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Poll: Texas voters split on police violence protests, Confederate statues - DefenderNetwork.com
Long-held views on the discrimination against Black people and on memorials to the Confederacy are changing in Texas in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody and the protests that followed, according to polling by the Texas Politics Project at the University of
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Bubonic plague cases confirmed in China - TheGrio
Just when you thought there was only one communicable disease to worry about, here comes more news out of China... View Article The post Bubonic plague cases confirmed in China appeared first on TheGrio.
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Americans Face Testing Delays as Virus Surges - Black News Channel
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and SOPHIA TULP Associated Press/ BNC Contributor LOS ANGELES (AP) — For two weeks, Rachael Jones has stayed home, going without a paycheck while waiting and waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test from a pharmacy near Philadelphia. Im just so disappointed. I just dont know
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Can Biden and Harris take a punch? History says no and Trump can't wait : TheGrio
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” Mike Tyson, November 1996 A reporter once asked then... View Article The post Can Biden and Harris take a punch? History says no and Trump cant wait appeared first on TheGrio.
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Heres how much money SAA staff will get in their severance packages
New terms and conditions for the severance packages of each worker at SAA were revealed on Wednesday - but will it be enough for the outgoing employees?
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Health department offering free COVID-19 testing – Daytona Times
The Florida Department of Health in Volusia County (DOH-Volusia) began free, COVID-19 testing to the public on July 8. Testing will be available by appointment only at these two locations in Volusia County, weather permitting: 1845 Holsonback Drive, Daytona Beach. To schedule an appointment at this
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Henry Jansen: Western Cape Mayor dies from COVID-19
Langeberg Mayor Henry Jansen, who spent the best part of 20 years in the Western Cape's political arena, lost his fight against COVID-19 on Tuesday.
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In risky bid, Trump stokes racial rancor to motivate voters - DefenderNetwork.com
President Donald Trump is wielding America’s racial tensions as a reelection weapon, fiercely denouncing the racial justice movement on a near-daily basis with language stoking white resentment and aiming to drive his supporters to the polls. The incendiary discourse is alarming many in his own
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Ricardo Mthembu: ANC KZN spokesperson dies due to COVID-19
African National Congress (ANC) KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) spokesperson Ricardo Mthembu has succumbed to COVID-19 on Wednesday 8 July.
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Another Eskom unit trips, as 14-hour power cuts set for some regions
Eskom's power supply hangs by a thread, after another unit tripped on Wednesday. The huge loss coincides with day-long blackouts for some municipalities.
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Trump administration wants next stimulus package to protect unemployed - TheGrio
The Trump administration wants the next stimulus package focused on unemployed Americans, passed before the August recess, and capped at... View Article The post Trump administration wants next stimulus package to protect unemployed appeared first on TheGrio.
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Cincinnati VC Fund Wants To Invest $50M On Midwest BIPOC Businesses
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Steven Canals talks Pose, success and Afro-Latin identity
Steven Canals is still taking it all in. The 39-year-old Bronx native became an overnight TV sensation when Pose, the... View Article The post Steven Canals talks Pose, success and Afro-Latin identity appeared first on TheGrio.
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21st Century Charter School parents say ‘enough is enough’ | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Contributed by The 411 News GEO Academies is no longer delivering the education parents desired and the school promised In April, U.S. News World Report’s “Best Schools of 2020” ranked 21st Century Charter School @Gary as the best charter school in Gary. It ranks 248th among Indiana high
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BNC Chairman/CEO J.C. Watts: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk - Black News Channel
By J.C. Watts, chairman/acting CEO of BNC Washington, D.C., city attorney George Valentine was Black, brilliant, and fit. But after contracting COVID-19, he became so weak, he had trouble moving and even speaking. When it got to the point where he could barely breathe, George called an ambulance
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Milwaukee Common Council passes legislation calling on FPC to ban chokeholds by police and honoring Joel Acevedo - Milwaukee Community Journal
At today’s meeting of the common council (Tuesday, July 7), the Council passed file #200316 – a substitute resolution urging the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners to adopt standard operating procedures prohibiting certain types of restraints and holds such as chokeholds and strangleholds. The
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Kanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid - The New York Beacon
Kanye West has given more details about the policy platform he will adopt in his bid to become US president in November, declaring himself anti-abortion, sceptical about a Covid-19 vaccine and keen to return “fear and love of God” to education. In an interview with
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NFL Will Play Black National Anthem at Games | The Michigan Chronicle
By Stacy M. Brown When Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the national anthem to bring awareness to social and other injustices faced regularly by Black and Brown individuals in America, the National Football League, President Donald Trump, and others wrongly associated the
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Striking nurses granted $1 000 bail each
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Hospital accused of negligence after woman plunges to death
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Zanu PF frets over planned protests
ZANU PF says the planned July 31 protests presented a threat to its hegemony and accused the opposition MDC Alliance of leading an “unholy alliance” to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa unconstitutionally.
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Bone Fragments in Mexico Identified as Belonging to One of 43 Missing Students - The New York Beacon
ByKirk Semple,Paulina Villegas andNatalie Kitroeff MEXICO CITY — Nearly six years after 43 college students disappeared in rural Mexico, the government announced the first major breakthrough in its investigation on Tuesday: Forensic scientists have identified the remains of one of the
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UDC quietly offers to remove Confederate monument as protesters clamor for statues to fall | Chicago Defender
RICHMOND, Virginia—A large crowd gathered in a heavy downpour to watch history being made: The removal of the monument celebrating Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Church bells rang in the distance as work crews took power tools to the feet of the statue. Once removed, the monument was placed on
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NW Premier Job Mokgoro voluntarily hospitalised with COVID-19
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Integration, Marketing Reach and Longevity Fundamental to New Collaboration Between The Dallas Weekly and Mark Cuban Companies | Dallas Weekly
The $100,000 advertising campaign will use both old and new media to target DFW millennials The Dallas Weekly is a weekly newspaper that has been serving the African American community in Dallas and the surrounding region since 1954. Today, the paper announced the start of an advertising campaign
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Vendor shot dead at Falmouth 'bend down' market
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Investigation delayed: Rape of toddler at Gauteng hospital sparks outrage
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