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Southeast Homeowners Displaced As Homes Crumble After New Developments - The Washington Informer
Southeast D.C. homeowners are displaced after developers allegedly built illegally or improperly. The post Southeast Homeowners Displaced As Homes Crumble After New Developments appeared first on The Washington Informer.
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DOJ will not reopen investigation into Tamir Rice's death
The Department of Justice has announced that officials will not reopen the case of Tamir Rice, the Black boy who The post DOJ will not reopen investigation into Tamir Rice's death appeared first on TheGrio.
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Why Poll Claiming Most Americans Don’t Want Biden Nominating A Black Woman To SCOTUS Is So Flawed
The recent poll about President Biden nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court lacks context and proper framing of equity and justice.
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Africa: Stalled 'Build Back Better' Package Threatens U.S. Climate Influence
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Washington DC -- President Biden's $2 trillion climate and social spending package is struggling to advance, potentially hurting policy action abroad and at home
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‘Gangsta Grandma’ Uses Lived Experience To Rehabilitate Lovingly - The New York Beacon
As “Gangsta Grandma,”Evelyn Wilsonnurturestroubledmen and women in a way that not many are capable of doing. A Harlem, New York, native, Wilson says she became addicted to alcohol and cocaine following the deaths of both her parents before her 13th birthday. Now 80, Wilson is
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Black History Month Opens with More than a Dozen Bomb Threats at HBCUs
The threats, the second such in two days, arrived on the first day of Black History Month. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats on Tuesday, February 1. The threats, the second such in two days, arrived on the first day
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Nellie Stone Johnson: Pioneer Civil Rights Activist and Union Organizer in Minneapolis
Nellie Stone Johnson was an African American union and civil rights leader whose career spanned the class-conscious politics of the 1930s and the liberal reforms of the Minnesota DFL Party. She was the first African-American elected official in Minneapolis and shaped Minnesota politics for 70
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Kisumu yearns for peace as election chaos survivors search for justice
The chaos witnessed in Kisumu again in 2017 was a stark reminder that the ogre of violence had not been slain.
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Jury Selection Starts In Lone Trial Over Breonna Taylor Raid
The only criminal trial to arise from the botched police raid that left Breonna Taylor dead began on Friday, as hundreds of potential jurors gathered at a Kentucky courthouse in what activists see as a chance for some measure of justice. Individual questioning of jurors is scheduled to start next
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Toni Morrison's only short story is available in book form for the first time
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'Situation under control' in Guinea-Bissau, President Embalo says | Africanews
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Minority Women Most Affected If Abortion Is Banned, Limited
If the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, Black and Hispanic women will bear the brunt of it according to new statistics analyzed.
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Convicted Murderer Jason Van Dyke Scheduled to be Released | Chicago Defender
After serving less than half of his 6 ½ year sentence, convicted murderer, James Van Dyke will go free on February 3rd. The former Chicago Police Officer was convicted in 2018 of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery-one count for each bullet that penetrated 17-year-old, Laquan
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DOJ: Paternity and Child Support STT Facility closed today due to A/C Challenges
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INTERVIEW: How we took Ebeano Supermarket to Canada
"There is a very big difference between the way they do business in Canada and the way it is done in Nigeria. That difference is 'passion'. Nigerians do business with passion." The post INTERVIEW: How we took Ebeano Supermarket to Canada appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
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Mwangi Wa Iria keeps his cards close to chest in bid for top job
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Nigeria: Forget It, No Government Can Remove Fuel Subsidy in Nigeria
[Premium Times] And this is simply because the chicken has come home to roost, not because it is desirable to subsidize a product that needn't be subsidised Well, some people may argue that because Nigeria is a crude oil producing nation then it is good to expect the citizens not to pay what other
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HBCUs Across The Country Shut Down Amid Bomb Threats On Day 1 Of Black History Month
HBCUs across the United States are being shut down or delaying classes amid bomb threats received on the first day of Black History Month. This comes after a half dozen HBCUs received threats the day prior as well. But come the morning of February 1, at least twelve new schools were added to the
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Kisumu estates acquired their names from heroes, events and pioneers
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Tanzania: 'Use Tma Weather Updates to Make Economic Activities Profitable'
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TTUTA: Teachers have died from covid19 - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) President Antonia De Freitas said the association has information that teachers have died as a result of contracting covid19 while on duty. Speaking on I95.5's morning show on Monday, De Freitas said TTUTA has been keeping tabs on the number of cases in
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Bunkering: Civil defence replaces top officers in Rivers after Wike’s accusation
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Health Department Confirms 100th and 101st Deaths From COVID-19 In The Territory
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Virgin Islands Department of Health confirmed the territory’s 100th and 101st deaths related to COVID-19. The deceased are a 68-year-old male on St. Croix and a 74-year-old male on St. Thomas, according to Health. 'We have reached a grim milestone in our battle against the
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Nigeria: Be Ready to Make Peace - Kanu Tells IPOB Supporters
[Vanguard] The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the members of IPOB, to avail themselves in the ongoing peacemaking process.
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Reservists and National Guardsmen need H.R. 1836, why some fight it - The Chicago Crusader
On January 12, 2022, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1836, the Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act of 2021, and it is now received by the Senate. It […] The post Reservists and National Guardsmen need H.R. 1836, why some fight it appeared first on The Chicago Crusader.
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Bomb threats made to Historically Black schools across US - The Atlanta Voice
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them locking down their campuses for a time. Both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and E
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Voting Rights for African Americans:A look back – Our Time Press
A terrible and bloody Civil War freed enslaved Americans. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted African Americans the rights of citizenship. However, this did not always translate into the ability to vote. Black voters were systematically turned away from state polling
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Senate moves to establish N500bn Solid Minerals Development Bank
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Practicals, essays and no multiple choice questions in first CBC tests
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