Loss of Teaching Jobs

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White Hotel Karen Kalls Kops On Black Woman For Using Swimming Pool With Her Kids

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Wayne Brady describes constant fear of #DrivingWhileBlack

Wayne Brady is known for making people laugh, but the multi-talented star got serious about police brutality in a recent video he shared on social

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Source: theGrio

EQUAL Guyana marks first anniversary of empowerment mission

Today marks one year since the Empowering Queers using Artistic Learning (EQUAL) Guyana organisation was launched with the intention of utilising art to empower the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Michael Jordan, Jordan Brand to donate $100 million to racial equality organizations

Former player Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls addresses the crowd during a 20th anniversary recognition ceremony of the Bulls 1st NBA Championship in 1991 (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Regional and int'l news briefs

The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

WalletHub study ranks Texas at No. 8 for racial equity in education

A recent study found that school districts that have a high concentration of white students receive $23 billion more per year in funding than those that have a high concentration of non-white

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

Race equity during a season of racial violence and COVID-19

Last month, The Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg’s founding president and CEO, Randall Russell, joined Equity Now’s host Carl Lavender on WTMP radio to share how the foundation became, and continues to be, a leading stakeholder in the fight for equity in our

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

"Racism, in all its forms, will kill. It kills people, it kills communities, it kills dreams, it kills hope."

Alarming because we know the history of systemic inequity that brought us to this point, not only with the recent killing of George Floyd and other African Americans in our country, but also the disproportionate impact the Coronavirus has wreaked in communities of

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Volkswagen Apologizes For Ad Of Giant White Hand Pushing Tiny Black Man Around

The 10-second clip for the German car company’s new Volkswagen Golf model features a giant, white hand poking and prodding a Black man, much like

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

MWANYASI: How ethnic, racial diversity drive corporate bottom

How ethnic, racial diversity drive corporate bottom line

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Source: Business Daily

William H. Hastie

William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigned to protest segregation and discrimination in armed forces.

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Beverly Johnson Creates New ‘Rule’ To Increase Diversity In Fashion Mags

“The industry was slow to include other black people in other aspects of the fashion and beauty

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Source: Black America Web

Black Youth Are Central Force in California George Floyd Protests

Sale and other members of the youth-led movement met officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) at the steps on the east side of the state-building adjacent to California State Capitol

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

LIVESTREAM — 6.5.20 7:30PM ET FIYAH! — ONE-ON-ONE with OTIS WILLIAMS of The Temptations!

With everything going on in our world today, my question to you is how does one put on the full armor of God in the midst of pandemic, the continuation of overt racism, state sanctioned discrimination and even

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

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they

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Source: BlackHistory.com

SoftBank pledged to invest $100 million in companies led by minorities

SoftBank Announces $100 Investment Fund For Minority-Owned announced Wednesday it will start a $100 million Opportunity Fund that will invest only in companies led by people of

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Darius Leonard kicked out Chipotle for talking about Black Lives Matter

(Source: Getty Images North

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Source: theGrio

Black Wealth Matters Group Protests Racist SEC Attack Against Entrepreneur Solomon Ali, Asks Congressional Black Caucus to Intervene

Nationwide — A newly formed group of African American community members are demanding that the Securities and Exchange Commission immediately drop their complaint and apologize to entrepreneur Solomon RC Ali who has been enduring a long battle protesting his innocence to the government

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

Surfing Confronts Sport’s Racist Past After George Floyd’s Death – Free Press of Jacksonville

Surfer Marc Chavez, founder of the San Diego nonprofit Native Like Water, which offers surf camps for Indigenous youth, said localism is a form of racial

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

Africa: How African Diaspora Footballers Juggle the Identity Question

Switching allegiance

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Source: allAfrica.com

Egypt: Death of Egypt LGBT+ Activist Jailed for Waving Rainbow Flag Mourned

Cairo — Sarah Hegazy had fled Egypt after waving the rainbow flag at a concert in rare show of LGBT+ visibility

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Source: allAfrica.com

#FIYAH — 6.5.20 12pm ET — ONE ON ONE WITH KAREEM ABDUL JABBAR

With everything going on in our world today, my question to you is how does one put on the full armor of God in the midst of pandemic, the continuation of overt racism, state sanctioned discrimination and even

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

Let’s Not Forget to “Reopen” Our Children

Just think about the major things that have happened in the lives of young people in the past few months: 1) an abrupt closing of schools; the major center of the educational and social lives of students; 2) being forced to “shelter in place”, indefinitely, cutoff from friends and extended

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Trump nominee to be Air Force chief of staff says he navigates 'two worlds' as an African American man

Gen. Charles Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces and President Trump's nominee to be the next Air Force chief of staff, said in a video released Friday that he navigates "two worlds" as an African American and that he's "thinking about how I can make

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Source: The Hill

Amber Riley Says She Was Once Told That White Women Aren't 'Fireable,' Weighs In on Former 'Glee' Co-Star Lea Michele's Behavior on Set

Amber Riley spoke about her former “Glee” co-star Lea Michele being accused of mistreating cast mates after Michele was called out by Samantha Marie Ware, who also was on the

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

LETTERS: Hard choices as schools await reopening

This will make it hard to implement a system of managing students, teachers and workers for those who stay out of school with their families and who may be a potential link to community based transmission

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Source: Business Daily

Doctors Sending Black Patients Home to Die | Afro

NEW SONG CALLS OUT DOCTORS WHO SEND BLACK PATIENTS HOME TO DIE

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

FBI Shrugs At Noose In Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Garage, Says It Wasn’t New

The FBI released preliminary findings from its investigation into a noose found in the garage of NASCAR‘s highest-ranked Black driver, and it came across as the equivalent of a shrug of

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Source: NewsOne

‘We Need Help’: Coronavirus Fuels Racism Against Black Americans in China

“African-Americans in Guangzhou are collateral damage of a policy implemented to target Africans, in which Chinese don’t check your visa, just the color of your skin,” said Yaqiu Wang, a China researcher at Human Rights

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