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VIDEO: Activists demand D.C. ‘Defund’ police amid peaceful protests after city renames street ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’
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Kneeling: This is America
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How Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner's killing, was prosecuted by the FBI
In 2014, Eric Garner was killed on Staten Island, New York when an officer Daniel Pantaleo, put Garner in a chokehold while a group of cops tried arresting him on accusations that included
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Black America’s Conflicted History with the Insurrection Act
Cotton appeared on Fox News where he offered, “[I]f necessary, the president should use the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military forces to these cities to support our local law enforcement and ensure that this violence ends tonight . . .not one more
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Scant Evidence For Trump Claim That Antifa Is Behind Protest Violence
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Nichols, a balloon artist, was riding home on his scooter from the protests engulfing Minneapolis last weekend when he was struck by a rubber bullet fired from a cluster of police officers in riot
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''Black Lives Matter'' protest hits South Africa
The end state will be the creation of an anti neo-colonial, anti-imperialist movement, anti new world order
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Riots are the language of the unheard. What is it America is not hearing? – The Mississippi Link
And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over
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Trump cites Dallas beating to governors, leaves out details
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An open letter from a black teen: 'Do better'
Whether you’ve contributed a single post or whether you’ve marched by my side, you are crucial to this movement; you are crucial to the roar of justice; you are crucial to MY safety and MY future as a black man in
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A Look Back At The Evolution Of Black Hair And The People Who’ve Shaped It
Slavery ends, but whites look upon black women who style their hair like white women as
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Liberia: Is Senator Dillon Biting More Than He Can Chew?
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Black Music Appreciation Month: Russell Simmons | Afro
The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) kicks off Black Music Appreciation Month with an exclusive interview with Def Jam founder Russell
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Around The World: Black Lives Matter
While mourners filed past George Floyd’s body in a Free Will Baptist church in his hometown of Raeford, N.C., just 12 days after he was killed under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, tens of thousands of people across the country and around the world came together to protest his
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Africa: Here We Are Again - Will Racist Violence in the United States Ever End?
George Floyd's name is now added to the tragic list - already far too long - of other people of color whose lives have been cut short as a direct result of the United States' long history of racism and white
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Liberia: IMF Executive Board Approves a U.S.$50 Million Disbursement to Liberia to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
The pandemic opens a balance of payment need of US$150 million (5.1 percent of GDP) in 2020, which largely arises from a domestic revenue shortfall projected at US$119
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WATCH: Kareem Abdul Jabbar Speaks to the Black Press About Injustice
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The United States sanctions Cuban company handling remittances | New York Carib News
The US State Department included the Cuban company Fincimex on its list of restricted entities on
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Protests Force Some Stores To Close | Afro
U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing of George Floyd in
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UAB Doctor Raises Money to Create Face Shields in Zambia
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HOSTS ROUND TABLE TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM •
For 75 years EBONY and JET have been the authoritative voice highlighting the injustices of Black Americans from featuring the open casket of the lynching of 14-year old Emmett Till, to the footage of the brutality against nonviolent protesters during the Civil Rights Movement to the need for bail
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L.A. Public Officials Acknowledge the Black Community have been Hit Harder During COVID-19, in More Ways Than One.
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Remembering the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
May 17 marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. the Board of
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Sharpton Announces New March On Washington Led By Families Of Black People Killed By Police
(CNN) — The Rev. Al Sharpton announced Thursday that he’s organizing a March on Washington in late August to mark the 57th anniversary of the historic demonstration for civil rights as protests over the death of George Floyd sweep the
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Fulton County Library System welcomes guest reader Stacey Abrams
The Fulton County Library System’s Summer Reading Program kicked off Monday, June 1 with a full week of exciting guest speakers, including best-selling author Nic Stone, local politicians, Lucy McBath and Park Cannon and local artists from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Dad’s Garage Theatre
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Trump nominee to be Air Force chief of staff says he navigates 'two worlds' as an African American man
Gen. Charles Brown, commander of Pacific Air Forces and President Trump's nominee to be the next Air Force chief of staff, said in a video released Friday that he navigates "two worlds" as an African American and that he's "thinking about how I can make
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George Floyd Eulogized in Minneapolis in First of 3 Events
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PNP stands in solidarity with peaceful protesters against George Floyd's killing | New York Carib News
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