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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers: NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion – Voice and Viewpoint

A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

How Bayard Rustin, a Gay Man, Changed Civil Rights

Bayard Rustin isn’t a household name, but his contributions to the civil rights movement rival those of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin organized the March on Washington, where King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A confidante and advisor to King, he introduced the civil

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Mississippians can't breathe while confederate symbols of hate are validated by Governor Tate Reeves leadership

Nor can Mississippians breathe while confederate symbols of hate are validated through state holidays and the leadership of the State of

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

I CAN’T BREATHE: George Floyd Murdered by Minneapolis Police Officers Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng

Pastor Seth Martin, a resident of Minneapolis spoke to the AFRO about the May 25 death of George Floyd, the calls for the prosecution of the officers and the tension mounting in the Black

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Source: Delivering News You Can Use

Opportunity Wisconsin Statement on May Jobs Report

Opportunity Wisconsin also releases new graphic outlining the tough choices Wisconsin workers continue to face as corporations get billions

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Don’t confuse the struggle of African Americans with that of the Palestinians | Opinion

There is no similarity between the shocking murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing of Eyad

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Source: Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton Urge Immediate Jailing, Charges for Police in Floyd’s Death – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Rochelle Olson and Chao Xiong Star Tribune – Two national civil rights leaders visited south Minneapolis on Thursday for separate events but identical demands for the speedy charging and arrest of four Minneapolis police officers involved in death of George

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

Financial Expert, Shawn Rochester, Releases New Book to Help Change How You Think About Your Personal Finances

Southbury, CT — Shawn Rochester is an author, entrepreneur, investor and sought-after speaker who has spoken on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, the United Nations and lectured at leading universities about the staggering financial cost of discrimination against Black people in America and advocates

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

Finding solutions to prevent more killings like George Floyd

His mom, Myrtle Faye Rumph, started the center with family and friends to help keep other people from suffering her

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Ingraham: Trump has delivered results for African-Americans, Biden has delivered 'hashtags' and 'slogans'

Laura Ingraham opind in her "Ingraham Angle" monologue Tuesday that the idea that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party will help African-Americans and minorities is not true -- in the wake of the violent protests and riots following George Floyd's death -- is not

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Dem congresswoman pushes back on Trump's claim that he’s done more for black Americans than any president other than Lincoln

California Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, joins Chris Wallace on 'Fox News

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Source: Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters formed

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the trailblazing black labor union, was organized by A. Philip Randolph.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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8

1925

Gambia postpones protest against police violence in the US

Gambian police “temporarily” banned a demonstration planned on Monday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Banjul to protest police violence in the United States, after the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a Gambian national near Atlanta, the organizer of the rally said

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

Californians Join the Movement for Justice as Civil Unrest Escalates Nationally

Tensions are high across the nation as Americans of all races rise in protest against the killings of Black people by the police and other vigilantes

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

In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief | Afro

Black-Owned Businesses Got Little Relief Under PPP

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

One Woman Is Baking Pies — And Giving Them Away — For A Grieving Minneapolis

- Roslyn Harmon, daughter of Rose McGee

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Coronavirus takes deadly toll on African American communities

Black residents like Burke in Prince George’s County have been contracting and dying from coronavirus at alarming

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Source: KWQC | Davenport | KWQC - Home

1st Annual Juneteenth Holiday Citywide Caravan Set to Kick Off Black Culture Week

On this day, known as Juneteenth, we reflect on the past and pay homage to the sacrifices our ancestors made for

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Source: Chicago Defender

Statement from the Urban League of Greater Atlanta on Civil Unrest in the Nation

The Leaders of the Urban League Movement, including National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, Urban League of Greater Atlanta President/CEO Nancy A. Flake Johnson, and all affiliate presidents, hereby issue the following statement in response to the civil unrest sweeping the

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Open letter: African writers in solidarity with African Americans

Dozens of writers from across Africa and the diaspora have co-signed a letter of support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the face of growing protests in the United States following the latest death of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police

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Source: Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera

"It Time To Stand Up In George's Name" — Al Sharpton Delivers Eulogy For George Floyd Memorial

Politicians, civil rights leaders and celebrities joined Floyd’s family, Thursday at a private memorial service in a sanctuary at North Central University in Minneapolis to honor his

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Al Sharpton Announces March On Washington In August

Rev. Al Sharpton and George Floyd’s family are planning a march on Washington this

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An Open Letter On Racial Justice

– Journeys of Conscience, Curtis L. Ivery

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Africa: Diaspora African Forum Demands Justice for George Floyd

The Diaspora African Forum has petitioned the United States of America (USA) government to arrest and prosecute all four police officers who were caught on video manhandling George Floyd at Minneapolis, USA, resulting in his

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U.S. Embassy in South Korea Unfurls Giant Black Lives Matter Banner | HuffPost

The U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, unfurled a banner reading “Black Lives Matter” across its building and posted on social media Saturday that it stood “in solidarity with fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive

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

Floyd Murder Unleashes Black Parents’ Worst Fears

Her tears, she said, are for the senseless, callous murder of another innocent unarmed Black person, for the constant terror that African-Americans live under because of police brutality and extra-judicial murders; and a deep and persistent anxiety about her

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Black Youths Urged to Resit Induction

A. Phillip Randolph told Senate Armed Services Committee that unless segregation and discrimination were banned in draft programs he would urge Black youths to resist induction by civil disobedience.

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Mar

31

1948

Newswire: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest

By: Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organized at a mass meeting in Elks Hall in Harlem. A Philip Randolph was elected president. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters would become one of the most successful union organizing efforts in history. The union gave voice to the many railroad porters and

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1925

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