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Phi Beta Sigma Donates $50K to National Urban League
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity announced Friday that a $50,000 donation to the National Urban League by the Black Greek organization will help the league's youth programming.
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Movement for Black Lives plans virtual national convention - Los Angeles Sentinel
Spurred by broad public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, thousands of Black activists from across the U.S. will hold a virtual convention in August to produce a new political agenda that seeks to build on the success of the protests that followed George
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John Wayne’s name on California airport faces new scrutiny By Amy Taxin (AP Photo, File) In the latest move to change U.S. place names tied to racist groups and ideas, leaders of Orange County’s Democratic Party are pushing to drop film legend John Wayne’s name from the county’s airport because of
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Largest endowment gift in LeMoyne-Owen College history will help the HBCU keep on giving - TSDMemphis.com
“First, I cried,” said LeMoyne-Owen College Interim President Dr. Carol Johnson-Dean. “I was overjoyed, in tears. This $40 million gift is nothing short of transformative for the college.” Johnson-Dean received a call on Tuesday of this week from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. It
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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com
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Star-Studded Lineup Planned for First Black Press Virtual Convention | Dallas Weekly
“The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on African Americans and other people of color throughout the United States. Yet, coupled with that viral pandemic is the continuing epidemic of racism in America that is unabated with the fatal realities of racially motivated police
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Source: Dallas Weekly
MLB Cancels All-Star Game for First Time sice 1945 - Black News Channel
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodger Stadiums 40-year wait to host the All-Star Game is going to last even longer.The game scheduled for July 14 was canceled Friday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and Dodger Stadium was awarded the 2022 Midsummer
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WATCH: Lee blasts ‘anti-American’ groups: ‘The mob hates America on America’s dime’ | Afro
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah threatened Thursday to pull federal funding away from Americas cities and institutions of higher learning who he claimed have formed an anti-American, anti-science, anti-establishment, anti-Constitution mob. In a Senate floor speech before Congresss Independence Day
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
21 Savage Launches Bank Account at Home Program So Kids Can Continue Learning About Financial Literacy During Pandemic
21 Savage started a financial literacy program for Atlanta students a couple of years ago, and he wants to ensure their learning isnt halted while []
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US senator blasts American Airlines for packing the middle seats on his flight - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, tweeted an image showing his packed flight on Thursday. Most of the passengers in the photo were blurred out, but it's clear some were wearing masks and many of them were in the middle
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Source: La Focus Newspaper
With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration employees Willie Townsend, left, and Joe Brown, attach a Mississippi state flag to the harness before raising it over the Capitol grounds in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, June 30, 2020. The two men raised about 100
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COMMENTARY: The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People - African American News Today - EIN News
people object to efforts by African American entrepreneurs to build Black wealth Americans while oppressing minorities, including African Americans, by locking them out, then deprive Black families of wealth. African Americans need to take action and
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President Bio unveils Digital Health Learning Platforms for healthcare workers in Bonthe
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: In Mattru Jong, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone yesterday, Friday 3 July 2020 , President Dr Julius Maada Bio introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform, whilst also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment
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BET Founder Robert Johnson Urges Black Lives Matter to Form its Own Independent Political Party Free Press of Jacksonville
By Kevin Stankiewicz Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Tuesday that Black Americans should form their own political party to concentrate their electoral influence. “I’ve been convinced for a long [...]
