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By Julianne Malveaux The right Reverend Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King's church, is running for the United States Senate from Georgia. Warnock is a man of God, a humble man, with one of these both booming and melodious voices that pull us up from our feet and […]
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
As Georgia's runoff elections continue to draw national attention, one candidate made sure the focus is on the needs of... View Article
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by Julianne Malveaux The right Reverend Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King's church, is running for the United States Senate from Georgia. Warnock is a man of God, [...]
TRANSFORMED LIFE Church (TLC), in partnership with the Digicel Foundation, recently handed over 100 tablets for 50 students at seven primary schools in Portland and 50 students at a high school in St Mary. The provision of the tablets – each with...
By STEVE PEOPLES and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Promising 'we're going to get right to work,' President-elect Joe Biden fought to confront the nation's competing crises — and fierce Republican resistance — on Tuesday and downplayed concerns that President Donald Trump's refusal to acknowledge his victory could undermine national security. Raising unsupported claims of voter fraud, Trump has blocked his Democratic rival from receiving the intelligence briefings traditionally shared with incoming presidents, according to someone with knowledge of the situation but not authorized to disclose private conversations. Trump's resistance, backed by senior Republicans in Washington and […]
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Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., an evangelical advisor to President Donald Trump and senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville,... View Article
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Former national security adviser John Bolton urges Republican leaders to speak out against President Trump's
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Former President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton sent their congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala... View Article
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The head of the Republican Party in Texas' largest county has resigned after less than four months on the job. Keith Nielsen, chairman of the GOP in Harris County, home to Houston, submitted a letter of resignation and the party's secretary, Josh Flynn, said he received it Monday morning. The party did not immediately release […]
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President-elect Joe Biden is ready to undo the years of President Donald Trump. The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division... View Article
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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The public will immediately notice a vast change in science messaging from the White House,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, told USA Today. “The Biden administration will both convey pro-science messages and model […]
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Sunday afternoon, Fulton County announced they have completed their hand recount. Fulton County Registration & Elections completed the hand count of 528,000 ballots cast during the November 3 General Election, representing more than 11% of the Risk Limiting Audit process. According to a release, the audit involved the participation of hundreds of workers, monitors, and observers. At peak times, Fulton […]
President-Elect Joe Biden announced his 12-member coronavirus task force who will advise him during the transition before his Jan. 20 inauguration.
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by Andrea WatsonATLANTA, GA — The same day that celebrities and civil rights activists gathered to remember George Floyd — the African American man who died last week in police custody — elected officials joined Atlanta protesters and several groups for a peaceful Black Lives Matter march.
Brown was joined by Georgia Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon, Fulton County Commissioner Natalie Hall, Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore, and others.
U.S. Senate candidate and Ebenezer Baptist Church senior pastor the Rev. Raphael Warnock said the focus is on police brutality, but also reminded the crowd of America’s long racial history, systemic racism and multifaceted issues, such as the industrial prison complex.
A memorial service was held Thursday in Minneapolis to honor the life of George Floyd, a black man killed in Minneapolis while in police custody.
It’s a new city task force that will create a public database to track police brutality in metro Atlanta.
Chaos ensued outside the White House Saturday night as anti-police brutality protesters fought with Secret Service, Parks Police, and Military Police.
This is the second night of rioting in Washington D.C. in solidarity with protesters in Minneapolis.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Scores of mourners Tuesday paid their final respects to Rayshard Brooks at the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, taking part in a funeral rich with historical echoes and filled with a tragic sense that Black America has been through this all too many times before.
This is about him, but it is so much bigger than him,” the Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, told the crowd, less than two weeks after the Black man was shot twice in the back by a white Atlanta police officer following a struggle in a fast-food parking lot.
Brooks’ killing June 12 came amid weeks of turbulent and sometimes violent protests across the U.S. over Floyd’s death under a white Minneapolis officer’s knee on May 25.
Brooks, 27, was shot by Officer Garrett Rolfe after a struggle that erupted when police tried to handcuff him for being intoxicated behind the wheel of his car at a Wendy’s drive-thru.
Atlanta’s police chief stepped down less than 24 hours after Brooks’ death, and the Wendy’s was burned by protesters.
The U.S. hit a record number of coronavirus hospitalizations Tuesday and surpassed 1 million new confirmed cases in just the first 10 days of November amid a nationwide surge of infections that shows no signs of slowing. The new wave appears bigger and more widespread than the surges that happened in the spring and summer […]
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This expression of concern was penned on October 14th after discussion among a small group of parents and chaperones who are grappling with the steep learning curve occasioned by Covid -19 on the formal education scenario.
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Floyd Harold Flake was born to Robert Flake, Sr. and Rosie Lee Johnson-Flake on January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles, California. Flake, though born in California, grew up in Houston, Texas and attended public schools there until his move to Ohio to attend Wilberforce University. He graduated from Wilberforce in 1967. Flake then entered the graduate program at Payne Theological Seminary in Ohio and studied business administration at Northeastern University in Boston until 1976. He also earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree from the United Theological Seminary in Ohio.
In the years between academic studies, Flake worked as a salesman, a marketing analyst, assistant dean of students at Lincoln University, and director of the Afro-American Center and university chaplain at Boston University. The next ten years, 1976 to 1986, Flake was a minister at Allen African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Cathedral in Brooklyn, New York, one of the largest churches in the city. Under Flakes leadership, the church grew from about 1,400 members in the mid-1970s to over 23,000 parishioners by the early 1990s.
In June of 1986, Flake was elected to New York’s Sixth Congressional District which included Jamaica, Queens, and surrounding neighborhoods. He held the seat for the next decade. In his first Congressional term, Flake enjoyed committee assignments that coincided with his community interests in New York. He served on the Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, the Committee on Small Business, and the Select Committee on Hunger. During his term in Congress, Flake continued to serve as pastor of Allen AME Cathedral and in 1991 founded a 750-student private school, the Allen Christian School.
Although a Democrat, Flake endorsed Republicans George Pataki for Governor of New York and Rudolph Giuliani for Mayor of New York City. In 2006 he was the Ohio co-chair of Republican Ken Blackwell’s unsuccessful bid for governor of Ohio.
Flake resigned from Congress on November 17, 1997 to return to full time duties as the senior pastor of
By Associated Press Undefined ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, expressing Turkey's determination to work closely with the new administration. 'I believe that the strong cooperation and the bond of alliance between our countries will continue to make vital contributions to world peace in the future, as it has done so far,' Erdogan said in his congratulatory message, made available by his office. Turkey was one of a handful of countries, along with Russia, that had not commented on Biden's victory since he was declared the winner of the U.S. presidential […]
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President-elect Joe Biden on Monday had a strong warning for President Donald Trump and his administration if they continued to refuse to coordinate with his transition team on the coronavirus pandemic and block briefings on national security, policy issues, and vaccine plans.
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) - A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.2 million people worldwide. Over…
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