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Flow launches $60-m digital education, entrepreneurship programme
THE Flow Foundation yesterday launched a $60-million pilot programme focused on digital learning and supporting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).The announcement was made by the foundation's chairman, Stephen Price, in a livestream on Flow Jamaica's social media platforms.
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Conservatives Are Questioning Kamala Harris' Biracial Heritage
Many conservative critics are coming forward to debate that Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, would, in fact, be the first African American VP pick.
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The National Urban League’s new headquarters will be in Harlem – Florida Courier
“Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness.” – Actor and activist Ossie Davis In 1904, a few years before
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COVID-19 Death Rate For Black Americans Twice That For Whites, New Report Says - African American News Today - EIN News
Black Americans are becoming infected with the coronavirus at a rate three times higher than whites and they are twice as likely to die from COVID-19,
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Brandy says this is who 'Moesha' would be today in a reboot - TheGrio
Brandy Norwood is best known as one of the top-selling R&B artists of her time, but it was her talent... View Article The post Brandy says this is who 'Moesha' would be today in a reboot appeared first on TheGrio.
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Americans Must Defend the Postal Service Like Our Democracy Depends on It - African American News Today - EIN News
President Trump is openly trying to starve the Postal Service of funding so as to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Meanwhile, his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has implemented reforms that are slowing mail delivery.
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African Forest Plunder Condemns Chimpanzees to Miserable Lives in Zoos
[Daily Maverick] Chimpanzees are our nearest genetic relatives on the tree of life. At this rate, eaten or forced to entertain zoo visitors or wealthy sheikhs, they're heading for extinction. CITES seems unable to stop the slide and African governments don't appear to consider it a problem.
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'One of us': South Asians celebrate Harris as VP choice
CHICAGO, United States (AP) - Two words summed up Tamani Jayasinghe's exuberance for the first Indian American and black woman to run for vice-president: 'Kamala Aunty'.That title of respect that goes beyond family in Asian circles immediately came to mind when Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as
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Positive Trend Shows More African American Players On MLB Rosters
… also resounding. More African American players were on MLB … the greatest advertisement” for African American baseball players. The 2019 … and Vanderbilt had seven African American players on each team … of bringing baseball into African American communities is “a …
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When the church starts to talk, listen!
editorial comment THE Catholic church, under the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference banner, has spoken, and this is now the time for Zanu PF to listen. Zanu PF has been branding everyone who points at the regime’s glaring human rights abuses as terrorists and evil-plotters. The bishops were
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This University President Knows Why America Can’t Afford to Neglect HBCUs
… the country. One in five Black American college graduates received their bachelor … means of social mobility for Black Americans. As a biochemist and immunologist … mobility and mortality in the African American population during the current crises …
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Western Cape peak has passed, so what now? Province pinpoints possible stressors | News24
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Uganda: Exports Rebound After Three Months of Decline
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‘I Want A President Who Makes Me Feel Secure’ – The Black Chronicle
Former Love & Hip Hop cast member and current rapper Cardi B is fully behind former Vice President Joe Biden for president. The artist formerly known as Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar,…
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Kamala Harris forces us to look beyond Black and White - African American News Today - EIN News
… Harris was not just a Black American but that her father … s father was not a Black American, he had a White … be recognize as a classic African American experience, even if that … sorority. And what about those African Americans who question her allegiance? She …
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Obama Slams Trump Over USPS: He Prefers ‘Suppressing The Vote,’ Not ‘The Virus’
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It's Sarkodie, virtually of course - Voice Online
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'It's a Struggle They Will Wage Alone.' How Black Women Earned the Right to Vote
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Africa: Covid-19 Deaths Across Continent Approach 25,000
[allAfrica] As of August 13, the confirmed Covid-19 case total from 55 African countries has reached 1,074,475.
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Child malaria spikes in Sierra Leone as parents fear coronavirus | Africanews
Doctors in a rural Sierra Leone hospital may be accustomed to treating severely ill infants, but they recently admitted one of the worst cases they had ever
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Florida sheriff race hinges on massacre, old shooting - Black News Channel
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The two shootings dominating the Democratic primary for sheriff in Broward County, Florida, couldn't be more different. The 2018 massacre that pushed former sheriff and current challenger Scott Israel out of office left 14 students and
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Dingell Makes Case For Biden’s Ability To Address Pandemic And Michigan’s Economy | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
Two days after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) used an Aug. 13 press call to place attention back … Continued
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Mutare businessman praises Mnangagwa, Tagwirei
BY KENNETH NYANGANI THE country’s business sector has a key role to play in resuscitating the country’s economy if it is working with the government, a local businessman has said. Danmore Mambondiyani, director and co-founder of Liquid Cargo Africa, an black indigenous petroleum company, yesterday
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WAP and Women’s Sexuality: What’s The Big Deal? | Entertainment | The Michigan Chronicle
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Georgia Republican Who Endorsed QAnon, 9/11 Trutherism Says She’s Dropped QAnon
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Virus flareups in Europe lead to club closings, mask orders - Black News Channel
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Commander of the Order of the Star of Honour of Ethiopia and advisor to the Ethiopian Crown Council Dr Michael Barnett is in support of people who are not Rastafarians sporting locks.
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