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Democracy at risk?

Eighty years after Universal Adult Suffrage was granted to Jamaicans on November 20, 1944, voter disengagement has become a serious issue. While every Jamaican over 21 years old, who is not incarcerated or mentally incapacitated, has the right to...

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A FOCUS ON VOTING –

Volusia County races will include county chair; council district seats 2, 3 and 4; sheriff; property appraiser; county clerk; and supervisor of

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Black voters might hold Democrats accountable for police violence...

That issue was and is police

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Racial terror: 2,000 black Americans were lynched in Reconstruction era, report says

The report, Reconstruction in America, documents more than 2,000 black victims of racial terror lynchings killed between the end of the civil war in 1865 and the collapse of federal efforts to protect the lives and voting rights of black Americans in

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Biden Hires Karine Jean-Pierre As Senior Adviser Amid Push To Engage Black Voters

Biden has already had an advantage with Black voters in the primary elections, especially over his former opponent Bernie

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Civil Rights Groups ‘Pause’ On Facebook Ads | Afro

Several civil rights and other advocacy groups are calling on large advertisers to stop Facebook ad campaigns during July because they say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail racist and violent content on its

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The Collective Is Launching A Campign To Register 250,000 Black Voters

The Collective Political Action Committee has announced a campaign to register 250,000 African American voters on

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(1896) Booker T. Washington, “Democracy and Education”

In 1895 Booker T. Washington, the founder and Principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama rose to national prominence when he gave his famous Atlanta Compromise Speech at the Cotton States Exposition. Approximately one year later on September 30, 1896, Washington addressed an audience at the

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Africa: How African Countries Are Dealing With Elections During COVID-19

Other countries scheduled to hold elections are Egypt, Guinea, Seychelles and

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Amadou Toumani Touré

Amadou Toumani Touré , byname ATT (born November 4, 1948, Mopti, French Sudan [now in Mali]), Malian politician and military leader who twice led his country. He served as interim president (1991–92) after a coup and was elected president in 2002. In March 2012 he was deposed in a military

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Guest Editorial: Thanksgiving amid chaos | New Pittsburgh Courier

Many people are aware of a change in the world that is both exhilarating and disturbing. This year’s Thanksgiving Day holiday was celebrated on Thursday, November 23. These are crucial times. Just days before the government was scrambling to avert a shutdown. Our former president has been brought

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Does Biden’s vice president have to be a Black woman?

The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Tennessee school leaders advocate for additional funding, not replacing federal

(The Center Square) – Three Tennessee K-12 school superintendents spoke to a committee looking at rejecting federal funding to the state’s schools Tuesday, with Hawkins County Director of Schools Matt Hixson instead suggesting the state continue to accept the federal funds and use extra funds to

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Source: The Black Chronicle

States Reverse Openings, Require Masks Amid Virus Resurgence

By TAMARA LUSH and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press

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Michelle Obama Talks to Shonda Rhimes About Voting

The key to a Democratic win in November is voter turnout, which former first lady Michelle Obama knows all too

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Obama Encourages Protesters to Take Activism Further

Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the

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(1834) William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance”

? By the 1830s William Whipper was a successful Pennsylvania lumberman. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate. Whipper’s interest in temperance reflected a growing concern among African American leaders about the impact of alcohol on the free (and enslaved) African American popula

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Gary Police Department launches real time crime center

GARY MAYOR JEROME PRINCE, at podium, with (l-r) Gary Police Chief Anthony Titus and Corporal Larry McKinley. Mayor Prince wants more residents to install home security cameras and register them with GPD Gary has a better police force today, Mayor Prince announced Tuesday morning, as he stood in the

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Does Joe Biden’s Vice President Have To Be A Black Woman?

The growing disdain for Biden among young Democratic voters has been predicted to dwindle with the promise of a Black woman as vice president, but for many, this is not the

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily - Showmax to discontinue services outside Africa | TechCabal

Showmax announced, last week, that it would discontinue its streaming services outside Africa by December 1, 2023. The service now wants to focus on meeting the needs of its African market. More in #TCDaily.

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Kenyan Students Heads to China for Huawei ICT Competition Global Final

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Eighteen Kenyan students have left the country to compete in the prestigious Huawei ICT Competition Global Final in China.

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Civil Rights Organizations Release Troubling Findings of Wisconsin Voter Turnout in April 2020 Primary

New Findings Reveal Stark Racial Disparities and Barriers to the Ballot

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

ICYMI: Must-See Celeb Beauty Looks From The Weekend | Essence

Over the holiday weekend, celebrity beauty moments were at an all-time high. Look after look, we were presented with beauty inspiration to take us through to the end of the […] The post ICYMI: Must-See Celeb Beauty Looks From The Weekend appeared first on Essence.

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Source: Black Women's Lifestyle Guide, Black Love & Beauty Trends - Essence

F.W. de Klerk , in full Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af.), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela

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C.J. Stroud Shares Message After Statement Win

Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud powered his team to another win on Sunday, Nov. 12. With under two minutes left and Houston clinging to a 27-24 lead, Stroud led the Texans on a successful scoring drive, setting them up for a game-winning 38-yard field goal by kicker Matt Ammendola. It was

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(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War as one of the most ardent defenders of African Ameriacn rights. Turner was also among the first group of Reconstruction-era African American elected officials. In July 1868, Turner was

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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021

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(1857) Abraham Lincoln, “The Dred Scott Decision and Slavery,"

? The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 was supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, p

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(1863) Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, “Freedom's Joyful Day”

African Americans throughout the North held meetings and church services on January 1, 1863 to celebrate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Almost always the festivities revolved around a central speaker. One of those speeches was delivered by Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, pastor of the First

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LWVSPA launched a multi-part campaign to help citizens get ready to vote by mail

ST. PETERSBURG — The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg Area (LWVSPA) had to stop doing in-person voter registration and education events in mid-March; their last outing was helping clients at Daystar Life Center on March

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Voter Suppression Goes to College | The Oklahoma Eagle

If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this

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