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Uganda: Residents Force Leaders to Abandon Shs70m Project

However, during a meeting with the municipal town clerk, Mr Ambrose Ocen, on Tuesday, residents said they do not want the project on the health centre land, arguing that they were not

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NBC Will Host A Virutal Discussion On Parenting Black Children In America

NBC News NOW will stream a virtual discussion with families from around the country on the realities of parenting Black children in

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Source: The Black Chronicle

8 Network Television Shows Starring Black Women

Television shows starring black women have been few and far between on the Big 3 television networks, but that changed after the success of ABCs Scandal, which paved the way for a number of black women to appear on television. Learn which shows starring black predated Scandal and about the programs

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Bolton: Trump moves in office guided by reelection concerns | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump “pleaded” with China’s Xi Jinping during a 2019 summit to help his reelection prospects, according to a scathing new book by former Trump adviser John Bolton that accuses the president of being driven by political calculations when making national security

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

City councilors question police dept. funding

The Boston City Council is set to decide on June 10 whether or not to approve the $414 million allocated to Boston Police Department (BPD) in the city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Percy Julian's Death

Death of Percy Julian (76), holder of more than 138 chemical patents, and a pioneer synthesizer of cortisone drugs.

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Residents Say Clip Of Cops Pulling Gun On Teens Isn’t ‘Isolated Incident’ Amid Police Statement

Cops said they later got another call saying the teens were now in the parking lot, playing with a gun and

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Chicago Investigating Officers ‘Lounging’ During Unrest

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a dozen Chicago police officers and supervisors were captured on video “lounging” inside a burglarized congressional campaign office and even appeared to be making popcorn and brewing coffee as people vandalized and stole from nearby businesses as protests and unrest spread

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Mayor Johnson calls a special meeting in response to excessive force claims during peaceful protests

Mayor Eric Johnson called a Dallas City Council special meeting June 5 in response to reports of police

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How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Understanding Of Police

I think there’s a straight line you can draw from the entertainment people consume to police killing unarmed Black

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Fired Atlanta Officers File Suit Against Mayor, Police Chief

ATLANTA (AP) — Two Atlanta police officers who were fired after video showed them using stun guns on two college students pulled from a car in traffic during a large protest against police brutality are looking to get their jobs

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Black Businesses Re-Open With Anxiety, Caution And New Health Guidelines

Last week, businesses in King County like beauty shops, barber shops and restaurants were allowed to re-open under certain guidelines issued by the Washington State Department of Health and Gov. Jay Inslee in order to help control the spread of COVID-19 in a hybrid phase of re-opening the

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Cops-Cops, Do Your Duty-Intervene.

The problem is most big city police departments do not have any written, or enforced, policy requiring officers to intervene and report other officers who commit

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South Africa: Residents Clash With Land Occupiers in Uitenhage

Over a dozen shacks were demolished or damaged when residents of Moeggesukkel informal settlement clashed with new occupiers on

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Kenya: Give Us Your Farm Throw-Aways; We'll Give Back Black Gold

Mwea Ngurubani County, Kenya — Whether volunteering at local high schools in her community, educating boys about the importance of speaking out and building self-confidence or taking a summer course at Oklahoma State University in the United States as a 2019 Mandela Washington Fellow – Kenyan

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Feds To Review Cases Into Hanging Deaths Of 2 Black Men | Afro

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities will review local investigations into the hanging deaths of two black men in Southern California to determine whether federal law was violated, officials said

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

‘Abolish The Police’ Isn’t New. This Energy Is.

They argue that the U.S. criminal justice system has at every level — from law enforcement to courts and prisons — not only failed at public safety but actively harmed Black and brown communities through hyper-criminalization and refers to a world in which people don’t need to rely on police or

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Leaders Discuss How Community Can Forward Black Lives Matter Movement

By Janell Gore, South Kern Sol

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New Denham Town homeowners warned against fire hazards

WITH MORE than 500 residents of the Kingston Western constituency rendered homeless by fire in the last six years, four families who received keys to houses in Denham Town have been warned against the hazard of stealing

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Atlanta Officer Fired After Fatal Shooting of Black Man

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta police officer was fired following the fatal shooting of a black man and another officer was placed on administrative duty, the police department announced early

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Black Amazon Driver Arrested For ‘Parking Facing Wrong Way’

"There was an outrageous and unacceptable physical altercation with a Warren police officer involving a young African American delivery man for Amazon to a Warren home today," he

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

Viruses and Violence

As the world grapples with a global pandemic that has disrupted daily life in every way imaginable, Black people are again forced to also grapple with what it means to be Black in

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Initial Findings Disputed In Probes Into California Hanging Deaths

When two black men were found dead hanging from trees in California, authorities first called them

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Source: Stories About Black History

Donald Trump Trump Signs Order on Police Reform

WASHINGTON (AP) — Following weeks of national protests since the death of George Floyd, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would encourage better police

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Dave Chappelle Rips Candace Owens’ Anti-Blackness: ‘I Can’t Think Of A Worse Way To Make Money’

Owens’ name was tucked into a comedy bit that at times was hilarious and at other times was, of course, very sobering considering the reason why Chappelle was performing it in the first

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Biden Tells ‘The Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah He Doesn’t Agree With Defund The Police Approach

“I don’t believe police should be defunded but I think that conditions should be placed upon them where departments are having to take significant reform,” said

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Atlanta Fires Two More Police Officers For College Couple Tasering Incident

The Atlanta Police Department has fired two more police officers in connection with a May 30 incident in which two college students were tasered and dragged out of their vehicle while stuck in traffic after a protest

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News Brief: Policing Order, U.S. Troops In Germany, Hanging Deaths Probed

KING: NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez has been talking with senior administration

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