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Former President Barack Obama Wants You To Text Him
Former President Barack Obama has shared his phone number and is asking Americans to text him so they can talk. Due to a record number of Americans expected to vote…
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Source: The Black Chronicle
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Africa: The Future We Want, the UN We Need
[IPS] Hamilton -- As we reflect on this week and celebrate the United Nations' rise in the war-ravaged world some 75 years ago, humanity is again being asked to lay the foundation for a new world.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Passing of Williams and Williams Law Group, PLLC Founder Jason... - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… a true hero. Being an African American lawyer in the late 1930s … on the path for other African Americans who embarked on the path … Group. The firm represented many African Americans in the south Dallas area …
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Africa: Dirty Secret - Half of World Lacks Clean Cooking, At a Huge Cost
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Barcelona -- Failure to provide about 4 billion people with access to clean, safe and affordable ways of cooking is costing $2.4 trillion a year.
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Source: allAfrica.com
#Election2020: How much do debates matter this year? | The Atlanta Voice
Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: 36 Days to first debate: 1 ___ THE NARRATIVE The race is tightening somewhat in some states, but Joe Biden is maintaining a remarkably stable lead over President Donald Trump
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
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WATCH: What You Need To Know — September 28, 2020: Judicial Hot Seat — Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor — Black Female Judges
1. Donald Trump Supreme Court Nominee Could Be on the Judicial Hot Seat, Soon What You Need To Know: Within hours after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, contrary to 2016, Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced there will be a hearing for a new justice. 2. Survivor of the
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TikTok fate in the balance as judge weighs app store ban - Black News Channel
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MATT O'BRIEN AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for TikTok pleaded with a U.S. federal judge on Sunday to delay the Trump Administration's ban of the popular video sharing program from app stores set to take effect at the end of the day, arguing the move would
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Sudan exiles return to help rebuild the country after Omar al-Bashir's ousting | News24
After 33 years in exile, El Sadig Mohamed gave up the easy life in Canada to return to help rebuild Sudan as it emerges from three decades of autocratic rule.
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Yemen's warring sides agree to swap over 1,000 prisoners
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) - The warring sides in Yemen's long conflict have agreed to exchange 1,081 prisoners, the United Nations mediator said yesterday following talks in Switzerland.Yemen's Government, which is supported by a Saudi-led military coalition, and Iran-backed Huthi rebels
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Spousal Abuse Alleged Against Former Trump Campaign Chief as Police Hold Him for Psych Evaluation
When police officers took President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale into custody Sunday for psychiatric evaluation, they documented what their written report called ...
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NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017 - Black News Channel
By The Associated Press President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only president in modern times not to make them public, paid $750 in taxes to the
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Black-owned gay bars are dwindling. Can they survive Covid? - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… economic and social justice for Black Americans. “Broadly, the notion of access … that's founded by African American and Latinx people in inner …
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Kinard announces run for City Council, District Three - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… a program that promotes young African-American males becoming effective role models … interactive living wax museum honoring African-Americans from the past and present …
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Liberia: Foreign Minister-Designate Re-Appears for Confirmation Hearing - Says Allegation Against Him Is a 'Takedown Campaign'
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Mr. Dee Maxwell Kemayah, Liberia's Foreign Minister-designate, faced the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee for the second time last Friday for confirmation in the wake of allegation of sexual harassment against him by an employee of Liberia's Mission to the United
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Africa: Call Out Perpetrators of GBV to Help End Violence Against Women and Girls
[UNFPA] "It is not true that men do not know who among their circle of friends is a rapist. Men sometimes sit in bars and discuss how they can have sex with a girl without her consent by way of altering her judgment using, for instance, alcohol and drugs," said Bafana Khumalo, Sonke Gender Justice
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Get Ready to Vote - Milwaukee Community Journal
Have you been registered to vote? If not why not? The “register to vote” icon is literally on almost all social media platforms alone. If you log into Facebook, it’s there. If you log into Instagram, it’s there. Many links to register are in LinkedIn and even Twitter. It takes less than two minutes
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Barr Reportedly Told Prosecutors To Look At Sedition Charges For Protest Violence
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Rwanda: Country Reduces Ozone Warming Gases By 54%
[New Times] Rwanda has drastically reduced, by 54%, the importation of gases known as 'hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)' that deplete ozone layer paving the way for implementing the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol.
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Mauritius still evaluating Oil Spill damage | Africanews
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Virus curbs rile Europeans as global deaths climb
MADRID, Spain (AFP) - New infection control restrictions in Europe stirred anger and frustration yesterday as around the world the global coronavirus toll inched towards one million dead.Demonstrators in Madrid complained that new lockdowns to confront mounting case numbers were discriminatory as
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Africa: USA/Global - Millions Displaced By US Post-9/11 Wars
[AfricaFocus] "Wartime displacement (alongside war deaths and injuries) must be central to any analysis of the post-9/11 wars and their short- and long-term consequences. Displacement also must be central to any possible consideration of the future use of military force by the United States or
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Cameroon – Repression of protests and attacks against the media must be investigated
ARTICLE 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2020: ARTICLE 19 urges the Cameroonian authorities to investigate the excessive use of force during peaceful protests in Yaounde and other cities in Cameroon on 22 September 2020. They must immediately release all protesters who were arrested solely
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Some Black Americans Buying Guns: 'I'd Rather Go To Trial Than Go To The Cemetery' - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… NPR reached out to Black Americans to ask about their … is one of many Black Americans who recently bought firearms … president of the National African American Gun Association, said that … Panthers. Malcolm X said African Americans had to defend themselves …
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US HOSPITAL GIFT
United States Ambassador to Jamaica Donald R Tapia (left) greets Lt General Rocky Meade of the Jamaica Defence Force in COVID-19 style at last week's handover of a 70-bed field hospital, a gift from the United States to Jamaica that will assist the Caribbean island in its fight against the
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The Small but Mighty HBCUs Doing More With Less
Huston-Tillotson and Paul Quinn don’t pull in donations like Howard and Spelman, but that doesn’t stop them from investing in their… Continue reading on ZORA »
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Report Reveals Alarming Amount Of Systemic Police And Prosecutorial Misconduct - The Seattle Medium
While researchers of a new report released on Tuesday, Sept. 15, said it’s hard to summarize the enormity of the harm Burge and his underlings inflicted their victims, and what Anderson did, they did piece together a critical and comprehensive study on tainted cases that have only underscored why
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Biden campaign sells 'I paid more income taxes than Trump' stickers - TheGrio
The bombshell report that President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income tax in both 2016 and 2017, the first... View Article The post Biden campaign sells 'I paid more income taxes than Trump' stickers appeared first on TheGrio.
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UN chief calls for immediate end to fighting over Nagorny Karabakh
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday said he was 'extremely concerned over the fresh resumption of hostilities' between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Armenia-backed breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh.
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Atlanta Centenarian, Jean Byrd Lee Bowen Rollins, Dies at 107 - The Atlanta Inquirer
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Community Seeks Aggie Square Partnership — The Sacramento Observer
Aggie Square is described as a “game changing partnership” that will bring innovative opportunities to the area surrounding the UC Davis Medical Center on Stockton Boulevard. Local residents say they don’t want to be losers when the project, which will include the building of spaces for research
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