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OUSD Kicks Off School Year with Virtual Town Hall
As the new school year starts many students have the usual back-to-school anxiety: what to wear for the first day of school, will classes be easy or hard, will they remember their teachers’ names, and how will their relationships with friends grow and continue. With this novel distance learning
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Zimbabwe: Ecocash Loses Agents Court Challenge Against RBZ
The High Court has thrown out a challenge by EcoCash seeking the restoration of thousands of agent lines terminated without notice by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for suspected illegal forex
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Mayor Eric Garcetti Looks to Find 250-Million Dollars of Cuts in the City Budget, for Police Reform and New Opportunities in Underserved Communities. - Los Angeles Sentinel
Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti announced he has responded to Obama’s call for action and signed the Mayor’s Pledge. The mayor updated the community with the current status of safety measures that will take affect immediately. The mayor was joined by Eileen Decker, President of the Los Angeles
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Should police be in Pittsburgh schools? Advocates call for removal reignited in wake of Floyd’s death
When news came that the Minneapolis Public Schools proposed to cut ties with their local police force, local lawyer Tiffany Sizemore saw an opportunity for kids across the Pittsburgh Public Schools
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Bishop Bavin school closure: 102 employees turn to court after abrupt dismissal | News24
A group of 102 staff and teachers at Bishop Bavin private school in Johannesburg, who were dismissed when the school suddenly announced its closure earlier this month, are taking the school to the Labour Court on Tuesday.
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Minister wants to save academic year above saving lives - Maimane tells Concourt
This is what former DA leader and founder of the One South Africa (OSA) movement Mmusi Maimane told the Constitutional Court this week in court papers, arguing against the reopening of
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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was
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Commentary: A word about White privilege | Atlanta Daily World
by Oseye Boyd If there’s one thing I’m grateful for in 2020, it’s that people are showing their true colors. People have lost all sense of decorum as well as respect for others when in public and are acting out in appallingly shocking ways. I never thought I’d see adults coughing on other
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Texas State Coach Accused Of Racist Chicken Comments Against Athletes
College basketball player Jaylen Shead speaks out.
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Los Angeles City Mayor Pleads for George Floyd Protests to 'Take a Step Back' due to Violent Acts in L.A. over 300 arrested | BlackPressUSA
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Yesterday Mayor Garcetti responded to the devastating news of George Floyd by stating, “…He was far from the first, the end of his life, was another page in the worst chapter of our nation’s history of what it means to be black in America. 244 years into our attempts to
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Huizar arrested on federal corruption charges
LOS ANGELES — City Councilman Jose Huizar, long considered the central figure in a nearly two-year federal bribery and corruption probe at City Hall, has been arrested at his Boyle Heights
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Disney to Redesign Splash Mountain Due to the Rides Ties to Racism and Slavery - Black Enterprise
The popular log flume ride attraction will be redesigned around the 2009 film "The Princess and the Frog," featuring Disney's first black princess.
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Georgia Police Sued For Taking Down Wrong Man | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Body camera video shows Antonio Arnelo Smith handing his driver’s license to a Black police officer and answering questions cooperatively before a white officer walks up behind him, wraps him in a bear hug, and slams him face-first to the ground. “Oh my God, you broke my wrist!” the 46-year-old
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Defund Police Movement Gains Steam As Celebrities And Politicians Sign On
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TSD FLASH! - No Freedom Award in 2020; Slave Haven sets reopening; election lawsuit; music video vibe: Usher's "I Cry"
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Court sides with Eskom in clawback dispute, paving way for tariff hikes
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The Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act, spearheaded by Boston's African-American community, was passed in 1965, making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to outlawde facto segregation in a school district.
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Zimbabwe: Kasukuwere Hires Kunaka to Evict Farmer
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After four nights and lawsuit, officials end curfews
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DeKalb Schools set to present plan for reopening schools in the fall
The DeKalb County School District will continue preparing its road map for bringing students and teachers back to classrooms for the upcoming school year, district officials said after state officials announced guidance for K-12 school
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White man allegedly posed as a protester to vandalize buildings in Minneapolis | BlackPressUSA
ROLLING OUT — The video, posted by Twitter user @dyllyp, shows a White man, dressed in all-black with a gas mask on his face, knocking out windows at an AutoZone in Minneapolis. Many believe that he helped to start the vandalism that turned into chaos on the night of May 28.
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Mombasa Finance minister risk arrest over Sh44m court award
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Officials are first to call for Huizar to resign from council
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Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece : TheGrio
Distribution of a tell-all book by President Donald Trump’s niece was blocked by a judge Tuesday after the president’s brother said its publication would violate a pact among family members, but a publisher’s chief executive says the book has already been shipped and could not be stopped. New York
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