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1994: Five Iraqis and a Kuwaiti are sentenced to death in Kuwait for plotting to kill former US President George H W Bush with a car bomb during his visit to Kuwait in

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'Most humiliating' - Pastor arrested after calling police on white mob who attacked him

According to Pastor Leon McCray, he saw two people trying to dispose off a refrigerator on his

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Ghana's Minister of Tourism to Black Americans: 'come home to Africa'

Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, Ghana memorial for George Floyd

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It’s Still About Economic Development, Not Burning America Down

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Local composer to conduct Mass concert in New York

Local composer, author and music specialist at Elm Creative Arts School in Milwaukee, Wallace McClain Cheatham will be conducting Franz Peter Schubert’s Mass In G Major for solo voice, chorus and full orchestra in May, 2021 at New York’s prestigious Carnegie

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June 19 is Juneteenth – and Cities Around the Country Have Now Declared It An Official Holiday

As protests continue around the country – and the nation is pushed to reckon with its racist history – cities and states around the country are declaring Juneteenth an official holiday, will momentum building for Congress to declare it a federal holiday as

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Mass evictions are the next crisis; we must act now

If Congress doesn’t act to renew and strengthen these programs now, it could unleash a catastrophic wave of evictions across the country that would send the unhoused population skyrocketing – further destroying our economy in the

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You'll Want To Copy This Cheerful Pride Celebration Makeup Look

As Pride month winds down, creatives continue to nod to the flag with rainbow looks in honor of the

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Dawn M. Jones Installed As 58th President Of State Bar of Georgia

Attorney Dawn M. Jones, managing member of The Firm of Dawn M. Jones, LLC in Atlanta, was installed as the 58th president of the 52,000-member State Bar of Georgia on June

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Convincing win in Virginia shows strength of Black vote | The Atlanta Voice

With the country gripped by a pandemic and racial unrest, Webb is a Black doctor and lawyer from Charlottesville who is the director of health policy and equity at the University of

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Hall Johnson: Violinist, Composer & Musical Director in New York and Hollywood

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'White Lives Matter' painted on statue of African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe

A statue of African-American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue has been vandalised with the words "White Lives

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GOP Candidate Says Black Democratic Opponent Is 'NOT For ALL Virginians'

Republican gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase questioned whether one of her Democratic opponents is for “ALL Virginians” on Thursday, immediately after noting that state Sen. Jennifer McClellan is vice chairwoman of the Virginia Legislative Black

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Confronting the Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle

Since 2018, The Nation has hosted a US Civil Rights Tour led by documentary film maker André Robert

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Juneteenth Marks Day Last Enslaved People Freed

The next year, former slaves started celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston, and it eventually reached other

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Pharrell Supports Virginia Governor In Effort To Make Juneteenth An Official Statewide Holiday

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‘Will You Adopt Me?’: Young Man Makes Tearful Request to Stepfather In Viral Video

On Father’s Day, in a now-viral video, a 17-year-old from Suffolk, Virginia, named Keon Wiggins-Saunders held back tears as he shakily read his letter to Donzell Powell, the man who stepped up as Keon’s father since he was 1 and married his mother, Keona, when he was

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Law Enforcement Bill of Rights

However, it is unclear to me, which is more outrageous in its protection of police officers—unions or law enforcement bill of

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Black Business Owners Have Mixed Feelings About the 'Defund The Police' Campaign

A survey of black business owners shows mixed feelings on defunding the police, a campaign championed by the Black Lives Matter movement that would reduce police budgets and reallocate those funds to improve other areas like education, public health, housing, and youth services, reports The

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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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Virginia Pastor Arrested for Brandishing Gun to Defend Himself Against Racist Mob, Sheriff Later Apologizes

A Virginia sheriff apologized to a Black pastor who was arrested for trying to defend himself against a group of white people yelling threats and racial

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Dobbs, Mattiwilda (1925- ) - Birthday

Mattiwilda Dobbs, an accomplished opera star, was born July 11, 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Virginia E. Walker Broughton: Author and Baptist Missionary

Virginia E. Walker Broughton was an African American author and Baptist

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NASA Names Headquarters After first Black Female Engineer at NASA

This story was originally published on blackengineer.com

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Racism, Sexism and Those Who Serve | The Crusader Newspaper Group

For women and people of color in the military and the VA, there are large bodies of data, studies, surveys, and anecdotes about what is espoused and what is

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2020 Pulitzer Prize winners include many writers of color

There were a couple of firsts in this year’s announcement of the winners of the Pulitzer

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'White Lives Matter' painted on African American monument

The statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Richmond, Virginia's, Monument Avenue has been vandalised with the words "White Lives Matter", a phrase used as a banner by far-right

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Racial reckoning turns to symbols

Protesters are taking ropes and sledgehammers to symbols of oppression, from equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus monuments, but elected and appointed officials are also whisking them away by decree, including a Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the

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