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Postal Service removing mail sorting machines as election nears : TheGrio
Machines that sort mail are being removed from postal facilities around the country and are being executed without explanation. The post Postal Service removing mail sorting machines as election nears appeared first on TheGrio.
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‘We All Deserve to Have Our Voices Heard’
[ad_1] Share0 Screenshot via @michelleobama/Instagram Since former first lady Michelle Obama has left the White House, she has made it her personal mission to advocate for voting rights. She created the When We All Vote initiative to encourage people to use their voting power and why it is even
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Umar Johnson Blames ‘Quaker Grits’ And Black Consumers For Black Boys’ School Not Being Built
Umar Johnson blessed made a Labor Day social media appearance to explain in two words why the school for Black boys that he raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for years ago has never been built: "Quaker grits."
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'Uncle Fester': Erica Dixon Unleashes on a Fan Who Suggests She's Broke
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Jagdeo expresses gratitude to public for support - Stabroek News

PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, recently sworn in as Vice President expressed yesterday gratitude

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Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter's Family Properties
In her new book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, historian Beryl Satter puts a human face on the often told story of racial discrimination in urban housing by following the career of her father, Chicago attorney Mark J. Satter, who was both an
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Historically Black Colleges Work to Help students Amid Virus | Black Voice News
The school of 268 students helped Johnson, and others like her, despite its somewhat shaky financial condition and concerns that COVID-19 could make things
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PANDEMIC. PROTESTS. POSSIBILITIES. | Dallas Weekly
Understand this: Until Black children, Black women, Black men, Black families, Black culture, Black institutions thrive, this cycle of palatable pain, rage, and mistrust will continue to
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Can Charles Booker Unseat Senator Mitch McConnell In Kentucky? | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.thegrio.com By Derrel Jazz Johnson Booker says defeating the veteran Republican senator is just as important as getting rid of Donald Trump Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has long been regarded as an enemy of Black people, beginning, conservatively, in the late 1980s, when he voted against
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Charles Mitchell, Slavery, and Washington Territory in 1860
Few people connect Washington Territory with slavery.  However one incident in 1860 was a reminder that the peculiar institution reached the pre-Civil War Pacific Northwest.  In the account below, historian Lorraine McConaghy describes the saga of Charles Mitchell whose attempted escape from
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These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era - African American News Today - EIN News
Over the last half century, I would say that for many indicators, things have stagnated, said Ellora Derenoncourt, assistant professor of economics and public policy at University of California, Berkeley. The wealth gap, the income gap,
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BET Founder Calls For $14 Trillion In Slavery Reparations | The Oklahoma Eagle
BET founder Robert Johnson argued Monday that “now is the time” for white America to acknowledge damages resulting from slavery, and for the U.S. Government to provide reparations in the sum of a $14 trillion wealth transfer to help prevent the country from splitting into separate and unequal
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Mthuli Ncube’s economic prescriptions toxic
EDITORIAL COMMENT Statements by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube last week that his economic blueprint, Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) had scored several successes, got us thinking. What is success, really? When Ncube took over the Finance ministry in 2018 after the November 2017
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Melrose doubles up on valedictorians - TSDMemphis.com
To say Camille “Cami” Taylor and Tarrell Charles were fierce academic rivals at Melrose High School would be inaccurate. As a matter of fact, Taylor and Charles are “best buds.” Not only were they school mates, they both work in FedEx hub. Both were eyeing that valedictorian spot well before senior
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Netflix pledges $100m to support black communities in US
NETFLIX HAS pledged to allocate two percent of its cash holdings to support black communities... The post Netflix pledges $100m to support black communities in US appeared first on Voice Online.
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Try Again: Eliza Reign Rejects Futures 1K Monthly Child Support Offer
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Win for Reparations: California Assembly Committee Votes Yes on Bill
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Report: COVID-19 is third-leading cause of death for Black Americans - DefenderNetwork.com
New data suggests the novel coronavirus is the third leading cause of death for Black Americans. A report from the Brookings Institution examined how Black families were dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and found it has become a leading cause of death. Only cancer and heart disease are
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What To Do (And Not Do) After A Breakup, According To A Professional
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African Americans in the Shadow of Mt. Shasta: The Black Community of Weed, California
In the following article, James Langford, the first black teacher in Weed, briefly describes the history of the African American community there.  Langford, who graduated from California State University at San Francisco with an elementary teaching credential in the spring of 1974, began teaching
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Systemic Racism Makes Covid-19 Much More Deadly For African-Americans
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