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Ravens Quarterback Cancels Florida Event Amid Virus Surge - Black News Channel
AP/BNC Contributor BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has canceled his annual Funday with LJ event in Florida due to surging coronavirus cases in the state and strict gathering limits. Jacksons third annual event was set to be held Saturday and Sunday in his hometown of
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Sheriff: Glee actor Naya Rivera missing in California lake - Black News Channel
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California lake will be closed while they search its waters for Glee star Naya Rivera, authorities said Thursday. The Ventura County Sheriffs Department late Wednesday confirmed that Rivera, 33, is the person being searched for in the waters of Lake Piru, which is
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LA Oscars Diversity - Black News Channel
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which hands out the Oscars says it has made major progress in its efforts to increase diversity in the group. On Tuesday, the Academy announced it invited 819 new members to join, saying that fulfills its quest to double the number of women and
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Potential Misuse of Opportunity Zones in Major Cities Being Investigated - Black Enterprise
Democrats say Opportunity Zones are being misused to help the wealthy to get richer rather than benefiting residents who live in low-income areas
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CNN Analyst Van Jones Helped President Trumps Order On Police Reform
According to a new report, CNN Analyst Van Jones was instrumental in President Donald Trump's executive order on police reform.
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Funeral for Robert Fuller, hanged black man in California - Black News Channel
Funeral services were held on June 30, for Robert Fuller, a 24-year-old man who was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California on June 10. Anita Bennett reports the service was filled with tributes and calls for answers from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs
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COMMENTARY: Newsoms confusing COVID-19 decrees - Black News Channel
By Chaplain Debbie Walker, BSN, RN, OCN, Texas Metro News Contributor Take a seat, take a breath, and let me walk you through a straightforward and truthful perspective on this new entity that is the topic of our conversations nowadays, Coronavirus, or COVID-19 which is now a part of everyday
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Trump Threatens to Cut Federal Aid if Schools Dont Reopen - Black News Channel
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer/ BNC Contributor Determined to reopen Americas schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts dont bring their students back in the fall. He complained that his own public
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New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online - Black News Channel
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer/ BNC Contributor International students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued Monday by federal immigration authorities. The guidelines, issued by
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Mississippi Drops Confederate-Themed Flag - Black News Channel
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press/ BNC Contributor JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — With a stroke of the governors pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol thats widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the historic
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A Large Mural Of Breonna Taylor Was Painted In Annapolis, Maryland
A group of artists have painted a large mural in honor of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black woman who was murdered by police officers.
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Citing Racial Bias, San Francisco Will End Mug Shots Release - Black News Channel
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press/ BNC Contributor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop perpetuating racial stereotypes, the citys police chief announced
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Confirmed new virus cases hit a new high in US - Black News Channel
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press The number of confirmed new virus cases per day in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40,000 Friday — eclipsing the mark set during one of the deadliest stretches in late April — in a resurgence that has led some governors to backtrack or at
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GOP worries Trumps divisive June imperils Senate control - Black News Channel
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trumps June began with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators. It never got less jarring or divisive. By months end, he was downplaying a coronavirus
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Big Mac Racism at McDonald’s - Black News Channel
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II at The Michigan Chronicle For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing racial
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Florida Police Laugh after Shooting Rubber Bullets - Black News Channel
By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press/ BNC Contributor FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Newly released body camera footage shows Florida police officers laughing and celebrating after shooting rubber bullets at a protest last month in which a Black woman was shot in the face and seriously injured. Fort
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US consumer spending up 8.2%, partly erasing record plunge - Black News Channel
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The American consumer increased spending by a record 8.2% in May, partly erasing record plunges the previous two months, against the backdrop of an economy thats likely shrinking by its steepest pace on record this quarter. Last months
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Harlem Book Fair Goes Virtual - Black News Channel
Every year, the nations largest and longest running African American book fair takes place in Harlem. But during the pandemic, its going virtual this year. The Harlem Book Fair will take place on July 18 and 19. It will welcome book lovers as well as new and old authors alike. You will be able to
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AP-NORC poll: White Democrats grow more critical of police - Black News Channel
By KAT STAFFORD and HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — As a national reckoning over racism and policing grips the nation, white Democrats are far more likely now than they were a few years ago to think police brutality is a serious issue — a dramatic shift in public opinion that some
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Wide shift in opinion on police, race rare in US polling - Black News Channel
By HANNAH FINGERHUT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Its rare for public opinion on social issues to change sharply and swiftly. And yet in the wake of George Floyds death, Americans opinions about police brutality and racial injustice have moved dramatically. About half of American adults
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#FIYAH! LIVESTREAM: Sugar Ray Leonard Talks Boxing, Personal Demons, and Greatest Triumphs - Black News Channel
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent The Quintuple Champ, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, has won five world titles in five separate weight divisions, lineal titles (defeating undisputed champions) in three weight divisions, as well as the undisputed welterweight title. Leonard is widely
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21 Savage launches free online financial program for youth - Black News Channel
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper 21 Savage will be launching a free online financial literacy education program for youth sheltered at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The Grammy winner announced his new Bank Account At Home nationwide initiative on Wednesday. His efforts will include a partnership
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Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show - Black News Channel
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Monday identified roughly 650,000 mostly small businesses and nonprofits that received taxpayer money from a program that likely helped prevent the job market meltdown from growing worse but that
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Justices rule states can bind presidential electors votes - Black News Channel
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a decision flavored with references to Hamilton and Veep, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling, in cases in
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Audit: US Sent $1.4B in Virus Relief Payments to Dead People - Black News Channel
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer/ BNC Contributor WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 1.1 million coronavirus relief payments totaling some $1.4 billion went to dead people, a government watchdog reported Thursday. More than 130 million so-called economic impact payments were sent to taxpayers as part of
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Mississippi seeing big virus outbreak in state legislature - Black News Channel
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Packed elevators and crowded committee rooms. Legislators sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on the House and Senate floor. People standing close to each other and talking, sometimes leaning in to whisper, without a mask in sight. Those were
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Locals: South Dakota police removed Confederate flag emblem - Black News Channel
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DeVos rejects part-time reopening for schools amid pandemic - Black News Channel
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be fully operational even amid the coronavirus pandemic. Anything less, she says, would fail students
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A Georgia Democrat Doubles Down On His Stance To Support Trump
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Greenleaf: OWN Network Hit is the Number One Cable Telecast for Women 25-54 - Black News Channel
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