Nina Simone, singer, dies in Paris, France at the age of 70.

Kenya Beats Djibouti for the UN Seat

UN Member States chose the country in a second round of voting on Thursday in the General Assembly, with 192 ambassadors casting their ballots during pre-determined time slots, due to the COVID-19

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Global virus cases top nine million

Global coronavirus infections topped nine million on Monday as the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic was accelerating and Saudi Arabia said it would allow a "very limited" number of pilgrims to the hajj next

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This Day In History- June 19

2007: A car bomb strikes near the revered Shiite Khillani mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200, the same day about 10,000 US soldiers launch an offensive against al-Qaeda in Iraq north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 22

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Coronavirus May Kill Tech Startups | Afro

Unicorns are seeing their valuations sliced, some by 40 percent, as tracked by European company

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Emphasis on continued investment in women’s cricket - Belinda Clark

Former Australia Women’s Cricket Team Captain Belinda Clark is calling for more investment into

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Africa: France Defends Colonial-Era Statues in the Face of Anti-Racism Protests

French President Emmanuel Macron has resisted calls to take down statues with links to colonialism and slavery, vowing not to erase

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Djibouti: Kenya, Djibouti Set for Repeat Polls for UN Security Council Seat

Kenya and Djibouti are sent for repeat election after they failed to garner more than 128 votes of all the 193 member states to capture the seat in the first round election which was conducted last

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Jazz C Gobert still not fully recovered from COVID-19

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to reportedly test positive for COVID-19 and who drew the ire of numerous people when the league initially suspended the season, says he is still not fully recovered more than three months after his original

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The Truth is No Longer Color Blind

The dastardly “his-storical” truth is that it’s all in plain old Black and White for the world to see, and that’s as near a reality as the distance from Minneapolis to Houston is as this potentially great nation struggles with the mounting police miscarriages, exposing continual systematic

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Africa: Investment in Africa Projected to Drop, UN Report Says

A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD) forecasts a steep drop by up to 40 per cent in global trade, due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected the global

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Why The World Is More Worried Than Ever About A 2nd Wave | The Oklahoma Eagle

A fresh coronavirus outbreak in China, new cases in New Zealand and record infections in parts of the United States show that the pandemic is far from

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was born in Tryon, North Carolina to Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon. She was the sixth of seventh children and the family was quite poor when Simone was growing

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Africa's top virus deaths: Ex-Nigerian governor dies

While each death is reported with a sombre mood and with condolences to affected families, some of the casualties have united a country in grief, in other cases united the continent and people beyond

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History of African Americans in Boston

Until 1950, African Americans were a small but historically important minority in Boston, where the population was overwhelmingly white. Since then, Bostons demographics have changed due to factors such as immigration, white flight, and gentrification. According to census information for

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Oscar Brown

Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. He ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress. Brown wrote numerous songs (only 125 have been published), 12

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

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

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Congo-Kinshasa: Top Congolese Opposition Member Dies of COVID-19

Also Sunday, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said the country's health minister has the

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NGO accuses France of starting Mozambique 'climate bomb'

Friends of the Earth accused France on Monday of planting a "ticking climate bomb" in Mozambique, where French oil giant Total is developing a mega-project to exploit natural

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Around The World: Black Lives Matter

While mourners filed past George Floyd’s body in a Free Will Baptist church in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., just 12 days after he was killed under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, tens of thousands of people across the country and around the world came together to protest his

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Somalia, Eswatini, Togo, others elected veeps of 75th UN Gen. Assembly

Somali has been elected Vice President of the 75th session of the United Nationals General Assembly, UNGA which will run for the year 2020

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FASHION ICON: | The Crusader Newspaper Group

“The Chiffon Trenches” is a chronicle of the remarkable life of trailblazing fashion icon Andre Leon Talley as he breaks new ground in an industry rife with racism, prejudice and

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Covid-19 wrap: 482 802 global deaths, virus resurging in Europe and Indonesia cases pass 50 000

Virus resurging in Europe as restrictions ease - WHO

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Africa's leaders, musicians hardest hit by virus

Kenya’s seat of power, the State House, last week reported that several workers at the principal presidential office and residence had tested positive for

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North Africa: France Confirms Death of North Africa's Al-Qaeda Head

French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly confirmed on Friday that France and its military partners had killed Abdelmalek Droukdal, the North African head of the terror

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ICC prosecutor urges Sudan to transfer Bashir, others to The Hague

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called the surrender of Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb to the war crimes tribunal “a pivotal development” for victims awaiting justice and urged Sudan to hand over former president Omar al-Bashir and two others wanted by the

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Tennessee Voices, Episode 32: Steven Lewis, curator, National Museum of African American Music

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Nigeria coronavirus: 20,244 cases; daily new cases drop below 500

Confirmed cases = 19,808

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Tunisia: HPR - Divided Opinions On Motion of Pdl and Unanimous Rejection of Interference in Libyan Affairs

Tunis/Tunisia — Members speaking on the motion presented by the Free Destourian Party (PDL) were unanimous in their rejection of any interference in Libya's internal

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Africa: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Other Global Ills Share Root Causes

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaties charged with solving two of the biggest problems of the 21st century, were both due to hold make-or-break meetings in

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Tunisia: International Day of Family Remittances - Ifad Calls for Remittance Service Providers to Be Declared Essential Businesses in Times of Crisis

Tunis/Tunisia — With the significant decline in money sent home by migrants due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) called on June 16, for governments across the world to declare remittance service providers essential

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