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'It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle up, not the top-down.'-President Joe Biden In recent weeks the Biden administration has unveiled two major …

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Japan to lift Covid-19 emergency

Japan is poised to lift its nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus on Monday, gradually reopening the world's third-biggest economy after new cases slowed to

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Zimbabwe: Govt Seizes Returnees' Passports to Deter Escape From Quarantine

Zimbabwe is withholding travel documents for thousands of returning nationals, following reports that some have escaped from isolation

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As Job Losses Mount, Palmetto Project Reminds Consumers that Affordable Health Coverage is Still Available

Individuals who lose their job-based coverage qualify for a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) on the Health Insurance

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Yelp Officially Announces Its Partnership With Black Receipt To Help Spotlight Black-Owned Businesses

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Assembly member Jose Medina Calls for Councilman Chuck Condor’s Resignation

When Riverside City Council member Chuck Condor retweeted a meme showing three Black men–one a police officer, one dressed in a business suit, possibly meant to depict an attorney, and a young Black man, intimating visually the probability he was a criminal—there was little doubt regarding

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Stay Ready: DJ Khaled Wears Full Hazmat Suit To Dentist Appointment

Although he was stepping out, he made sure to let fans know that he’s very aware of the recently reported record high influx in COVID-19 cases in multiple states including Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and

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Source: The Urban Daily

NFL Teams ‘Interested’ In Signing Colin Kaepernick After Almost Four Years Away From Football

NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick is said to have several teams interested in signing him almost four years after the last time he stepped onto the

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Mexico City begins gradual reopening June 1

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities and the epicentre of the country's novel coronavirus epidemic, will begin a gradual reopening June 1, its mayor said yesterday, even as daily new infections continue to set

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FBI Shrugs At Noose In Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Garage, Says It Wasn’t New

The FBI released preliminary findings from its investigation into a noose found in the garage of NASCAR‘s highest-ranked Black driver, and it came across as the equivalent of a shrug of

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Somalia Sees "Massive" Rise in FGM During Lockdown and Ramadan

London — Plan International says crisis is undermining efforts to end the ancient practice in Somalia which has the world's highest FGM rate

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Nigeria: U.S. Condemns Killing of Civilians in Nigeria By Boko Haram, ISWAP

Abuja — The United States government Wednesday condemned what it described as the "brazen killings of civilians" by terrorist groups, Boko Haram and the Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the North-east as well as armed bandits in the North-west and North-central parts

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TV Stars Learn the Hard Way That Racism Doesn't Pay

The week started with the firing of actor Hartley Sawyer, who has been a regular cast member on the last few seasons of The CW superhero series The

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Barack Obama To Hold First Virtual Fundraiser For Joe Biden

The virtual event will take place on June 23 and is labeled by the Joe Biden campaign as a “virtual grassroots event” that will be the first time the two have appeared together since Obama endorsed Biden in

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Call to Defund the Police Gains Momentum in Oakland

Major cities like Los Angeles and New York City have taken steps to reduce the budgets of their police departments – and in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered last month, the City Council announced plans to completely dismantle the city’s police

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Archdiocese of Baltimore Archbishop urges more coronavirus testing for hard-hit Latino, African American areas

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore pastor who was recently named an auxiliary bishop for the Baltimore Archdiocese has appealed to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to increase free COVID-19 testing in the city to expand beyond his parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazon de

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Bearing Witness to Injustice: From Ron Settles to George Floyd, Nothing’s Changed

At the risk of appearing redundant, I want to mirror what others have said in response to the recent series of deaths involving one Black woman and two Black men in three separate incidents at the hands of police or vigilantes, as well as the hundreds of other Black men and women murdered under the

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Thousands Turn Out For Black Lives Matter Silent March

Thousands of people turned out Friday afternnon to Judkins Park in Seattle’s Central area for Black Lives Matter Seattle King County’s March of

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Lawmakers Call Out The Higher Risk To People Of Color As States Reopen

Democratic Reps. Karen Bass (Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) are joining the many activists and journalists of color drawing attention to how states reopening businesses too soon amid the coronavirus pandemic are likely placing workers of color at disproportionate

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Biden reinforces plan for Black America after ‘Breakfast Club’ backlash

Earlier this month, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, released his plan for Black America called, Lift Every

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Riverside County Watch-listed as COVID-19 Hospitalizations Spike

Today, as the number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 2.2 million nationally and the country’s death toll rapidly approaches 120,000, California is among the growing number of states contributing to these rising

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Georgia Marching Band Drops Song From 'Gone With The Wind' For 'Georgia On My Mind'

Georgia Marching Band Drops Song From 'Gone With The Wind' For 'Georgia On My

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Africa: Coronavirus Exposes 'Brutal Inequality' of Townships

The coronavirus is hitting South Africa's mainly black townships harder than areas that were once the exclusive preserve of white people, according to new data that highlights the lasting impact of apartheid-era housing

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More Lawmakers, Including Republicans, Support A Juneteenth National Holiday

“This legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday is but one step we can take to begin to right the wrongs of the past in order to ensure equal justice in the future,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass) said in a Friday

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Japan to lift Covid-19 emergency

Japan is poised to lift its nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus on Monday, gradually reopening the world's third-biggest economy after new cases slowed to

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Kenya: Herb Farmers Crushed By Virus Blow to Exports

Mutuma, the managing director of herb exporter Jambofresh Kenya, has reaped the benefits of a thriving horticultural sector that has become a major driver of Kenya's export

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Kenya: Union Mobilises Journalists for Support to Colleagues Affected By the COVID-19 Crisis

In recent weeks, nearly all media houses in Kenya have either applied pay cuts or suspended certain work benefits temporarily, leaving dozens of journalists jobless or with a substantial financial

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Africa's Chief COVID-19 Fighter Encouraged By the Flattening of the Speed At Which the Virus Is Spreading

Director of the Africa Centre for Disease Control, Dr John Nkengasong, says while numbers have not increased significantly, Africa's strategy is still to massively ramp up testing, tracking and

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Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

“PTSD affects individuals in many different ways,” said Dr. Juan-Carlos Zuberbuhler, a psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente Southern

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Keke Palmer Pleads With Members Of National Guard In Viral Video

Keke Palmer Emotionally Pleads With National Guardsmen To ‘March Beside via @keke/Instagram

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Black Lives Matter Network Establishes $12M Grant Fund

NEW YORK (AP) — The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has established a fund worth more than $12 million to aid organizations fighting institutional racism, in the wake of the George Floyd

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