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Arielle and Arianna Williams are bound for success and won’t stop until they reach
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Trump will not be unveiling Obama White House portrait
President Donald Trump will not be unveiling former President Barack Obama’s portrait at the White House, a break in the 40-year tradition following a contentious exchange between the two over the
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State Supreme Court Delivers Key Ruling for Black Jurors in Capital Cases
Never before in North Carolina judicial history have trial judges taken accusations of racial discrimination against Black jurors seriously, if a White prosecutor had a Black juror struck from a prospective jury primarily on the basis of race through preemptory challenge – which is illegal – the
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Africa: Meeting Africa's Liquidity Needs While Protecting Market Access - Appeal from Finance & Development Ministers
Addis Ababa — Statement co-signed by the ministers of finance and / or ministers of development of the following countries: Angola, Cameroun, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone and
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Beyond Health Issues, Justice is the Most Serious Item on our National Agenda – Free Press of Jacksonville
Incalculable anger is the state of the nation in the wake of the cold-blooded murder of 25-year-old Georgia jogger Ahmaud
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Anambra Identifies Cattle Dealer From Kano As Second Case
Awka — Anambra State has recorded the second case of coronavirus pandemic and the victim was a returnee from
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South Sudan Covid-19 cases rise to 290
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What is Trump trying to achieve with 'Obamagate?' | The Atlanta Voice
What’s clear is that President Trump is attacking Obama with the goal of discrediting his opponent in 2020: Joe
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In the following account John C. Hughes, chief oral historian for the Washington State Legacy Project, discusses the life and legacy of Lillian Walker, who has been a civil rights activist in Bremerton, Washington, since World War II. Established in 2008 by Washington Secretary of State Sam
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On August 15, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges.  Reflecting on his two decades on the Court and particularly on recent affirmative action rulings by the High Court, Justice Marshall reminded his audience that the United States had not yet
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Black Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement
In the article below, Syracuse University historian Herbert Ruffin explores the rapid rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement as the most recent development in the ongoing struggle for racial and social justice in the United
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Republican Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the powerful US Senate Intelligence Committee, stepped down Thursday after the FBI seized his cellphone in a probe of alleged insider stock trading tied to the coronavirus
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Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
"This is the kind of impact we would like to deliver to smallholder farmers across the African continent," says Joyce Kamande, one of 25 African entrepreneurs who spent six weeks at Oklahoma State University last year as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a flagship programme of the
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Africa: COVID-19 Is a Health Crisis - but a Looming Food Catastrophe, Too
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New poll reveals COVID-19’s impacts on African American communities
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Black moms like me will not be patient with Pittsburgh Public Schools. We need to demand more.
As a Black mom raising a daughter with a disability, I’ve seen first hand how the inequities in our public school system are a matter of life or
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Fugitive Félicien Kabuga arrested
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Kenya: Duo Creates Digital Solution for Kenya's Insurance Ecosystem
On this realisation, two Nairobi-based innovators, Ms Bente Krogmann and Mr Chris Osore, came up with the idea of a mobile app towards the end of 2019, with the ultimate goal of revolutionising customer experience and eliminating the voluminous paperwork in the insurance ecosystem, and reaching the
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Kappa Alpha Psi Brother Opens Wellness Studio in Brooklyn That Helps Black Men Deal With Anxiety and Depression
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France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'
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Eight surprises in House Democrats' $3T coronavirus relief bill
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