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HOUSTON – Beginning Thursday, June l8, The Food Bank, in partnership with The Windsor Church Family and the City of Houston, will resume distribution of fresh produce and dry goods to families facing challenges due to the ongoing COVID-19
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Stephen A. Smith Slams ‘Foolish’ NBA Stars If They Don’t ‘Show Up To Work’ Because Of Racial Oppression
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Kenya: Rift Between Kuti, Isiolo MPs Widens After Reconciliation Meeting
Four MPs from Isiolo County have lashed out at Governor Mohamed Kuti over claims that they were behind the recent Twitter post that went viral last weekend, days after the Senate ad-hoc committee on Covid-19 initiated a probe into alleged leasing of some of the county's ICU
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Tune In To #TheBeatDontStop: Don’t Mute My City Virtual Town Hall
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Egyptian Journalist Mohamed Monir Detained, Charged With Spreading False News
Egyptian authorities must immediately release journalist Mohamed Monir and drop all charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
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Coronavirus Cases Surge In Alabama, South Carolina And Oklahoma | The Oklahoma Eagle
New cases of COVID-19 nearly doubled in Alabama and South Carolina in the second week of June compared to the prior seven days, a Reuters analysis found, as 17 U.S. states reported weekly increases in the spread of the novel
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Rwanda Conducts Record 3,495 COVID-19 Tests As Rusizi Continues to Be a Hotspot
Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana, the Director-General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre noted that "Most of the new cases are household members of previously confirmed Covid-19 positive in Rusizi", he
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Africa: Masiyiwa and His Global Partners Donate 1,000 Ventilators
Strive Masiyiwa has announced the arrival of 45 full ICU ventilators in Zimbabwe which the businessman ordered a couple of months
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Africa: 43 African Countries Under Border Closure As COVID-19 Cases Top 225,000 Continentwide
As COVID-19 caseload surpassed 225,105 on Saturday across the African continent, 43 African countries are now under full border closure due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus
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Tunisia: COVID-19 - Apii, Giz Ink Funding Agreement to Support SMEs
Tunis/Tunisia — The Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation (APII) and the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) inked on Monday a funding agreement worth €800 thousand (2.584 million Tunisian dinars) to launch a new support programme for small- and medium-sized
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Rwanda: Chess - Interim Executive Team Elected to Run Federation for a Year
The Rwanda Chess Federation (Ferwade) general assembly on Sunday, June 14, elected a new executive committee to help steer the ship for an interim period of 12
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Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for
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Nigeria: Your Alarm On Nation's Debt Profile False - Govt Replies Atiku
The Federal Government says the "alarm and doom" predictions by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the country's debt profile is anchored on a false
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Malcolm X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz says Donald Trump's reaction to BLM protests | New York Carib News
Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of civil rights activist, Malcolm X has said she believes President Donald Trump’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter protests has helped to shine a light on the racism that black people have had to endure for
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Tunisia: COVID-19 - Two Recoveries Reported in Kebili
Tunis/Tunisia — Placed in mandatory health quarantine at the Monasitr COVID-19 Centre, two patients from Kebili governorate have recovered from COVID-19 infection, Local Health Director in Kebili Jawher Mokni
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African nations drag US to UN human rights council over 'systemic racism'
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Virtual Townhall: Erasing the Opportunity Gap Created by COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic and the creation of emergency education has put parents, teachers, administrators, and community advocates in panic mode trying to figure out how to ensure the opportunity gap doesn’t exponentially widen for Black
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Africa: Low-cost Dexamethasone Reduces Death by Up to One Third in Hospitalised Patients with Severe Respiratory Complications of COVID-19
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Sudan: Gunmen Kill Displaced Farmer in South Darfur
Kass / Beleil — Gunmen shot and killed a displaced farmer in Aradeeba in Kass locality in South Darfur on
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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Demanding Better Conditions in Broward County Jail
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Even though parts of the state are reopening, it does not mean that the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in jails has vanished,” said Benjamin Stevenson, staff attorney at the ACLU of
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President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers' use of force against
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Pelosi Orders Committee Chairs to Require Face Masks
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered her committee chairs to see that members wear face coverings while participating in meetings and gave them the power to bar those who
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How To Find A Therapist Who Focuses On Black Mental Health
With virtual therapy appointments, phone calls and even text services, it’s not hard to find time in your life for therapy — the bigger challenge can sometimes be finding a therapist who fits your
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Pandemic boosts profits for Big Tech
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Mali: As Mali Fights Coronavirus, Cotton Farmers Fear Loss of Climate Aid
Bamako — As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up
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Keep Your Statues And Movies- Give Us Our Reparations Now – Your Black World
The paper says, “HBO Max temporarily removed the epic from its service after the surge of Black Lives Matter protests across the country and a re-energized discussion about racial inequality” ) But While Hollywood copes with their conflicts and contradictions for promoting White supremacy in their
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Algeria: taxi drivers slam conditions for operations
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