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Film Review by Dwight Brown, NNPA NewsWire Film Critic Heads up. First-time feature filmmaker Rapman has schooled Generation Z with a cautionary urban tale that is both raw and affecting. “They act like guns are toys until they get shot.” That’s it. Kids playing games and suffering grownup consequences. It’s a symptom of misguided adolescent []

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Just two years later, thanks to pressure from civil rights leaders and the black press, the Navy told these 16 enlistees — the sons and grandsons of slaves — that they would attempt to integrate the officer corps and prove wrong the prevailing wisdom, which held that their race was incapable of

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Malawi's governing party has called for a third presidential election, citing irregularities and intimidation in this week's re-run vote as unofficial tallies show incumbent President Peter Mutharika losing to the opposition

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Charles Anderson Edward Berry, better known as Chuck Berry, is popularly considered the father of Rock ‘n’ Roll. He was born on October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri to Martha and Henry Berry, who were grandchildren of slaves. His ancestors had migrated from the rural south to Missouri to look

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Dickwon Nigel Adams, the boyfriend of the pregnant Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, teenager whose body was fished out of the Berbice River last week, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with her

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Trump Uses SpaceX Launch To Criticize Protesting 'Thugs' And 'Angry Mobs'

President Donald Trump led his remarks on the country’s first manned rocket launch in nearly a decade with some harsh words for civil rights protesters around the country demanding police

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Coronavirus Cases Are Rising in 40 of 50 US States

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to an all-time high of more than 50,000 per day on Thursday, with the infection curve rising in 40 out of 50 states in a reversal that has largely spared only the Northeast. In yet another alarming

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Batts, Deborah (1947- )

Deborah Batts, U.S. District Court Judge in New York City, received degrees from Radcliffe College and the Harvard University Law School. Batts began her legal career with the firm of Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City. Later she was appointed assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. In

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With a great feel for modern times and hip-hop music, Rapman (aka Andrew Onwubolu) mixes a bit of Boyz N the Hood, with Menace II

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Judge OKs $58B Plan To End PG&E Bankruptcy

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday approved a $58 billion plan by the nation’s largest utility to end a contentious bankruptcy saga that began after Pacific Gas & Electric’s outdated equipment ignited wildfires in California that killed more than 100 people, wiped out entire

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Influential Puerto Rican Activist Group the Young Lords

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Obama rebukes leaders over Covid-19 response

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Chuckling dismissal of #MeToo blasted

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Joe Frazier was a professional boxer and former World Heavyweight Champion. He was born on January 12, 1944 and was the youngest of several children. His parents were farmers and lived in Beaufort, South Carolina. They lived in relative poverty and Joe had to work as a farmhand from a very early

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Statue of Italian journalist who bought and married 12-year-old Eritrean is the next target of activists

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Prince Hall (c. 1735–1738—1807)[1] was an African American noted as an abolitionist for his leadership in the free black community in Boston and as the founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry. He lobbied for education rights for black children and was active in the back-to-Africa

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Brooks, Dowrich tune up with fifties

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Malawi election commission appeals for calm as it tallies votes

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