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Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama's podcast debut : TheGrio
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first guest of Michelle Obama’s new podcast will have a familiar presidential voice: Barack Obama.... View Article The post Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama’s podcast debut appeared first on TheGrio.
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Barack Obama Kicks Off the Premiere of 'The Michelle Obama Podcast'
Michelle Obama is kicking off her new podcast with an intimate conversation with former President Barak Obama. Spotify and the Obamas’ production company Higher Ground Productions announced Friday that the…
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SMMUSD affirms commitment to anti-racism - African American News Today - EIN News
… response to police violence against African-Americans/Black people, the impacts … of racism and discrimination against African-Americans/Black people. These commitments …
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Report: Fairfax County, Virginia High School To Be Renamed After Rep. John Lewis
Robert E. Lee High School in Fairfax County, Virginia has announced that they will change their name to honor the Late Rep. John Lewis.
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CBCF renames fellowship after the late John Lewis : TheGrio
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) is honoring the late Congressman John Lewis by renaming one of its fellowship programs... View Article The post Congressional Black Caucus Foundation renames fellowship after the late John Lewis appeared first on TheGrio.
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Newsom signals more protections coming for essential workers, including hotel rooms for farmworkers - Black Voice News
In summary The new program, which will rely mostly on federal money, will provide hotel rooms for agricultural workers who test positive or were exposed to the coronavirus so they can safely isolate. As California’s COVID-19 cases surged past 435,000 today, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced more
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July 26: The African Republic of Liberia Became a State Today in 1847
By Jonathan P. Hicks Photo credits: Dreamstime.com It is one of the few countries in Africa that has no roots in the European colonization of the continent. Indeed,Liberiahas one of the most unusual histories of any African country. Starting in the 1820s, a small section on the west coast of Africa
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UN warns Zimbabwe against using pandemic for clampdown | News24
The UN's high commissioner for human rights has warned Zimbabwe against using the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for restricting freedoms, after an investigative journalist and an opposition leader were arrested.
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Ethiopia COVID-19: record 760 new cases, death toll hits 200 | Africanews
Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth and infection of its
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Influencer, Anne Salamanca, arrested after ignoring Hawaii's quarantine mandate - TheGrio
A social media influencer from the Philippines wound up behind bars after sharing a video of her dancing inside of... View Article The post Influencer, Anne Salamanca, arrested after ignoring Hawaii's quarantine mandate appeared first on TheGrio.
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Jamaica records 57 new COVID cases in six days
Jamaica today recorded 10 more imported COVID cases. This means since the start of the week, there have been 57 new cases pushing the tally to 831. Of the 10 cases confirmed Friday, six are females and four are males aged 16 to 63 years. Four of...
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(BPRW) MediaMonks Sets the Stage for the Future of Live Music, Offering Audiences Everywhere a Front Row Seat at the 2020 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival | Press releases
(BPRW) MediaMonks Sets the Stage for the Future of Live Music, Offering Audiences Everywhere a Front Row Seat at the 2020 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Interactive Experience Available on Digital…
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Demings: Trump’s America Is the 'Scariest America I’ve Seen in my Lifetime' - African American News Today - EIN News
Sunday on MSNBC's "Velshi," Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) called the country under President Donald Trump "the scariest America" she had seen in her lifetime. | Clips
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Man charged with murder in pregnant Indiana woman's 2015 disappearance - TheGrio
The ex-lover of Rochelle Thomas Stubblefield, an Indiana woman who went missing in 2015, has been charged with murder despite... View Article The post Man charged with murder in pregnant Indiana woman's 2015 disappearance appeared first on TheGrio.
