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24-Year Old Man's Body Found Hanging From a Tree Near Los Angeles
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Uganda: Govt Selects Avocado As High Value Export Crop
Government has selected avocado as one of the high economic potential crops beside coffee that will be promoted and grown throughout the country for export
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"Deacon Jerry," A sense of loss in Bronx churches | New York Carib News
As the congregations of Wake Eden Community Baptist and the Bronx Baptist churches saw Jeremiah Simpson, the 75-year-old father of eight children and grandfather of 23, he was much more than a deacon of the Bronx Baptist that was founded half a century ago by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel
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Early 19th Century African American Methodists in Cincinnati, Ohio initially worshipped at the local Methodist Episcopal churches, but were treated in a discriminatory manner. In response to this treatment Rev. James King and Rev. Phillip Brodie, after contacting leaders of the new AME Church
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DISCOVERY: Hitting the safari trail from the very comfort of my
Like many other tourism destinations in Kenya, Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya has been hard hit by the coronavirus
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2017 study identified Clonbrook as best location for natural gas pipeline
While identifying Clonbrook, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara, as the best location for bringing natural gas to shore for domestic use, a 2017 desk study done for the APNU+AFC government put the cost of doing this at US$304 million at
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Snoop Dogg Remembers Talking To Biggie After Tupac’s Murder: “He Was Hurt”
Snoop Dogg was one of the latest to take to socials to share some old stories and experiences in the hip hop industry alongside Fatman
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Morehouse cancels fall sports as HBCUs grapple with rapid changes
The news on Morehouse sports came at the same time the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), one of the NCAA’s two Division I conferences composed of all HBCUs, was explaining on a virtual news conference how it would survive a fourth program leaving in three years, with
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OTIENO: What’s in 2020 Budget to spur SMEs growth and
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Clarinetist Anthony McGill Kneels, Pleads And Plays For Justice
In the accompanying statement, he challenges fellow musicians and Americans to shine a light on racism in their own way using the hashtag #TakeTwoKnees — which he says is a tribute to Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests of police
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GECOM decides to tabulate votes from 29 boxes without documents
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Black Enterprise CEO: “I Am Tired…The Pandemic Of Racism Must End”
Tired of the media-driven, negative stereotypes that shape the dangerous narrative surrounding young black
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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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D.C.'s Go-Go music explained in a documentary 'The Beat Don't Stop'
New York City is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Electro beats, and many of those styles birthed out of its gritty streets have shaped the way people think about East Coast urban
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Police Protect Black Americans?
While most of the gang is inside preparing to watch the Wolverines on television in the Cooper's den, they hear a commotion outside, and, of course, it's Nick coming back to the house, escorting by a police
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Sisters youth dies after brother slits throat
A Sister’s Village, West Bank Demerara youth is now dead after an argument with his brother in the wee hours of yesterday morning ended with his throat being
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TSU interim president: ‘I’ve come from behind the curtain’
HOUSTON – Following the departure of former Texas Southern University President Dr. Austin Lane, all eyes are now on Kenneth Huewitt, who’s served as the university’s chief financial officer for the past three
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Burundi's Evariste Ndayishimiye sworn in as new president
Burundi's new President Evariste Ndayishimiye took the oath of office at a colourful ceremony in the capital on Thursday, taking the helm of a troubled nation after the sudden death of his predecessor who left him an isolated nation in political and economic
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Symantec Corporation: The Diversity Conversation is Evolving
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Oluwatoyin ‘Toyin’ Salau, Missing Black Lives Matter Activist, Reportedly Found Dead
Social media users powered the name of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau to become a top trending topic Monday morning as thousands of tweets were mourning the life of the young Black Lives Matter activist reportedly found dead in Florida over the
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Rwanda: City Authorities to Auction Properties Left in Gikondo Wetland
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