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By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Baltimoreans have cast ballots in the first three days of early voting for the 2020 presidential election.  According to unofficial early voting data released by the Baltimore City Board of Elections
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Disney Dreamers Academy to Host Virtual Event for 2020 Participants | Afro
(Black PR Wire)  – The immersive, transformational Disney Dreamers Academy will take place virtually this fall and, for the first time in its history, offer career shadow externships for all 100 members of the class. Just like past Disney Dreamers Academy events, the virtual experience will deliver
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Judge Dismisses 1 Charge Against Former Cop In Floyd’s Death | Afro
By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd's neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains. Hennepin County District
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Oprah Winfrey To Host Virtual Town Halls in Key States To Encourage, Inspire and Support Voters Ahead of Election | Afro
Oprah Winfrey To Host Virtual Town Halls in Key States To Encourage, Inspire and Support Voters Ahead of Election Events Are Free and Open to the Public on Zoom Los Angeles – Oprah Winfrey announced today plans to host virtual town halls in key states as part of OWN’s OWN YOUR VOTE nonpartisan
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COMMENTARY: The Illness of King Donald, or why Progressives Cannot Concede any Ground to a Sympathy Vote for Trump | Afro
By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire Contributor When word broke of the President and First Lady testing positive for Covid19, an image flashed into my mind. The image was from the 1980s series St. Elsewhere, about a hospital and its staff in Boston. A major character, played by Mark Harmon, was
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UPDATED - MORE THAN 100 BLACK MALE LEADERS SIGN STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY REQUIRING A BLACK WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT | Afro
MORE THAN 100 BLACK MALE LEADERS SIGN STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY REQUIRING A BLACK WOMAN VICE PRESIDENT #WinWithBlackWomen  As someone who has said throughout the campaign that VP Joe Biden needs to choose a Black woman VP, the urgency for that pick has gone from something that SHOULD happen to
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LDF Statement on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination to the United States Supreme Court | Afro
LDF Statement on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination to the United States Supreme Court Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney
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Learning From a Distance at Coppin | Afro
By Jared Grizzle Special to the AFRO Sitting at home, worlds away from peers and instructors is not the way most students hoped they would be starting the fall semester. For 22-year-old Coppin State University student Tyrek Goy his mindset approaching the Fall 2020 semester was no different.  Goy
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Biden to GOP Senators: Don't Jam through Ginsburg Nominee | Afro
By Laurie Kellman and Lisa Mascaro The Associated Press Joe Biden on Sept. 20 slammed President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to jam through a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and urged more senators to stand with a pair of GOP colleagues who oppose the
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Baltimore’s Potential First Couple: Bob and Carolyn Wallace | Afro
By Linda G. Morris When Carolyn Green left her East Baltimore home, bound for the University of Pennsylvania, little did she know she would meet fellow South Baltimorean Robert (Bob) Wallace. Bob is one of five boys born to Leon and Irene Curry Wallace. Carolyn, one of nine children born to Robert
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Synchronic Film Review | Afro
By Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire Film Critic Should partygoers put down their Molly and try a tab of Synchronic? This cautionary sci-fi/fantasy/thriller suggests not.   Synchronic is a drug that hurls its users back in time. Time travel with a seven-minute limit. That’s the concept created by
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Black Lawmakers Reflect on Civil Rights Then, and Now | Afro
By LISA MASCARO and PADMANANDA RAMA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation is once again at a crossroads over racial inequity, marking the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream Speech,' yet torn apart by the Black Lives Matter protests against the police
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TBE#42 - Confirmation Of Barrett To Supreme Court Will Mark The Point Of No Return For Independence Of Federal Courts | Afro
To Be Equal #42 October 16, 2020 Confirmation Of Barrett To Supreme Court Will Mark The Point Of No Return For Independence Of Federal Courts Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “The Supreme Court doesn’t have an army, and it has no power of the purse. Its power comes from the
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Who Is Voting? Who Is Winning? Early Vote only Offers Clues | Afro
By Nicholas Ricccardi and Angeliki Kastanis The Associated Press As early voting breaks records across the U.S., political analysts and campaigns are reviewing reams of data on the voters, looking for clues to key questions: Who is voting? And who is winning? On one level, the answers can be
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Kenya Copes With Decades of Police Brutality | Afro
Kenyan police aren’t hired to protect the public but the government’s interests,advocates say. By Anne Macharia, Zenger.News In America, one incident of police brutality captured on video in May sparked global protests and may have finally galvanized calls for police reform. In Kenya, things are
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D.M.V. Drenched, Damaged by Storms | Afro
By Micha Green, AFRO D.C. Editor and Mark Gray, AFRO Staff Writer Downpours of rain drenched the nation’s capital on Sept. 10, causing major flooding and damage in the D.M.V. “Our basement was quickly inundated with two and a half inches of brown, muddy, water that covered most of the floor.  The
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Black Catholics' History: Will US Catholic Schools Teach It? | Afro
By David Crary, AP National Writer The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change. Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, there are high-level calls for
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‘Threat to Health Care and Civil Rights’ Judge Barrett Confirmed by GOP Senate | Afro
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge with a stated opposition to the Affordable Care Act and many Civil Rights laws, was confirmed on Monday, October 26, 2020, as the next Supreme Court Justice. Only Maine Republican
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Nation’s Top Child Advocacy Organization Announces Historic Leadership Change | Afro
By Special to the AFRO As America finds itself immersed in a new movement to end racial and economic injustice, the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) announced the appointment of Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson to be the next President and CEO of the nation’s leading child advocacy organization.  Dr. Wilson is
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Former LAPD Cop Establishes Foundation to Fund Exonerations | Afro
By AFRO Staff There are an estimated 40,000 to 230,000 persons in American prisons who were wrongfully convicted. But, exoneration is a legal battle often out of financial reach for many. Timothy T. Williams Jr., a national leading expert on police procedure, use of force, and wrongful
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Black Church PAC Urges HBCUs Not to Force Black Students to Participate in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials | Afro
OAKLAND, CA – The Black Church PAC today urged the presidents of Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana, both historically Black colleges, to refrain from offering their students up as guinea pigs for controversial and untested coronavirus vaccine trials. Given the Black
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Art All Night Back with Virtual Touch | Afro
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As has been the tradition since it started in Shaw 11 years ago, Washingtonians will be treated to free art installations, educational experiences and performances for about two weeks through D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Art All Night, and although this
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Rivera Sends Mixed Messages, Team Loses 5th Straight Game | Afro
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Ron Rivera believes “It's all about your messaging,” yet the message was mixed throughout their first six weeks. “We don’t have the pieces, but we’re making progress.” The goal for this season remains confusing. The first year head coach of the
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By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO Baltimore often bears the brunt of racking up dubious statistics when it comes to crime rates, poverty, and unemployment. But as the COVID-19 crisis has unfolded, the city has outpaced the state in terms of beating back infections caused by the virus, with both
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AFRO Endorsements 2020 | Afro
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Steady Stream of Voters Break Participation Records | Afro
By Lana Shellman Special to the AFRO Here at the Show Place Arena on Pennsylvania Avenue in Prince George’s County, on the afternoon of Nov. 3, there was no line outside and no voters inside.  A few voters were leaving the building talking about their perspectives on the U.S. presidential
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Starting at a Black Newspaper, Dana White Is the First Black Woman to Run Comms at a Major Automaker | Afro
White carved out a pioneering career path that stretched from the Pentagon’s head office to Hyundai headquarters By Troy Schulz, Zenger.News As Hyundai North America’s first chief communications officer, Dana W. White knows what it is like to have two feet in two worlds. “Growing up I always knew
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