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NNPA President Dr. Ben Chavis to moderate Forum on Equality

National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., will serve as a moderator for an important national forum on racial equality in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, June

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Black Lives Matter groups plan national convention

(Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty

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Source: theGrio

Juneteenth honors the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence

—General Order No. 3 as read by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

‘HAVE A POSITIVE DAY’ Brenda Waters retires after 35 years at KDKA-TV

Courier Staff Writer

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A half century of service at Harvard

On its face, the employment proposition a Harvard admissions officer put to David Evans seemed far-fetched: leave a prestigious job working at NASA and take a pay cut to come to Cambridge and work at Harvard

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Finding solutions to prevent more killings like George Floyd

His mom, Myrtle Faye Rumph, started the center with family and friends to help keep other people from suffering her

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‘This Is Unintellectual and Irresponsible’: Terry Crews Draws Ire of Black Twitter For Warning Folks Against #BlackLivesBetter

Terry Crews was dragged on social media for the second time in a month after he criticized the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter this

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

Black clergy voices opposition to mall sale

BALDWIN HILLS — A local coalition representing 300 black clergy members has joined the fight to block the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, one of the biggest malls in Los

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Rayshard Brooks Memorialized At Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Family, friends, dignitaries, elected officials and community leaders gathered today to remember the life of Rayshard Brooks at Historic Ebenezer Baptist

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cosby Appeal

National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., will serve as a moderator for an important national forum on racial equality in

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Morial, Urban League leaders: We need a revision of culture

National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, along with Urban League affiliate leaders from around the country, issued the following statement in response to the civil unrest sweeping the nation: Our communities are overwhelmed with

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Source: South Florida Times

COMMENTARY: Faith and Common-Sense, Ways to Fight Coronavirus

By Norma Adams-Wade, Founding Member of the National Association of Black Journalists and Texas Metro News Columnist

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Family, friends gather in Atlanta for Rayshard Brooks public viewing

Pallbearers bring the remains of Rayshard Brooks to the Ebenezer Baptist Church for his funeral on June 23, 2020 in

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Source: theGrio

50 years later, there’s still so much to be done –

George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and

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Source: Daytona Times

Niecy Nash Says a Police Officer Pulled Out a Taser on Her Son and Questioned Him About Car He Was Driving

Not only because she’s been affected by the death of George Floyd and the ongoing protests, but because her son Dominic Nash was harassed by a police

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

Local Pastor Grows Into Activist Role

Genesis’ Senior Pastor Dr. Tecoy Porter spearheaded the June 4 service as president of the Sacramento Chapter of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Africa: Human Rights Council Holds an Urgent Debate On Current Racially Inspired Human Rights Violations, Systemic Racism, Police Brutality and Violence Against Peaceful Protests

Speakers Urge the Council to Establish an International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement in the United States

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Source: allAfrica.com

#Election2020 – As early voting concludes, Warnock is pleased with youthful protesters | The Atlanta Voice

During the early voting period, more than 30,458 Fulton County voters cast their ballots, according to a joint statement by Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections Chair Mary Carole Cooney and Director of Registration & Elections Richard

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

The partisan chasm over 'systemic racism' is on full display | The Atlanta Voice

In surveys by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute, Americans who support Trump were far more likely than those who don’t to say that police shootings of black men are only isolated incidents and to claim that discrimination against whites is now as great a problem as bias against

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Movements Are Nothing Without Endurance

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Drive-Thru Voter Registration This Saturday, 11a-1p | Dallas Weekly

Drive-Thru Voter Registration This Saturday, 11a-1p

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Shooting of Tamir Rice

The shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy (June 25, 2002 – November 23, 2014), occurred on November 22, 2014, in Cleveland, Ohio. Two police officers, 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, responded after receiving a police dispatch call of a male black

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Source: AA Studies Research Guide

Wright, Jeremiah A. (1941-- )

Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 22, 1941 to Jeremiah A. Wright, Sr., a Baptist minister who served as pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Germantown, and Mary Henderson Wright. Wright completed primary and secondary school in that city and in

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Source: Black Past

Access to Wellness Resources and Healthy Food Started with a Nurse from the Neighborhood

Julia Means, community a nurse with Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital is known throughout her neighborhood as ‘The

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

We can’t let this moment pass

I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States Senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Newswire: George Floyd, whose death energized a movement, laid to rest

By: Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Brandon McClain - 2019 Herman Zerger Veteran of the Year

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Montgomery County Recorder and Veteran

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Source: Dayton News & Weather | Dayton, OH | wdtn.com

The stuff of Dreams — MLK goes right on marching

George Floyd is sadly one of many, many African Americans who have been the victim of racial profiling and

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Source: The Florida Star

Film review: John Lewis – Good Trouble

“I feel lucky and blessed that I’m serving in the Congress… But there is a force that is trying to take us back to another time and another dark period,” warns congressman John

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Porsha Williams Remembers Being Chased By The KKK As A Child

Porsha individually is not really known for her activism, though she is the granddaughter of prominent Civil Rights Leader, Hosea Williams, who closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership

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