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A long and well-documented history of systematic discrimination against Black people regularly leads to worse underlying health conditions for African-Americans that make it more likely they become severely ill during this pandemic and die from the
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Reopen Ole America Now!
You will have more coronavirus and other latent viruses will Bottom line, fake news media insidiously hyping fear is harming
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Africa: Diaspora African Forum Demands Justice for George Floyd
The Diaspora African Forum has petitioned the United States of America (USA) government to arrest and prosecute all four police officers who were caught on video manhandling George Floyd at Minneapolis, USA, resulting in his
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks
The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat Covid-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying
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Opportunity Wisconsin Statement on May Jobs Report
Opportunity Wisconsin also releases new graphic outlining the tough choices Wisconsin workers continue to face as corporations get billions
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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper
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Tucson Police Chief Offers To Resign Over Man's Death In Officers' Custody
Tucson Police Chief Offers To Resign Over Man's Death In Officers' Custody
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Juneteenth by the Numbers | The Atlanta Voice
Here’s a look at Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day and Jubilee Day, by the
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Nigeria: What MKO Abiola Had Hoped to Achieve As President - Son
He has written several novels in English and Arabic, key among which is his book on his father titled: The President Who Never
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California Assembly voted to pass ACA 5
(CBM) – The California State Assembly HAS voted to pass ACA
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Open letter: African writers in solidarity with African Americans
Dozens of writers from across Africa and the diaspora have co-signed a letter of support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the face of growing protests in the United States following the latest death of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police
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Will Indiana deliver on controlling new COVID-19 infections? | The Crusader Newspaper Group
As state reopens, governor and health officials say increased testing and contact tracing are the solutions
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“Equal Protection under the Law”
Notwithstanding the accolades, I feel the effects of systemic racism and injustice simply by virtue of being a Black man living in
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Juneteenth, Not July 4th: Ways to Celebrate it this Year
I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the Year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.-Frederick Douglass
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Source: Chicago Defender
'Too Many Black Families Don't Know How to Swim': Fans Praise Ciara for Daughter Sienna's Aquatic Skills
Continuing the Wilson tradition of breaking down stereotypes that surround Black families, Ciara took to social media to show off her daughter’s budding skills as a water
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Gambia postpones protest against police violence in the US
Gambian police “temporarily” banned a demonstration planned on Monday in front of the U.S. Embassy in Banjul to protest police violence in the United States, after the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a Gambian national near Atlanta, the organizer of the rally said
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Jacksonville, Trump’s New Convention Site, Will Now Require Face Masks
MIAMI — Florida billed itself as a coronavirus oasis when it wooed the Republican National Convention: The pandemic seemed under control, and Republican state and city leaders welcomed a major televised event to show off the progress and cement votes for President Trump in the nation’s biggest
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University President Creates George Floyd Scholarship Fund, Challenges Other Schools To Do The Same - Blavity
"I want to announce, as president of this school, the institution of the George Floyd memorial
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The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans
One of the most terrifying examples erupted more than a century ago, when white supremacist soldiers and police helped hunt down and kill at least 60 Black men in Wilmington in
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a history timeline when African Americans begin using the Internet
Arthur McGee’s Black Online Directory hotlinks and his energy in keeping them straight was THE FIRST open-source list of Black Online User Communities at the time and he knew every SYSOP
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Black Characters Should Be Played By Black People: Jenny Slate And Kristen Bell Step Down From Voicing Black Girls On Their Respective Series
And that’s what actresses Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have done, stepping down from their voice over work for animated characters of
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The Black Unemployment Hits Highest Rate In Almost A Decade
According to a recent report by the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, the overall rate dropped to 13.3 % but the unemployment rate for African-Americans have risen to
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"Why #BlackWealthMatters in White America," By Solomon Ali
Most Black Americans, throughout American history, were shut out of our financial system, thereby not gaining the access or opportunity to accumulate wealth or an understanding of money that could have been passed down through the
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Book Excerpt #2: "The Roots of Racism in American Policing" | Black Star News
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TGR COMMENTARY: Every Department is a Police Department
Almost every day you turn on your radio or television set, local broadcast stations and national news will gather their hand-picked colored commentators to explain to angry protestors why a few bad apple officers are making other law enforcers look really
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Africa: Protests Lead Brands to Speak Out Against Racism. but Will They Act?
Major brands taking to social media to condemn racial inequalities have been challenged to back up their words with action to tackle a lack of black leadership in many firms and entrenched racial pay gaps in the United
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Dem congresswoman pushes back on Trump's claim that he’s done more for black Americans than any president other than Lincoln
California Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, joins Chris Wallace on 'Fox News
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NAACP Black Media Forum Excludes Black Newspapers: NNPA President and Black Publishers Call for Clarification and Inclusion – Voice and Viewpoint
A recent NAACP “Black Media Speaks” forum plummeted into a conversation in which the future of hard-copy Black-owned newspapers was all but pronounced
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From the Slave Quarters to the Courtroom: The Story of the First African American Attorney in the United States
Since J. Clay Smith’s publication of Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, it has been taken as gospel that Boston resident Macon Allen in 1844 became was the first African-American admitted to the bar to practice law in the United States.  Recently, as part of the celebration of the 150th
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How African-Americans Came About Supporting the Democratic Party
The events of the Civil Rights movement were a catalyst for blacks to leave the Republican Party in
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Kamala Harris's Police Reform Push Becomes Running Mate Tryout
Kamala Harris’s push for police reform in the Senate is shaping up as an audition for the job of Joe Biden’s vice president, as she makes herself a highly public voice for change after years as a no-nonsense prosecutor.By promoting a bill to ban police chokeholds and make other changes -- and by
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