Professional Athletes Take a Stand

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Professional Athletes Take a Stand

What You Need To Know: For the second day, the NBA canceled the playoff games scheduled to take place Thursday. Milwaukee Bucks players, protesting the latest police shooting of a Black man, in a neighboring Wisconsin town, announced they would not play Wednesday's game against Orlando. As videos began to surface after the Sunday […]

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Judge Deals Setback to Key Trump Policy Limiting Asylum - Black News Channel

By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press/ BNC Contributor SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has knocked down a cornerstone border policy of the Trump administration that denies asylum to people who travel through other countries to reach the U.S.-Mexico border without first seeking protection in those

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The NFL plans to play Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing before the first games of the 2020 season according to sources for ESPN's The Undefeated. The Black national anthem will be played before the The Star-Spangled Banner at the first game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans as well as

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