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FACTS ABOUT SLEEP • Adults need 7-9 hours of sleep per night, while teenagers and children require more. • During a sleep cycle, the brain moves through four stages: N1 (light sleep), N2 (deeper sleep), N3 (deepest sleep), and REM (rapid eye...

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a food shelf organized by The Campaign Against Hunger in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn on April 14, 2020 in New York

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Psychologist discusses toll injustice takes on Black people

LOS ANGELES — Police brutality, daily protests, systemic racism, unemployment, looters destroying property, COVID-19, stay-at-home-orders, the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, black men (Malcolm Harsch and Robert Fuller) found hanging from

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'I Wanna Lay My Head on It': Tommie Lee's Clappas Leave Fans Agape

Clearly, Tommie Lee is proud of her assets, and she made that quite clear on Monday, June

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Africa’s Essential Truckers say They Face Virus Stigma | Afro

While hundreds of truckers have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, the drivers say they are being stigmatized and treated like criminals, being detained by governments and slowing cargo traffic to

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Crime-fighter dad gets pampered

CORPORAL RAFELITO Lafayette loves pampering his sons, but as he got treated to a pedicure, manicure, facial and de-stressed massage yesterday, it was obvious that he loves being pampered even

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Nina Simone - Death

She had suffered from breast cancer for several years before she died in her sleep at her home in Carry-le-Rouet, Bouches-du-Rhône on April 21, 2003.

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Eastern Cape man jailed for life for raping estranged wife

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for raping and sodomising his estranged wife in Motherwell, Eastern Cape, the National Prosecuting Authority has

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Source: https://www.news24.com

As the Country Opens Up, Children With Disabilities Are Getting Left Behind

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Zambia Investigating the Murder of Three Chinese Nationals – Your Black World

According to BBC’s Kennedy Gondwe report, another reason for the tension in Zambia is reports that Zambian employees at Chinese industrial facilities, are being forced to sleep at work to prevent coronavirus from

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Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to dim Africa Sunday

Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in

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Judge Rejects Widow's Plea to Keep Rayshard Brooks' Killer Behind Bars, Grants Former Officer $500,000 Bond

Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta Police officer who shot and killed 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, was granted a $500,000 bond on

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Acute water shortage at Pademba Road prisons as number of covid-19 cases rises

Reporters from over ten of Sierra Leone’s leading registered newspapers have confirmed that even as corona virus is spreading inside the Freetown prisons among prisoners, the authorities in Sierra Leone have left the prisoners without adequate water supply for the past ten

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Dirty Quarantine Secrets We’re All Keeping

Some things you were glad to discover, like how if you really put your mind to it you can learn how to knit a hat or speak

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Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race | The Atlanta Voice

People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works — and maybe offer a reality

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Bubba Wallace Responds to FBI's Investigation That Determined He Wasn't a Victim of a Hate Crime

After a day-long investigation, the FBI has concluded that Bubba Wallace, the only Black full-time driver in the NASCAR Cup series, was not a victim of a hate

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20 advocacy groups warn against Google's purchase of Fitbit

Twenty advocacy groups from the US, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere signed a statement Wednesday urging regulators to be wary of Google’s US$2.1-billion bid for fitness tracker company Fitbit because of privacy and competition

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How My White Privilege Protected Me In Jail

It was only by sheer luck that we ended up being placed in the same cell where I learned Rachael’s story and where I saw what institutionalized racism, ageism and ableism really look like up close and

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COMMENTARY: ENOUGH

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black

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The police are the real outside agitators

While the mainstream press has sought to distract from the protests by claiming it’s being orchestrated by outside agitators, they fail to reveal that much of the mayhem that came with the overwhelmingly peaceful protests was created by the police operating as undercover

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Black Woman Claims She Was Beaten By White Hotel Guests While They Called Her A “Monkey”

Chrystall Caldwell, a 59-year-old woman from Groton, Connecticut, claims she was victimized by a white couple in a brutal attack while working at the Mystic Quality Inn on Friday, according to The Stonington-Mystic

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Uganda wants people to leave flooded wetlands

The Ugandan government has said people like Musasizi are partly to blame for the floods, and wants them to leave the wetlands for

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'We can now sleep' - Hardcore serial rapist arrested in Nigeria

A serial rapist has been arrested in Kano State, Nigeria by the police for allegedly raping 40 people in a space of one year in

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South Africa's Aspen working to ensure supply of promising Covid-19 drug

Aspen Pharmacare is working to ensure it can manage demand for a generic anti-inflammatory drug that was shown to improve survival in Covid-19

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C Mill$ Debut Album, “I’m Over It” is Motivation for Hustlers Tirelessly Working Towards the Next Tier

Standout tracks like “Crunch Time” and “Real A** N*****” were trunk bangers that doubled as motivational messages for those that felt the world was against

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Uganda: Main Opposition Leaders Unite, Call for Peaceful Protests

Uganda's top opposition leaders — Robert Kyagulanyi of the People Power Movement and Kizza Besigye of the People's Government — announced Monday they are joining forces to demonstrate against President Yoweri

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Covid-19 driving Kenyans into jaws of mental health issues

According to mental health advocate Victor Khamisi, the problem could lie on the extensive burden of masculinity, which has often been used against men as they are viewed immune to and devoid of feelings or expressing

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NDG Book Review: The Business of Lovers

You can’t keep doing this, don’t know how long you can keep your nose above water, and in the new book “The Business of Lovers” by Eric Jerome Dickey, you’ll do just about anything to make more

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Vendors victims again - Rae Rae Market burnt to ground

The night of drama began with a police team pinned down by heavily armed gunmen Monday night in the Lizard Town area of Tivoli Gardens after cops ordered home hundreds of persons who gathered at a wake being held for an alleged

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Fighting Depression (Depression Awareness)

By definition depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you

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