Why “Black Lives Matter” Matters

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This Family Is Breaking The Internet With Their Color-Coordinated Outfits

One photo that circulated this week was a picture of Knixia and Knaomi Smith, also known as @knixandkna, on

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

Got You Covered: A Black-Owned Alternative To Band-Aids That Gets Your Skin Tone Right

Whether that be hiring a company’s first Black leader like Harper’s Bazaar, ABC naming it’s first Black Bachelor, or Band-Aids finally creating bandages that match Black and brown

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

Former correctional officer killed in road crash

A former correctional officer died in a motor vehicle crash in Portland

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Democrats Introduce The Justice In Policing Act To Combat Police Brutality

For the past week, thousands of people have marched in the streets to stand against racial violence and police brutality in light of the recent deaths of multiple unarmed black people, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of law enforcement

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Assistance to students of Brown’s Town High pour in from alumni

The past students have provided items for care packages and $100,000 worth of data to assist

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

De Blasio On Shifting $1 Billion From NYPD: 'We Think It's The Right Thing To Do'

De Blasio On Shifting $1 Billion From NYPD: 'We Think It's The Right Thing To

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Source: Stories About Black History

Ferguson Elects First Black Mayor

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson voters have elected Ella Jones as the city’s first black mayor as protests over the death of George Floyd and police treatment of black communities roil the

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Source: Black America Web

Newsom moves to slash school, health spending — but asks feds for a rescue | Black Voice News

In revising California’s budget down to $203 billion Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom charted a plan to fill a huge deficit by tying many cuts to additional federal

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Black Hairdresser Calls Out Texas Govt. Agency For Hypocrisy After They Cause Her To Be Cyber Harassed - Blavity

Brown told WFAA that before the pandemic hit, she set up automatic advertisements on Facebook for her hair

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Source: Blavity News

Justices OK James Brown's Dying Wish: Funding Needy Kids Education

In an unanimous ruling on Wednesday, the state’s justices wrote that Tomi Rae Hynie, a former partner of Brown’s who claimed to be his wife, failed to annul a previous marriage, and therefore did not have a right to his multimillion-dollar

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

Mrs. Butterworth's, Cream Of Wheat Vow To Review Packaging To Address Racism

Food brands Mrs. Butterworth’s and Cream of Wheat have announced that they will be reviewing their packaging in an effort to combat “racial bias” and no longer “inadvertently contribute to systemic

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

Ella Jones Makes History as The First Black Mayor In Ferguson

Ella Jones made history last night, becoming the first African-American and first woman elected mayor in Ferguson, Mo., on

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Trump Appoints First-Ever Black Chief of Staff for the United States Air Force | L.A. Focus Newspaper

General Charles Q. Brown Jr. was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the nation’s first black chief of staff for the United States Air

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Schools, Health Face Deep Cuts In California’s $203 Billion Budget

Gov. Gavin Newsom revised California’s budget down to $203 billion Thursday as the coronavirus pandemic batters the state with record job losses and

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Meet The Black Beauty Influencers Picked For The 2020 #SephoraSquad

"I love to inspire the women who follow me by sharing all about skincare, hair, makeup and my love for Christ," she Kendle

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

George Floyd’s Family Responds To Officers Involved In Killing: ‘They Took A Life, They Deserve Live’

Now, the family of Floyd is speaking out and they want the four Minneapolis cops involved to be charged with

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Source: NewsOne

McKenzie pledges support for road in honour of late Milton Brown

If Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie has his way, then a road in the Mineral Heights division will be named after late former May Pen Mayor and councillor for the Mineral Heights division, Milton

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American musician and

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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Right and Exact

The organization of Black Lives Matter started out as a hashtag on the social media website called Facebook by a Black woman named Alicia Garza on July

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Source: Your Black World

Los Angeles City Mayor Pleads for George Floyd Protests to 'Take a Step Back' due to Violent Acts in L.A. over 300 arrested

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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

PM: PNP killed UK prison offer

In a new revelation, the Holness administration is claiming that the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) offer to help build a prison here was “rejected” by the Portia Simpson Miller-led government in 2016 and not the now-ruling Jamaica Labour Party

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Holness headache - Petrojam scandal resurfaces with force as Wheatley labelled ‘dishonest’ in report

The director of investigation was caustic in his characterisation of Wheatley’s response to specific questions during a probe into donations made by Petrojam to various organisations and causes between April 2016 and March

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Masked or not, high school football players continue to grind behind the scenes

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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

Embry-Riddle salutes military service chief, a university graduate –

DAYTONA BEACH – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University salutes alumnus Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. on his unanimous confirmation, in a 98-0 vote by the United States Senate on June 9 as the first African American service chief in the history of the U.S. armed

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Source: Daytona Times

Minnesota's Black Newspapers Speak Out Amidst Uprising in Wake of Police Murder of George Floyd

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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

Clifford Brown dies

Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown dies in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Founder of the Brown-Roach Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had built a reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters of his day as a major proponent of hard bop.

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No more nightmares for Jamaican DREAMers - 3,000 with roots to island no longer in limbo

Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

8 Of The Deadliest Race Riots Involving African Americans In U.S. History

The riot began with a fistfight between a white sailor and a black man who was thought to have insulted the

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Source: Black Then

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