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Zanu PF top official torches tribal storm

ZANU PF Mberengwa North district executive member and prominent businessman, Tinashe Shumba has torched a tribal storm after he reportedly insulted members of the Lemba (VaRemba) community who refused to chant ruling party slogans as well as denigrate MDC Alliance leader Nelson

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Beware Of ‘Karen’s Husband’: Social Media Spotlights White Men Who Also Love To Call The Police

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Why falling vulture population can cause health crisis

Scientists warn that without the birds, human beings risk contracting zoonotic diseases such as rabies, Middle East Respiratory Sydrome Coronavirus (MERS-COV), anthrax and a host of other diseases that are transferable to humans by

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

VIDEO: Truckers in 21-Mile Traffic Jam for COVID-19 Testing Without Food or Water at Kenya/Uganda Border – Free Press of Jacksonville

A 21-mile-long (35 km) column of trucks lined a major highway between Kenya and Uganda on Saturday, a sea of diesel engines and goods headed west but stopped at the border for time-consuming coronavirus

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

Miles Bailer Armstead, 45 | Post News Group

Miles Bailer Armstead’s life tragically ended at his property in East Oakland as a result of the all-to-common violence in our

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

EDITORIAL: A Letter to Friends Who Really Want to End Racism

Yesterday I posted a letter to friends on my personal Facebook page to help process my thoughts and feelings on what happened in Central Park with birder Christian Cooper and Amy Cooper and what happened to George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, as well as other recent

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

‘There’s An African-American Man Threatening My Life’: Woman Calls NYPD After Being Asked To Leash Her Dog, Later Apologizes

A woman reportedly made a call to the New York Police Department (NYPD) accusing a black man of threatening her and her dog during an argument Monday morning that started when the man asked the woman to leash her dog in Central

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Source: The Daily Caller

It Only Takes One

The individual captured on video slowly draining life from Mr. Floyd wore a uniform, but he did not represent its values – his actions were his

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

White Woman Who Called Police On Black Bird-Watcher In Central Park Has Been Fired | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

A black man says he asked a white woman in Central Park to put her dog on a leash. Then video shows her calling police and telling emergency operators that the man was threatening her and her dog. The woman, who has been identified as Amy Cooper, has apologized.

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

(1858) Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided”

On June 16, 1858, only three hours after he received the Republican nomination for the United States Senate from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln gave his A House Divided speech, perhaps the most famous oration from an anti-slavery politician delivered before the U.S. Civil War. That speech appears

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Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Time to fight RIGHT!

Now “Big Floyd,” as he was affectionately called by family and friends, is dead, Chauvin is facing charges and the American “justice” system is under attack by angry protesters who are all “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” as Fannie Lou Hamer famously

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If You’re a White Woman and You’re Uncomfortable Right Now, That’s a Good Thing

But if you haven’t, let me explain: In a video posted to Twitter, a white woman calls the cops on a Black bird-watcher after he asks her to leash her unleashed dog in Central Park, which mandates

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Source: Cosmopolitan.com - The Women's Magazine for Fashion, Sex Advice, Dating Tips, and Celebrity News

Matthew Henson

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was the first African-American Arctic explorer, an associate of Robert Peary on seven voyages over a period of nearly 23 years. They made six voyages and spent a total of 18 years in expeditions.[1] Henson served as a navigator and

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Source: Black Inventors

George Floyd's Death Stokes Calls For Minneapolis Officers To Be Charged

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Source: Stories About Black History

Elected officials say NYPD should show 'zero tolerance' to Central Park 'Karen' and launch criminal probe | New York Carib News

Elected officials say NYPD should show ‘zero tolerance’ to Central Park ‘Karen’ and launch criminal probe

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Source: The New York Carib News

Treasure Beach hotels to make push for J’can tourists

With the vast majority of the south coast haven’s business generated from overseas arrivals, small hotels and guest houses in that section of St Elizabeth are now reeling from the fallout in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Black New York birdwatcher gets last laugh when white woman tries to weaponize police against him

Central Park this morning: This woman's dog is tearing through the plantings in the

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Source: Daily Kos

Morial, Urban League leaders: We need a revision of culture

National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, along with Urban League affiliate leaders from around the country, issued the following statement in response to the civil unrest sweeping the nation: Our communities are overwhelmed with

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Source: South Florida Times

Hardin: I'm Still Tired

I’m tired of people who don’t have to deal with the impact and after-effects of being hated for nothing more than something as incidental and irrelevant as skin color trying to tell me how to deal with

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Source: The Florida Star

Woman Who Called 911 Claiming Black Man Bird Watching Was 'Threatening' Her Life Is Fired, Claims She Meant Him No Harm In Apology: 'I'm Not a Racist'

The ruckus could have disturbed the birds, so he asked the dog’s owner, Amy Cooper, to put him on

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

(2013) Ben Carson's Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast

On February 7, 2013 prominent neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson became a nationally recognized political figure when he gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. that was critical of President Obamas policies and particularly Obamacare when the President and First Lady Michelle

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‘Black Gay Icon’: Christian Cooper’s Long History Of Activism Before Central Park Incident

Amy Cooper is continuing to feel the backlash after she called the cops on Christian Cooper (no relation) in Central Park on Memorial

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Source: NewsOne

What Must Be Done?

Several weeks ago, for my online I wrote about Amaud (also spelled Ahmaud) Arbery, who was shot to death by a white father and son, acting as vigilantes, while jogging in a Georgia

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Boris Johnson said colonialism in Africa should never have ended

Opposition MPs in the UK are not happy with Boris Johnson over comments supporting Britain’s colonial activities in

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Protesters mass near White House for 2nd day

The Latest on the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck (all times

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Meet Hamisa Zaja: Unsung Covid-19 hero

On an ordinary day, Hamisa Zaja, the Coast Association for Persons with Disability chief executive officer, receives more than 30 phone

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

What's Going on | New York Carib News

The David Gelles 6/7 NYT essay, “Corporate American Has Failed Black America,” with comments and insights by “elite Black executives” like Darren Walker, Ford Foundation; Mellody Hobson, Ariel Investments; Ursula Burns, former Xerox CEO/Chair; billionaire Robert Smith, Class of 2019 Morehouse

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Source: The New York Carib News

Enjoying wildlife territories in the comfort of your backyard

During the summer months, adult animal numbers stabilize, and the drive to establish a territory means you’re likely to have the same individuals active outside your windows for the majority of

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Why Social Distancing Is Nothing New To Dedicated Long-Distance Lovers - Blavity

That she likely won’t be beside me for years to come, and this because walls have been thrown up between

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Source: Blavity News

Woman Fired After Backlash From Racist Park Confrontation

NEW YORK (AP) — The verbal dispute between a white woman with an unleashed dog and a black man bird watching in Central Park might normally have gone unnoticed in a city preoccupied by the coronavirus

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Source: Black America Web

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