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‘What is Hampton University?’ The Right Answer to a Jeopardy! Clue!

Under the category “Historically Black Colleges Universities,” the question was: “This U. near the VA. ‘Roads’ region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Surveillance programs could jeopardize protestors’ pursuit of justice

It’s called Mobility Data Specification (MDS), and it’s a new program developed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Retired nurse celebrates 95th birthday, thanks to local group –

Guests wearing facial masks were vigilant May 9, socially distancing themselves in the driveway to celebrate Lucille Huesner’s 95th

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Source: Daytona Times

Uganda: Aswa-Lolim Land - the Brewing Conflict Between Acholi, Jonam

An upsurge in wrangles over land between the Jonam and Acholi communities in former Aswa-lolim Game Reserve in GotapwoyoSub-county, Nwoya District, has claimed at least 10 lives and left scores injured in the past one

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Source: allAfrica.com

Atlanta Mayor On Rayshard Brooks Killing: He ‘Could Have Been Any One Of Us’

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is reflecting on the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks on June

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

Most Americans Want Juneteenth To Become A National Holiday

Most Americans support making Juneteenth a national holiday, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

1 Police officer in Breonna Taylor killing finally fired!

Following pressure from civil rights activists, public servants, private citizens and a number of celebrities at least one of three police officers involved in “no-knock” warrant lead to the fatal shooting of a Breonna Taylor in Louisville has been fired, the Louisville’s mayor Greg Fischer

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Legend says first ‘Statue of Liberty’ was black woman honoring abolition of slavery

In honor of this day of FREEDOM, we want to share some thoughts about a SYMBOL OF FREEDOM of which America is known for: THE STATUE OF

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

Africa: Scourge of Racism Violates UN Charter

Allow me to quote from the letter he sent last week to all UN staff: "The position of the United Nations on racism is crystal clear: this scourge violates the United Nations Charter and debases our core

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Source: allAfrica.com

Mayor to require city employees to take implicit-bias training

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti signed an executive directive June 19 to address racial equity in Los Angeles by requiring city departments to plan for the reinstatement of affirmative action in California and for city employees to take implicit-bias

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Source: Homepage -

UNITY IN DAYTONA –

About 500 people participated in the “I Can’t Breathe’’ protest in Daytona Beach the evening of June

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Source: Daytona Times

Clergy and Residents to City: Address Police Brutality and Socioeconomic Inequities

Rev. Nelson Johnson of Beloved Community Center spoke on the group’s recommendations to address policing, including an apology from the City of Greensboro on the police department’s role in the 1979 Greensboro

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Source: http://www.peacemakeronline.com

Uncle Nearest & Jack Daniel’s Announce Partnership To Increase Diversity In The Whiskey Industry

The money will help create the Nearest Green School of Distilling, develop the Leadership Acceleration Program (LAP) for apprenticeships, and establish the Business Incubation Program (BIP), focused on providing expertise and resources to African Americans entering the spirits industry as

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

Can Black Americans Keep Juneteenth Black-Owned?

Source: Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox / Getty

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

Juneteenth: Celebrating The Early Moments Of Freedom Today

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday of notable significance for many African

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Source: Black America Web

Everything To Know About The Mass Poor People’s Assembly And Online March On Washington

Only this protest — The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington for a Digital Justice Gathering — will be held online, inviting people to log on to the internet and digitally demand justice for low-income and otherwise disenfranchised people in

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Source: Black America Web

George Floyd Unrest and Action Continues…

George Perry Floyd Jr., born in North Carolina, raised in Houston’s Third Ward, and forging a new life in Minneapolis, was honored in all his humanity with funerals in all three

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

‘I am a very proud girl!’ - Daughter of Jamaican RAF officer thrilled at brave gunner’s memorial

And the stories told of their eldest son, George Mercier Edwards, who had gone off to fight in the Second World War in 1940, did not resonate as much as it did with her other ‘siblings’ – because she really did not know

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Post-COVID-19 mental health issues may be deadly

Rates of alcoholism, depression and suicide often spike after natural disasters and can catch communities off guard, particularly African-American communities where mental health issues have long been a source of shame and

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Source: Homepage -

When the protesting ends, do you just go home? –

There is a groundswell in America, and there have been multiracial protests and demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd by four Minnesota

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Source: Florida Courier

Senior State Department Official Resigns Over Trump’s Response To Racial Injustice

Mary Elizabeth Taylor, one of the highest-ranking African American officials in the Trump administration, resigned on Thursday over President Donald Trump’s response to racial tensions across the nation, The Washington Post

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Racial Divide of Coronavirus is Real, So are Innovations that Can Help

While coronavirus does not know boundaries of race, income, or ethnicity, its disproportionate impact on minority communities is unmistakable and points to a deeper crisis of racial disparities in health care that have persisted long before the onset of this

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

1 Police officer in Breonna Taylor killing finally fired!

Following pressure from civil rights activists, public servants, private citizens and a number of celebrities at least one of three police officers involved in “no-knock” warrant lead to the fatal shooting of a Breonna Taylor in Louisville has been fired, the Louisville’s mayor Greg Fischer

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

A SALUTE TO COURIER MEN –

Your credible, reliable resource of news and information affecting African-American communities across the state of Florida, USA.

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Source: Florida Courier

If We Don’t Solve Racial Injustice, We’ll Never Solve The Climate Crisis

During Hurricane Katrina, Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, was watching the news, seeing Black people on roofs waving anything they could find to beg the helicopters above to save their

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Joyful Juneteenth Marchers Brave D.C Rain As America Enters A Civil Rights Summer | Afro

And here they were on Juneteenth, blocks from America’s epicenter of

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Free “Talking About Race” Web Portal

Research shows that many people feel they do not have the information needed to discuss race in a way that is candid, safe and respectful of other viewpoints and a wealth of resources to inform and guide discussions—videos, role-playing exercises, targeted questions and more, said

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

The fascinating rites of Sambia people where boys drink semen of older men to become warriors

A war- like tribe, the society has sharply delineated roles of men and women and the very fact of men being born of women is cause to undergo the blood initiation supervised by the men’s secret society to even be considered a potential suitor by the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Mayor's Milk Initiative to begin fourth round | Dallas Weekly

The Mayor’s Milk Initiative will resume Thursday with a fourth round of sites scheduled for

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Source: Dallas Weekly

One bad apple spoils the barrel –

This debate was sparked by the shocking videotape of George Floyd being casually murdered by a Minneapolis police

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Source: Daytona Times

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