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Source: The Birmingham Times

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Stewart Trial Attorneys based in Atlanta — one of the most respected African American law firms in the country — is now handling the Ahmaud Arbery

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North Charleston native on her way to dream career as surgeon

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Celebrating Malcolm X, a warrior and master teacher –

No one whom I have ever met more clearly understood the realness of that observation than Brother Malcolm X, who himself once noted “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it

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Embracing the new normal of COVID-19 | The Mississippi Link

Now is the time for community-wide education and training programs that promote practices each of us must adopt to slow the spread of coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and related

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Trump’s photo-op with a Bible is contemptuous

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte and Senator Brian A. Benjamin reintroduce Bill to end racial profiling | New York Carib News

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte and state Senator Brian A. Benjamin have reintroduced

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Cabbies steering through rough COVID-19 road

These qualities, she told The Sunday Gleaner, are key ingredients behind her successful enterprise even as many of her male colleagues plying the Waterford to Portmore Mall route in St Catherine are haemorrhaging from a drastic decline in passengers since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped

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Wake Up And Stay Woke: Looking For Answers?

There’re some who’ve used this time to do positive things that carry with them hope and good feelings about what they’ve been able to do for themselves and for

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No Menthol Sunday Goes Virtual for 2020

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Is this a Christian nation?

That had to have been the case as the South developed a civic religion to justify its racism, and Walter Wink has suggested, rightly so, that there are words of Jesus that some to many Christians are just not going to abide

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Jim Austin Online Announces Juneteenth Live Streaming Music Festival Benefiting The United Way Of Tarrant County COVID-19 Relief Efforts

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Black Elementary & High School Education

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Sylvia del Villard: Afro-Puerto Rican Activist, Dancer, & Actress | Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños

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Hip-Hop Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Granted Early Release From Prison

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Tourists land in Tanzania as hotels, firms and schools resume

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Florida and Kentucky are slowest states in handling jobless claims –

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Just A Band wins Pitch Prize at Hot Docs Forum

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A storm in the midst of a storm –

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