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John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80 - Black News Channel
ATLANTA (AP) — John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing
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Push to Rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge After Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Increases - Black Enterprise
Nearly a half a million people have signed a petition calling to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after late Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis.
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Joe Biden Leads In Polls Largely Due To His Diverse Group Of Staffers
According to The Huffington Post, Biden’s full-time staff is made up of 35% people of color, with his senior staff compromising 36% people of color.
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Jamaal Bowman topples US Rep. Engel in NY Democratic primary - Black News Channel
By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press/ BNC Contributor  NEW YORK (AP) — Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has toppled 16-term U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in New York's Democratic primary in another upset victory for the party's insurgent wing. A political novice who has never held public office
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Ohio House speaker, 4 others arrested in $60M bribery case - Black News Channel
By JULIE CARR SMYTH and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The powerful Republican speaker of the Ohio House and four associates were arrested Tuesday in a $60 million federal bribery case connected to a taxpayer-funded bailout of Ohio's two nuclear power plants. Hours after FBI
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Sen. Nikema Williams to replace John Lewis on ballot | Atlanta Daily World
Georgia Sen. Nikema Williams will replace Congressman John Lewis on the November ballot. In a statement from Staci Fox, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Southeast Advocates said: Before being elected to represent Georgia’s 39th senate district, Sen. Nikema Williams served as Vice President of
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Unedited 'Eyes on the Prize' Interviews with John Lewis and C.T. Vivian Available to Stream at American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WATCH)
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has made John Lewis’ unedited interview for Eyes on the Prize (1987) and for Eyes on the Prize: They Loved You Madly (1979), available to st…
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Thousands of Essential Workers Walk Off Jobs In Strike For Black Lives
Essential workers in 100 U.S cities participated in the Strike For Black Lives, demanding corporations raise wages, provide healthcare, and paid leave
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Rising Diversity Is Uncle Joe Biden's Worry, Too. - ThyBlackMan
Uncle Joe Biden, Is her racial diversity America's greatest strength? So we are told. Yet, even before America becomes a majority-minority nation, 25 years from now, recent changes in the composition of the country are going to impact both parties in 2020.
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West Wants $1M for New Moms, Slams Tubman at Campaign Rally | Dallas Weekly
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Self-declared presidential candidate Kanye West delivered a winding and unconventional campaign introduction speech in which he proposed a $1 million payout to each new mother and decried Harriet Tubman for her work on the Underground Railroad. But whether the rapper and
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Voting by mail is convenient, dependable and safe
By Susana Darwin and Jack Courtier, Contributors PINELLAS COUNTY - Only 36 percent of eligible Pinellas County voters cast ballots in the March 2020 Presidential Preference Primary: 200,425 voters out of 544,223 registered. Three times as many people voted by mail in March as voted in
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R.I.P. John Lewis, 80, U.S Representative and Civil Rights Movement Icon
Rep. John Lewis, an iconic pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Rider who literally shed his blood in the fight for Black voting rights and went on to become a 17-term Democratic member…
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Sierra Leone politician highlights silver lining to COVID19 clouds in the ECOWAS region
Abdul Malik Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2020: Sierra Leone female politician - Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, has spoken about the silver lining to the dark clouds of COVID19 outbreak in the ECOWAS subregion. Blyden was speaking in an exclusive chat with members of the ECOWAS Parliament
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Petition Calls for Renaming Edmund Pettus Bridge in Rep. John Lewis’ Honor
The death of Rep. John Lewis has renewed calls to rename the Confederacy-related Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in the civil rights leader’s honor. The bridge's namesake, Edmund Pettus, was a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, who had a habit of getting caught by
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Some Flaky Bush Republicans Are Backing Joe Biden. What Else is New in Washington? - ThyBlackMan
Most of the so-called Republicans in this organization never supported Donald Trump or his America First platform in the first place. They are the establishment dinosaurs of the GOP who long ago lost touch with their constituents as they devoted themselves to making a fortune by pandering to the
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How Can Working Parents Still Teach Their Kids at Home This Fall? - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Joe W. Bowers Jr. | California Black Media   Last Friday, Gov. Newsom held a press briefing to announce his “Pandemic Plan for Learning and Safe Schools.” Although his plan offers clear guidance on when and how schools should
