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Congress Could Make Juneteenth A National Holiday – Free Press of Jacksonville

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who has been leading the GOP’s efforts on police reform in the wake of mass Black Lives Matter protests, said over the weekend that he was “open” to the idea of designating Juneteenth as a federal

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

California Legislative Black Caucus introduces Criminal Justice Reform Bills to their 2020 Legislative Package on Juneteenth

Sacramento – The California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) announced an expansion to their 2020 legislative package and called for the Capitol Dome to be light up in red, black and

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Now you know and you can’t pretend you don’t

By Mungi Ngomane, Advocate for Human Rights, Business Operations Manager for

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Source: Atlanta Daily World - Powered by Real Times Media

Mozambique: Government Reduces Some Fuel Prices

Maputo — The Mozambican Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy has announced a cut in the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG cooking gas, taking effect as from midnight on

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Source: allAfrica.com

WATCH: What You Need To Know — June 19, 2020: Miss Juneteenth — Fathers & Family — Coronavirus Update

Half-Brother of Man Found Hanging in California is Fatally Shot By Deputies

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Source: Black America Web

Officer Involved In Breonna Taylor Shooting To Be Fired

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville’s mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Emeka Igwe, the attorney who worked tirelessly for no fee to get Elmer Daniels freed after 39 yrs

When African-American Elmer Daniels gave a talk at a forum about his brutal life sentence and wrongful incarceration over alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl, Attorney Emeka Igwe was in the

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Black People’s Fears Of Clinical Racism Must Be Addressed In COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Experts Say

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Source: Black America Web

Nigeria: Coronavirus - Why We Postponed Resumption of Domestic Flights - Nigerian Govt

The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Musa Nuhu, has explained why the date for the resumption of domestic flights in the country was

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cameroon: Bali-Widikum - Task Force Operation Recovers Ammunitions

Armed fighters neutralized, enemy camps destroyed in a five day operation by elements of the 5th Joint Military Region

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria: How to Resolve Our Crisis - APC Acting National Chair

If there must be permanent resolution to the mirage of controversies rocking the APC, a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting must be convened, the party's acting National Chairman, Prince Hilliard Eta, has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Algeria: RSF Condemns Flagrant Erosion of Press Freedom in Algeria

In Mohammadia, 350 km west of Algiers, the newspaper Ennahar's correspondent, Djamel Ali Toubal, was given a summary trial on 17 June because of his sympathetic coverage of the "Hirak" anti-government street protests on Facebook and was sentenced to two years in prison for "insulting state

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Source: allAfrica.com

Juneteenth 2020: In This Land of the Free, How Free Are We?

Even the very Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 had little meaning to many Blacks who were omitted from the order and left in bondage in the very states fighting on the side of the Union to supposedly free them, as only those in the slave holding

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk

New research seems to confirm that, across the nation, the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted Black people, with death rates more than twice as high as that for any other

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

Bank of England says sorry for slave links as UK faces past

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has apologized for the slave links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable truths about their

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Mozambique: Eleven New COVID-19 Cases Diagnosed

Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced on Thursday that, with the diagnosis of a further eleven positive cases in the previous 24 hours, the number of people diagnosed with the disease in Mozambique has risen to

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cameroon: Fight Against COVID 19 - Education Stakeholders Fortify Strategies

A one-day workshop has been organized to evaluate barrier measures in the school

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: COVID-19 - Rwanda Records Lowest Number of New Infections in 3 Weeks

Rwanda on Wednesday, June 17 has recorded three new coronavirus cases in as many

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Source: allAfrica.com

Remembering Ron Brown; the first black person to head a major presidential cabinet position in U.S.

Brown attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he became the first African American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, collegiate fraternity and as result, the national charter of SPE at Middlebury was rescinded and the fraternity became known as Sigma Epsilon, the Harlemworldmagazine.com

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Africa: President Ramaphosa Launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to Help Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19: African Union Chair, President Ramaphosa launches the Africa Medical Supplies Platform, Africa's Unified Continental response to fight the pandemic

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Source: allAfrica.com

MoBay call centre sends home staff after worker's mom tests positive for COVID

Conduent, one of the leading call centre operations in Montego Bay, St James has sent home its staff as a precaution after the mother of an employee tested positive for the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

West Africa: Abuses By G5 Soldiers in Sahel 'Could Threaten International Support'

French Defence Minister Florence Parly has urged governments in the Sahel to uphold human rights during military operations, in a report on the progress of France's regional Operation Barkhane before the French senate's foreign affairs

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ghana: Residents Ordered to Weed, Desilt Choked Gutters ... for Failing to Wear Face Masks

Some recalcitrant Sunyani residents who failed to wear their face masks were yesterday arrested and made to undertake clean-up exercise for some hours by security agencies who were on the streets to enforce directives and protocols of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) announced by the President, Nana

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Source: allAfrica.com

FULL TEXT: Civic, business groups write political leaders over crime consensus

Several civic and business groups have written an open letter to Jamaica’s two main political leaders expressing concern over the delay in advancing discussion on a national crime

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: 117 COVID-19 Cases Reported as 3,043 Samples Screened, Death Toll Rises to 119

Nairobi — The Ministry of Health confirmed 117 new coronavirus cases on Friday bringing the cumulative toll reported in the country since March to 4,374, the death toll having risen to 119 after two more deaths were

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Source: allAfrica.com

Thomas Jefferson Descendant Calls For Removal Of His Famous Ancestor's Statues

Shannon Lanier, a ninth-generation direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson, believes that statues of the Founding Father would be better off in

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

Mozambique: PM Visits People Displaced By Terrorism

Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Friday urged people displaced by the fighting in the northern province of Cabo Delgado to distance themselves from the terrorists responsible for the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Report On Teen Pregnancies Alarms Kenyans

A survey by the Kenya Health Information System shows that about 4,000 girls aged 19 years and below were reported pregnant in Machakos County between January and May, which means 27 girls conceived every

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: West Africa Takes Tentative Steps to Re-Open Region After COVID-19 Crisis

West African countries that had imposed travel restrictions to combat the spread of Covid-19 are contemplating coordinating efforts to allow travelers from countries within the region to enter to conduct cross-border

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ghana: EC Pilot Registration Exercise Successful

The Electoral Commission (EC) yesterday conducted a pilot voters' registration exercise at the Accra Ridge Church to test its Biometric Verification Systems for the upcoming December

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Source: allAfrica.com

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