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Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled

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Stores Focus On Cleaning To Get Shoppers Back To Spending | Afro

By ANNE DINNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Forget about making shopping fun. As clothing retailers and others try to stay viable during the coronavirus pandemic, theyre hoping steps like cleaning during store hours, offering hand sanitizer and other safety measures will bring in

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Dear America | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.theplayerstribune.com Dear America, Our whole lives you’ve wanted black people to ‘love’ you, to pledge their allegiance to you. You want us to love you when serving in uniform, but when we are out of uniform, you throw us aside as if we never served and protected you. You want us to love you

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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act | Afro

By NNPA Newswire Staff June 25 marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and upended decades of progress. Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that

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D-Nice And Michelle Obama Are Teaming Up For The Next Club Quarantine Party

'Couch Party: A Voter Registration Live Set' is Wednesday.

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Black Ad Exec to Create 1 Million Black Millionaires | Afro

Nationwide (BlackNews.com) Black professionals make up 10% of college graduates, but less than 1 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs and only 3 percent of executive/senior manager-level roles according to a study by the Center for Talent Innovation. The result of these struggles has led to thirty-eight

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REMEMBERING | Afro

It is our sacred duty to remember these and many others who have lost their lives in volatile interactions with police officers. Not only to remember, but to also call their names from time to time and tell the stories they can no longer tell. For many, the only record of their encounter is

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Woman Evicted From Apartment After Yelling ‘I Hate Black People’ At Fort Bragg Soldier

The incident happened when the man was visiting a friend.

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AFRO FACTS - THE START OF THE NAACP | Afro

By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green gives us the facts on the first beginnings of the NAACP The post AFRO FACTS - THE START OF THE NAACP appeared first on Afro.

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Charter Invests $10 Miliion Dollars with National Urban League and National Action Network to Assist Black-Owned Small Businesses in Underserved Communities

Stamford, CT. – June 11, 2020 – Charter Communications, Inc. today announced the company will invest $10 million in partnership with both the National Urban League (NUL) and National Action Network (NAN) to support Black and other minority-owned small businesses in underserved communities. This

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Beyoncé: Vote Like Our Life Depends On It, Because It Does | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.cnn.com By Lisa Respers France One of the major highlights of Sundays BET Awards was Beyoncé receiving the prestigious Humanitarian Award. Michelle Obama presented the honor to the superstar, who also happens to be the friend of the former first lady. Obama praised Beyoncé for her

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Family Now Says Black Man Found Hanging in Tree Died by Suicide | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

A Black man found hanging from a tree in California last month died by suicide, his family said in a statement. The body of Malcolm Harsch, 38, was discovered in Victorville 10 days before another black man, Robert Fuller, was found dead from a hanging 50 miles away. His family initially resisted

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Miami Gardens Cop Accused Of Using A Taser On A Woman Out On Bond

Jody Martel was also filmed putting his knee on her neck.

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A Black Cowboy Confronts the Whitewashed History Of The West | The Oklahoma Eagle

Cowboys are among the most iconic figures of the American West. They’re mythologized as strong, independent people who live and die by their own terms on the frontier. And in movies, the people who play them are mostly white. But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is

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Colgate Donates Millions Worth of Hygiene Essentials to In-Need Communities to Combat COVID-19 | Afro

Colgate Mobilizes its Dental Vans and Partners with Feeding America® to Distribute Health-and-Hygiene Essentials to Support COVID-19 Relief Schools, Food Banks to Receive Donations to Support People In Need Colgate-Palmolive is repurposing its fleet of mobile dental vans and tapping into a network

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Only White Prison Staff Are Allowed To Guard Derek Chauvin, Cop Who Killed George Floyd

Discrimination complaint alleges racial bias.

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Philadelphia Couple Celebrates Marriage During Black Lives Matter Protest

The heartwarming moment has gone viral.

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Jason Witten Responds To Former Cowboys Teammate Dez Bryant: I Believe It’s Time For Change | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.yahoo.com By Frank Schwab On Sunday, former Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant called out three men by name, saying someone should have brought them to the protests in Austin that focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. He mentioned Jerry and Stephen Jones, the braintrust of the

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NASA Names Headquarters After First Black Female Engineer At NASA | Afro

By US Black Engineer NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black female engineer at NASA. Mary started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the

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Wallace, NASCARs Black Agent of Change, Doing What Feels Right | Afro

By Dan Gelston AP Sports Writer Being an agent of change in NASCAR cuts both ways for Bubba Wallace. He is seen as a hero to some, particularly those who have longed for a Black driver to shake things up in a predominantly White sport. To others, the 26-year-old Wallace represents something else

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Chicago Teen Fatally Shot While Teaching Her Mom A TikTok Dance

Violence spiked in Chicago over Father’s Day weekend.

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States Reverse Openings, Require Masks Amid Virus Resurgence | Afro

By TAMARA LUSH and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press Arizonas Republican governor shut down bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks Monday and leaders in several states ordered residents to wear masks in public in a dramatic course reversal amid an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases

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Jimmy John’s Restaurant Workers Fired For Making A ‘Noose’ From Bread Dough

Who’s laughing now?

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Billions of Dollars in Aid For Small Businesses Go Unclaimed | Afro

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billions of dollars offered by Congress as a lifeline to small businesses struggling to survive the pandemic are about to be left on the table when a key government program stops accepting applications for loans. Business owners and advocacy

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Rayshard Brooks’ Widow Reacts After Hearing Police Kicked Her Wounded Husband

“I’m really hurt,” says Tomika Miller.

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Uber, Lyft Algorithms Charge More For Rides To Non-White Neighborhoods, Study Says | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.thegrio.com By Blue Telusma Aylin Caliskan and Akshat Pandey found that when passengers were either picked up from or headed to minority and/or lower-income neighborhoods they were charged more per mile. A new study that analyzed over 100 million ride-sharing trips in Chicago has come to some

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Crazed Arizona ‘Karen’ Claiming To Be Trump Spokesperson Destroys Target Face Mask Display

The woman tells cops that she was on a White House mission.

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Shape the Future of Your Community By Responding to the 2020 Census

By Karen Stokes The country is struggling through a pandemic, and moving forward, critical decisions will be made for the future of your community from data collected by the 2020 Census. You can do your part to shape the future. Complete your 2020 Census. “It’s a short census, it takes on average

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Off-Duty Cop Shoots At Customer In Oklahoma Walmart Parking Lot Over Alleged Stolen Grill

Nearly a dozen shots were fired into a driver’s side window.

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Black Mississippi Mayor Tears Up Signing Order To Remove Racist State Flag

“I don’t apologize for being emotional.”

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