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Is It Safe to Fly Right Now? Here’s What Experts Have to Say – Free Press of Jacksonville

Some airlines, like JetBlue , even require passengers to wear face coverings over their mouths and noses throughout check-in, boarding, in flight, and while deplaning, while others may only require that masks be worn on

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Atlanta Officers Arrests Seen as Flashpoint in Police Morale Across the Nation?

The swift firing and arrests of two Atlanta police officers —now facing 15 charges between them ranging from aggravated assault to felony murder—following the tragic death of Rayshard Brooks, has sparked growing tension in police forces in Atlanta and throughout the

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Tamir Rice's mother calls out artists using her son's image without permission

Samaria Rice (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty

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Source: theGrio

African-American History Timeline: 1890 - 1899

Like many decades before, the 1890’s were filled with great achievements by African-Americans as well as many injustices. Almost thirty years after the establishment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, African-Americans such as Booker T. Washington were establishing and heading

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Source: ThoughtCo

'Smart As a Button': Kenya Moore's Daughter Learns Her Flash Cards

On Monday, June 15, the reality star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” shared a video on Instagram of her 1-year-old daughter Brooklyn Daly learning her flash

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

Vast amounts of Venezuelan oil are hidden en route to China, bypassing U.S. sanctions - data, documents

CARACAS/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Last year, China replaced the United States as the No. 1 importer of oil from Venezuela, yet another front in the heated rivalry between Washington and

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Africa: COVID-19 May Push Millions More Children Into Child Labour - ILO and Unicef

New York/Geneva — Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat

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Source: allAfrica.com

FBI Super Agent: James E. Amos

James E. Amos was a very early Black FBI agent who joined the then Bureau of Investigation in the wake of James Wormley

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Source: Black Then

MASON: The Roots of White Supremacy

It depicts a battle between rival gangs of poor white people — native-born Americans versus Irish immigrants — in the notorious Manhattan slum of Five

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Source: The Washington Informer

How artist Emma Amos challenged racism and sexism through anonymous groups

Art museum director, Sharon Patton, summarizes her works thus: “Amos’s sequence of paintings is anecdotal, but the objective of each is the same: to argue constructively against norms in the field of art as well as

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Calls For Juneteenth To Become A National Holiday Gain Steam

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed an executive order to make Juneteenth a holiday for New York state employees and has said that he will propose legislation next year to make June 19 a state

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

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

Starbucks, Diageo join Facebook advertising boycott

Mark Zuckerberg

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Source: TechCentral

‘More police officers are shot and killed by blacks than police officers kill African-Americans,’ claims former New York Mayor Giuliani

That’s former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offering his perspective to Fox News on rising concerns that police disproportionately kill black

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Sierra Leone Journalist Sylvia Olayinka Blyden Detained, Charged Over Social Media Posts

On May 1, police arrested Blyden, publisher of the Awareness Times newspaper, at her home in Freetown for alleged "cyber-related" offenses, according to Messeh Leone, a legal activist familiar with the case, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app and phone, and a June 4 police statement, which CPJ

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Source: allAfrica.com

Meet the Visionary Bringing Aretha Franklin’s Biopic ‘Respect’ to Life

The card-carrying member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences worked several seasons on Queen Sugar, creating the lush sightscapes that distinguish that show from many

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Source: https://zora.medium.com

'Iconic Hairstyle': Evelyn Lozada's Old Reunion Looks Leave Fans Gushing

Evelyn sported a top knot bun with bangs that flattered her face

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

The Proud Queer Influence of the Harlem Renaissance

And yet, despite the mainstream claims that homosexuality is a recent enigma, Shoga Films’ documentary, Queer Harlem Renaissance: A Prospectus, is fighting to re-establish the history of Black Queerness and its struggle against the Black Elite’s steady social concessions for the White

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Beauty Founder Sharon Chuter Established The #PullUpOrShutUp Movement To Rebuild The Black Middle-Class With High Paying Jobs

(Photo: Courtesy of UOMA

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

La Amistad

Coordinates: 41°21′40″N 71°57′58″W / 41.361°N 71.966°W La Amistad (pronounced [la a.misˈtað]; Spanish for Friendship) was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been enslaved in

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Florida site of GOP convention orders wearing of masks

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty

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Source: theGrio

White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019, AP sources say

Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the

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Source: theGrio

'You're Looking too Hard': Fans Come to Yandy Smith's Defense After Troll Takes Offense to Her Recent 'CEO' Pose

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

I Come From a Long Line of Angry Black Women | Afro

I come from a long line of strong and angry Black

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

André 3000 Turns His Jumpsuits Into T-Shirt Line Benefiting Black Lives

Source: Outkast performs during Advertising Week at the Best Buy Theater Featuring: Andre 3000,Outkast Where: New York, United States When: 02 Oct 2014 Credit: WENN.com

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Source: The Urban Daily

2 Lawyers, One Black, the Other Muslim, Face Possible Life Sentence

“Amid largely peaceful demonstrations taking place on the night of May 29, 2020, these defendants allegedly hurled Molotov Cocktails at NYPD vehicles without regard for the potentially deadly consequences,” stated United States Attorney

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It Doesn’t Look Like the Protests Are Causing a COVID-19 Spike

When tens of thousands of people hit the streets protesting the police killing of George Floyd, many worried that the crowds—often too dense to allow the recommended 6 feet of social distancing—would spark a new wave of COVID-19

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Former Bad Boy Rapper Shyne Nominated for House of Representatives in His Native Country of Belize

According to REVOLT TV, former Bad Boy signee Shyne (pictured) has been nominated by the Belizean United Democratic Party to run for a seat on the nation’s House of

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Source: Your Black World

Nigeria coronavirus: almost 20,000 cases; govt pays $12m hazard allowance

Confirmed cases = 19,808

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Reverse Freedom Rides: When segregationists tricked blacks from the South into moving north

A segregationist publicity stunt spearheaded by George Singelmann of the White Citizens Council in New Orleans, the Reverse Freedom Rides program was to trick hundreds of African Americans from the South into moving

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