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This Day In History - July 20
Today is the 202 day of 2016. There are 164 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games, organised by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, are held in Chicago.�OTHER EVENTS1810: Bogota rises against Spanish rule. The day is now Independence Day in
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US Navy Cheats Black-Owned Business Owner Out of $100 Million Contract | Afro
By BlackNews.com Nationwide via BlackNews.com — CommsolGlobal, a Black-owned business founded by Victor Ogunniyi, successfully bid on a five-year small business set aside contract with the US Navy for engine maintenance of their ships. The contract was awarded in 2012 and the entire operation was
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Goya boss quietly scrapped deal to sell company before controversy : TheGrio
The CEO of Goya Foods successfully squashed a deal that would have cost him his job just prior to his statement supporting President Donald Trump. The post Goya boss quietly scrapped deal to sell company before controversy appeared first on TheGrio.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Lemuel Haynes
  Lemuel Haynes is credited as the first credentialed Black clergyman in the United States, and is considered the first minister to lead a white congregation. Haynes was born on July 18, 1753 in Hartford, Conn. to a Black father and white mother. Abandoned at five months of age, Haynes was
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California’s looming wildfire threat requires a cleaner, more resilient electrical grid - Black Voice News
In summary California’s electrical grid is getting cleaner, but it is still not well positioned to deal with a changing climate with its web of decades-old poles and wires. By Ted Lamm and Ted Lamm is a climate policy researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the
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Remake of Bob Marley's iconic song "One Love" | New York Carib News
In support of UNICEF's coronavirus response, the Marley family and Amplified Music have reimagined Bob Marley's iconic song, "One Love".
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Taxpayers Have Been Sponsoring Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam for Decades. - ThyBlackMan
Louis Farrakhan is known for spreading vicious lies about Jewish people, referring to Jewish people as "wicked Jews," accusing them of perpetrating a fictitious "black African Holocaust" and of "sucking our blood." In one of his interviews, Farrakhan claimed that "Hitler was a very great
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Ratched Season 1 All Set to Stream in September | PensacolaVoice.com
Netflix a world-class video streaming platform, who’s known for reviving several famous characters or tv shows. The list includes fan-favorite tv shows like Lucifer, Black Mirror & more. Now, upcoming tv show Ratched is also added into the list as it’s all set to hit the Netflix screen anytime
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DNC on the Passing of Congressman and Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
DNC Chair Tom Perez and DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie M. Rollins released the following statement after the passing of U.S. Congressman and legendary civil rights leader John Lewis: John Lewis is everything we aspire to be as people, as leaders, and as a party. He taught us how to dream, how to
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President Donald Trump will not mandate mask usage - TheGrio
President Donald Trump will not require people to wear masks in the midst of COVID-19. In a Fox News interview, Trump... View Article The post President Donald Trump will not mandate mask usage appeared first on TheGrio.
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Maxine Waters Rushes To Help Black Man Pulled Over By Cops
The congresswoman wanted to keep an eye on the police.
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Arizona Police Shoot Black Man in Front of Fiancee and Kids (Video)
Police officers in Arizona shot three beanbag rounds at a 26-year-old Black construction worker in front of his fiancée and their children late last week, according to ABC15 Arizona. The…
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Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80 - The New York Beacon
  'It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce the passing of U.S. Rep. John Lewis,' his family said in a statement. 'He was honored and respected as the conscience of the US Congress and an icon of American history, but we
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Players Plead with NFL to Address Health, Safety Concerns
NFL players are publicly pleading with the league to address several health and safety concerns on the eve of training camp. The league informed teams on Saturday that training camps will open on time even though discussions with the players’ union regarding testing for the coronavirus and other
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‘It would die!’ - Bartlett, Tufton urge tourism caution on COVID travel ban as Bahamas locks out Americans
Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett has cautioned that a ban on travellers from the United States in a bid to contain COVID-19 would deliver a death blow to Jamaica’s hospitality industry. His warning comes in the wake of The Bahamas announcing on Sunday...
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Kanye West Shades Harriet Tubman, Offers $1 million To Parents Of Babies At First Campaign Rally
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Houston announces free COVID-19 testing schedule for week of July 20 - DefenderNetwork.com
The Houston Health Department and its agency partners are announcing the schedule for sites offering free COVID-19 tests the week of July 20, 2020. Texas Division of Emergency Management The Texas Division of Emergency Management and the department will operate drive-thru testing sites
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Samsung teases Galaxy Note20 and other upcoming gadgets - TechCentral
Samsung Electronics is preparing to unveil a slate of new mobile devices at a virtual Galaxy Unpacked event on 5 August, when it will elaborate on its shifting strategy to adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The 55 most shocking lines from Chris Wallace's interview with Donald Trump
President Donald Trump sat for an interview that aired over the weekend with "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, one of the most skilled -- and best -- interviewers in the news business. It did not go well for the President.
