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‘Morale Is Low’: Cops Wallow In Self-Pity As The Country Demands Better Policing That’s Not Racist

The movement to defund police combined with the overall sentiment that sweeping change is needed for all of law enforcement has apparently left cops with some issues of self-confidence and apparent self-pity over their uncertain

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Source: The Urban Daily

LOC’d in with LOC: A graduate’s perspective

Last weekend my Bachelor of Science degree in biology would have been conferred during LeMoyne-Owen College’s commencement

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

19-Year-Old Black Lives Matter Activist Oluwatoyin 'Toyin' Salau Found Dead

A social media firestorm started after news circulated that a 19-year-old woman named Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was found dead on Monday

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Virginia enacts statue that denies equality before the law to freed blacks.

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The Black dollar: A Substantial Defense Against Systematic Oppression?

Ulrick Cherichel, Senior biological systems engineering student at Florida A&M University, made the decision to join a Black-owned bank in light of growing racial tensions in the

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Online art sale to help Woodson Museum scholarship recipients whose education is now in jeopardy

But now, the museum and a local artist are taking a new approach to help 17 area college students who need financial help more than

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Risking It All For A Fade: Barbers Are Providing “Underground Cuts” Due To COVID-19 Shutdown

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Trump spreads new lies about foreign-backed voter fraud

Trump then tweeted an all-caps missive with many of the debunked claims he’s been pushing all year: “RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”

Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican. By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left. In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency. Four years later she was

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Barnett, Powell S. (1883-1971)

Powell S. Barnett was a child when his father arrived in Roslyn to work in the coal mines. Seeing no future in mining, Powell left for Seattle in 1906, and quickly found work. Years later, after working in construction and for hotels, he served as a clerk for State Senator Frank Connor. Barnett

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates a dozen states. Among the delegates were young, rising leaders in the African American community including Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Charles B. Ray and Charles L. Remond. Twenty-seven

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This Southern City Was Just Named the Best Place to Retire in America – Free Press of Jacksonville

Last week, U.S. News and World Report released its annual list of the “Best Places to Retire in the U.S.,” and topping the list is Fort

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Tiger Balm U.S. Signs Olympic Gold Medalist Christian Taylor as Brand Spokesperson

Tiger Balm U.S. has finalized an endorsement deal with Olympic triple-jump champion Christian

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Source: Savoy Network

(1964) Malcolm X’s Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity

Malcolm X’s life changed dramatically in the first six months of 1964. On March 8, he left the Nation of Islam. In May he toured West Africa and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, returning as El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. While in Ghana in May, he decided to form the Organization of Afro-American Unity

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia sānt lo͞o´shə, –sēə [key], island nation (2005 est. pop. 166,000), 238 sq mi (616 sq km), West Indies, one of the Windward Islands. The capital is Castries . Morne Gimie (3,145 ft/959 m high) and the twin pyramidal cones known as the Pitons are the most imposing landmarks. The country

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Wygant Et. Al. v. Jackson Board of Education Et. Al. (1986)

November 6, 1985, Argued

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‘Morale Is Low’: Cops Wallow In Self-Pity As The Country Demands Better Policing That’s Not Racist

The movement to defund police combined with the overall sentiment that sweeping change is needed for all of law enforcement has apparently left cops with some issues of self-confidence and apparent self-pity over their uncertain

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Source: NewsOne

Hastings, Alcee L. (1936- )

Alcee Lamar Hastings, the son of Julius C. and Mildred L. Hastings, was born on September 5, 1936 in Altamonte Springs, Florida. His parents were domestic servants who eventually left Florida to take jobs to pay for his education. Hastings remained in the state, living with his maternal

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Oluwatoyin Salau Deserved So Much Better | HuffPost

These numbers all point back to a world that doesn’t value Black

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CORONA-NNOUNCEMENTS

Parents are able register children from birth until 4-½, by the texting the word “Read”, “Liv” or “Leer” to 786-460-2582 or visit LEARNING AT M-DCPS: The Miami-Dade County Public Schools are offering free digital programs for students to avoid the summer slide and to promote athome student

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Source: South Florida Times

Florida’s April Employment Data is in

According to the

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Spearman, Leonard H.O. (1929-2008) - Birthday

A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Spearman was born July 8, 1929.

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South Carolina constitutional convention

South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official assembly in the West with a Black majority, met in the Charleston Clubhouse with seventy-six Black delegates and forty-eight white delegates. Two-thirds of the Black delegates were former slaves. A New York Herald reporter wrote: Here in

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1868

Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau, Missing Black Lives Matter Activist, Found Dead

UPDATED: 10:39 a.m. ET

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Judge rules against Florida on felons paying fines to vote | The Atlanta Voice

A Florida law requiring felons to pay legal fees as part of their sentences before regaining the vote is unconstitutional for those unable to pay, or unable to find out how much they owe, a federal judge ruled

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Lynchings

Eighty-four Blacks reported lynched in this year.

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The Shooting Of Black Americans Started Long Before The Looting

When protests turned into civil unrest in Minneapolis as folks demanded the arrest of the four officers responsible for George Floyd’s death, I knew to prepare for the same cycle we saw in Ferguson and Baltimore just a few years

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Information for special needs residents

PINELLAS COUNTY — Residents of all ages with special needs, those without transportation, and the elderly require extra attention and preparation in order to stay protected in weather

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Justice Smith Comes Out As Queer, Urges Protests To Include Black Queer And Trans Lives

Actor Justice Smith has come out as queer in a post calling for protesters not to forget Black queer and trans individuals as anti-racist protests continue across the

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Slavery

Two Massachusetts slave merchants raid an African village, killing 100 persons; two blacks are brought to Massachusetts and sold; a local magistrate indicts the merchants for murder and man-stealing and orders that the slaves be returned to their Guinea home.

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