Mel Franklin dies

Black Lives Matter Has Been Doing The Work To 'Defund The Police' For Years

LOS ANGELES — On Monday, after the Los Angeles Police Department spent days violently attacking people protesting police brutality and racism, the City Council appeared set to allow a new budget — which would allocate nearly 54% of the city’s discretionary spending to the LAPD — to go into

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

New Yorkers Said ‘F**k The Police,’ So The Police Rioted

NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers over the last few days have taken to the streets in all five boroughs, setting cop cars aflame, braving beatings by batons and suffering pepper spray to the eyes, all so they can scream an urgent message for all the world to hear: Fuck the

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

Lauren London Stops By 'Red Table Talk,' Discusses Nipsey Hussle and Dealing with Gun Violence Since High School

Lauren London has been dealing with gun violence for much of her life — starting from her teenage years, growing up in Los

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

Jemele Hill apologizes after backlash over transphobic tweet

(Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty

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Source: theGrio

Million$ drug bust - Ganja valued at J$10.5m seized, three Bahamians nabbed

The weed was confiscated in an operation at Lances Bay, Hanover, in which three Bahamian nationals were

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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Africa: Confirmation of Africa's Historical Rejection in the Wake of COVID-19

With no clinical trials conducted in Africa, researchers have emphasized that Africa's Covid-19 research should be tailored to the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Netflix Series to Dramatize Kaepernick’s Path to Activism

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Atlanta Students Being Tazed And Dragged Out Of Their Car Is Causing Outrage On The Internet

After protests began in Minneapolis, the city where Floyd was killed, they began happening in other cities that have seen injustice like New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta and

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Source: MadameNoire

Temptations’ Otis Williams talks music, history, and the Temps’ 60th anniversary

Otis Williams, the founding and only surviving original member of the legendary super-group, The Temptations, joined BlackPressUSA for an exclusive live interview to discuss music and social

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Blackhawks make playoffs due to new league format | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The Chicago Blackhawks will make the playoffs after the NHL announced its plans last week for a 24-team new league format to compete for this year’s Stanley

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

San Diego City Council Declines Calls to Cut Police Funding – Voice and Viewpoint

By The Associated Press

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

From Marva with Love: Bobbie Edmonds

MS: Attorney Edmonds we’ve heard of the salon owner Shelly Luther who opened her salon during the quarantine order that was in

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Source: Serving Northeast Texas

Unity among Latino and African American communities grows as the nation demands change

In the vein of Cesar and Martin, Latino and African American leaders are united across the county to denounce hate and profiling that we see happening even in my congressional district – in Harlem, Bronx and Washington

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Source: The Hill

Harriet Tubman on the Twenty Dollar Bill

Harriet Tubman was an amazing woman: she escaped slavery, freed hundreds of others, and even worked as a spy in the Civil War. Now she’s going to grace the front of the twenty dollar bill. But is move progress or

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California DMV Resumes Driving Tests; Asks for Your Patience – Voice and Viewpoint

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) began administering behind-the-wheel drive tests June 26, after a long suspension due to the COVID-19

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Official Video)

Watch the official video for (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding. The video features video clips and photos of Otis Redding in the prime of his musical career. It was released posthumously on Stax Records Volt label becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the

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Houston passes budget that increases police funding, amid calls to ‘Defund’

After six hours of discussion and consideration of several proposed amendments, the Houston City Council today approved Mayor Sylvester Turner’s proposed $5.1 billion operating budget for the fiscal year beginning July

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

Netflix to spend $100M to help Black business

The New York Times reported today that Netflix, which has $5B in its cash reserves will place 2 percent of its holdings with financial institutions that loan to Black

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Source: theGrio

Zimbabwe: High Court Blocks Mr Dish's Bid to Raid Econet

Former partner of Econet Media in the Kwese TV business, Mr Dish, failed to show it needed to raid Econet and Cassava Smartech to obtain accounting records before these could be possibly destroyed, the High Court has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Bonnie Pointer of The Pointer Sisters Passes Away at Age 69

Bonnie Pointer, a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, passed away on Monday, June 8 at age 69 in Los

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

Police Reform Was Never Going to Be Easy — But Now’s the Time

Fundamental reforms would begin with ending the “qualified immunity” of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements and finally making lynching a hate

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

‘Morale Is Low’: Cops Wallow In Self-Pity As The Country Demands Better Policing That’s Not Racist

The movement to defund police combined with the overall sentiment that sweeping change is needed for all of law enforcement has apparently left cops with some issues of self-confidence and apparent self-pity over their uncertain

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Source: NewsOne

Harriet Tubman - Leading Slaves into Freedom

Harriet Tubman, born in 1820, was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the Moses of her people. Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay

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San Francisco Mayor, Supervisor to Defund Police Department to Invest in Black Community

Elected officials are hearing the voices of millions of people around the world pleading for police departments to be defunded after the recent deaths of black men and women killed by police

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Source: The Black Chronicle

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St Andrew man charged following gun seizure

A man was charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following the seizure of a gun at his St Andrew house on

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Fox News Bashed For Tracking Stock Gains After Attacks On Black Men

Fox News on Friday posted an offensive graphic tracking stock market gains in the wake of several infamous attacks on Black

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

Scrubbing California Landmarks of Racist Symbols — and the Word “Negro”

Renaming CA State Park Negro Bar, Formerly “Ni**er

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

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