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Keys for getting first-time and limited-English speaking voters to participate in the election - Black Voice News
In summary Targeted outreach efforts are crucial for reaching first-time, low-propensity and limited-English speaking voters. By Jonathan Mehta Stein and Jonathan Mehta Stein is executive director of California Common Cause, jstein@commoncause.org. Francisco Pedraza, Special to CalMatters
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Top 5 Educational Games for Children Not to Be Bored | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2020
Teaching children through lectures and in the same space comes with monotony and loss of concentration. The resulting boredom will make the children hate overall learning. Teachers, parents, and guardians have the responsibility of making learning fun for the kids. Educational games will make
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Sierra Leone’s United Methodist Church Bishop Yambasu dies in a road crash
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2020: The United Methodist Church Resident Bishop in Sierra Leone, Dr. John K. Yambasu, died yesterday morning in a road accident outside the capital Freetown. He is reported to have been on his way to Mile 91 to attend the funeral service of one of his pastors
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
President Bio is surrounded by bad people 
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2020: The Koroma administration failed to deliver its manifesto. It completely failed in creating a conducive environment for its successor to flourish - whether APC or SLPP. I encourage you to fact check to ascertain the reality behind the
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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WATCH: #FIYAH! LIVESTREAM — 8. 6. 20 1PM ET — REP. BOBBY SCOTT
#FIYAH! LIVESTREAM — During his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Congressman Scott successfully sponsored laws critical to Virginians in education, employment, health care, social services, economic development, crime prevention and consumer protection. His legislative successes in the
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NNPA President to Give Keynote in Forum on Social Justice Activism in Sports | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The participating panel of sports executives includes Arizona Cardinals Owner Michael J. Bidwell, Arizona Coyotes President & CEO Xavier A. Gutierrez, Phoenix Suns President & CEO Jason Rowley, Arizona Diamondbacks President & CEO Derrick Hall, and Arizona State University Athletic
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Here’s what community college students want to know - Black Voice News
In summary Students presented California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Oakley with a variety of concerns, and his responses had a common thread: The community college system needs more money. As school starts for the California Community Colleges system next week, students want to know
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Sierra Leoneans are concerned about the economy – says new Afrobarometer study
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2020: There is no doubt, Sierra Leone’s economy is in a mess. If not for the support of the international community and development agencies, especially the World Bank and the IMF, the economy would have been in a state of bankruptcy as the government fails to turn
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
SLPP Constitutional reform – President Bio is now Leader of the SLPP
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2020: After almost a year of internal political machinations and intrigue, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has finally got its revised Constitution which reflects its new party structure approved by the country’s Political Parties Registration
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Oversight Committee to Hold Hearing with Postmaster General DeJoy on Sweeping Changes to Postal Service | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The hearing will examine operational and organizational changes at the Postal Service that have resulted in delivery delays across the country, including the delivery of critical medications, and the impact of these changes on the rights of eligible Americans to cast their votes
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Digital divide in Texas is wide but can be corrected, TSTA study confirms | East Texas Review
The biggest victims are low-income, rural and minority students Overall digital access for Texas students is worse than in the country as a whole, but the biggest victims are low-income, rural and minority students, a study commissioned by the Texas State Teachers Association found. Inequities in
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Social media and the spreading of hate politics
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: The advent of social media at face value, should be a blessing and a rod of enlightenment. Before social media, the manufacturing, dissemination and consumption of information was totally controlled by the few. Those were the days when whole
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
SB 98 Sows Chaos When Students, Families and Educators Deserve Support - Voice and Viewpoint
Margaret Fortune | Secretary-Treasure of California State National Action Network Joanne Ahola | President of the Sacramento County Board of Education It’s August in California and hundreds of thousands of educators are about to step into the uncertainty of distance and hybrid learning models
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Military coup in Mali – is Africa returning to its bad old ways?
