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By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Lamont Crooks could be anywhere when the call comes.  Somewhere in his West Baltimore community a conflict will reach a boiling point; a conflict with the potential to turn deadly, like hundreds of conflicts do each year in his city. He knows it is coming. In
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
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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Not cool: Pools cause a rash of roof collapses in Spain | Afro
Two rooftop pool collapses within two weeks caused major damage to a home and a bar in eastern regions of Spain in the wake of officials' warnings about the potential risks. A terrace with a detachable pool above El Trebol bar in Terrassa, in in the autonomous community of Catalonia in eastern
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Cardi B Covers Up A Tat That Has Stumped Her Fans For Years
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Separate celebration: Formerly conjoined twins turn 2 after surgeries | Afro
Two-year-old twins Prefina and Ervina recently celebrated their birthday in a unusual way as individuals. The previously conjoined twins, connected at the head, were successfully separated after several surgeries by skilled surgeons and nurses at an Italian hospital. Ermine celebrates twin Ervina
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Klan Cops and `The Wilmington Massacre’ | Afro
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com In Wilmington, N.C. recently it was revealed some White members of the Wilmington Police Department are just itching for America’s mythical race war much ballyhooed by some for decades to begin. “We are just going to go out and just start
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Spanish archaeologists dig up dozens of mysterious tiny human figures | Afro
Dozens of tiny flint figures were found by scientists working in Jordan, thousands of years after they were likely used in funerals and memorial ceremonies. The dozens of tiny human figures were found by Spanish archaeologists surrounding human remains and are believed to have been used in rituals
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Trump at Rushmore: Jets and Fireworks, But Masks Optional | Afro
By STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When President Donald Trump speaks at the Mount Rushmore national memorial before the first fireworks show there in years, he’ll stand before a crowd of thousands of people who wont be required to socially distance or wear masks despite
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BET Awards 2020: DaBaby, Beyoncé, Roddy Rich And More Bring The Bling To Virtual BET Awards
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‘Avoid being bitten’: Virus-carrying Asian tiger mosquitoes likely reach UK | Afro
The Asian tiger mosquito, which has made headlines around the world because it carries dangerous viruses, are likely already in the UK, an expert warned. Dr Anna-Bella Failloux poses for a photo. She is a professor of entomology and is head of the 'Arboviruses and Insect Vectors' branch of the
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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner | Afro
By Donna Lewis Johnson For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba
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Government is tracking you via your mobile phone: Here’s how and why
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Unintentional Martyr: How George Floyd’s Death Revolutionized the BLM Movement | Afro
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com In musings with my mother, current Episcopal Diocese of Washington Canon to the Ordinary (Bishop) and former Canon for Multicultural Affairs and Justice the Rev. Paula Clark, this reporter called George Floyd a “martyr.”  Clark, a self-proclaimed word
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TUNE-IN- TODAY: 6PM EST/3PM PST for a Virtual Town Hall: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible | Afro
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Letter To The Editor: We need expanded vote-by-mail. Our democracy depends on it. | Afro
To the Editor: The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on all of our lives is clear. Even as some states begin to recover or even reopen, many of us are still worried for the health and wellbeing of our families, friends, and colleagues. But I’m also worried about the impact this crisis will
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Movie review: ‘The King of Staten Island’ | Afro
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Social Security's Online Services Are Ready For Business
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By JAKE COYLE and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — California closed bars, theaters and indoor restaurant dining all over again across most of the state Wednesday, and Arizonas outbreak grew more severe by nearly every measure as the surging coronavirus crisis across the South
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