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Washington Suing Texas: COVID Masks Are Fake - The Seattle Medium
In January 2021, 3M, one of the largest global producers of N95 masks, issued a statement warning customers and medical workers to be aware of counterfeit masks that had started circulating in the nation’s PPE
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Community Calls for Resignation of Kansas College President After She Compared Black Student to Hitler
A college president in Kansas is under fire after allegedly likening a Black student's leadership to that of the German dictator Adolf Hitler.
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Books About Black People And LGBTQ Were Among The Most Challenged Books In 2021 - The Seattle Medium
Books that tell the stories of Black and LGBTQ people or by authors in those communities were among the 10 most challenged titles in 2021, the American Library Association
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Battle Royale: The Texas Gubernatorial Primary - North Dallas Gazette
By Allen R. Gray NDG Contributing Writer If one had to define the Republican agenda, it would be to save Texas from total disintegration at the hands of the Democrats. This election year, would-be saviors have flooded the field of those grappling for the state’s most coveted seat. There is a total
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Family Sues Instagram After 13-Year-Old Black Girl Doxxed And Jailed Over Classmate’s False Accusations
The family of Nia Whims of Miramar, Fla., is suing Meta, the company that owns Instagram, Renaissance Charter School at Pines, and the Pembroke Pines Police Department after she was arrested and imprisoned for 11 days over an Instagram threat she never made.
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Getting Fired May Be The Best Thing For Your Career
Steve White, President, Special Counsel to the CEO of Comcast, has written a new book on his career journey complete with his guiding principles on how to achieve professional and personal success on your own terms.
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U. S. Ambassador: Race Issues Make Others Think U.S. Is ‘Weak’ 
By Richard Prince | Trice Edney Wire Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Journal-isms (TriceEdneyWire.com) - In an echo of the Cold War and earlier eras, when adversaries […] The post U. S. Ambassador: Race Issues Make Others Think U.S. Is ‘Weak’  appeared first on The Sac
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Oscar Peterson doc is a deep dive into the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist
The mark of a truly transcendent musician is establishing a signature sound. Whether it’s the voice, the saxophone, trumpet, or The post Oscar Peterson doc is a deep dive into the life and music of the legendary jazz pianist appeared first on TheGrio.
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Texas requires charter school not to teach critical race theory - DefenderNetwork.com
The Texas Education Agency confirmed this week it now requires new charter schools to submit a 'statement of assurance' that the school will follow so-called “critical race theory” laws before […]
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NAACP Image Awards Performers Announced | Chicago Defender
The NAACP and BET revealed the performers and presenters for the “53rd NAACP Image Awards.” Nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer and two-time Academy Award-nominated actress and producer Mary J. Blige will take the stage to perform at this year’s show. The “53rd NAACP Image Awards,” hosted by
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Texas Black Invitational Rodeo returns to Fair Park Juneteenth weekend - North Dallas Gazette
The 33rd annual Texas Black Invitational Rodeo, presented by the African American Museum, Dallas, will return to the Fair Park Coliseum as a part of the Juneteenth Celebration Weekend on Saturday, June 18 at 7:00 pm. The rodeo is the museum’s largest annual fundraiser. The Texas Black Invitational
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This Week in Black Art and Culture: Virgil Abloh, Kimberly Drew, and the Academy Awards - Sugarcane Magazine ™| Black Art Magazine
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Pumping profit and loss
A 30-gas station probe by The Sunday Gleaner and Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has found that consumers in the western end of the island are seemingly getting more value for money at the pumps than at other stations across Jamaica. The...
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Tim O’Neal Drops 15-Footer on 18 to Win APGA Tour at PGA Golf Club | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Tim O’Neal, the 49-year-old from Savannah, Georgia, triumphed at the APGA Tour’s regular-season opener at TPC Harding Park in February and lost in a playoff at the APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Invitational in
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West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years
By Seth Borenstein | The Associated Press (AP) - The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at least 1,200 years and […] The post West megadrought worsens to driest in at least 1,200 years appeared first on The Sacramento Observer.
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West Africa: Africa's Sahel Region Facing 'Horrendous Food Crisis'
As the Sahel region "stares down a horrendous food crisis", the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people on the brink of starvation has "increased almost tenfold" over the past three years and "displacement by nearly 400 per cent".
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) - Kemet Activity Sheet - Garland Journal
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Leaked audio: Cyril Ramaphosa says he has no direct information on ANC misuse of public funds | News24
President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the Standing Committee on Public Accounts that he relied on public information when he claimed the ANC abused state funds for party activities.
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Grammys 2022: The Complete Winners List
Jon Batiste won Album of the Year, while Silk Sonic took home top honors for both Song and Record of the Year.
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Devin Di Dakta Says No To Royalty From Dancehall Promoters, Preps 'Channel 28' Riddim Project | Haiti Gazette
The content originally appeared on: Urban Islandz Devin Di Dakta and producer Romario English of British Linkz Give weighs in on the issue of illegal parties and royalty distribution in the industry. Key players of Jamaica’s music fraternity, including
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More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.
The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents.
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Racist Black History Month Project Forces Students To Draw Black People Picking Cotton
A school in Indianapolis, Indiana is under fire after a teacher assigned a Black History Month project that directed students to draw Black people picking cotton.
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Police Hunting for a Religious ‘Healer’ Who Allegedly Convinced a Pregnant Woman to Pound a 2-Inch Nail into Her Skull to Have a Son - The New York Beacon
By Victor Omondi According to news outlets, Police in Peshawar, Pakistan, are hunting for an alleged faith healer who allegedly convinced a pregnant woman to hammer a nail into her head in order to guarantee the birth of a son. The strange incident was initially reported
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Jose Joaquine Sevillano, Jr. was born on July 9, 1948, in Colon, Panama, to the union of Jose Joaquin Sevillano, Sr. and Maria de Jesus Romero de Sevillano.  Jose was educated in Colon private schools and came to the United States in 1965, where he joined the Navy. He served during the Vietnam War
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Two Teens Have Been Charged with Making Bomb Threats to Black High Schools in Washington, D.C. - The New York Beacon
By Victor Omondi Two teen boys were detained this week after an investigation revealed they madebomb threats to seven primarily Black schools in Washington, D.C. According to NBC News, four public high schools and three charter schools were evacuated this week as a result of
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Families Of Lauren Smith-Fields And Brenda Lee Rawls Seek Justice From The DOJ
In an effort to get answers, the women's family members spoke out on Tuesday (Feb. 15) and demanded Acting Bridgeport Police Chief Rebeca Garcia be replaced.
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'Devastating implications': GOP redistricting battles in Alabama and other states raise concerns about voter suppression - The Atlanta Voice
Kenya Goodson, a 46-year-old Black woman from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has voted in every election since she was 19. But last week's Supreme Court decision to allow Alabama's new congressional map - which voting rights advocates say dilutes the power of Black voters - to remain in pla
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Republicans Blame Crime On An Innocence Project Lawyer Tapped For A Judgeship
GOP senators accused Biden's court pick Nina Morrison, who has freed dozens of innocent people from prison, of fueling violent crimes. Huh?
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