Somalia to Resume Air Transport

We must brace our elections for COVID-19

Whether it was through poll taxes and literacy tests, or gerrymandering and voter ID laws today, underrepresented communities have always had to fight to ensure their right to

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Regional and int'l news briefs

The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Hadebe resumes relegation battle

ZIMBABWE international defender Teenage Hadebe is set to resume his battle against relegation as he returns to action for his Turkish Super League club, Yeni Malatyaspor, on Saturday after more than two months of inactivity due to the COVID-19-induced

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Government looking at low cost insurance for tourists

Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says discussions are in the final stages with insurance and global logistics providers to enable travellers who test positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) to be quickly isolated and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Bulawayo water crisis escalate

This is despite government consultants recently saying the city had no water shortages and blamed council for lacking technical capacity to draw water from the city’s remaining three supply

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Rights group challenges govt to stop false claims

A HUMAN rights lobby group has challenged government to stop making false claims about civic organisations while trying to divert attention on the abduction and alleged torture of three MDC Alliance officials last

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

WATCH: What You Need To Know — June 5, 2020: Remembering George Floyd — Slavery Reparations — Drew Bees Apology

Memorials and Funerals for George Floyd

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Source: Black America Web

Harvest House is MDC-T citadel: Khupe

MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe does not harbour a secret mission sponsored by Zanu PF to weaken the opposition MDC Alliance party and destroy the political career of its leader Nelson

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Oregon Officer Caught Forewarning Group of Armed White Men on Avoiding Arrest Before Curfew Begins: ‘My Command Wanted Me To Come Talk To You Guys’

An Oregon police chief issued an apology after an officer was caught giving a group of armed white men a heads-up about how to skirt curfew

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

Kenyans march in capital against police violence

Around 200 people turned out Monday for a protest in a poor Nairobi neighbourhood against police violence linked to the deaths of 15 people nationwide since the authorities imposed a curfew to fight

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Source: https://www.news24.com

My wife is my security: Dhuterere

GOSPEL musician and preacher Mambo Dhuterere has disclosed that his wife is his fortress against controversies that arise in the music

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

George Floyd – another name added to the list –

Although not lost to COVID-19, one other name recently added to those we have lost – George

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Source: Daytona Times

Mutodi still to receive suspension letter

EMBATTLED former Information deputy minister Energy Mutodi is yet to receive his suspension papers, thereby slowing his disciplinary hearing, NewsDay Weekender has

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Arrested! ‘Karen’ Charged After Video Shows White Woman Spitting On Black Teen Protester

But the disturbing trend of white women trying to police people during the aforementioned public health crises was threatening to become the third pandemic disproportionately affecting Black

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Source: NewsOne

Eastern Cape hotspots to be zoned in on as Mkhize turns attention to 'vulnerable' province

The Eastern Cape's Covid-19 hotspots will be divided into sub-districts to better manage the fight against the pandemic through regional responses in the "vulnerable" province, the national Department of Health said on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Data Protection Bill more important now – Frazer Binns

Opposition Senator Sophia Frazer Binns has argued that the Data Protection Bill will be of great importance now, given that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses and enterprising individuals to seek out new ways of doing

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Unemployment Rate Falls to 13.3%, US Adds 2.5 Million Jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 13.3% in May from 14.7%, and 2.5 million jobs were added — a surprisingly positive reading in the midst of a recession that has paralyzed the economy in the wake of the viral

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Source: Black America Web

Houston news anchor Shannon LaNier 'cuts up' with meal planning

Houston news anchor Shannon LaNier ‘cuts up’ with meal planning

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

A love like this - Part II

WORKING TOGETHER to maintain a healthy relationship that has spanned 30-odd years and counting, Tommy Cowan and his life-partner, Carlene Davis, shared that being stuck at home together during the pandemic has proven to be a plus for their

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Female docs run things

The only male doctors listed as parish medical officers of health are Dr Andre McIntosh and Stephen Figueroa in Kingston and St Andrew; Dr D'Oyen Smith in St Thomas, and Dr Kaushal Singh in

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

Pritzker: ‘Structural change’ will come from peaceful protests | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Speaking at a blended-income housing development in Chicago called KLEO Art Residences, the governor said “community activism and peaceful organizing and faith” are the keys to “real” transformations demanded after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, died May 25 in Minneapolis after being pinned to

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Tree ambassador squeals over wood poaching

NATIONAL tree ambassador Never Bonde has petitioned various government departments over rampant deforestation and illegal firewood trading occurring in Bulawayo’s residential

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

3-month-old Kadoma baby catches COVID-19

Kadoma on Thursday broke the world record by having the youngest COVID-19 case — a three-month-old

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Mourners Pay Their Respects To George Floyd At Public Viewing In Houston

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Source: Stories About Black History

Trump Administration Officials to Black America: 'Coronavirus Pandemic is Your Fault'

According to a top official in President Donald Trump’s administration, the poor health of African Americans is the primary reason for the nation’s devastatingly high coronavirus

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

We Wear The Mask | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Through the pandemic called racial hate—whose potentially fatal impact is evidenced by the recent deer-hunter style slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, allegedly by three white men while he jogged in a neighborhood in

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Derek Chauvin to appear in court today in George Floyd case

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will appear in court today exactly two weeks after George

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Citing Jobs, Trump Claims Victory Over Virus, Econ Collapse

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump effectively claimed victory over the economic crisis and COVID-19 on Friday and major progress against racial inequity, heartily embracing an unexpectedly good jobs report in hopes of convincing a discouraged nation he deserves another four years in

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Source: Black America Web

UDC attractions remain closed

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says all attractions owned and operated by the state agency and its subsidiary, the St Ann Development Company, remain closed at this

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Mombasa accounts for half of new coronavirus cases

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Source: Business Daily

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