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Pro Sports Set to Return Following Pandemic Shutdown
The Washington Nationals are tentatively scheduled to take on the New York Yankees in D.C. on Thursday, July 23, as team sports begin to return after months of being shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Butler waits for NBA approval on statement-making jersey – Daytona Times
BY ANTHONY CHIANG MIAMI HERALD / TNS When the NBA season resumes at Walt Disney World, Jimmy Butler will be one of the few players without a social justice message on the back of his jersey. And the Miami Heat All Star is hoping he won’t have to wear his last name on his jersey
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Report: Physicians to ID at-risk NBA players through medical records
Players and coaches who are considered high-risk for complications related to the coronavirus are being identified by a panel reviewing current medical records, ESPN reported
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30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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U.S. On Cusp Of Marking At Least 100K Deaths From Virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States was on the cusp of marking at least 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, a once-unthinkable toll that now appears to be just the beginning of untold misery in the months ahead as Las Vegas casinos and Walt Disney World make plans to reopen, crowds of unmasked
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Hollywood’s Movie Review: Miss Juneteenth
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Wizards Beal, Nets Dinwiddie to miss rest of NBA season - Black News Channel
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — Wizards leading scorer Bradley Beal and Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie wont take part in the restart of the NBA season, two significant absences in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Beal is out because of a right rotator cuff
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30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Rockets' Russell Westbrook Tests Positive For Coronavirus | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.espn.com By Tim MacMahon Houston Rockets star guard Russell Westbrook announced that he tested positive for the coronavirus before the team departed for Walt Disney World. Westbrook, co-star James Harden and recent addition Luc Mbah a Moute did not travel with the Rockets to
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African American History and Women Timeline 1980-1989
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BHERC TV Online “Doin’ It The Independent Way” Film Festival Extended Due to Popular Demand - Los Angeles Sentinel
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In Praise of Mayme Clayton: Images of the African American West
Dr. Mayme Clayton was born in Arkansas and transplanted to California, where she served as law librarian at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), beginning in 1957. In 1969 she helped put together the university’s African American Studies Center Library. But her most astounding
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Harden and Westbrook are no-shows for first practice of season restart - DefenderNetwork.com
The Houston Rockets held their first official practice of the season restart on Saturday without their All-Star backcourt. Guards James Harden and Russell Westbrook have yet to join their teammates and the other 21 NBA teams at Walt Disney World in Orlando for the restart of the season, but coach
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Disney Changing Splash Mountain, Ride Tied to Jim Crow Film
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Amid calls to change the Splash Mountain theme park ride over its ties to “Song of the South,” the 1946 movie many view as racist, Disney officials said Thursday it was recasting the ride based on “The Princess and the Frog,” a 2009 Disney film with an African American female
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