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Rwanda: New SC Kiyovu Signing Thrilled to Work With Karekezi - Omar Ngando
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Matt Barnes Says the NBA and NFL Have Racist Owners Who Are Just Like Former Clippers Owner Donald Sterling
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The return of American major team sports?
(ThyBlackMan.com) When COVID-19 cases throughout the country shut down major sports leagues like the NBA and the NHL and canceled NCAA Basketball Tournaments and the 2020 Summer Olympics in March of 2020, sports fans were reminded of how serious the coronavirus
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CBS Network Announces Plan to Commit 25% of Development Budget to BIPOC Creators and Projects
According to Variety.com, the CBS network has announced it will commit 25% of its script development budget to projects created or co-created by Black, Indigenous,
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Social Media Unites Celebrities and Common Users to Fight for the End of Police Brutality, Racism, and Injustice Against Black Lives
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LeBron James
LeBron James is an American basketball superstar who currently plays for the National Basketball Association (NBA) team “Cleveland Cavaliers”. He is six feet, eight inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. He was born to a 16 year old single mother named Gloria Marie James on December
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A Lena Horne Series is Headed to Showtime. We’re Celebrating with an EUR Video Throwback - The New York Beacon
*Upon news Thursday that Showtimeis developing a limited series about the life of singer, actress and activistLena Horne, we’re revisiting her Tony Award-winning 1981 Broadway musical that also portrayed her life story and will be included in the series. Showtime’s “Blackbird: Lena Horneand
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LeBron James Joins Other High-Profile Athletes in Effort to Galvanize Black Vote | L.A. Focus Newspaper
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Colin Kaepernick & Ava DuVernay Team Up With Netflix For Dramatic Series On His High School Years
On Tuesday (Jun 30), Netflix announced the partnership with Colin Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner, Ava DuVernay, to produce a limited scripted series focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending meaningful insight into the acts and experiences that led him
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Ahmaud Arbery's death was 'lynching' and White House rhetoric emboldening racism, mayor says
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LeBron James & Maverick Carter Raise $100 Million For New Media Company
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LeBron James Partners with Athletes, Politicians and Entertainers to Combat Voter Suppression
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Lewis, John Llewellyn
Lewis, John Llewellyn, 1880–1969, American labor leader, b. Lucas co., Iowa son of a Welsh immigrant coal miner. He became a miner and after 1906 rose through the union ranks to become president (1920) of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW). Forceful and determined, Lewis fought vigorously
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