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January 20 will mark a new beginning for the country. As power changes hands, the opportunity to deliver on on a racial justice agenda is in our grasp.
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Put away fear of COVID vaccination - The Bay State Banner
African Americans are far more likely to get sick, get hospitalized, and to die from a COVID triggered malady than whites. Yet, side by side with the death count, more Blacks than any other group say they won’t get a COVID
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Former NBA Star Junior Bridgeman Purchases EBONY Magazine – Arizona Informant Newspaper
According to the Michigan Chronicle, Bridgeman, who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers, was once featured on a 2016 Forbes top-paid athletes list. He is the CEO of a Coca-Cola bottling company and part-owner of Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited. The former athlete attempted to
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What if the Capitol attackers had been African Americans? | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA NewsWire After watching African Americans protest the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, many in Black communities called law enforcement’s response to Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol tepid at best. “So imagine Black folk was in this
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Uganda: Nine Districts Receive Voting Materials
[Monitor] As the country prepares to go to polls next week, authorities at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Wednesday started dispatching polling materials to the 146 district offices across the country. The EC chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, flagged off the first batch of
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Rep. Gilliard Pre-Files Legislation To Honor First 33 Black Georgia State Legislators | The Savannah Tribune
State Representative Carl Gilliard (D-Garden City) recently pre-filed legislation which would honor the first 33 Black state legislators of the Georgia General Assembly. House Bill 48 would authorize the state to create a monument recognizing these legislators at the State Capitol. “These
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Positively Perfect Dolls Promote Self-Love in Little Black Girls | Africanews
Positively Perfect Dolls reflect true ethnic diversity and encourage self-love in little girls of African descent.
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BY REX MPHISA The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has announced that it is opening the floodgates of Zhovhe Dam after the country‘s 11th largest water body became full following weeks of incessant rains. Zinwa yesterday warned people living downstream of the huge structure 60 kilometres
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Elaine Chao, Mick Mulvaney: Here Are The White House Officials Who Have Resigned After Capitol Breach So Far
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D.C. Mayor Bowser Initiates Curfew after Trump Supporters Launch Riot | BlackPressUSA
WASHINGTON INFORMER — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) imposed a citywide curfew from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday, prohibiting people, other than essential workers and members of the media, from driving, walking, loitering and conducting other activities in the streets. Metro also shut down
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Biden Appoints Rep. Deb Haaland To Head the Interior Department
By Victor Omondi Upon being elected the 46th president of the United States of America, Joe Biden appointed Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M) to be in charge of the Interior Department. Haaland becomes the first Native American to head the department. The selection by Biden makes a significant change in the
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Junior Bellaire High School guard Endiah Lundy has been making plays for the Cardinals this season. On the offensive side Lundy has developed her game to create easy shots for herself using her speed and ball handling ability. And now as Bellaire’s starting point guard, she has proven to master the
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'I Know Your Pain, I Know You're Hurt': Trump Uses Measured Tone to Appease Supporters Who Storm Capitol Building, In Stark Contrast to His Rhetoric on Police Brutality Protesters
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‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, COVID-19 top Courier stories of improbable 2020 - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… might expect: Pittsburgh African American women doing amazing things … spread among some African American circles that Blacks were … in March 2020 that African Americans would be disproportionately … health conditions. Many African Americans fell into those two …
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Catholic leaders, progressive and conservative, condemn the violence at the Capitol - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – ‘Those who resort to inflammatory rhetoric must accept some responsibility for inciting the increasing violence in our nation,’ said Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington.
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Gunshots rang out in the hallway near the chambers, and windows were shattered throughout the building. An unidentified woman inside reportedly was shot in the neck. Her condition is currently unclear. The National Guard joined the Secret Service, FBI, Capitol Police, and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police
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The year 2020 was a stressful one. With George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer as an inflection point about race and racism in America, an unprecedented presidential election, and social unrest during an ongoing pandemic with a rising death toll, something is deeply
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