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NOMINATIONS are now being accepted for the Prime Minister's National Youth Awards for Excellence. They will be closed on September 11. Chair of the selection committee, Rhys Campbell, told JIS News that the annual event is open to all Jamaican nationals between 15 and 29 years of age who are
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Airbnb announces global ban on house parties, events - TheGrio
Airbnb announced new terms to their listings banning parties and events as well as a new occupant capacity. Read More:... View Article The post Airbnb announces global ban on house parties, events appeared first on TheGrio.
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Can Biden Offer Reparations in Exchange For That 1994 Crime Bill? - African American News Today - EIN News
… bolstered the mass incarceration of Black Americans that should be removed and … structural injustice that has targeted Black Americans for generations. For example, The … that have targeted and traumatized Black Americans, but we can formalize a …
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Reward offered for cold-case killings - L.A. Focus Newspaper
The father of an 18-year-old trainee plumber who was shot to death early last year on a busy street in a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood made an emotional plea for his son's killers to be caught. Ronnell Kelly fought back tears as he talked about his murdered son, Michael, during an Aug. 19
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How To Banish Dry Hair in 2020 | PensacolaVoice Magazine 2020
With hair comes problems – we all have our little hang-ups. Perhaps your hair gets greasy easily, perhaps you’re struggling to love your natural hair, but one of the big problems we all suffer with is getting dry hair. All Things Hair knows how dry hair can really get you Read More
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JLP attracts youth as PNP support rests with elders
There is a marked difference in the demographic profile of persons who say they would vote for either the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) or the People’s National Party (PNP) in the general election in two weeks as the latest RJRGLEANER-Don Anderson...
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Small Irish Pubs Face Extinction Under Lockdown Extensions - L.A. Focus Newspaper
Ireland's government won't be reopening the country as planned, and many small pub owners say the delay will cost them their businesses. While non-essential retail shops have been trading for weeks, small pubs are still closed due to coronavirus restrictions. More than 3,500 pubs - almost half of
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Sandals says its safety protocols 'a tremendous success to date'
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The L.A. Zoo’s Animal Residents Are Actually Thriving - African American News Today - EIN News
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One death, 98 new COVID cases
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported that a 74-year-old man tested positive for COVID-19 has died pushing the tally to 15 deaths. Meanwhile, there have been 98 new COVID cases. This is the highest number of new cases in one...
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Tony Hart dies, praised for transforming MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: The late business mogul Anthony Hart, whose pioneering development transformed Montego Bay into a premier commercial hub, has been praised as “a dreamer and a visionary Jamaican”. Hart, 87, died at hospital on Thursday after ailing...
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MALI COUP: ECOWAS calls for restoration of Keita | Africanews
West African leaders under the regional bloc ECOWAS have said they would dispatch envoys to Mali to help secure "the return of constitutional order".  In a video conference on Thursday, they called for the ousted Malian president to be restored to
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To narrow racial and economic disparities, Atlanta Fed chief Raphael Bostic is rethinking what the Fed’s mandate means - African American News Today - EIN News
… noted that “job losses of African Americans, Hispanics, and women have been … remains with the assumption that African Americans are inferior until proven otherwise …
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Producer releases humour-filled sitcom
BY SHARON SIBINDI BULAWAYO film producer Kudzai Chikomo has released a rib-cracking sitcom series, Bazukuru, aimed at promoting the family unit as a key support system and a foundation for a healthy society. Bazukuru is made of two words — Bazukulu (Ndebele) and Vazukuru (Shona) — which means
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WATCH: Cory Booker’s full speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention - Los Angeles Sentinel
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker addressed Democrats on Aug. 20 during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. The coronavirus pandemic upended both parties’ traditional conventions. Instead of in-person events, the program each night features a number of speakers and musical performances
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Carlton Morton Cautiously Open To Dating Again, Says Love Is Blind Made Him “Fearful Of Believing Someone Would Love Me For Me”
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Destination Kansas – Fort Scott National Historic Site - African American News Today - EIN News
FORT SCOTT, Kan. (KSNW) — In the heart of Bourbon County, in southeast Kansas, there’s a town of only about 8,000 residents. But the land it sits on has great significance to American history, dating back more than 170 years, 19 years before Kansas was even a state. Tucked between Kansas City and
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In moving speech, boy says Biden helped him overcome stutter - Black News Channel
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even in a week filled with emotional endorsements of Joe Biden, Brayden Harrington's stands out. The 13-year-old boy sat in his home, speaking to a cellphone camera and reading, carefully, from a piece of paper. He looked up and told the world how
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way virtually all high-school upperclassmen are approaching the quest of applying for college. Indeed, the days of college fairs and in-school recruiter visits are at least temporarily a thing of the past, due to social distancing and the closure of many
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Harris Seizes Historic Moment in Accepting VP Nomination
Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, cementing her place in history as the first Black woman on a major party ticket and promising she and Joe Biden will rejuvenate a country ravaged by a pandemic and riven by
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Keisha Lance Bottoms Quotes Poet Audre Lourde At DNC: ‘Your Silence Will Not Protect You’
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It’s A Dog’s Life for Animals During Lockdown  - L.A. Focus Newspaper
The coronavirus pandemic has been torture for animals in India - they have been abandoned, ill-treated and neglected. Animal activists are stepping in to help. 'People have always abandoned animals with little legal consequence,' said Mohana Dutt, an independent rescuer in Karjat, a small city east
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Two thousand five hundred children, served by six non-governmental organisations, have received care packages from quick service food giant KFC Jamaica over three days, through its Add Hope community outreach and feeding programme. The 2,500 care...
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The day after Kamala Harris was named Joe Biden’s pick as his running mate in the 2020 election, Ankit Jain of Washington, D.C., awoke to an email from his South Asian American family members titled…
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