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You Care: Karen Wannabe Stacey Dash Officially Files For Divorce, She Makes $2500 A Month
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Nigeria: Afenifere, Junaid Mohammed, Opadokun React to Buhari's Democracy Day Speech
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, described President Muhammadu Buhari's Democracy Day address as a huge and unpardonable slap on the face of the nation's democratic
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New Rule Could Deny Black Developers Access to $4 Billion-Plus in State Housing Funds
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COVID-19 jeopardises progress in protecting women and girls from violence and harmful practices
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Marchelle Tigner Davis trains black women to take up arms to defend themselves
A Florida native and current resident of West Bend, Wisconsin, Davis started her firearm instruction company in 2016 because she realized a glaring disparity in representation in the gun
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Oprah Winfrey Donates $12 Million for COVID-19 Relief in Five Cities
Through the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation, the OWN Network boss announced she was donating $12 million to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago, Baltimore; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee; and
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The Black crisis in the midst of the coronavirus crisis
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Minneapolis: Swift firings for officers in death of black man
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To the general public, the video of a white police officer in Minneapolis pressing his knee into the neck of a black man prone on the street, crying out for help until he finally stopped moving, was
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South Africa: Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane - Webinar On Upholding Rights of Persons With Disabilities
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Valerie Jarrett, the longest-serving senior adviser to President Barack Obama, has had a consequential impact across the American political, civic and business landscape. Jarrett will share wisdom and perspectives about her leadership roles with 490 graduates of the Spelman College class of 2017
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ESPN writer takes on sports’ sacred cows
Robert Scoop Jackson’s third book, “The Game is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports” (Haymarket Books) came out in March just as the national coronavirus lockdown
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President Bio’s address – thoughts, words and deeds
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Faith Evans Domestic Violence Case Dismissed, Stevie J Won’t Testify
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Burkina Faso: Questions Remain Over Extrajudicial Killings Against Fulani
The latest case of 12 extrajudicial killings of Fulani men in Tanwalbougou, northeastern Burkina Faso, has gripped the public after gruesome details emerged following their detention by gendarmes in the area, adding to the overall crisis in the
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Oprah Winfrey Gives Grants To ‘Home’ Cities During Pandemic
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Kenya: Women Worst Affected in Kenyan Flower Farms in Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic
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Queen Latifah Previews New Film About Young Black Woman Who Feels ‘More Human’ As A Police Officer
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Ellis: How ‘Collective Trauma’ Affects our Children
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