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On March 13, 2020, I decided to reach out to Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield and Presiding Elder Uklyn Hendricks about the immediacy of a shift to church gatherings within the Virgin Islands Annual

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Oprah Winfrey is a Leftist Trojan Horse.

Obviously, Oprah believes conservative “black thought” is not relevant because the entire panel for her discussion was black extreme

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Social Media Criticize Democrats For Wearing Kente Cloth at Press Conference – Your Black World

In the process of announcing a new way to addressing police brutality, Democrats took a moment of silence, while wearing the kente cloth, to honor George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed by

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Source: Your Black World

Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

UPDATED: 3:25 p.m. ET, June 12, 2020

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Italian Lawmaker Is Convinced He’s ‘Darker’ Than Black Caucus Members Amid Ohio Racism Hearing

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Louisville City Council passes ‘Breonna’s law’ to ban no-knock warrants

The Louisville City Council voted unanimously for “Breonna’s Law” which bans so-called “no-knock” warrants in the

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Source: The Birmingham Times

`He is going to change the world’: Funeral Held for Floyd – Voice and Viewpoint

By JUAN A. LOZANO, NOMAAN MERCHANT and ADAM GELLER Associated Press

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Answering the 'call' as a sisterhood

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ® International President Dr. Glenda Glover says George Floyd’s cry out to his late mother before taking his last breath was a symbolic plea to all women for

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NBA’s Russell Westbrook Named Executive Producer of Upcoming Docuseries About Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 – Your Black World

The Westbrook-Blackfin alliance will produce a historically-relevant docuseries titled Terror in Tulsa: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall

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Source: Your Black World

When Race and Poverty Collide

From Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831 to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, to the murder, incarceration and exile of political prisoners such as Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu Jamal and Assata Shakur – being bold and standing up for equal treatment in America has always been

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Jay Pharoah 'could've been George Floyd' after encounter with LAPD

I’m not thinking anything of it, because I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Pharoah explains in the clip, which includes security footage of the confrontation, PEOPLE

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Burundi: Why History Will Judge Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza Harshly

Iron fist

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Window opens for Burundi and Rwanda relations after frosty spell

President Paul Kagame’s condolence message to Burundians following the death of the outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza marked his first public message to the country since relations between Rwanda and Burundi turned sour in

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Source: The East African

Works of Congolese, Egyptian directors feature at Cannes 2020

A setback that did not prevent Pierre Lescure, the president of the festival, and Thierry Frémaux, the artistic director, from announcing the creation of the Cannes 2020 label to encourage the directors of 56

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'Decolonize': Protest to remove Oxford statue of Cecil Rhodes heats up

Thousands of people protested on Tuesday for a statue of 19th century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college, as debate raged over the removal of other monuments attached to the nation’s colonial

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Malian PM reappointed by president amid mass protests

Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cisse has been reappointed to lead government business despite tendering his resignation letter to the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Kenya: Man Arrested After Brutal Murder of Wife and Son in Machakos

Nairobi — Police have detained a man accused of killing his wife and son in Matungulu area in Machakos

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Congo-Kinshasa: President's Chief of Staff Risks 20 Years in Prison for Graft

Prosecutors in DR Congo have requested a 20 year prison sentence for Vital Kamerhe, a key ally of President Felix Tshisekedi, over his alleged role in the embezzlement of more than 50 million dollars of public

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: MDC Wants Olympic Sanctions On Kirsty Coventry Over Zim Rights Abuses

The MDC Alliance Youth Assembly has demanded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to terminate Youth Minister Kirsty

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Source: allAfrica.com

Thousands Turn Out For Black Lives Matter Silent March

Thousands of people turned out Friday afternnon to Judkins Park in Seattle’s Central area for Black Lives Matter Seattle King County’s March of

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Provides Scholarships For George Floyd’s Daughter and Granddaughters To Attend HBCUs

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) announced on Friday that the organization is planning on providing scholarships to the daughter and granddaughters of police shooting victim George Floyd to attend an HBCU of their

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Africa: Coronavirus Poses Leadership Test for Africa's Heads of State

He expelled a WHO representative and three public health experts coordinating the virus response, and his administration insisted the country would be spared because of its Christian

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Source: allAfrica.com

The Top Zeta Phi Beta Graduation Photos of Spring 2020

Graduation season this semester has looked a lot different because of COVID-19 but it has not stopped members of Black fraternities and sororities from celebrating each other and their

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Source: Watch The Yard

Tanzania PM visits hospitalized opposition chief

Tanzania’s government has offered its support to an opposition leader who was hospitalised after being assaulted late on

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Trump Makes Supporters Sign Coronavirus Waiver to Attend Campaign Rally

Trump supporters planning to attend a reelection rally for the president in Tulsa, Okla., next week will be required to sign a waiver absolving the Trump campaign of any liability for any exposure to the novel

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Botswana coronavirus: Gaborone hospital, bank closed over exposure

Confirmed cases = 48

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Shot, axed, tasked: Lissu to challenge for Tanzania presidency

Opposition MPs boycotted the swearing-in of the new MP stressing that the condition of Lissu was known to the National Assembly but speaker John Ndugai defended the decision at the time, saying the absentee Lissu had breached parliamentary

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Biden’s VP List Narrows | Afro

By BILL BARROW and JULIE PACE, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Latino and black Americans are allies in the fight for racial justice

And I have joined in previous demonstrations over the last several weeks because George Floyd’s murder serves as yet another painful reminder of the deeply entrenched racism in our nation’s institutions, from the highest levels of government to local law

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