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Hare lashes motorcyclists in west, after 3 die in crash

GREEN ISLAND, Hanover — Director of the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining Kanute Hare has again lashed out at users of the road, this time motorcyclists in western Jamaica, for their reckless

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

Trump angrily responds to Black Lives Matter mural to be painted in front of Trump Tower

A man dances on a massive “Black Lives Matter” mural covers a city street on June 29, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York

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Source: theGrio

Opera Producer

Theodore Drury, who had earlier produced operas with Black casts in New York City, organized and trained a Black company in Boston in the early years of the 20th century. In 1907 'Aida' and a scene from 'Carmen' were produced, and 'Faust' and 'Cavalleria Rusticana' in the following year.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Raymond Santana And Deelishis Get Married In Beautiful Georgia Wedding

The couple got engaged in December 2019.

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

Voices from the corporate community on George Floyd’s murder

On May 25, George Floyd, a Black man, died in Minneapolis after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by the knee of a White law enforcement

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

New York Churches Open COVID-19 Testing Sites In Push To Reach Minority Communities

The first day of coronavirus testing at Bethany Baptist Church, a historic Black congregation in Brooklyn, New York, got off to a slow

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

28 Black Women-Owned Home Decor Brands To Support Right Now

As we seek more and more to create spaces where we can fully express ourselves and feel safe, as the saying goes, there’s no place like

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Source: MadameNoire

Phase 2 Reopening - Black News Channel

By: Ashley Liotus/ BNC journalist New York City hit Phase 2 of the reopening plan on Monday. Retail stores are open with modified capacity, hair salons and barbershops unlocked the doors, and restaurants are able to seat diners for the first time in roughly three months. Restaurants are only

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Irving Berlin - Death

Death [ edit ] Berlin died in his sleep on September 22, 1989 of natural causes, in New York City at the age of 101.

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Senator Tim Scott Asking Questions That He Already Knows The Answer To.

The harsh reality is that for the entirety of America’s existence, neither political party has offered Blacks a significant opening to exercise the theoretical equality promoted in a series of Civil Rights and Voting Rights

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Source: ThyBlackMan

COMMENTARY: The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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

Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006) - Death

Ann Forrester Holloway died June 23, 2006 in New York, New York at the age of 67.

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How messaging technology is helping fuel global protests

Protesters are using a variety of technology tools to organize rallies, record police violence and communicate during the marches sweeping the U.S. and other countries following the death of George

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Source: South Florida Times

U.S. coronavirus death toll exceeds 120,000 Americans

Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of 11 churches across the city as well as Nassau County and Westchester that has begun testing for the virus on May 13, 2020 in New York

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Source: theGrio

Watch Spike Lee’s New Film Honoring New York City Amid Pandemic

The film is appropriately titled “New York, New York.”

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

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938)

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, writer, activist, collector, and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance was born in Saturce, Puerto

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Source: Black Past

Mike Bloomberg, King of Stop-and-Frisk, Tries to Make Everyone Forget

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Michael Bloomberg was Mayor in New York from 2002 to 2013. When new Mayor Bill DeBlasio took office in 2014, and after an ACLU lawsuit against New York City, the stop and frisk program was greatly reduced. All the theories that stop-and-frisk reduced crime were disproven by crime

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Source: Crew of 42

We Can’t Let This Moment Pass

I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States Senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

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Source: Stories About Black History

Be mindful of the protest pimps –

An unarmed Black man may get shot while jogging, a beautiful Black woman might get gunned down in her own home for no justifiable reason or a young, Black boy might get murdered for going to the corner store to get a can of tea and a bag of

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Source: Florida Courier

Amy Cooper AKA Central Park Karen Is Finally Being Charged With Filing A False Police Report

Cooper will face charges of filing a false report relating to the May 25 incident, a misdemeanor which could lead up to a year in jail if found guilty.

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Source: MadameNoire

Coronavirus: Rapper Desiigner waives off rent for his NY tenants

Brooklyn-born rapper Desiigner is waiving off rent for the “next couple of months” for tenants in his residential properties in New York during the coronavirus pandemic because he doesn’t “want to see anybody on the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Ruto allies plan anti-Uhuru rallies

The Nation has learnt that the Jubilee MPs plan to frustrate government business in both the Senate and the National Assembly as a way of getting back at President Kenyatta for removing Majority Leader and Whip Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika from the leadership

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Happy Birthday, Hazel Scott!

Hazel Dorothy Scott was an internationally-known jazz and classical pianist and

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Source: Black Then

Violence, arrests in New York City amid wave of protests

Thousands of activists and protesters took to the streets of New York City on Friday to speak out against police brutality and to show solidarity with George Floyd, the Minneapolis man choked to death earlier this

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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper

Ananya spreads artistic wings

MULTI-TALENTED United States-based Zimbabwean fashion designer, actor and model Ananya Kouds has spread her wings into music becoming a new voice on the music scene as she seeks to discover more of her artistic

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

LIVESTREAM REPLAY — "AM I BLACK ENOUGH?": THE FALLOUT OVER JOE BIDEN'S COMMENTS TO CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD

During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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

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During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of

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

DeKalb Schools' new superintendent could make $325,000 plus perks

Cheryl Watson-Harris is second in command at the largest school district in the country, serving as first-deputy chancellor for the New York City Department of

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New York churches serve Black, Latinx communities with COVID-19 testing

Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of 11 churches across the city as well as Nassau County and Westchester that has begun testing for the virus on May 13, 2020 in New York

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Source: theGrio

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