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Omar describes life as a fearless fighter in new memoir

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks at a campaign rally for Senator (I-VT) and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at Nashua Community College on December 13, 2019 in Nashua, New

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Texas Democrats urge Abbott to call special session as details emerge showing Javier Ambler's death at the hands of sheriff's deputies

Local and state leaders are calling for the resignation of Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody and for the deputies involved in Javier Ambler’s death to be

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Georgia election chief wants power to intervene in counties | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s chief election officer said Wednesday that he’s seeking legislation that would let the state election board set rules allowing him to intervene in troubled county election

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Black Activists Confront Affirmative Action Opponents on Zoom Call

Dr. Mei-ling Malone, adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton

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Congress Slams CDC For 'Lazy' Report On Coronavirus Deaths By Race, Ethnicity

Members of Congress have called a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report on the racial and ethnic deaths related to the

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Mississippi lawmakers vote to remove Confederate emblem from flag

The Mississippi state legislature on Sunday passed a bill to remove the Confederate emblem from their flag in a historic referendum on the only remaining state flag to feature the Confederate

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Protesters Fell Confederate Monument In D.C., Provoking Trump's Fury

Another Confederate monument has fallen — this time in a city where such memorials were understandably rare to begin with: the

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Source: Stories About Black History

Former Baltimore Mayor Pleads Guilty to Perjury Charge

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Baltimore’s disgraced former mayor pleaded guilty to a state perjury charge Friday for failing to disclose a business interest relating to her “Healthy Holly” children’s books on her financial disclosure forms when she was a state

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The 40-Year-Old Gantt Report, Authored by Trailblazing Journalist/Entrepreneur Lucius Gantt, is One of the Longest-Running Newspaper Columns in America. In an Exclusive Florida Courier Newspaper Interview, He Tells Readers Why He’s ‘Stayed Black.’ | Afro

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Fauci: US 'Going In Wrong Direction' In Coronavirus Outbreak

The U.S. is “going in the wrong direction” with the coronavirus surging badly enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday some regions are putting the entire country at risk — just as schools and colleges are wrestling with how to safely

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Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race | The Atlanta Voice

People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works — and maybe offer a reality

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Jacksonville, Trump’s New Convention Site, Will Now Require Face Masks

MIAMI — Florida billed itself as a coronavirus oasis when it wooed the Republican National Convention: The pandemic seemed under control, and Republican state and city leaders welcomed a major televised event to show off the progress and cement votes for President Trump in the nation’s biggest

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Robert Johnson says Black Lives Matter should form a political party: 'We need a black party'

Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is urging Black Americans to form their own political party to specifically address black

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Uniting to defeat an external enemy –

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses have closed, never to open

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Source: Daytona Times

A Black Running Mate for Biden? More Democrats Are Making the Case – Free Press of Jacksonville

“Just like in ’08 — when President Obama selected someone that would help him govern, someone that could hit the ground running on recovery efforts in ’09 — when Joe Biden is elected in November, his running mate, the next vice president, would hit the ground running to address the crisis we have

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

Guest Editorial: Reform qualified immunity for police

Before his encounter with Floyd, Chauvin had a record that raises serious questions as to why he had been allowed to remain on the police force for nearly 20

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Man Kills Girlfriend and Her Two Daughters Because She Wanted To Leave Him

According to authorities, Jordan got angry that his one-time girlfriend, 37-year-old Shanta Renee Singleton, was leaving him for another

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Source: Your Black World

Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Clarifies Message to Black America | Afro

Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden clarified his message to Black America after the GOP, and others, seized on a remark he made in jest while wrapping up an interview with the famous Breakfast

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'Very disturbing'

WASHINGTON, DC, United States — Dr Anthony Fauci said if Americans don't start following public health recommendations US coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000

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Mourners bid farewell to Rayshard Brooks at historic church

ATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too

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Source: The Birmingham Times

OP-ED: We Can't Let This Moment Pass

Gantt exclaimed in an exclusive interview with the Florida Courier, Florida’s statewide Black weekly

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Amazon Studios to release voting rights film featuring Stacey Abrams

The documentary, which prominently features insights from politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams, is directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lisa

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Trump To Move Republican National Convention Out Of North Carolina

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Trump is looking to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina after officials refuse to confirm if the event could be held in Charlotte without restrictions, even amid the coronavirus

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Trump threatens to move RNC without assurances from governor

President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August despite the ongoing COVID-19

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McGrath wins Kentucky Dem primary; McConnell showdown awaits

(AP Photo/Bryan

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What Is No Longer In A Name: Rhode Island Official Docs Shed Racially Loaded Moniker

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Source: Stories About Black History

Biden's 'Breakfast Club' blunder is a teachable moment for white liberals

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Mayor: Officer Who Put Knee on Man’s Neck Should Be Charged

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday for criminal charges against the white police officer seen on video kneeling against the neck of a handcuffed black man who complained that he could not breathe and died in police

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P.B.S. Pinchback

P.B.S. Pinchback elected to the U. S. Senate. Since he had previously been elected to Congress, he went to Washington with the unique distinction of being both a senator-elect and a congressman-elect.

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