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Famed sculptor looking for help to cast a bronze bust of the late civil rights activist, C.T. Vivian | Chicago Defender
Artist Preston Jackson is working on a bust of the late minister, civil rights activist and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s field general during the Civil Rights Movement, Cordy Tindell (C.T.) … Continued
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CSU Dominguez Hills to Receive Mayme Agnew Clayton Collection of African American History and Culture - Los Angeles Sentinel
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) signed a historic agreement with the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum (MCLM) board of directors to house the Mayme A. Clayton Collection of African American History and Culture on campus in the Gerth Archives and Special Collections. The
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Holness should have fired Hutchinson�If Prime Minister Andrew Holness had made one straightforward move last week, he would have confirmed his third term as leader of this country when the next general election is held within months.
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Rep. Clyburn says this is the first thing Biden should do as president : TheGrio
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House majority whip, has become a bit of a tastemaker in this year's presidential election.... View Article The post Rep. Clyburn says this is the first thing Biden should do as president appeared first on TheGrio.
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Despite low occupancy, Grand Palladium keeps doors open
Western Bureau: Despite having less than 10 per cent occupancy and cognisant of the increasing calls for the borders to be closed to American tourists as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge in that country, the Grand Palladium Hotel in Lucea,...
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Swiss attorney general offers to quit after court rebuke over FIFA meeting - Stabroek News
ZURICH,  (Reuters) - Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber offered to resign yesterday after a court concluded he covered up a meeting with FIFA head Gianni Infantino and lied to supervisors while his office investigated corruption surrounding soccer's governing
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‘I need to close this chapter in my life’ - Widows of slain American missionaries bemoan lengthy road to trial
When Teri Nichols’ cell phone lit up two weeks ago with a message from a police detective in Jamaica, she immediately thought “more bad news”. It’s been four years since her husband Harold and another American missionary, Randy Hentzel, were...
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Black leadership’s shameful silence on violence – Florida Courier
The blaring July 13 headline in the New York Post said it all, “ENOUGH.” It was referring to the murder of one-year-old Davell Gardner when shooters opened fire on a group of people attending a barbecue in Brooklyn, New York. Referencing the “Black Lives Matter” movement, the boy’s grandmother told
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Black Tech Mobilizes to Beat the Youth 'Summer Slide' | The Plug
The achievement gap for historically disadvantaged student groups, on top of a pandemic, puts Black youth especially at risk this summer. As remote learning continues, STEM-related nonprofits The Hidden Genius Project and INTech Camp for Girls are making sure that their scholars do not face an
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My Brothers by Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki R. Madhubuti is an African-American author, educator, and poet, as well as a publisher and operator of black-themed bookstore. Madhubuti received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1963. He is a major
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In the immediate aftermath of the September 12, 1988 Hurricane Gilbert - the worst storm to hit Jamaica this century, a sharp rise in malnutrition, a quiet but troubling affliction, failed to make the news headlines.
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WNBA players honor Black women who have died - TheGrio
WNBA players from both the New York Liberty and Seattle Storm teams exited the court before the national anthem today. ... View Article The post WNBA players honor Black women who have died appeared first on TheGrio.
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Intel's 'stunning failure' heralds end of era for US chip sector - TechCentral
Intel’s decision to consider outsourcing manufacturing heralds the end of an era in which the company, and the US, dominated the semiconductor industry.
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Dems will never choose transformative change – Florida Courier
The COVID-19 epidemic proved beyond all rational doubt that decades of bipartisan privatization and austerity had destroyed the U.S. “public” health care system, rendering the nation structurally incapable of coping with the viral onslaught. The late and geographically uneven lockdown succeeded
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Black Girls Rock! partners emerge to bring Black Girls Lead conference online - Dallas Examiner
  PRNewswire   Black Girls Rock! has partnered with emerge, a natural hair care brand, to host its annual Black Girls Lead 2020 conference online July 31-Aug. 1. The conference has been re-imagined as
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Opinion: Trump's militarized policing of Portland has no place in the US - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Jarring videos show law enforcement officers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plucking protesters from the streets of Portland and stuffing them in unmarked vehicles before driving away. The agents, clad in the same camouflage pattern that I wore as an Army intelligence officer in
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