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2020: The President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was seized and detained with his Prime Minister Boubou Cisse by the military yesterday. Initial reports indicate that what started as a mutiny is becoming a full-blooded coup d’état. In
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Eric D. Walrond: Harlem Renaissance Writer and Journalist
Eric D. Walrond was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist, who made a lasting contribution to literature, his work can still be found in print today. Walrond was born on December 18, 1898, in Georgetown, British Guiana, to a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese father. When Eric
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Birmingham Families Face an Unprecedented School Year
By Je’Don Holloway Talley and Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times Preparing for the first day of school—Tuesday, September 8—parents and guardians of Birmingham City Schools (BCS) students say decisions for this semester are more perplexing than ever before. Consider Angela Smith, for instance, who
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Dr. Mark Sullivan Named Permanent Chief of Birmingham City Schools
Times staff report The Birmingham Board of Education on Monday named Dr. Mark Sullivan school superintendent. Sullivan, a longtime education leader, was appointed during a board meeting. He has served as interim superintendent since April, when Dr. Lisa Herring became superintendent of Atlanta
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Mondaire Jones: ‘I’ve experienced more racism than homophobia on the campaign trail’ - African American News Today - EIN News
Mondaire Jones, an openly gay New Yorker likely to win a seat in Congress, is one the Democratic Party's newest rising stars
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Who will rescue Ernest Koroma’s legacy?
Ibrahim S Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 August 2020: It was shortly before the 2018 presidential election, President Ernest Koroma told supporters in Kailahun, a stronghold of the then opposition Sierra Leone  People’s Party that the  ruling APC will win the elections hands down as a result
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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LEAP Warns Potential Menthol Ban Would Increase Police Interaction with Black Community - Voice and Viewpoint
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent There is little question that cigarette smoking is harmful. However, a growing number of organizations led by Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) believe
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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper
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BCS Parent Tyrone Silmon on How Remote Learning Will Affect His 10 y.o.
By Ameera Steward For the Birmingham Times The COVID-19 pandemic has changed lives around the world and here at home. Last month, Birmingham City Schools (BCS) announced that the first nine weeks of the 2020–2021 academic year will be done remotely in light of the ongoing coronavirus
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Identifying Alzheimer’s risk factors in young people - African American News Today - EIN News
… of Alzheimer’s higher in African American individuals? That is a wonderful … risk is about double for African Americans as it is for Americans … risk. In terms of why African Americans at increased risk, it can …
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Report Reveals Shooting Death of Joshua Pawlik by OPD Could Have Been Prevented
Before George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless others were killed by police this year, Joshua Pawlik was killed by the Oakland Police Department (OPD) on March 11, 2018. Pawlik lost his life that night under circumstances that would eventually lead to the Oakland City Council agreeing to pay
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Federal Appeals Court Hearing Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law Obstructing Voting Rights Restoration | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Campaign Legal Center, and the Southern Poverty Law Center immediately sued. In May 2020, the district court struck down the law, but the ruling was
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Students in Nigeria demand reopening of schools | Africanews
Students in Nigeria on Wednesday took to the streets of Abuja, the capital to demand the reopening of their schools, since closed as parts of efforts to contain the further spread of
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External debt complicates Africa’s COVID-19 recovery – debt relief needed
Mickaël Sallent (UNDP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2020: Mozambique was already struggling with repaying its $14 billion external debt when COVID-19 hit earlier this year. The country’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which was 100% in 2018 ballooned to 130% in 2020. With debt overtaking total economic
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Black Girls Sue Governor and Legislature Over Public School Funding — The Sacramento Observer
California Budget Bill Cuts Funding From Growing School Districts, Harming Futures Of Tens Of Thousands Of California’s Schoolchildren At the tender age of 5, Samaiya Atkins and her father Marcus Atkins have high hopes and dreams for a high-quality, public education. When Mr. Atkins realized his
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Equal Education wants answers from DBE over School Nutrition
The education lobby group say while the latest report is “more coherent” than previous ones, it lacks crucial information and also details on how the Department plans to address shortcomings.
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Govt choke-hold on mobile money will prove costly – experts
Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE is likely to miss on the US$51 billion mobile money market in Africa due to the government’s repressive and harsh policies, analysts have said. Statistics from the GSMA show that Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the fastest growing region in terms of mobile money, with a CAGR
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Lotoria King Has 3 Children in BCS. Her Plans for Their Virtual Classes
By Je’Don Holloway Talley For the Birmingham Times Back-to-school shopping for Lotoria King, who has three children in Birmingham City Schools (BCS), usually meant supplies and clothing. Not this year. “I’m trying to make sure they all have laptop computers with webcams. I have internet
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