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The need for a national Black coronavirus task force –
Need for task force There are spotty scientific and educational research and statistics concerning racial demographics across the country and limited conversations with discussions about the state of Black America during this age of the coronavirus
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'Trump Death Clock' In NYC Counts Preventable Coronavirus Deaths
A digital billboard in Times Square showing the number of deaths related to President Donald Trump’s slow coronavirus response, reached a grave milestone on Wednesday, as it ticked over to an estimated 50,000 preventable
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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America
In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based
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Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate In 2020.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt
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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro
Black Businesses & Access to Capital:  Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community
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House Heroes Act provides $390 million to Georgia families for groceries
Even before the crisis, nearly 15 percent of children in Georgia lived in food insecure households
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Obama rebukes leaders over Covid-19 response
Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald
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Can Joe Biden Win? The Jury is Out
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden has the most delegates going into this summer’s Democratic Convention and is the presumptive nominee for
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Congress needs to show black businesses the money
In several informal polls on my Facebook pages I asked the same question: “Do you know of any black owned business that got a COVID-19 stimulus SBA Payroll Protection Program
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Multiple Governors Announce Openness To Live Sports Without Fans
As states around the country continue to relax social distancing guidelines involving in-person meetings, a chorus of governors have announced their openness to live sports events in the immediate future, with some offering their states as test sites for teams and leagues looking to restart
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Flood displaces 10,000 in Michigan
MICHIGAN, United States (AP) — Floodwaters have overtaken dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people from communities in central Michigan, where the governor warned that Dow Chemical Company's hometown could end up under nine feet of water and said the state will investigate the dam
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Biden Says He Would Not Pardon Trump or Block Investigations
The former vice president made his statement in response to a voter who asked him on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show, “The Last Word,” whether he would “commit to not pulling a Gerald Ford in giving Donald Trump a pardon under the pretense of healing the
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Nigeria: Coronavirus - Who Calls for Funding Amidst New U.S. Threat
The World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to continue funding the agency, saying it will initiate an independent review into its handling of the coronavirus pandemic "at the earliest appropriate
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An Alabama Mayoral Candidate Wants To Resume Public Hangings And Other News You Missed This Week - Blavity
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President Trump's Wish To Paint His Border Wall Black Will Cost $1.2 Million Per Mile
President Trump’s Wish To Paint His Border Wall Black Will Cost $1.2 Million Per Donald Trump has pushed for his border wall to be painted black to make the barrier scarier and  hotter to the
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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves
The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special
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Obama Criticizes Virus Response In Online Graduation Speech
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation’s response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commencement address that the pandemic shows many officials “aren’t even pretending to be in
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OP-ED: Joe Biden Attacks Freethinking Black Americans while President Trump Empowers Them
At the end of a recent interview on the very popular radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” Joe Biden said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you
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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America
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Covid-19: 250 million Africans at risk
The coronavirus could infect a quarter of a billion Africans and put intolerable pressure on the continent's fragile health system, a new report said Friday, as the pandemic's global death toll topped
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Djibouti, others warned about chloroquine despite big COVID-19 recoveries
Scientists are cautioning against the reliance on hydroxychloroquine in Djibouti‘s management of the coronavirus even though the small African country has seen improved
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COVID-19 layoffs in US nearly 39 million
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the US has swelled to nearly 39 million, the Government reported yesterday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and
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Three weeks after opening, Georgia business owners chart their own course forward | The Atlanta Voice
All eyes were on Georgia three weeks ago as the state became one of the first to allow some businesses to open their doors, welcoming customers back after weeks under a coronavirus
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Tennessee Software Exec Fired After Sharing Racist Obama Lynching Meme
Case in point, a Tennessee man is now out of a job after posting an offensive meme of Obama being lynched and suggesting that he’d attend a pay-per-view of said racist
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New poll reveals COVID-19’s impacts on African American communities
On Tuesday, May 19, the African American Research Collaborative in partnership with the NAACP and the Equity Research and Innovation Center at Yale School of Medicine presented new polling detailing the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African American
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Analysis | The playbook is familiar as first-time candidate with military record gives GOP a shot at House seat
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PRESS ROOM: The 18th U.S. Surgeon General and American Heart Association Board Member, Dr. Regina Benjamin joins National Newspaper Publishers Coronavirus Pandemic Task Force
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Congress Needs to Reboot Our Economy – Here’s How.
Beyond Depression Era unemployment rates, as stated above; following, is more evidence favoring a Demand Side, or Direct Consumer Tax
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King, Alveda (1951- )
Alveda King, a prominent conservative leader, evangelist, and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, as the first of five children of Alfred Daniel King and Naomi Barber King on January 22, 1951. Her father worked heavily in the civil rights movement and was a pastor
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