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One of two men convicted in the killing of James Jordan,father of basketball legend Michael Jordan, is expected to be released from prison in three years. Larry M. Demery, 44, was granted a 2023 parole date via the Mutual Agreement Parole Program (MAPP), a scholastic and vocational
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Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Texted ‘Viva le Resistance’ after Trump Victory Admits Falsifying Document – The Wilmington Journal
An FBI lawyer famous for texting 'Viva le resistance' to a colleague after President Trump's election victory pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying a document to justify the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. Kevin [...]
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Harris seizes historic moment in accepting VP nomination - DefenderNetwork.com
Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, cementing her place in history as the first Black woman on a major party ticket and promising she and Joe Biden will rejuvenate a country ravaged by a pandemic and riven by racial and partisan divides. In an address
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Missouri man wanted after shooting Black woman and calling her the N-word - Face2Face Africa
Investigators in Missouri are on the hunt for a man who allegedly shot a Black woman and repeatedly called her the N-word before fleeing the scene. Narrating the incident to KDSK, the victim, April Brown, said the gun was discharged when the suspect, Adam Lee Pillow, was pistol-whipping her. Brown
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ASK-Y LLC Begins Production on Cutting Edge TV Series “Smokin’ Good” – Free Press of Jacksonville
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Shiek Mahmud-Bey, actor/director/producer, who credits include The Inner Circle, The Martyr Maker, Chasing After You, and many others, portrays the main role of August Good. “What intrigued me about this project was [...]
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Greenwood Art Project Issues Citywide Call For Submissions For Call & Response Poster Project, Contest | The Oklahoma Eagle
The Oklahoma Eagle Newswire The Greenwood Art Project has issued a citywide open call for submissions for the Call & Response Poster Project to complement 34 commissioned public art projects. The Poster Project exhibit is scheduled for unveiling on May 31, 2021. The purpose of the Poster
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Comerica Bank partners with Minority Depository Institutions - DefenderNetwork.com
Comerica Bank announced it is moving $10 million in deposits to Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs) within its five-state footprint, as well as building a mutual mentoring relationship with these institutions. MDIs assist minority and under-served communities and foster economic viability in
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Get Your Ass Up!: The Blackest Moments From HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’, Ep. 1
HBO is once again winning with another unapologetically Black, sci-fi-filled drama—Lovecraft Country—and we love to see it. The top-notch storytelling smartly intertwines fantasy amidst the all too real segregation of America in the 50's, and has already lead to some amazingly dope visuals and
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The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea - The New York Beacon
ByJohn Ismay One evening in late August 1972, as the American tank-landing ship U.S.S. Sumter was steaming off the coast of Vietnam, a Marine onboard dropped the needle on the turntable in front of him, sending music to the loudspeakers bolted to the bulkheads
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Trump Administration Ramps Up Efforts to Dismantle Post Office | Dallas Weekly
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New Jashmir video #MyMaSeKind gets five million TikTok views
South African producer and DJ Jashmir wins 031 award and goes viral with his new dance challenge on TikTok.
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Black leaders join rally to save Mercy Hospital | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Erick Johnson A movement to keep Mercy Hospital in Bronzeville open intensified Wednesday, August 19 when Black leaders rallied at a demonstration where doctors, nurses and other medical professionals vowed to fight the closure of the city’s oldest hospital. In July, owner Trinity Health Systems
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Confident Cuthbert Flynn hoping to increase margin
JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) incumbent for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert Flynn says she intends to increase her votes in the Brandon Hill Division, which is a People's National Party (PNP) stronghold within her constituency.
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Palestinians in Gaza rally against Israel-UAE deal - Black News Channel
By Eric Tucker Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday rallied against the U.S.-brokered deal to normalize ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Protesters burned Israeli and American flags, trampled on posters of Israeli
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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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Mali coup leaders vow elections amid widespread condemnation - Black News Channel
By Baba Ahmed and Carley Petesch Associated Press BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The junta that forced Mali's president to resign urged people to go back to business as usual on Wednesday, seeking to normalize their coup amid global condemnation from leaders who feared the power grab would only further mire
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Hip-Hop Mogul Percy Miller (Master P) to Pay for Funeral of Young Girl Shot in Dollhouse - New Orleans Data News Weekly
Data News Staff Edited Report In a gesture of goodwill Hip-Hop Mogul Percy Miller also know to the world as Master P said he will pay for the funeral of a 3-year-old Kentucky girl who
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Zim lawyer ban receives global condemnation
BY MOSES MATENGA THE decision by Harare a magistrate to bar the country’s top human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from representing incarcerated journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has received global condemnation. Magistrate Ngoni Nduna on Tuesday barred Mtetwa from representing Chin’ono, who is accused
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Long Island Couple Arrested for Intimidating Black Woman and Her Daughter Soon After They Moved In the Neighborhood Three Years Ago
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The Black senator who could go to prison for ‘injuring’ a Confederate monument - Face2Face Africa
Charges have been brought against Virginia Democratic state senator Louise Lucas and 14 others for the partial dismantling of a Confederate monument in June. According to Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene, the act caused 'life-threatening' and 'permanent injury' of a man. Some fellow Democrats
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Tyler Perry to receive Governors Award at 2020 Emmys : TheGrio
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Blacks More Likely Targeted Than Whites Despite Traditional Police Training – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Arthur Dobrin D.S.W. -  There's a difference between training and the real-world. Anti-bias training is touted as a way of combating racial biases among police officers. But research shows that the effect of such training isn’t [...]
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By Coretta Collins Traditional, virtual, remote, blended, are like buzz words flooding our timelines, inboxes, thoughts and conversations. As school systems are trying their best to prepare for back to school, so much is being considered and it seems that school systems, teachers and parents are in
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