Llewellyn gets three more years as DPP

Prince George’s, Montgomery Not Ready to Start Reopening

One day after Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan lifted a stay-at-home order and allowed some businesses to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, leaders in Prince George's and Montgomery counties announced Thursday their respective jurisdictions aren't ready to join the rest of the

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Source: The Washington Informer

Mother Arrested In Front of Her Child for Not Wearing Mask Properly, NYPD Commissioner Claims Cops Are 'Dealing with Gang Members' In Response to Criticism

Kaleemah Rozier, 22, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon following a heated confrontation with several NYPD officers, reported

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Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody

MINNEAPOLIS—Protests turned violent on Tuesday as anti-police activists smashed windows and vandalized police cars in response to the death of an African American man at the hands of four law enforcement

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Source: South Florida Times

Carrying on the Legacy of Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

Fannie Lou Hamer was one such

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Motion to strengthen INDECOM tabled in House

A motion calling for legislative changes to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act, to strengthen the investigative capabilities of the organisation, was tabled in the House of Representatives by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck this

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

Trump Threatens 'Funding' To States Expanding Mail-In Voting During The Pandemic

Trump, who previously said he was “allowed to” vote by mail in Florida’s March 17 primary, has railed against Democratic-led states offering that same opportunity to their

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

VIDEO: Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody

MINNEAPOLIS—Protests turned violent on Tuesday as anti-police activists smashed windows and vandalized police cars in response to the death of an African American man at the hands of four law enforcement

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

Expect long wait on calls about unemployment claims –

TALLAHASSEE – Floridians who call the state for help with unemployment claims should expect wait times to surpass an

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Source: Daytona Times

Key to the future of work is adaptive management - winning despite uncertainty

In a Forrester study, Invisible resources are the secret weapon for growth, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, JP Gownder, shows that it is possible to innovate to enable business success, while cutting costs at the same

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Source: TechCentral

Is it end of the road for oil scam fugitive Devani?

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Source: Business Daily

Trump deems churches 'essential', calls for them to reopen

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump says he deems churches and other houses of worship “essential” and called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend despite the threat of spreading the novel

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

Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner: George Floyd's Death Was 'A Murder'

A top law enforcement official in Minnesota on Friday declared George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police “a murder,” shortly before prosecutors finally charged one of the police officers with murder and manslaughter, four days after

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

Fired Louisiana Cop Says It’s ‘Unfortunate’ That All Black People Weren’t Killed By Coronavirus

Kaplan Police Officer Steven Aucoin was fired following an investigation for allegedly suggesting that it was “unfortunate” that the coronavirus pandemic had not killed off black people, officials

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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

Tanzania, France sign loan agreement for water supply

Tanzania on Thursday signed a loan agreement with France to finance water supply projects that will benefit some 770,000 people in the country's Morogoro

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Source: The East African

Uganda: Bobi Wine Tasks Govt to Account for COVID-19 Money, Relief Food

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has called on the government to account for the relief items and money that has been given to the Covid-19 National

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Source: allAfrica.com

Trump Uses SpaceX Launch To Criticize Protesting 'Thugs' And 'Angry Mobs'

President Donald Trump led his remarks on the country’s first manned rocket launch in nearly a decade with some harsh words for civil rights protesters around the country demanding police

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

Black Panther Leaders Killed

Two Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark - killed in Chicago police raid. Civil rights leaders said the two men were murdered in their

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Minneapolis burning should not come as a surprise

This has been building in Minneapolis for years, and it likely started boiling as protesters reminded us, in December of 1990 with the murder of Tycel Nelson by cowardly Minneapolis cop Dan May, who ironically is still with the department as a high-ranking

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

‘I Cannot Breathe’: Video Shows White Cop ‘Killing’ Unarmed Black Man Pleading For His Life Before Dying | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Police in Minnesota were being accused of killing an unarmed Black man after a viral video showed an officer pinning down a suspect as he repeated that he

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody

MINNEAPOLIS—Protests turned violent on Tuesday as anti-police activists smashed windows and vandalized police cars in response to the death of an African American man at the hands of four law enforcement

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

VIDEO: Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody

During a protest over the police killing of George Floyd, protesters gather in the back of the precinct where some of the protesters picked up rocks and medal objects to smash the windows of a squad car in the back on May

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Virginia Black Caucus Says Reopening State Would Treat Black and Brown People Like Pigs

The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has sent a letter to Gov. Ralph Northam saying the move to reopen Virginia would be treating black and brown people like “guinea pigs for our

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Source: The Black Chronicle

‘He will never see her grow up, graduate; he will never walk her down the aisle.’

Roxie Washington, mother of George Floyd’s daughter, Gianna, speaks publicly for first time since Floyd’s death

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Tanzania: Zitto Found Guilty of Uttering Seditious Statement, Released On Conditional Discharge

THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam has found the leader of Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT) Wazalendo, Zitto Kabwe, guilty in three sedition counts, for allegedly linking the police force with killing over 100 people in Kigoma

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Source: allAfrica.com

VIDEO: 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: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Labour Day activities at St William Grant Park

Prime Minister Andrew Holness (right) and Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips greet each other, keeping in mind guidelines to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, at St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston, yesterday — the site of the national Labour Day

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

Seychelles: Small Business Owners in Seychelles Share Mixed Reactions to Government Credit Line

Small business owners in Seychelles are having mixed reactions to a credit line facility put in place by the Central Bank to help micro, small and medium enterprises impacted by

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Source: allAfrica.com

Indonesian leader in ‘Trump-like’ fight with governors

But while it is states’ governors and not President Donald Trump who have the final say in imposing and ending lockdowns and “shelter in place” orders in the U.S., in Indonesia, Widodo makes the call, which has the governors of the 34 provinces in the country up in

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Source: South Florida Times

Acknowledging Black Pain, an Appeal for Peace and Calls for an End to Institutional Racism

– California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

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