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Two Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) workers who recently tested positive to the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) are refusing institutional
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October 15: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale Started the Black Panther Party Today in 1966
Photo credits: David Fenton/Getty Images On Oct. 15, 1966, theBlack Panther Party for Self-Defensewas co-founded by civil rights activistsHuey P. NewtonandBobby Sealein Oakland, California. Later known as the Black Panther Party, the paramilitary-style political organization aimed to create social
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Coronavirus Update: Women of Color Are Facing Catastrophic Food Insecurity, Wage Loss Due to Pandemic
A new study finds that women of color continue to disproportionately struggle from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Since March, 53.6% of Black women and 57.1% of Hispanic women have reported higher rates of food scarcity, missed housing payments, or lost wages than their white
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Get your ballot now | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Julianne Malveaux (TriceEdneyWire.com)—What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day?  Most of us would take every precaution, checking the … Continued The post Get your ballot now appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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Morocco: Insights From Morocco Into How Smartphones Support Migration
[The Conversation Africa] For undocumented migrants and refugees, accurate information is vital. Because of this, smartphones - mobile phones that perform many of the functions of a computer, like accessing the internet - have become an important tool. They give migrants access to applications such
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Cain, Richard H. (1825-1887)
Richard Harvey Cain was born a free black in Greenbrier County, Virginia on April 12, 1825. In 1831 his parents moved to Gallipolis, Ohio where he attended school. Seventeen years later, in 1848, he joined the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and became a minister in Muscatine, Iowa. Cain
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Trinidad: Schools to reopen under new rules - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Express) The Covid-19 pandemic may have disrupted the education system but the Ministry of Education says once all stakeholders work together and do their parts, the remote teaching method being implemented for the upcoming term will be
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How Statistics is Applied in The World | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2020
Statistics is a kind of mathematical analysis that applies representations, models, and synopses to certain research data or real-world life studies. Statistics aims at studying methodologies to collect, evaluate, analyze, and make conclusions from data. It keeps us updated on what is happening
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Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care Offers High-Quality Death Experience
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Most people try not to think about their own death or the death of their loved ones, but it is an inevitable conversation. Everyone one day will die and when that happens one can only hope they die with dignity and surrounded by love. Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care is
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African Union: African Journalists Call for the Cessation of Hostilities Against Journalists to Ensure Safe Practice of Journalism in Africa
Dakar — The Pan-African journalists organisation, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), together with national journalists' unions and associations across the continent have today called on the African Union (AU) to make the immediate cessation of targeted hostilities against journalists
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Kern County Public Health To Launch Covid-19 Canvassing Efforts In Most Impacted Areas Of Kern
The Kern County Public Health Department is preparing to kick off a new COVID-19 canvassing effort in Kern’s most impacted areas, Public Health officials announced Tuesday at the Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting.
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Representative David Crowley Announces Resignation from Assembly
MADISON, WI – Representative David Crowley (D-Milwaukee) made the following statement announcing his resignation from the Wisconsin State Assembly, effective today, June 18, 2020, at
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Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age
Clarence Willi Norris, last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age 76 whiel a patient at the Bronx Community Hospital. Norris was one of nine African American teenagers accused of the 1931 rape of two white prostitutes in Alabama. The case was tried several times between 1931 and 1937
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1989
U.S. Household Wealth Rose Before the Pandemic, but Inequality Persisted
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Ready for a ‘real’ college experience, transfer students find their hopes dashed - Black Voice News
Kaylin Tran imagined her first year at UCLA after transferring from Pasadena City College as kind of like a coming of age movie: She’d join clubs, make lifelong friends and pore over books in the university’s iconic library. Instead, thanks to the pandemic, she’s sitting in front of a computer
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Coronavirus Update: Attendees At Florida Block Party Claim Racial Bias And Over-Policing
The block party advertised on social media drew a crowd of 3,000 mostly Black people on Saturday as the state reopened businesses and public
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Historic Ebenezer Church distributes free masks and sanitizer kids to hard hit Atlantans
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L.A. Sparks Use Their Depth to Defeat the Washington Mystics - Los Angeles Sentinel
The Los Angeles Sparks earned their third consecutive win, defeating the Washington Mystics 81-64. With a 6-3 overall record, the Sparks are in a three-way tie with the Chicago Sky and the Minnesota Lynx at third place in the
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As Youth Agencies Plan for Fall, they Draw on Lessons Learned from the Summer
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Beware the lockdown burnout - Voice Online
IN THE midst of the chaos created as a result of the outbreak of the... The post Beware the lockdown burnout appeared first on Voice Online.
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(1970) Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, “I Am For the Equal Rights Amendment.”
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm became in 1968 the first African American woman elected to Congress.  Four years later in 1972, she launched a bid to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, another first for an African American woman.  Throughout her career in Congress
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1970
Allegheny County reports 378 new COVID cases, officials urge residents to avoid parties | New Pittsburgh Courier
by PublicSource Reporters Allegheny County Health Department [ACHD] reported 378 new COVID-19 infections and 2 new COVID-related fatalities on Friday. The newly reported cases bring the total count since March 14 to 19,129 infections. The case tally released by the county on Friday came from 1,673
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California Police Looking for White Couple who Vandalized Black Lives Matter Mural on July 4th
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Jacob Blake's family hopes he can have 'great quality of life,' uncle says - TheGrio
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Where to vote early in Florida – Florida Courier
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Amarillo, Texas-based Pretty Group and its sister-company OccuNet have unveiled an insurance coverage product that covers medical bills for collegiate scholar athletes who contract COVID-19. Impressed by the viral #wewanttoplay…
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