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Caricom conducts survey on COVID-19 impact on food security

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat on Monday announced the launch of the second round of the Caribbean COVID-19 Food Security and Livelihoods Impact

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Jamaican dancer Dr L'Antoinette Stines seeks US$150k in suit against Jay-Z, Beyonce

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaican choreographer Dr L’Antoinette Stines is seeking in excess of US$150,000 in her suit against entertainment mogul Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and his pop music superstar wife

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Will Evariste rescue Burundi from economic ruin?

President Evariste Ndayishimiye faces a daunting diplomatic task ahead as he works to mend relations with neighbouring countries and the international community if he is to rescue Burundi’s struggling

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Surviving in America's Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss

Both the need and the relief have been on display in the historic civil rights city of Selma, where volunteers distributed free food to scores of people, many of whom shared rides from isolated communities just to get to the school where boxes of fruit and vegetables were

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Nigeria coronavirus: 20,919 cases; govt targets 3,000 daily tests

Confirmed cases = 20,919

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William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama, 1901

Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era. There were others including Professor William Hooper Councill, the founder and first President of the Huntsville Normal School which today is Alabama

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CDC director pleads with younger Americans to wear masks while many states pause reopenings | The Atlanta Voice

The comments to a US Senate committee hearing on the virus came as at least 17 states have paused or rolled back their reopening plans in response to a surge in new

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Drew Brees Apologizes For 'Insensitive' Take On NFL Players Kneeling In Protest

Drew Brees admitted he’d “completely missed the mark” this week when he dismissed NFL players taking a knee in protest of racial inequality and police brutality as “disrespecting the

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Guest Editorial: Trump’s threat to WHO is dangerous and callous

Last month, President Donald Trump followed through on a threat to temporarily cut U.S. funding to the World Health

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Multiple NFL Teams Reportedly Express Interest In Signing Colin Kaepernick

After four years away from the NFL and going from a quarterback to a freedom fighter along the way, Colin Kaepernick now has the interest of more than one National Football League team, according to NFL

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Tunisia: First Unit of Recovery of Construction and Demolition Waste to Be Created Soon in Gabés

Tunis/Tunisia — The first unit of for the recovery of construction and demolition waste will be created soon in the governorate of Gabes, with a capacity of nearly 400 thousand tonnes per year, Environment Minister Chokri Ben Hassan said on

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Black Lives Matter, City leaders march for justice and voting rights

by Andrea WatsonATLANTA, GA — The same day that celebrities and civil rights activists gathered to remember George Floyd — the African American man who died last week in police custody — elected officials joined Atlanta protesters and several groups for a peaceful Black Lives Matter

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Trump denies being briefed on Russian bounty intelligence | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump on Sunday denied receiving a briefing about intelligence that Russians had tried to bribe Taliban fighters to kill US troops, as The New York Times first reported and CNN has

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Should I know my MP’s health status? - Insiders weigh in on balancing accountability and privacy when politicians fall ill

The curtain on a new era of transparency in public service appeared ready to be lifted when three months before his February 2016 election win, then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness promised to publicly release his health

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TIME FOR REAL CHANGE IN BLACK AMERICA | The Crusader Newspaper Group

It is time to face facts: the relationship between Black people and the United States of America is at

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Cheap drug is first shown to improve COVID-19 survival

Researchers in England said Tuesday they have the first evidence that the drug can improve COVID-19

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Burundi's incoming president signs Nkurunziza condolence book

June 13: Incoming president eulogizes Nkurunziza

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Richmond rids itself of another statue | Dallas Weekly

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Juneteenth was a time to honor the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence

– General Order No. 3 as read by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865

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Representatives, Senators, Governors… Who Else Is On The November Ballot?

Open U.S. House of Representative Seats in the 2020

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Study Shows COVID-19's Devastating Impact On Black Immigrant Domestic Workers | HuffPost

Black immigrant domestic workers are triply impacted by the coronavirus crisis: the illness itself, the related economic fallout and systemic racism, a new survey

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Somalia: U.S. Govt Backs FGs-FMs Meeting Initiative By Senate

The United States calls for the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to urgently convene a meeting with all Federal Member State

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Horizon Park bullet could have killed me watching TV, says woman

One of the bullets suspected to have come from the M16 rifle used by 39-year-old Damion Hamilton to murder two cops at an upstairs house in Horizon Park on Friday could have killed Kamika Blake* had she been watching television that

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Former Rep. Allen West Calls Black Lives Matter the 'Overseer' of the Left-Wing 'Planation'

Former Florida Congressman Allen West wrote an op-ed published on CNSNews, stating that he is “tired of our Nation cowering, appeasing, acquiescing, and surrendering to this absurd organization calling itself Black Lives Matter

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Calls Trump's Tulsa Rally 'An Embarrassment'

On Saturday (June 20), Donald Trump held a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his first one since

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Protesters topple Jefferson Davis statue in Virginia capital | The Atlanta Voice

Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, adding it to the list of Old South monuments removed or damaged around the U.S. in the wake of George

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This Day in Black History: June 13, 1967

Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, becoming the first Black U.S. Supreme Court

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Tighten screws on Zim US$7m COVID-19 grant: US

United States senator Jim Risch has called on the World Bank (WB) to impose stricter accountability measures for a US$7 million grant extended to Zimbabwe to support the COVID-19

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