Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag

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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that's broadly condemned as racist.

Mississippi has the last state flag with the Confederate battle emblem — a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars.

White supremacists in the Mississippi Legislature set the state flag design in 1894 during backlash to the political power that African Americans gained after the Civil War.

Former Ole Miss basketball player Blake Hinson told his hometown Daytona Beach (Florida) News-Journal that the Mississippi flag played a part in his decision to transfer to Iowa State.

If a majority voting that day accept the new design, it will become the state flag.

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

When Ohio residents rallied to protect fugitive slave Addison White from U.S. Marshals

When Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Laws in 1793 and 1850, it allowed federal marshals to arrest slaves that had escaped to the North and take them back to their southern owners, as well as, arrest northerners suspected of aiding runaway

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Ida B’s Pulitzer - Both too late and right on time

Exactly one hundred and thirty-six years to the day after Ida B. Wells was thrown off a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad train, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans in the era of

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Source: http://www.peacemakeronline.com

Portrait of Black Chicago

The captions are John Whites own, written some time after he took his photographs. In some cases White used virtually the same caption for several

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Source: Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

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1975

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library (NYPL) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem

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Source: Black Past

William “Bill” Lamar, Jr.

William “Bill” Lamar, Jr. served as Chief Marketing Officer, McDonald’s USA. In this role, Lamar was responsible for the marketing, market research, advertising and new product development in the U.S. and its nearly 14,000

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Source: Savoy Network

MAEMA: Why Pandemic Bill spells injustice to Kenyan employers

Yet, there are many more issues that have been identified in the wake of Covid-19 which require a holistic legislative approach to cushion both employers and employees against needless, disruptive and expensive litigation which is bound to arise after the pandemic due to the inadequacy of the

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Source: Business Daily

MPs step up bid to tax online firms

FILE PHOTO | NMG

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Source: Business Daily

Too many Black children born in shackles –

“I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Eric Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed

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Source: Florida Courier

Defunding won’t reform the police department –

When a 77-year-old Black retired St. Louis Police Department captain David Dorn was shot and killed by Black looters, there was no comparable outrage by Black and White Democratic Party national political

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Source: Florida Courier

Namibia: State of The Nation Address by His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, President of The Republic Of Namibia

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Source: allAfrica.com

“We Do Not Need To Protect Them” Tika Sumpter Has A Message For Black People In Interracial Relationships

Last week, rapper Eve made headlines after she shared that she and her husband, Max Cooper, a White man, were having some uncomfortable conversations in the midst of the uprising currently taking place in this

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Source: MadameNoire

Civil Rights Bill enacted by Congress. Bill gave B

Civil Rights Bill enacted by Congress. Bill gave Blacks the right to equal treatment in inns, public conveyances, theaters and other places of public amusement. It will be overturned by the Supreme Court in 1883.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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Jesse White Announces Drive-Through Services for Vehicle Registration Renewals Beginning Tuesday | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced that beginning Tuesday, May 19, seven facilities will be offering drive-through services for vehicle registration sticker transactions

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Name at birth: Christopher Bridges

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Treasury in fresh bid to control county levies

Treasury in fresh bid to control county levies

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Source: Business Daily

Single, childless and black

Society, especially African societies, are generally uneasy with the idea of adult men and women who, for whatever reason, never got married or have

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

28 Unknown Facts: Black History

Black History is American History. This piece cites many amazing African Americans whos contribution to our nation often go unrecognized. This video is brought to you by S4T Works, a multimedia education non profit, specializing in workshops that fuse education and the

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Source: Black Past

Stokes, Charles Moorehead (1903-1996)

Charles Moorehead Stokes, one of three sons of Rev. Norris Jefferson Stokes and Myrtle Garner Stokes, was born on February 1, 1903 in Pratt, Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas Law School in 1931 and soon after opened his law practice in Pratt but later moved to Topeka to serve as an

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Source: Black Past

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1996

Ludacris is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur who first achieved fame as a “Dirty South” rapper, before gaining mainstream success. He was born Christopher Brian Bridges on September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois. He began rapping as a child and wrote his first rap song at

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Source: Black History Resources

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Zimbabwe: Corruption Dents Zim's Mining Sector Recovery

The mining sector is reeling under the impact of delays in processing of mining certificates, verification of applications, ground inspection, and delays in the settlement of

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jamaica: Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Juneteenth festival is canceled, but it’s still a time to reflect –

The committee recognizes that at a time such as this, the entertainment, love and unity that the Juneteenth events bring to our community is needed more now than

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Source: Daytona Times

Cyber Security Bill must protect all: ICT ex-minister

FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira (Nyanga South MP) yesterday claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the most abused person on social media while justifying the need to pass the Cyber Security and Data Protection

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

A Tearful Lizzo Speaks Out About Protests and the Fight Against Racism | Afro

Lizzo broke down into floods of tears as she vented about “the real story not being told fully” amid the protests against

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Brother Malcolm’s Message to “Sincere Whites”

Many people, Black and White, are slapping high fives and shouting Hallelujah over the sizeable number of Whites marching to protest the brutal lynching of George Floyd by a White police

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

The Quora Digest website and the tenticles of racist propaganda

Instead, it was my discovery that many similar racists questions, posed by equally obnoxious White provocateurs could be found in the website’s dark alleys and

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

Promoting Health Equity through Education and advocacy

Close the Gap is a Boston Scientific initiative designed to promote health equity by reducing barriers to cardiovascular care and education among women and minorities. We work with health care providers, professional societies and patient advocacy groups to ensure all patients can access optimal

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Source: Savoy Network

Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

UPDATED: 3:25 p.m. ET, June 12, 2020

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Source: The Urban Daily

Africa: Bill to Protect African Heritage Sites in Sight

Dodoma — THE Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports is preparing a Bill to be tabled in Parliament, for protecting and preserving the African liberation heritage areas against damage in the wake of several construction projects countrywide, parliament was

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ibram Kendi opens anti-racism center at BU

We need to ensure that these demonstrations turn into permanent policy changes that can protect black and brown people from police violence and

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Source: The Bay State Banner

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