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America's, fundamental democratic right, the right to vote, is under attack like never before.

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DACA Program To Remain After Supreme Court Ruling

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz History happens every day, but historical events aren’t as common. Thursday, June 18, will be remembered as a historical day, especially for those under the Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals program better known as DACA. DACA began in 2012 under President Barack

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Thousands Protest For Black Trans Lives Amid Continued Fights For LGBTQ Rights

The marches for Black trans lives were organized around of series of deaths that shed light on issues Black transgender people face every

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Khupe plots MDC bloodbath

THE MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe yesterday held its first meeting at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House (formerly Harvest House), two weeks after seizing control of the building from rivals with the help of the army and police and resolved to recall more defiant legislators and councillors

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Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants' protections | The Atlanta Voice

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

AMHVoices: Police, army cannot deny daylight atrocities

IF denials by the Zimbabwe National Army and the Zimbabwe Republic Police are to be taken for truth, our country has certainly become a dangerous place to live and invest in, where marauding bogus army and police officers can do things at will, cause suffering to the people even in broad daylight

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Fitness Facilities

I own and operate an Anytime Fitness gym in Placerville, California, and as a company, we are taking several precautions to ensure that we can reopen responsibly and provide our members with a safe place to

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Chiwenga wins children’s custody - NewsDay Zimbabwe

THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary Mubaiwa. BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Before yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, High Court judge

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Supreme Court permits 16 listed companies to hold virtual AGM

THE Supreme Court has given the green light for 16 companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) virtually, either in full or part.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Essence survey: Black mothers worry their children will be victims of police brutality

– 76% of Black mothers worry their children will be victims of police brutality

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Do The Right Thing NFL! | Afro

As we observe the recent apologies of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the NFL (National Football League), it is important to note that professional sports, including the NFL, has long been afflicted with the paradigm of

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Juliet Holness: ‘Scorn dem if necessary’ - Jamaican MP chides persons returning from abroad who breach COVID-19 orders - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Gleaner) East Rural St Andrew Member of Parliament Juliet Holness is urging Jamaicans, in particular those who have returned from overseas, to comply with the established protocols to protect others from contracting the deadly

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Zimbabwe: Mudzuri Offside, Smaller MDC-T is Dead - Khupe

Following a united MDC-T split 2018, then party co-vice president Thokozani Khupe formed her party and kept the name MDC-T while MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa incorporated erstwhile allies in MDC splinter groups led by former secretary generals Welshman Ncube and Tendai Biti to form MDC

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The Players Union and NBA Board of Governors Mutually Agree to Resume the 2019-2020 Season

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Justices keep hold on secret Russia investigation material

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is denying Congress access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation through the November election. The justices agreed on Thursday to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court order for the material

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Source: theGrio

Stacey Abrams On Wisconsin, Voting and The Future of America

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz As a child, Stacey Abrams’ parents used to take her and her siblings to the voting booth whenever it was an election day. It was one of her first introductions to civic engagement and politics. Years down the line, Abrams is known as a voting rights

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Re-imagine America, Not Just Policing

As a servant, I must remind us of America’s original sins: slavery and

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

Address rot at COVID-19 quarantine centres

THE government must seriously reconsider the way it has been running the coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine centres following unflattering remarks carried in a recent United Nations

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

The cruel and unusual story of Willie Francis, the teen who was executed twice

Thus, while the state prepared to try to kill Francis again, Frederick managed to hire the services of Bertrand DeBlanc, a lawyer who had also been a good friend of Thomas before his

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Laverne Cox Speaks Out On Supreme Court Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Workers

Yesterday (June 15), a conservative Supreme Court ruled that sexual orinetation and gender identiy is now included under Title VII, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex, race and national

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Khupe changes congress date

THE Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T was yesterday forced to change its extra-ordinary congress date from September 4 to July 31 following legal advice from its lawyer Lovemore Madhuku. BY BLESSED MHLANGA The faction had to revert to its earlier July 31 date after Madhuku advised that any date after that

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Challenges of accessing justice in Covid-19 times

While elsewhere in the continent whole justice systems were being shut down, the decision to keep the country’s wheels of justice turning was lauded

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Source: Business Daily

Byron Allen: Media Mogul Settles $20 Billion Racial Discrimination Lawsuit with Comcast - The New York Beacon

Byron Allen and Comcast have settled their long-running racial discrimination dispute. As part of a settlement announced Thursday, Comcast will carry Allen’s Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV and JusticeCentral.TV — via its Xfinity cable television packages, according to the Los Angeles Times, NBC News

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Covid-19: Five Nedbank employees at Joburg offices in quarantine after testing positive | News24

Five Nedbank employees are in 14-day quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19

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Help of all democratic governments and institutions needed for democracy to prevail in Guyana - Stabroek News

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Africa: One in Two Children Suffer Violence Each Year - Report

A new report has shown that one out of two children aged 2-17 years experience some form of violence globally each

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Source: allAfrica.com

Vultures circle over Khupe

VULTURES are circling over MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe with insiders saying there is a plot to oust her by end of this month after she failed to convene an extraordinary congress (EOC) within the three months as ordered by the Supreme Court in March. BY BLESSED MHLANGA Highly-placed

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

AMHVoices: Corrupt leaders enabling price hikes - NewsDay Zimbabwe

EARLIER this year Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (my neighbour) visited us in Lupane, the provincial capital of Matabeleland North province. BY Martin Stobert, Our Reader Personally, I felt that he received a warm welcome he deserved not only because he is a prodigy of the district, but also because

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Uganda pushes back award of exploration licences

Uganda has pushed back the licensing round for five new oil blocks in the Albertine Graben to September 30, 2020, following low interest from exploration

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Source: The East African

Zimbabwe: MDC's Saruwaka Showers Praise On Zanu-PF Minister, Blasts 'Captured' Civil Servants

MDC Alliance legislator for Mutasa Central, Trevor Saruwaka has accused some government officials of being 'captured' after they tried to block him from accessing 15 tonnes of rice on behalf of vulnerable communities in his

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Source: allAfrica.com

Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Young Immigrants Protections

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their

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