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Ghana: Facebook Oversight Board to Promote Rights of Users - Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei
The establishment of an Oversight Board to make rulings about content moderation on Facebook and Instagram indicates the company's determination to promote the rights of users and freedom of expression, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, a human rights lawyer and Programme Manager at the Open Society
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LisaRaye and DJ Envy Reveal Why They Turned Down 'Real Housewives' Franchise Offers
LisaRaye McCoy and DJ Envy spilled all the tea about why they both turned down offers for themselves and their families to join the “Real Housewives” franchise during a recent conversation on “The Breakfast
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The Wife Of Derek Chauvin, Accused Killer Of George Floyd, Has Filed For Divorce
The wife of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who has been charged with George Floyd’s death, has filed for
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Rangers catch 20-foot python bare-handed | Afro
Kenyan rangers captured a 20-foot python with nothing but their bare hands and an old sack. 'Led by Cpl Gikonyo, this team skillfully captured this python from a community land within Lake Nakuru and released it back into the wild,' the Kenya Wildlife Service posted on its Twitter account. The
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COVID-19 layoffs in US nearly 39 million
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the US has swelled to nearly 39 million, the Government reported yesterday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and
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Staffer at a Cape Town primary school tests positive for Covid-19
A staff member at Hague Primary School in Delft in Cape Town has tested positive for Covid-19, the Department of Education said on
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'She Has a Mother': Quad Webb Clarifies Her Relationship to Baby Ariana
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Black Women Founders Bring COVID-19 Screening Stations to Schools, Offices, Prisons and More
Two entrepreneurs — Lynda M. Dorman, CEO and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises — have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of
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20 advocacy groups warn against Google's purchase of Fitbit
Twenty advocacy groups from the US, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere signed a statement Wednesday urging regulators to be wary of Google’s US$2.1-billion bid for fitness tracker company Fitbit because of privacy and competition
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ODENY: Limits of employers on staff data privacy rights
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A world redrawn: Egypt historian Khaled Fahmy sees rising surveillance state
State surveillance is on the rise globally as governments such as Egypt's take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, warns exiled historian and intellectual Khaled
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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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PGCC’s New President Helps Feed Community On 9/11 | Afro
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Despite the campus being closed to students, Prince George’s County Community College’s new President Dr. Falecia Williams learned some valuable lessons while helping the volunteers distribute food baskets to community residents on Sept. 11. “This is
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An assist of another kind by Shaq | Afro
During his 19 NBA seasons, Shaquille O'Neal scored 28,596 points and 3,026 assists. But he recently provided an assist of another kind, staying with a stranded motorist who had a blown-out tire on a Florida highway. The incident occurred Tuesday on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, after
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Why digital taxes are the new trade war flashpoint
The two countries agreed on a truce whereby the US would back off from tariffs and France would delay collection of its digital tax to the end of 2020 to allow for renewed efforts to reach a multilateral
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Senate Votes To Give Law Enforcement Agencies Access To Your Web Browsing Data Without A Warrant
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Award-Winning Black Journalists Launch News And Social Justice Podcast With Inaugural Episode On The Breonna Taylor Case | Afro
New York, NY (Wednesday, September 23, 2020) Four-time Emmy Award winning journalist Mara Schiavocampo, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Wesley Lowery, and former magazine editor and sportswriter Keith Reed have announced the launch of a news and social justice podcast entitled Run Tell This. The
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Non credible Region Four vote count compromised integrity of March 2 polls, EU observers say
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