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Kenya: Ex Kenyan International Rombo Named Kenya Rugby League Coach

Nairobi — Former Kenyan international Edward Rombo, also a renowned lawyer and the first Kenyan to play professional rugby has been named as the new Kenya Rugby League (KRL) head

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Source: allAfrica.com

Texan Greenard in pursuit of greatness on and off the field

That drive should ultimately push Greenard to be his best for the team that drafted him in third round (90th overall) in last month’s NFL

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

Column: Former Georgia player shows power of persistence | The Atlanta Voice

Meet Shedrick Wynn, who arrived at Georgia in 1999 to play football but never finished his college

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Morehouse college cancels Fall athletics schedule - Black News Channel

By: James P. Hill /BNC Journalist The covid 19 pandemic continues to alter our daily lives especially in schools. The Morehouse College Athletics department it the latest HBCU to announce the Maroon Tigers will continue it’s commitment to keeping student-athletes out of harms way. According to

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

New gov’t will need to reduce level of expansionary projects

More importantly the IMF report is a wake-up call to the limited economic activity that can be expected in the coming

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Student Athlete of the Week: Deondre Francois | Dallas Weekly

Cred: Hampton

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Kenya: Kadenge - Nzoia Sugar Still Intact

Nzoia Sugar chairman Evans Kadenge has dismissed reports that the team has been disbanded, saying they will soon appoint a new coach to take charge of the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Picture of Rosa Parks taken by Bob Bozarth

Picture of Rosa Parks taken by Bob Bozarth at Langston University

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Source: Blackfacts.com

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Prairie View names APR expert as new athletic director

The school took a major step toward fixing that issue by naming Dr. Donald Reed as the Panthers new athletic director to end an 11-month

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

Kozile speaks on Zimbabwe Kumba

AUSTRALIA-BASED Zimbabwean singer Cozzy “Kozile” Dube says the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic could have temporarily dampened his spirit, but he picked himself up as he worked under lockdown to finalise his second eight-track album titled Zimbabwe

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

UK could lock down city of Leicester after virus surge

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The central English city of Leicester could be the country's first to face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel said

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

Biden, Trump campaigns release staff diversity data

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign released staff diversity numbers on Saturday after months of delay, revealing that the campaign’s staff is mostly women and that more than one-third are people of color and prompting the Trump campaign to release its own

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

Eddie Robinson

Eddie Robinson , byname of Edward Gay Robinson (born Feb. 13, 1919, Jackson, La., U.S.—died April 3, 2007, Ruston, La.), American collegiate gridiron football coach, who set a record (later surpassed) for most career wins (408). He spent his entire head-coach career at Grambling State University

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Schott-Free: University Of Cincinnati Trustees Vote To Take Name Off Ballpark

On Tuesday, the University of Cincinnati board of trustees voted unanimously to take down the name of Marge Schott from the school's baseball stadium, effective

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Source: Stories About Black History

Welfare of children concerns lecturer

Senior lecturer, researcher, and coordinator of early childhood programmes at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Zoyah Kinkead Clark is expressing concern for the welfare of young children, many of whom she says might be displaced come September, given the upheaval in a number of private

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

New Prairie View AD looks forward to taking on challenge of The Hill - DefenderNetwork.com

Dr. Donald Reed, a longtime senior athletic administrator at the University of Buffalo, has a huge task ahead as he assumes control as the new athletic director at Prairie View AM University this summer. He takes over on The Hill during a challenging time for college athletics in general and

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

World leaders, stars unite at event aimed at fighting virus

LONDON (AP) — A summit that included a star-studded virtual concert hosted by Dwayne Johnson has raised nearly $7 billion in cash and loan guarantees to assist the poor around the globe whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus

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

Candice Story Lee Named Athletic Director at Vanderbilt University, 1st Black Woman to Lead Power 5 Program

According to espn.com, Vanderbilt University recently announced that Candice Storey Lee, a former standout student-athlete and three-time Vanderbilt graduate, has been named Vice Chancellor for Athletics and University Affairs and Athletic Director at Vanderbilt after serving in the role on

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Comcast celebrates scholarship leaders and achievers in virtual celebration

In celebration of the 2020-21 Comcast NBCUniversal Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Recipients, Comcast, along with CW39 Morning Dose Anchor Shannon LaNier, hosted a special celebration to award 30 Texas Seniors with $75,000 in scholarship funds on Thursday, June 18

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GUEST ESSAYJOEL FREEDMAN: A race relations dialogue with an imprisoned African American friend - African American News Today - EIN News

I recently received a letter from an imprisoned African American man, with whom I have corresponded for many years. In response to the killing of George Floyd by a white Minneapolis police officer and its aftermath, he wrote: “I hate that George Floyd had to sacrifice his life for this world to

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Source: MPNnow: Local News, Politics, Entertainment & Sports in Canandaigua, NY

Mississippi Black Lawmaker On Taking Down The Flag: A Symbol Of 'Hate And Not Love'

State lawmakers voted to retire the current flag, and Mississippi GOP Gov. Tate Reeves is expected to sign the

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Source: Stories About Black History

The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People

For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, and needs to be

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

Benzema’s heel helps Real

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema produced an audacious back-heeled assist for Casemiro to score as they beat Espanyol 1-0 away yesterday to capitalise on Barcelona’s slip-up a day earlier and move two points clear at the top of La

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

RTG redeems issued debentures

LISTED hotelier, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) says it will soon redeem in full the debentures issued during its capital raise exercise two years

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Three-year-old among Bartica’s four new COVID-19 cases

Three-year-old among Bartica’s four new COVID-19 cases -health officer, mayor in appeals for precautions to be taken seriously

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Phillips wants legal assurances on 2-in-1 election

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, is demanding assurances that the legal and technical issues involved in staging both the local government and general elections on one ballot be ironed out before concluding on what would be a historic

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

‘Grace Mugabe heckler turning in his grave’

THE late former Zanu PF Bulawayo youth leader Magura Charumbira, one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s staunchy supporters at the height of the ruling party’s factional wars in 2017, must be turning in his grace following the latter’s failure to improve the welfare of party youths, a playwright has

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

15 new COVID-19 cases confirmed

Guyana yesterday recorded 15 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

COVID dictionary: A - Z of words that accompanied the coronavirus

Contact-tracing: the process of identifying and testing people who have been exposed to a contagious disease like the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Humanitarian Disaster Institute Joins Healthcare Ready and World Impact to Create Free Resource for Church Leaders Advocating COVID-19

A new guide from the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College, created in partnership with Healthcare Ready and World Impact, provides a practical and Biblical resource to support the ministry of Black churches speaking and acting against racism while also protecting

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