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Racism Is A Public Health Crisis. Ohio Wants To Declare It A Statewide Emergency.

As nationwide protests continue over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed when a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck last month, Ohio is trying to declare racism a public health

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

DeSoto ISD Superintendent Speaks on Social Justice | Dallas Weekly

As an educator, I’ve seen our public education system fail at effectively ensuring that students not only learn core content at equitably rigorous levels, but also fail at helping students learn about the realities of race, class, privilege, and collective

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Black COVID-19 Patients in California Hospitalized 2.7 More Times Than Whites, Report Says | Post News Group

The cost of unequal healthcare is measured in human life, says Dr. Stephen Lockhart, the African American chief medical officer at Sutter Health, a non-profit healthcare network centered in Sacramento that serves 3 million people in 24 hospitals located across Northern

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Source: Post News Group | PNG

A tale of two lynchings & two very different responses

This past week’s international civil disturbances, sparked by the ‘lynching’ of a Black man in Minneapolis, took me back four decades to the killing/murder of Earnest Lacy by Milwaukee police

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Viral Justice for Breonna Taylor petition on Change.org hits 3 million signatures

Petition starter will lead virtual protest tomorrow (June 5th) on what would have been Breonna’s 27th birthday

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Zim poet appointed Unesco affiliate

INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED poet and writer, Mbizo Chirasha has received a major boost in his artistic career after he was accepted as a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)-Rila affiliate artist, joining an esteemed team of other international creatives on

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

The unbearable grief of Black mothers

The emotional and physical burden of trauma on Black mothers’ bodies

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Source: Vox - Understand the News

Health care equipment shortages lead to innovation, conflict | Afro

At one point, more than 30% of U.S. healthcare workers had two weeks of N95 face masks, considered the standard for protection, remaining, and 22% had none at all, according to GetUsPPE.org, a grassroots organization working to source personal protective equipment for U.S. healthcare

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

African Development Bank delivers on a decade of transformative commitments to reduce poverty

For the past five decades, the African Development Bank AfDBGroup has been at the forefront of driving Africa’s economic transformation, leveraging its diverse resources and unique know-how as an indigenous development finance

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Auditor general validates rationale for suspension of fiscal rules

“Based on the results [of a review of briefs from the Planning Institute of Jamaica and the finance ministry], which I found to be similar to the ministry's revised forecast for the central government accounts, I validate that the estimated fiscal impact of the eventuality — the COVID-19 pandemic

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Everyday Value investing in Jamaica’s future

Everyday Value Jamaica Limited has demonstrated confidence in the future of Jamaica’s economy with its acquisition of St Bess Foods and Lowe’s Peanut Brittle Limited amid the downturn in global fortunes from the devastating impact of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Woman, 87, is country's 10th COVID-19 death

JAMAICA yesterday recorded its 10th COVID-19 death — an 87-year-old woman from St

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

300 Tested for COVID-19 Doctors Consortium Sets up at Masjidullah Philadelphia | Muslim Journal

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. – The Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium offered free coronavirus testing at Masjidullah on Tues., May 5, 2020, marking the first time the group has organized an effort at an Islamic house of

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Source: Muslim Journal | Publishing Community News weekly since 1975!

Coronavirus Update: Obesity Linked to More Serious Illness From COVID-19 in Children

A new study about the coronavirus finds that obesity is linked to a higher risk of children getting a more severe illness from the

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Source: Black America Web

The Aretha Franklin Amphitheater Postpones All Currently Ticketed Summer 2020 Performance Dates to 2021

Like so many performing arts venues, organizations and businesses, The Aretha Franklin Amphitheater’s 2020 ticketed performances have been affected by the COVID-19

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

WATCH | Doctor fighting on coronavirus frontline says it is both exhausting and rewarding

Working during the Covid-19 pandemic is both exhausting and demanding, says Dr Mumtaz Abbas - but it is through these tough times she feels she is really living her true

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Quarantined Teens Participate In A First Ever Virtual NAACP ACTSO Competition

All nine hopeful students won gold medals, positioning themselves to advance to the Virtual 42nd Annual NAACP ACTSO National Competition in July

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Source: The New Journal and Guide

Jamaicans urged to join campaign against illegal dumping

THE National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) is calling on all Jamaicans to join the campaign against illegal dumping, particularly on National Solid Waste Day, June

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Musician condemns fake COVID-19 news

UP-AND-COMING musician Obvious Dziwanyika has joined the fight against COVID-19 through music by releasing his debut offering Adjustments in which he condemns the spread of fake news about the

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Stokes Named President of Downtown Partnership | Afro

Shelonda Stokes, a well-connected Baltimore business leader has been named president and executive of the influential Downtown

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Marabha’s medical bill balloons

AILING comedian Charles ”Marabha” Mirisi’s situation has remained unchanged as the medical bill continues to balloon despite assistance from

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

From creating the hijab-wearing Barbie to turning food into art, meet Haneefah Adam

Beyond eating, Nigerian-born visual artist and Hijarbie creator Haneefah Adam has a way of turning food into amazing

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Streetwear Giant Supreme Pledges $500,000 to Social Justice Groups

Popular streetwear brand Supreme has announced they are going to donate half a million dollars to multiple organizations that are at the forefront of fighting and combating social

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

Suzanne Fuller Burks named executive director of Phyllis Wheatley...

Phyllis Wheatley Community Center (PWCC) has announced the selection of Suzanne Fuller Burks as its new executive

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Mainstream Media Ignores Black Unemployment Rising While Celebrating Jobless Rate

But the good news of the jobless rate dropping did not extend to Black workers as the new data showed their unemployment levels ticked upward last

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Source: NewsOne

Want To Support Black-Owned Brands? These 10 Gorgeous Items Are A Good Way To Start.

Just this week, Julee Wilson, beauty director at Cosmopolitan, published a massive list of 125 Black-owned beauty brands to “support right

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

World Travel and Tourism Council endorses Jamaica's COVID-19 protocols

THE COVID-19 Health and Safety Protocols designed for Jamaica by the Ministry of Tourism have been endorsed by the World Travel and Tourism Council

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Lockdown: Senegal arrests 74 people over violent protests against coronavirus curfew

Dakar – Senegalese police arrested more than 70 people on Wednesday after protests tinged by violence broke out in several cities across the West African country demanding a night-time coronavirus curfew be

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Source: https://www.news24.com

UN agency says COVID-19 an opportunity to fix remittance system

ROME, Italy (CMC) — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says that the COVID-19 pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity to fix the remittance system in the Caribbean and other

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

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