolm X, A Warrior and Master Teacher

That’s why I believe that the best way to celebrate Brother Malcolm’s 95th birthday on May 19, 2020 is to honor his role as a superb deliverer of

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Australia is ready for a woman to run the game – Perry

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PNP's dangerous dozen

To suggest to any woman set to represent the party that gave Jamaica its first, and only woman prime minister - Portia Simpson Miller - that she is being nominated as a token by the People's National Party (PNP) is like a declaration of war.

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I Was Just Thinking: Griots in Virtual Reality

By Norma Adams-WadeColumnist Back in Africa, the Motherland, they called storytellers Griots. Griots kept the oral history of the tribes, and villages in their heads and memories. Griots were walking data banks. Their memories were archives of detailed ancient happenings. Nothing was written

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Zinnbauer sheds light on decision to axe Lorch and Shonga

Jozef Zinnbauer has confirmed that the decision to axe star players just hours before kick-off against Mamelodi Sundowns were taken by the coaching staff.

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The Role of the Black Church During a Pandemic

As I processed the article and the dialogue it generated, my personal and pastoral PTSD was kicked into overdrive recalling the pummeling my church (New Birth) and I took just a few weeks earlier when we announced that we’d formulated a partnership with a telemedicine firm and a community health

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Limited In-Person Services To Return To City Hall Beginning July 6

Several city departments at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center will resume in-person services next week for the first time since the Coronavirus Stay at Home Order began in March, City officials announced

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'Five in they tail'

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) - Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves created history in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) when he led his ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) to a comfortable fifth-consecutive victory in general elections here on Thursday.

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Coronavirus Pandemic at 'Full Speed' in Africa, Health Chief Says

The coronavirus pandemic in Africa is almost at "full speed," the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

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Rwanda/Malawi: Kagame, Chakwera Celebrate Arsenal FA Cup Victory

[Nairobi News] Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Malawian counterpart Lazarus Chakwera led Arsenal supporters in celebrating Saturday night's FA Cup final win over Chelsea.

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Granger maintains claims of fraud, says matter now has to go back to GECOM - Stabroek News

Despite todays ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), caretaker President David Granger is still insisting that there was widespread fraud in the March 2nd general elections and that the matter will now have to be finally decided by

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WHO says pandemic 'not even close' to over

The coronavirus pandemic is "not even close to being over", the WHO warned Monday, as the global death toll passed half a million and cases surged in Latin America and the United

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