Mayor demands Integrity Commission withdraw 'flawed' Petrojam report

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Andre Harrell to be Honored In Upcoming TV Special, Jamie Foxx, Babyface and Mariah Carey Scheduled to Appear

Andre Harrell‘s ex-wife Wendy Credle said her former partner once stated that he wanted a party to celebrate his life after he passed, not a sad

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GPOC to begin June pension payouts on Thursday

The Guyana Post Office Corpo-ration (GPOC) has announced that old age pension payments for June, 2020, will begin on Thursday, May 28, 2020, at all post offices countrywide, the Department of Public Infor-mation (DPI) said on

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Yvonne M. Curl

Yvonne M. Curl was Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Avaya Inc. Prior to Avaya, Curl also held numerous roles progressing through the management of Xerox Corporation, including Vice President-Field Operations, Executive Assistant to the Chairman and CEO, and as Corporate Vice President

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Two Kansas City officers charged for assaulting black Transgender woman

Kansas City, Mo. – Two police officers in Kansas City, Mo., have been charged with the assault of a black transgender woman while arresting her in May

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Lawyer Says White Woman Attacked Girl Because She Was Black

AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A white woman is charged with assaulting an 11-year-old black girl in what the girl’s lawyer calls a racially motivated

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Source: Black America Web

DeLarge, Robert Carlos (1842-1874)

Robert Carlos DeLarge was born a slave in Aiken, South Carolina on March 15, 1842. Rare for that period, DeLarge graduated from Wood High school in Charleston and worked as a tailor and farmer before becoming involved in politics. He served as an agent for the Freedman’s Bureau and helped

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Niger

Niger, in West Africas Sahara region, is four-fifths the size of Alaska. It is surrounded by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The Niger River in the southwest flows through the countrys only fertile area. Elsewhere the land is

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Kenya: How Coronavirus Has Forced Kenyan Manufacturers to Change Gears

As such, 78 percent of manufacturers' top priority is reducing costs, 61 percent are keen on job retention with 53 percent giving precedence to improving cash

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Source: allAfrica.com

Alleged Gunman Posts Arizona Mass Shooting Video As State Reopens

An alleged gunman in a mass shooting in Arizona on Wednesday night recorded himself during the shooting, according to footage posted to social

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Source: NewsOne

Ghana's COVID-19 Recovery Rises to 1,745 ... Case Counts Stand At 5,735

Per the GHS situation update, 3,906 of the 5,735 cases were from enhanced contact tracing, 1,714 from general surveillance, and 115 from mandatory quarantine cases at Tamale and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Report: The Impact of COVID-19 on Microbusinesses and How the Federal Government Should Respond

Washington, D.C. – The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a deep and severe impact on the wellbeing of America’s small and

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19

A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income

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

Universities asked to present reports on virtual learning

CUE Chief executive officer Mwenda Ntarangwi in a letter to universities dated May 13 said the institutions in their reports should include platforms, learning management systems or any other ways through which they have availed content or learning to

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President's Committee on Civil Rights condemned

Presidents Committee on Civil Rights condemned racial injustices in America in formal report, To Secure These Rights. Texas Southern University established. Spingarn Medal awarded to Dr. Percy L. Julian for his achievements as a scientist.

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What Pandemic? Billionaires Are Getting Richer During COVID While the Economy and Labor Force Tank

According to a new report by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the nation’s 623 billionaires saw their net worth increase by $434 billion in the first two months of the pandemic thanks in large part to tax cuts and

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

Wilkens, Lenny (1937- )

Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, one of the toughest sections in the city, where he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young

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CWI finances in ICU Skerritt | New York Carib News

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The financial health of Cricket West Indies (CWI) has been described by its president, Ricky Skerritt, as being in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prevented competition in the

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Source: The New York Carib News

California Black Newspapers Win Hundreds of Thousands in Facebook Grants – Voice and Viewpoint

Facebook announced May 7 that it is awarding nearly $10.3 million to 144 local newsrooms through the company’s COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Gov’t not at fault for miscarriage – Tufton

Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says the decision to cancel Medevac helicopter support for the mother of two who suffered a miscarriage while aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Adventure of the Seas was made by authorities on the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Marcellus Alexander and NAB - Securing A Diverse Representation in Broadcasting

Before they ever leave the house in the morning, most Americans have been touched by free, local broadcast radio or television. Marcellus Alexander wants to ensure the powerful broadcast industry he helps represent is as diverse as the listeners and viewers they serve. In his dual roles at the

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Higgler murdered in Westmoreland home invasion, attackers on the run

The police are reporting that 27-year-old Jermaine Cooper, a higgler of Seaton Crescent in Westmoreland, was shot and killed in his community on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ida B. Wells and Her Anti-Lynching Campaign

African-American journalist Ida B. Wells went to heroic lengths in the late 1890s to document the horrifying practice of lynching blacks. Her groundbreaking work, which included collecting statistics in a practice that today is called data journalism, established that the lawless killing of blacks

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Study: White Supremacist Groups Are ‘Thriving’ On Facebook, Despite Extremist Ban

Of the 113 white supremacist groups the project found on Facebook, 36% had pages or groups created by active

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Tunisia

Tunisian Republic

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault won the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for Apartheids Peole a report on South Aferica.

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Legal battle looms as Frere Hospital in EC is shut down - report

A legal battle is looming after health and safety inspectors from the labour department shut down Frere Hospital in East London amid concerns that its measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 are inadequate, according to a report in

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Report: Structural racism — from segregated housing to limited job opportunities — responsible for high rate of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans

Long-established elements of structural racism, from substandard housing to mass incarceration to limited job opportunities, are responsible for the disproportionate toll COVID-19 is taking on African Americans in Chicago and elsewhere, a new paper from the Chicago Urban League argues.The

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Source: Chicago Tribune

Proposal to dissolve food reserve fund sparks disquiet

A proposal to dissolve the Strategic Food Reserve Trust Fund (SFRTF) and have its functions transferred to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has sparked disquiet with a section of leaders from the Western region now alleging the hand of cartels in the

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

Tunisia Takes Delivery of Medical Aid From Turkey

AllAfrica publishes around 800 reports a day from more than 140 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every

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