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More Lawmakers, Including Republicans, Support A Juneteenth National Holiday

“This legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday is but one step we can take to begin to right the wrongs of the past in order to ensure equal justice in the future,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass) said in a Friday

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Black Business Group Takes AB 5 Independent Contractor Fight to Gov. Newsom

The letter, signed by the organization’s president Salena Pryor, argues that the state’s costly plan to enforce AB 5 would only exacerbate that at this time, when California is facing a massive $54 billion deficit and the state’s unemployment rate is 24 percent, it would be fiscally imprudent to

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Representatives, Senators, Governors… Who Else Is On The November Ballot?

Open U.S. House of Representative Seats in the 2020

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Source: NewsOne

Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag | Dallas Weekly

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem that’s broadly condemned as

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Evans, James M. (1962- )

James M. Evans, a politician and business owner, was the first African American chairman of the Utah Republican Party. He was born to Robert and Beatrice Evans in Orangeburg, South Carolina, in 1962. He graduated from Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School in 1981 as the class president and attended

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Source: Black Past

Thomas, Clarence

Thomas, Clarence, 1948–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991–), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black conservative active in Republican causes. He chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

McGrath wins Kentucky Dem primary; McConnell showdown awaits

(AP Photo/Bryan

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Source: theGrio

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

Florida governor accused of undercounting COVID-19 cases

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is seen during a press conference in

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Source: theGrio

House Democrats pass sweeping ‘George Floyd’ policing act

The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats Thursday, a vote heavy with emotion and symbolism as a divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the deaths of George Floyd and other Black

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

'Very disturbing'

WASHINGTON, DC, United States — Dr Anthony Fauci said if Americans don't start following public health recommendations US coronavirus cases could grow to 100,000

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

New Juneteenth meaning for Black Texans, while push to make holiday goes national

The activist and educator will lead her community on foot for two and a half miles — a distance that represents the number of additional years it took before enslaved people in Texas were informed of their freedom after the signing of the Emancipation

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

Voter Suppression Goes to College | The Oklahoma Eagle

If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Explained: Coronavirus' spread in GOP territories | The Atlanta Voice

An Associated Press analysis of coronavirus case data shows the virus has moved — and is spreading quickly — into Republican areas, a new path with broad potential political

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Mount Rushmore Fireworks Revival To Feature Trump But No Social Distancing

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Source: Stories About Black History

Democrats Knock GOP Police Reform Bill, Call For 'Improvement'

Senate Democrats on Wednesday threw cold water on Republican-authored police reform legislation, calling it an inadequate and half-hearted solution to hold police officers accountable in the wake of the death of George

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Tampa Native Is Demo Candidate For Texas House Of Representatives | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

LIKEITHIA ‘KEKE’ WILLIAMS BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor She will be on the November 2020 Presidential Ballot with the Republican opponent Likeithia Williams has always considered herself a leader, in her community and throughout her country. After 24 years in the United States

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Source: Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Ruling fuels call for state LGBTQ protections –

TALLAHASSEE – LGBTQ advocates are hailing Monday’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that gay, lesbian and transgender workers are covered by federal anti discrimination laws, but they say Florida needs to do

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Source: Florida Courier

Confirmed New Covid-19 Cases Hit a New High in US

By Michelle R. Smith and Frances D’Emilio

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Argued December 11, 2000

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Source: Black Past

Mike Pence refuses to acknowledge 'Black lives matter' in TV interview

(Photo by Brendan Smialowski

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Kentucky Attorney General: ‘Beyoncé’s Letter Has No Bearing On Whether Or Not I Prosecute Cops In Breonna Taylor Case’

Kentucky’s first black Attorney General has responded to a high-profile celebrity’s letter, which demanded that his office take action in the Breonna Taylor (pictured

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Source: Your Black World

Hair weaves made from Chinese prison camp detainees seized

(AP Photo/Wong

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Congress Moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Measure Forward

(NNPA) – The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and build trust between law enforcement and minority

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

John R. Lynch

John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party.

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Blacks voted for the first time in a state

Blacks voted for the first time in a state election in the South, contributing to Republican sweep in Tennessee.

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Trump tweets video with 'white power' chant, then deletes it

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted approvingly of a video showing one of his supporters chanting “white power”, a racist slogan associated with white

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Fed judge rules Florida can't stop poor felons from voting

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Tallahassee ruled Sunday night that Florida law can’t stop felons from voting because they can’t pay back any legal fees and restitution they

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Source: Black News Channel - Black News Channel

Poem – Black for a Day.

For them, if it were possible to be Black for a Day, perhaps then you would seek

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Carol Moseley-Braun

Name at birth: Carol Moseley

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