State Capture: Will Zondo rule on Zuma’s recusal application?

Should I know my MP’s health status? - Insiders weigh in on balancing accountability and privacy when politicians fall ill

The curtain on a new era of transparency in public service appeared ready to be lifted when three months before his February 2016 election win, then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness promised to publicly release his health

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ghana coronavirus: 7,117 cases as Accra hits 5,000; MPs infection controversy

Total confirmed cases = 7,117 (new cases

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

Pay cuts as business slumps in private hospitals

The growing costs and shrinking revenues are now forcing hospitals to ask their employees to take a pay

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

ED files for condonation delay in RTGS case

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has approached the High Court seeking condonation for the late filing of his heads of arguments in a matter in which Free Zimbabwe Congress leader Joseph Busha challenged the introduction of the Real Time Gross Settlement dollar

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Uganda: CJ Katureebe Assigned New Cases a Week to Retirement

Chief Justice Bart Katureebe will preside over two more appeals to the Supreme Court even though his retirement date is just a week from now, Saturday Monitor has

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Source: allAfrica.com

Lesotho: Claims Thabane Is Now On His Death-Bed Refuted

However, Mr Thabane Jr and Ms Sibolla have rubbished the claims in their court papers this week asking the High Court to allow them to oppose 'Maesaiah's bail

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Source: allAfrica.com

George Floyd: Protests, Police, and Prosecutors

Browne-Marshall: What should Minnesota Gov. Walz have known about any type of uprising or riot or protest, peaceful or otherwise, involving George

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Williams v. Mississippi (1898)

? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic

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Source: Black Past

Beaten black and blue - Mentally ill inmate blamed for attack on 50-year prisoner

Another mentally ill inmate has been blamed for the weekend attack on George Williams, the elderly man languishing in Jamaica’s prison system for almost five decades without

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

“Acknowledging Your Privilege and Becoming an Ally”: a Guide to Resources for White Folks

Music Supervisor Rob Lowry (Twitter: @robertlowry) was recently inspired by Han Martin‘s (Twitter: @hnicolemartin) “Resources for White Family” post to create his own version of a letter and resources to White friends and family and tweet it to anyone who wanted

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

Acting Portland boss fined Sh200,000 for contempt

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Source: Business Daily

Former Miami Gardens Cop Arrested After Tasing Pregnant Woman And Kneeling On Her Neck

Satchell is a Black woman, while Martel is

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Source: MadameNoire

South Africa

South Africa, on the continents southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east. Its neighbors are Namibia in the northwest, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the north, and Mozambique and Swaziland in the northeast. The kingdom of Lesotho forms an

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

10 Durban cops to appear in court for stealing cigarettes and cash – police | News24

Ten Durban police officers have been arrested for allegedly stealing cigarettes and R250 000 in cash in two separate incidents, and they are expected to appear in court

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Cops bash Gwanda magistrate

Gwanda magistrate, Ndumiso Khumalo, who was battered by police in April following his arrest over suspected robbery, has lodged a complaint for the violation of his rights

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

#FIYAH! LIVESTREAM REPLAY — ZIGGY MARLEY | BlackPressUSA

In celebration of Black Music Appreciation Month, we present eight-time GRAMMY winner, Emmy winner, author, philanthropist, and reggae icon, Ziggy Marley! Marley has released thirteen albums to much critical acclaim. His early immersion in music came at age ten when he sat in on recording sessions

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

Sierra Leone’s new Attorney General takes oath of office

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 July 2020: Sierra Leone’s newly appointed Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Anthony Yeihwoe Brewah, took his oath of office at State House today, in the presence of President Dr Julius Maada Bio in accordance with the Laws of Sierra Leone. Anthony Yeihwoe Brewah

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank urges customers to use Visa and mobile banking

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2020: As the world moves gradually away from use of paper currency to cashless transactions, which carry the convenience of safety and security from theft, management of Sierra Leone Commercial Bank, the country’s largest profitable financial service provider has

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

South africa

Nelson Mandela, whose term as president cemented his reputation as one of the worlds most farsighted and magnanimous statesmen, retired in 1999. On June 2, 1999, Thabo Mbeki, the pragmatic deputy president and leader of the ANC, was elected president in a landslide, having already assumed many of

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

EXCLUSIVE OP-ED: Time to Work Together to Strengthen Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Black Communities | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Recent protests in communities across the country, including in my home city of Louisville, suggest that many see the blindfold worn by Lady Justice not as an indication of blind justice, but as blinders to the many issues facing our society. Chief among these issues is the current

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

Invitation to Bid

Sealed bids will be received by the Public Housing Agency of the City of Saint Paul at 200 E. Arch Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55130 for FIRE ALARM SYSTEM REPLACEMENT AT NEILL HI-RISE, Contract No. 21-039, until 9:00 A.M., Local Time, on JULY 13, 2020, at which time they will be publicly opened and

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

For the slave act of 1793, see Fugitive Slave Act of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

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Zimbabwe: Rights Movement Speaks On Buyanga Child Custody Drama

Fathers' Rights Movement Zimbabwe (FRMZ) believes Frank Buyanga's child custody case has demonstrated that fathers' rights are disregarded in

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Source: allAfrica.com

Ben Crump Heralded as Black America's Attorney General | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Most recently, Crump has represented three of the most high-profile cases in America today in his representation of the families of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, and Breonna Taylor, gunned down in her bed by Louisville police in

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

Lesotho: DPP Motinyane Sticks to Her Guns On Metsing, Mochoboroane Treason Trial

Adv Motinyane says this in response to Messrs Metsing and Mochoboroane's latest attempts to postpone their Constitutional Court application to stop their treason

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Source: allAfrica.com

No charges after voting fraud investigation –

TALLAHASSEE – State law-enforcement officials found “no evidence of fraudulent intent” by the Florida Democratic Party after more than a year-long investigation into alleged vote-by-mail fraud, records

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Source: Florida Courier

We have a right to be angry!

In the last several months, we have witnessed the outcry of God’s people in so many ways—people wailing and moaning with tears of disbelief, death, and

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Ninth St James businessman held in $26m cocaine bust

Western Bureau: Days after a major operation in which eight St James men were arrested for their suspected involvement in an international drug syndicate, another man has been nabbed as cops made a $26-million cocaine seizure on the weekend....

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Demanding Better Conditions in Broward County Jail | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Even though parts of the state are reopening, it does not mean that the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in jails has vanished,” said Benjamin Stevenson, staff attorney at the ACLU of Florida. “Broward County Jail has failed to adjust its facilities to health guidelines during this

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

South africa

South Africans Supreme Court reinstated corruption charges against Zuma in January 2009, saying that a lower court had overstepped its authority in dismissing the charges. However, the countrys prosecuting authority dropped all charges against Zuma in April, about two weeks before national

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

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