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The President made it clear that it's more important to him to be proven right about the pandemic than to reconsider his disastrous approach - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Not bothering to hide his indifference and contempt for science, the President made clear on Sunday that it's more important to him to be ultimately proven right about the pandemic than to reconsider his disastrous approach that is doing little to stop its deadly
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Fair housing groups slam Trump's suburban racial rhetoric | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump’s pledge to roll back an Obama-era regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs is drawing harsh criticism from fair housing advocates, who label it a blatant attempt to play racial politics and appeal to white voters in the final weeks before the
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“Zoom Boom” – UK cosmetic surgeons see massive rise in demand for online consultations but urge caution - Voice Online
THE BRITISH Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) – the only organisation solely dedicated to... The post “Zoom Boom” – UK cosmetic surgeons see massive rise in demand for online consultations but urge caution appeared first on Voice Online.
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'Black Lives' Mural Outside Trump Tower Defaced for 3rd Time
NEW YORK (AP) — A “Black Lives Matter” mural painted on the street in front of President Donald Trump's namesake New York City tower has quickly become a target for vandalism, defaced with bucketfuls of paint three times in less than a week. In the latest incident, two women were arrested around
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Beyoncé unveils trailer for Disney+ visual album Black is King
… awards, the singer called on African-Americans to vote in order to … Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman killed by police officers …
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Politics; Four Faces, One Nation. - ThyBlackMan
Four Faces, One Nation - America has maintained a more strict racial categorization than even apartheid-era South Africa.  We’re all familiar with the “one drop” rule that would classify a person as black, or octoroon, if even one of their great-grandparents were black.  A study back in 1958
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IN MEMORIAM: John Lewis, an American Hero and Moral Leader Alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Dies at 80 | Afro
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Born in 1940, John Lewis, the son of a sharecropper, helped to lead America out of an era of racism. Through his activism and bravery, Lewis carried the moral authority that few other leaders in U.S. history could claim.  On July 17th he died in
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Building Community Power in a White Supremacist Country - African American News Today - EIN News
… Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice … meeting the basic needs of Black Americans. In 1968, a global influenza … describes in Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of …
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CARICOM report: Trinidad & Tobago officers involved in sex trafficking - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) Corruption at the hands of state officials and law enforcement officers is a significant factor in the facilitation of human trafficking between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, according to some of the findings of a 2019 CARICOM Human Trafficking
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Rev. C.T. Vivian, key civil rights leader, has died at 95 — The Sacramento Observer
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. C.T. Vivian, an early and key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who organized pivotal civil rights campaigns and spent decades advocating for justice and equality, died Friday at the age of 95. Vivian began staging sit-ins against segregation in Peoria, Illinois, in
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Black Youth Leadership 'Bootcamp' Scheduled — The Sacramento Observer
The Black Youth Leadership Project, Inc. presents a free week-long Virtual Social Justice Bootcamp August 3-7. The virtual bootcamp will immerse students in social justice issues and specifically encourage them to use their voice to self advocate. We want to provide students with an opportunity to
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L.A. County will experience triple the number of hot days by 2053, study says news -The Black Chronicle California, california news, california news update, County, Days, Experience, Hot, L.A, Number, Study, triple
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Judges who got kickbacks for sending kids to for-profit jails ordered to pay $200 million news -The Black Chronicle crime, forprofit, jails, Judges, kickbacks, Kids, Million, Ordered, Pay, Sending, Texas, texas news, texas news update
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Updated look at the top prospects in Oklahoma news -The Black Chronicle 2023 recruiting class, 2023 recruiting cycle, bai jobe, cole adams, dylan hasz, erik mccarty, Football, Jacobe Johnson, luke hasz, micah tease, okc, okc news, Oklahoma, Oklahoma city
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Atlanta Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna charged with DUI news -The Black Chronicle Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, Braves, Charged, crime, DUI, Georgia, major league baseball, Marcell, MLB, outfielder, Ozuna, Sports, Texas, texas news, texas news update
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Packers' Aaron Rodgers sets up QB Danny Etling's long rushing TD during mid-game interview in preseason win news -The Black Chronicle Aaron, Danny, Etlings, Interview, Long, Midgame, NFL, NFL playoff brackets, Packers, playoff brackets, Preseason, Rodgers
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Jimmy Garoppolo trade rumors: 49ers owner Jed York 'happy' to keep and pay veteran QB for 2022 season news -The Black Chronicle 49ers, Garoppolo, Happy, Jed, Jimmy, NFL, NFL playoff brackets, Owner, Pay, playoff brackets, Rumors, SEASON, Sports, Sports ne
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Patriots vs. Panthers odds, spread, line: 2022 NFL preseason Week 2 picks, predictions from expert on 9-2 run news -The Black Chronicle Expert, Line, NFL, NFL playoff brackets, Odds, Panthers, Patriots, Picks, playoff brackets, Predictions, Preseason, Run
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