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History & Hope: Lawyer during civil rights movement sees improvement in fight for Black rights - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… OF THE PEOPLE WERE NOT AFRICAN-AMERICAN. THERE WERE DEMONSTRATIONS AROUND THE … of the people were not African Americans. There were demonstrations around the … of the people were not African Americans. There were demonstrations around the …
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Ray McGuire Announces Plans For Education
New York City mayoral candidate Ray McGuire announced a plan to expand the city's gifted and talented program to those who lack digital access and pre-K
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Mercia Bowser, 64, Sister of D.C. Mayor, Dies from COVID-19 Complications - The Washington Informer
Mercia Bowser, the older and only sister of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, died Wednesday morning of coronavirus-related complications, the mayor announced in a statement. She was
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New York not to indict police involving Daniel Prude's death in early 2020 - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A grand jury voted not to indict any police officer on charges related to the death of African American man Daniel Prude in March
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DOJ clarifies reports on Bathabile Dlamini’s ‘blocked’ pension
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said it was the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) which ordered that Bathabile Dlamini’s pension be blocked
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Tiger Woods had a rod inserted in his leg during emergency surgery | The Atlanta Voice
Golf legend Tiger Woods' lengthy emergency surgery following his one-vehicle rollover crash required the insertion of a rod, screws and pins to stabilize his leg, according to a statement on his Twitter account. Woods was 'awake, responsive, and recovering,' after the surgery at the Harbor-UCLA
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On This Day: What happened on 23 February?
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
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Golden Globes confirms it has no Black voters, and this may help explain the major Black Hollywood snubs - Face2Face Africa
This year’s Hollywood Foreign Press Association’sGolden Globeannouncements sent shockwaves through Black Hollywood. Many movies like Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods”, which received praise largely due to the role of Chadwick Boseman, andZendayaand John David Washington’s “Malcolm &Marie”, which was shot
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AU Commission has made a good start on gender equality
BY ASHWANEE BUDOO-SCHOLTZ THE African Union (AU) held the 38th ordinary session of its executive council at the beginning of this month. One of the agenda items was to elect six new members of the AU Commission. The Commission is the AU’s secretariat, which carries out its day-to-day
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President Biden taps Meharry Medical College president for COVID Task Force | The Atlanta Voice
Meharry Medical College President and CEO Dr. James Hildreth has been named by President Joe Biden as a member of his COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. Dr. Hildreth, the renowned immunologist and academic administrator and Meharry’s 12th president, sat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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This Day in History — February 24
Today is the 55th day of 2021. There are 310 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2008: Raul Castro replaces brother Fidel as Cuba's president.�OTHER EVENTS1525: Spanish army, using muskets for first time in war, routs French and Swiss forces at Pavia, Italy, as 14,000 men are slain in battle.
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President Biden Taps Meharry Medical College President for COVID Task Force
“COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, and if adequate steps are not taken, this number will continue to grow. As we have seen, COVID-19 does not discriminate, it does not respect borders, and it does not behave according to our timelines,” said Dr. James Hildreth.
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Kenyans Headed for Referendum as BBI Bill Passes County Assemblies' Threshold
[Nairobi News] Kenya will head to a referendum as early as June this year after the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Tuesday reached the 24-county constitutional threshold required to secure a plebiscite to amend the Constitution.
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SEXY IS TIMELESS With Luisa Diaz - Laughter! Watch "Sexy Is Timeless Talks" Wednesdays On Facebook! - DivaGalsDaily
Hey Divas! Luisa Diaz, the former Ms. Venezuela International and the current Mrs. New York International is the author of Sexy Is Timeless: Ten Timeless Sexy Assets That Lie within You. With ultimate style and grace, she shares the importance
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BREAKING NEWS: ‘Jaws of Life’ Used to Extract Tiger Woods from Mangled Vehicle in Los Angeles
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “On Feb. 23, 2021, at approximately 7:12 AM, LASD responded to a single-vehicle roll-over traffic collision on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes,” Los Angeles County officials wrote in a statement first provided to the website TMZ.com
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WATCH: What You Need To Know — February 24, 2021: Security Leaders Under Fire — Tiger Woods Injured — Relief Funds for Minority-Owned Businesses
1. Former Capitol Hill Security Leaders Under Fire   What You Need To Know: For the first time since the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, former security officials put a spotlight on intelligence failures. 2. Tiger Woods Injured In Car Crash What You Need To Know: Golf legend Tiger Woods is
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Maxine Waters Praises Megan Thee Stallion’s Hit ‘WAP’
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VIDEO: Car Thief Gunned Down As He Tried To Ram Cops In The US | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
CALIFORNIA, USA — The US cops shot a suspect attempting to run them over in a stolen car after leading them on a high-speed chase on Oct. 8, 2020. The incident took place on Van Buren Boulevard in the city of Riverside in the US state of California. Riverside Police Officers received a call from
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Public warned off Cape Town shipwreck after three rescue missions in the past month | News24
The NSRI has urged the public to avoid the site of the Bos 400 shipwreck in Hout Bay, Cape Town, after three rescue missions at the site in the past month.
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CORNWALL CRISIS - Patients on oxygen clutter corridors as Gov’t launches COVID recruitment drive
WESTERN BUREAU: Patients are now forced to sit out their stay in the corridors at Cornwall Regional Hospital receiving oxygen – stark imagery of the scale of Jamaica’s coronavirus crisis which is choking public healthcare facilities. “We are in a...
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Louisiana Officer Caught On Video Pinning 13-Year-Old Boy To Ground, Placing Arm Around His Neck - Blavity News
An investigation is underway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after an officer pinned a 13-year-old boy to the ground with his arm under the child's neck.
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Daniel Prude Death: New York Attorney General Letitia James Releases Statement On Grand Jury Decision
Officers involved in his death won’t face charges.
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'Orchestrated By the Government': Ex-NYPD Officer Admits In 'Deathbed' Confession That NYPD And FBI Were Involved In Malcolm X's Death
The family of Malcom X has made public a letter attributed to a now-deceased former New York Police Department officer in which the ex-cop claimed […]
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Black Abolitionists: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner an Advocate of Education
By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, an advocate of education, had established the nation’s first school for freedmen in the United States Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. and later managed freedman’s schools in Frederick County, Maryland. The editor of the
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Tiger Woods seriously injured in crash on steep LA-area road - Black News Channel
By STEFANIE DAZIO and DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods was in the driver's seat of a mangled SUV that rolled and ended up on its side down a steep roadway in the Los Angeles suburbs Tuesday morning, seatbelt still fastened, both legs seriously injured. He was lucid
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Letitia James Urges ‘Serious Reform’ After Grand Jury Declines To Charge Cops In Daniel Prude Case
A grand jury voted against indicting the officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died last March after officers pinned him to the ground in the midst of what was undoubtedly a mental health crisis.
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No Charges Against Officers Involved In Daniel Prude’s Death
State Attorney General Letitia James, whose office took over the prosecution and impaneled a grand jury, said “the criminal justice system is badly in need of reform.”
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