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Stocks drift on Wall Street after S&P 500's return to record - Black News Channel
By Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise and Alex Veiga AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting between small losses and gains on Wall Street Wednesday, as the S&P 500 follows up its return to a record high with another day of meandering trading. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in
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Blacks More Likely Targeted Than Whites Despite Traditional Police Training – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Arthur Dobrin D.S.W. -  There's a difference between training and the real-world. Anti-bias training is touted as a way of combating racial biases among police officers. But research shows that the effect of such training isn’t [...]
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ACLU report shows despite COVID-19, fatal police shootings continue | The Michigan Chronicle
ACLU Report Shows Despite COVID-19, Fatal Police Shootings Continue                                    Report Shows Significant Racial … Continued The post ACLU report shows despite COVID-19, fatal police shootings continue appeared first on The Michigan Chronicle.
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Texas Startup OnwardMobility Annouces New 5G Android Blackberry For 2021 | The Urban Daily
A new Texas startup called OnwardMobility is taking on the Blackberry license once optioned to Chinese phone manufacture TCL. It is promising to release a 5G model of Barack Obama's favorite means of communication in 2021. Oh, and yes, it will still be powered by Android and will have the QWERTY
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Portland protesters set fire to county government building - Black News Channel
By The Oregonian PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters in Portland broke out the windows of a county government building, sprayed lighter fluid inside and set a fire in a demonstration that started Tuesday night and ended Wednesday morning with clashes with police, officials said. The fire at the
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Newswire: African Americans die more frequently from Covid-19, but MIT researchers say poverty isn’t why
By Donna Fuscaldo, Zenger News Service Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found it’s not because of obesity or poverty.Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research
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McBride defends Paul O’Sullivan’s ‘interference’ at Ipid
Former Ipid head Robert McBride is set to be cross-examined after fingering members of the police top brass in misconduct
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Large-Scale Human Trials of COVID-19 Vaccine to Begin Soon in India – The Wilmington Journal
India is gearing up for large-scale human trials of a vaccine as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to claim lives across the globe. Russia claimed this month that it has made strides, and pharmaceutical makers in [...]
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LeBron James and His Production Company Spring Hill Entertainment Win Sports Emmy for Muhammad Ali Documentary - The New York Beacon
LeBron James already has three NBA championships, four league MVPs, and two Olympic gold medals, and now he can add Sports Emmy winner to that list of triumphs. The Los Angeles Lakers star and his production company Spring Hill Entertainment took home the prize for
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Educator Develops Free Online Course About Black History and Culture
This Black teacher decided to create a free online course for kids to learn about Black history and politics amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Belarusian Police Burn Uniforms in Protest – The Wilmington Journal
More than a dozen Belarusian police officers and special forces officers from the capital city of Minsk and elsewhere have thrown their badges and uniforms into trash bins and set them afire to protest President [...]
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The Latest: Booker warns of Trump 'dirty tricks' in voting - Black News Channel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic National Convention Sen. Cory Booker says that 'there may be dirty tricks' from President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 general election vote and that the nation's voters should be stalwart in their determination to cast ballots. On ABC's 'Good Morning
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Kentucky dad and daughter, 3, shot and killed while playing in ‘Frozen’ playhouse - TheGrio
A family in Kentucky is in mourning after a father and his young daughter were shot and killed while they... View Article The post Kentucky dad and daughter, 3, shot and killed while playing in ‘Frozen’ playhouse appeared first on TheGrio.
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Harris seizes historic moment in accepting VP nomination - DefenderNetwork.com
Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, cementing her place in history as the first Black woman on a major party ticket and promising she and Joe Biden will rejuvenate a country ravaged by a pandemic and riven by racial and partisan divides. In an address
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Detroit Federation of Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize Safety Strike | News | The Michigan Chronicle
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This Nigerian Entrepreneur Is Designing Swimwear For Black Women’s Bodies - The New York Beacon
Pinghwa Okorie developed a passion for the beach early in life. Okorie, whose father is Nigerian and whose mother is Taiwanese, often traveled to tropical destinations, such as her mother’s homeland and the Philippines. But no matter how many pieces of swimwear she
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The Latest: Deaths in Florida surpass 10,000 from virus - Black News Channel
By The Associated Press undefined ORLANDO, Fla. — Deaths in Florida from the coronavirus surpassed 10,000, while teachers and state officials argued in court over whether in-person schools should reopen this month. Florida reported 174 deaths on Wednesday, bringing the total confirmed deaths to at
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The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea - The New York Beacon
ByJohn Ismay One evening in late August 1972, as the American tank-landing ship U.S.S. Sumter was steaming off the coast of Vietnam, a Marine onboard dropped the needle on the turntable in front of him, sending music to the loudspeakers bolted to the bulkheads
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India’s Textile Hubs Reel as Laborers Stuck Home
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A challenge in a Charlestown-Chelsea district - The Bay State Banner
Last year, Damali Vidot was the top vote-getter in the Chelsea at-large City Council race. This year, she’s set her sights on the State House, taking on three-term incumbent Dan Ryan in the race for the 2nd Suffolk
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#Election2020: In Obama, Dems see a bridge between Biden and young voters | The Atlanta Voice
Since leaving the White House nearly four years ago, former President Barack Obama has repeatedly called for a new generation of political leaders to step up. On Wednesday, he’ll implore Americans to vote for Joe Biden, a 77-year-old who has been on the national political stage for more than four
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