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Bowser Releases Budget Amid COVID Crisis | Afro

Despite the economic concerns surrounding the Mayor’s emergency shutdown in response to COVID-19, which has affected the finances of D.C. businesses and residents, the FY 2021 budget offers investment in education, transportation, environment, healthcare, housing, jobs and public safety by

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Activists oppose City efforts to put Minneapolis Foundation in...

Several activists held a press conference on Monday denouncing what they called the hypocrisy of having former Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak, head of the Minneapolis Foundation, lead police accountability efforts when he failed to hold police accountable during his time in

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

RESTART MKE!

WITH STATE STAY AT HOME ORDER STRUCK DOWN, MAYOR BARRETT ANNOUNCES PROGRAM TO RESTART LOCAL BUSINESSES AND GET THEM UP AND RUNNING

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

Mayor, Council Discuss COVID Relief

SACRAMENTO – Three weeks ago, the City of Sacramento was awarded an $89 million federal stimulus check to address community needs triggered by the shutdown from the COVID-19

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Ella Jones: Everything To Know About Ferguson’s First Black Mayor

Jones has run for mayor in Ferguson back in

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Source: NewsOne

‘Bad mind!’ - St Ann’s Bay mayor blasts critics of COVID spend, Porsche charging station

ST ANN’S Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis has labelled as “bad-mind” detractors who have mounted a withering campaign against him since news broke of the reported $46m COVID-19 expenditure on sanitising the town of Ocho Rios and the $80,000 charging port installed at the municipal office to charge his

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

For the greater good : University leadership’s impact during the pandemic –

Current and prospective students, university faculty, staff, and alumni and higher education pundits are waiting with bated breath across the country on guidance from governors, mayors, and university presidents regarding whether or not students will return to college campuses for the fall

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Source: Florida Courier

Four Minneapolis Officers Fired After Death of Black Man

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was

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Source: Black America Web

Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987) - Birthday

Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago.

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Source: Black Past

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"I Want You To Know You Matter" — Obama Holds Virtual Town Hall Against Police Brutality

Former President Barack Obama spoke out live Wednesday for the first time since the start of the national unrest over the killing of George

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Louisville Seeks US Review Of Police Killing Of Black Woman

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville officials have now asked the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to review the police department’s internal investigation of the killing of a black woman by officers raiding her home two months

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Source: Black America Web

Atlanta City Council approves fiscal year 2021 budget

ATLANTA — The Atlanta City Council on Saturday approved the budget for Fiscal Year 2021, which begins July 1 (Legislative Reference

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

AFRO Exclusive: Catherine Pugh Prepares to Leave Home | Afro

These words, written by Catherine Pugh several years ago, for a yet-to-be published book entitled Leaving Home, have new meaning as the former Baltimore mayor makes the long journey from her Ashburton home to Alabama to begin a three-year sentence in federal prison on June

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

5 Things To Know About Ella Jones, The Woman Who Just Became Ferguson's First Black Mayor - Blavity

As the city's first Black mayor, Jones said she will be required to do

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Source: Blavity News

New CPD Superintendent David Brown has bold vision for Chicago, even amid coronavirus crisis | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Chicago’s new police superintendent David Brown has a vision for the city, a plan to fight summer violence, and an eye on his officers as the coronavirus continues to infect and kill members of the

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Atlanta City Council President Felicia A. Moore and Passion City Church provide aid to Local Organizations

Atlanta City Council President Felicia A. Moore and Passion City Church Provide Aid to Local Organizations During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Statements from Atlanta City Council Members on the passing of John Sweet

ATLANTA — Several members of the Atlanta City Council have issued statements following the passing of John

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Shocking video apparently shows Minneapolis police cause man’s...

An otherwise peaceful Tuesday morning was interrupted by a video showing a Minneapolis police officer placing his knee with all of his weight on the neck of a man laying prone on the

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

#MeToo, phase 2: Doc explores heavy burden on women of color

In the early morning darkness of Dec. 13, 2017, former music executive Drew Dixon walks to a coffee shop and buys the New York

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

4 Police Officers Fired After A Black Man Dies In Minneapolis Police Custody

The mayor of Minneapolis says four Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the death of a black man in police custody have been

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Source: Stories About Black History

THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD UNCOVERS “THE MYTH OF AMERICAN JUSTICE”

In response to the murder of George Floyd, the current mayor of Minneapolis stated that “being born Black should not be a death

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

The Burning Of America – Again.

(ThyBlackMan.com) I do not advocate violence, but apparently those police officers and racists who kill black people every week

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Source: ThyBlackMan

States Remove Monuments To Racist Traitors Following Nationwide Protests

As protests prompted by the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, continued this week, some state and local leaders are removing monuments honoring the

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

D.C. Reopening Plan Gets Mixed Reviews from Residents, Businesses

The DC ReOpen Advisory Group recently made recommendations to the Bowser administration on how the District should come back from its dormant economic and social activity amid the coronavirus pandemic and those ideas were met with mixed feelings among residents and business

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Source: The Washington Informer

Ferguson Just Elected Its First Black Mayor

Ferguson, Missouri, the city where protests helped propel the Black Lives Matter movement into a nationwide crusade, elected its first Black mayor Tuesday

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

Mayor, Police Chief Apologize, Announce Firings of Two Officers for Violent Arrest of Pair of Atlanta College Students

Two Atlanta police officers were fired after video footage showed them violently snatching two Black college students out of

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

The conspiracy to defraud brought to light

The $400-million Manchester Municipal Corporation fraud trial ended on Friday, May 15, 2020 with the conviction of main accused 35-year-old Sanja Elliott, the corporation's former deputy superintendent of road and works; his wife, Tashagaye Elliott Goulbourne; two former employees of the

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

Mozambique: Matavel Murder - Man Who Lent the Getaway Car Testifies

Maputo — Ricardo Manganhe, a teacher who works for the Chibuto Municipal Council in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, on Friday confirmed that he had lent the car used in the murder of civil society and election observation activist, Anastacio Matavel, to a member of the death

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Source: allAfrica.com

Aurora, Colorado Mayor On New Probe Into Death Of Elijah McClain

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Mike Coffman, mayor of Aurora, Colorado where Elijah McClain, a Black man, died after police officers forcefully detained him in August

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Source: Stories About Black History

Police Shootings: Black Americans Disproportionately Affected [Infographic]

Police violence has reared its ugly head in the United States yet again with thousands of people hitting the streets of Minneapolis to protest the death of George Floyd over the past few

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Source: https://www.forbes.com

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