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Fair Housing Groups Slam Trump's Suburban Racial Rhetoric | Dallas Weekly
Washington (AP) - President Donald Trump's pledge to roll back an Obama-era regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs is drawing harsh criticism from fair housing advocates, who label it a blatant attempt to play racial politics and appeal to white voters in the final weeks
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Texas runoff 2020 results - Dallas Post Tribune
These runoffs reflect that in more than 30 races in the March 3 primary, no candidate exceeded 50% of the vote, setting up rematches between the candidates who came in first and second. The coronavirus pandemic has upended the way results will be coming in. Even though mail-in voting was not
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Kanye West Breaks Down and Rants About Abortion and Harriet Tubman at Presidential Campaign Rally - The New York Beacon
In a rally for his presidential campaign, rapper Kanye West ranted against abortion and pornography, argued policy with attendees, and broke down in tears all while wearing a bulletproof vest. According to Reuters, during the rally, which was held in South Carolina and lasted a little
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Representatives Johnson and Williams Introduce Legislation to Delay Implementation of the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule - Dallas Post Tribune
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30) and Congressman Roger Williams (TX-25) introduced the MFAR Transparency Act to delay the implementation of the Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule (MFAR) and direct the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct
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Protest turns violent as police push to protect Christopher Columbus statue  | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Patrick Forrest   Protesters clashed with police after attempts to bring down a statue depicting Christopher Columbus Friday night-July 17. The protest, organized by Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter Chicago, Chi-Nations Youth Council, LetUsBreathe Collective and others, started at
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Kanye West Was Emotional At HIs First Campaign Rally Sunday
Kanye West ranted about abortion and pornography, argued policy with attendees, and broke down in tears at his presidential campaign rally Sunday.
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Hidalgo County judge tries slowing coronavirus, but Gov. Greg Abbott has limited his options | Dallas Weekly
As the Rio Grande Valley grapples with an onslaught of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez is pushing hard for residents to stay at home. But the emergency order he issued Monday mandating that people shelter in their residences, restricting travel and
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Dallas Weekly News: Ep. 67-GOP candidate wins runoff race, Floyd family sues | Dallas Weekly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UdO96fHSY&feature=youtu.be Today in Dallas Weekly News, GOP candidate wins runoff race, Floyd family sues Minneapolis officers charged in his death, and the Dalla
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Civil society groups call for High Court Judge led inquiry into killing of youths in Makeni
LEGAL LINK, CAN and NACFOHRD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2020: Three leading civil society organizations working for the advancement of the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Sierra Leone - LEGAL LINK, CAN and NACFOHRD, are deeply concerned over the disproportionate use of force by the
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Trump says briefings will return and touts masks, in apparent shift amid surge in Covid cases | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump took a pair of steps Monday that seemed to offer quiet acknowledgment that the coronavirus strategy he has adopted for the past several weeks - to largely ignore the pandemic - has wounded him politically and failed to contain the raging crisis. In the Oval Office for
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Every San Francisco Police Station Is Being Required To Hang A Black Lives Matter Sign - The New York Beacon
The San Francisco Police Commission within the San Francisco Police Department has passed a resolution ordering every district station to put up a Black Lives Matter sign within 30 days, according to NBC Bay Area. The controversial move has faced criticism from the San Francisco Police Officers
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Georgia Provost: 'We need a Black Agenda!' | Afram News
"Right now, we as Black people need to get us an agenda and we need to discuss all of these disparities that we have in the Black community; education, healthcare and clinics, employment, parks for the youth, food, housing, economic development and the list goes on and on," Georgia Provost said.
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City of Oakland Affordable Housing Development Projects Awarded $90 Million from State Climate Action Programs
Three affordable housing developers were awarded a total of nearly $90 million, from two extremely competitive State of California funding programs, intended to develop green, resilient affordable housing in Oakland.  These three new construction developments will provide 462 units of affordable
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Spelman College Creates Scholarship Honoring the Late John Lewis
Spelman College creates an endowed scholarship in honor of Congressman John Lewis worth $10,000 to five social justice fellows each school year.
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