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
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Kenya coronavirus: 8,067 cases; partial lockdown lifted | Africanews
Kenya continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic with cases steadily rising each day. Government have locked down a handful of counties including the capital Nairobi and imposed a night-time curfew as part of containment
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How WNBA star Maya Moore refused to play until a man was freed from prison should inspire all - Face2Face Africa
In the prime of her career, Maya Moore put everything on hold to campaign against the incarceration of Jonathan Irons, a man who had been convicted to a 50-year sentence. For the avoidance of doubt about how high-flying Moore was prior to 2019, it is important to refer to the tale of her
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Armed Black Protesters Of The 'Not F**king Around Coalition' Hold Demonstration At Georgia Park, Denounce The KKK
A group of mostly Black protesters gathered at Stone Mountain Park in Georgia on Saturday with guns, demanding a Confederate monument within it be removed while challenging white nationalists in the area to come out. The group,
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Op-Ed: Duval Leaders of Tomorrow survive billion dollar budget cut | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Jacksonville: Florida’s Governor Ron Desantis faced a mountain of red ink as the affects of the Lockdown hit Florida. Over a billion dollars in appropriations were slashed in Fiscal Year 2020. Duval Leaders of Tomorrow was spared. DLT as it is called serves under privileged students at Grand Park
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Source: The Florida Star
NFL will play Black national anthem before Week 1 games - DefenderNetwork.com
Four weeks after commissioner Roger Goodell vowed to listen to and work with players in their fight for racial equality, the NFL is in the process of solidifying plans to honor victims of systemic racism with a number of in-game programs during opening week of the 2020 season. Starting with the
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Africa's Post-Pandemic Future Needs to Embrace Youth in Agriculture
Analysis - Warnings at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that Africa could be hit by a wave of up to 10 million cases within six months thankfully now seem unfounded, although it is still far too early to be over-confident.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Malawi cancels independence celebration amid virus | Africanews
Malawi’s new president, Lazarus Chakwera, cancelled Monday’s independence celebrations in the southern African country on Sunday, and drastically reduced his inauguration ceremony on the same day due to a sharp rise in coronavirus
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We Werent In the Park, but We Were Still Together. The Chosen Few Virtual Music Festival hits a High Note. | Chicago Defender
It is an annual part of #SummertimeChi.  House music fans get up early, pack up all of their BBQ and picnic essentials and head to Jackson Park for a day filled with friends, food, drinks, and house music with the Chosen Few DJs.  Started in 1990 as a small gathering of friends behind the Museum
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Source: Chicago Defender
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Students continue push for change regarding school resource officers | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By Patrick Forrest The Chicago Board of Education voted 4-3 late last month to keep a $33 million contract that allows Chicago Police officers to be stationed in the city’s public high schools. Students and youth activists had used the contract as a starting point toward police reform in the
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8-year-old Nolan Davies organizes childrens Black Lives Matter march - Face2Face Africa
Nolan Davies has spearheaded a childrens version of Black Lives Matter protest through the streets of Kirkwood in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We are the children, the mighty mighty children. Here to tell you, Black lives matter! hundreds of children charged as
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3 Years After Hurricane Harvey, Many Houston Homeowners Dont Know Who’s At Risk Next
A lack of data and options is trapping people in flood-prone homes and driving inequality.
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Donald Trump Attacks NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace For Noose Hoax
Authorities made no accusations whatsoever about a hoax. That didn't stop Trump from asking Wallace to apologize.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle - Donald Trump Jr.s girlfriend and top Trump campaign official - tests positive for coronavirus - L.A. Focus Newspaper
"After testing positive, Kimberly was immediately isolated to limit any exposure," said Sergio Gor, chief of staff for the Trump Victory Finance Committee. "She's doing well, and will be retested to ensure the diagnosis is correct since she's asymptomatic but as a precaution will cancel all
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Move to rename Bloody Sunday bridge has critics in Selma - Black News Channel
By JAY REEVES Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights
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Commentary: What have we become? | Atlanta Daily World
by E. Faye Williams (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Were we ever better? There was a time when many Black people had hope and had reason to believe America had made progress on civil and human rights. I remember Dick Gregory frequently saying to me, “Don’t you know when a man like Donald Trump and his people
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MPs in Sierra Leone debate president Bio’s statement to parliament
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Sierra Leone’s members of Parliament last Thursday, began their marathon debate on the statement delivered to parliament by President Bio, at his State opening of  the Third Session of the Fifth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra
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No Bud Billiken parade this summer | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Iconic event canceled for the first time in 91 years because of pandemic By Crusader Staff Report There won’t be any marching bands or floats on King Drive this summer. The iconic Bud Billiken Parade, which for decades marched down King Drive in Chicago as it became the largest Black parade in
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