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Justin Trudeau Takes A Knee During Anti-Racism Protest
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Mayor-Elect Of Ferguson, Mo., On Where Her City Stands, After Michael Brown
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Africa: U.S. Executive Order Against Property Of Certain Persons Associated With ICC
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Coronavirus deaths surge in Brazil, Mexico as regional leaders look to reopen
RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy’s toll yesterday, while Mexico reported a record number of new cases, as regional leaders in Latin America push to end quarantine measures and kick their economies back into
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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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TGR COMMENTARY: Every Department is a Police Department
Almost every day you turn on your radio or television set, local broadcast stations and national news will gather their hand-picked colored commentators to explain to angry protestors why a few bad apple officers are making other law enforcers look really
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Uganda: Makerere COVID-19 Ventilators Pass Test
The locally-made low cost ventilator by Makerere University for giving breathing support to Covid-19 patients has successfully passed the engineering
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Matt Barnes Says Some NBA Players Don't Want to Return This Season Because of George Floyd and the Protests
While some players may not want to return because of the potentially deadly virus, others may not play for reasons that have to do with George Floyd and the ongoing protests, if Matt Barnes’ comments in a recent interview are to be
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Responding to COVID-19: It’s on Us If We Repeat the Past
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WHO warns pandemic accelerating in Africa, 25% of cases in South Africa
The speed the new coronavirus jumped from 100 000 to 200 000 confirmed cases in Africa shows just how quickly the pandemic is accelerating on the continent, the World Health Organization said
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Investor or worker? America's unequal reality
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Attorney General Bill Barr Denies Nation's Police Are Systemically Racist
Attorney General Bill Barr said Sunday that he does not believe that there is systemic racism in the nation’s police force, contradicting a staggering body of evidence that shows racial bias in virtually every part of the American criminal justice
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Cristobal remnants bring thunderstorms, flooding to Midwest
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Billy Porter speaks up for Black LGBTQ: ‘Our lives matter too’
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Milwaukee woman begins national mutual aid fund during COVID-19
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Trump Makes Supporters Sign Coronavirus Waiver to Attend Campaign Rally
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David Oyelowo Says Academy Members Threatened to Not Vote for Film ‘Selma’ After Cast Went to Premiere Wearing Shirts That Said ‘I Can’t Breathe’
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NGOGA: Resolution on genocide clarity over the massacre
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After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated
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‘This Must Stop!’, By Dr. E. Faye Williams – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Military, Khupe seize MDC Alliance HQ
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Global Black Female Economist Cautiously Examines the Trend of ‘Big Governments Getting Bigger’ – Your Black World
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John Legend, Lizzo, Common and More Celebs Sign Open Letter Calling for Police Defunding
An open letter written by activist Patrisse Cullors demanding “disinvestment from police and investment in Black communities” has received backing from several celebrities including John Legend, Lizzo, and Common, to name
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Trump Administration Officials to Black America: ‘Coronavirus Pandemic is Your Fault’
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