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A motorbike taxi rider in Uganda has died in a police station after setting himself on fire over the police refusal to release his motorbike to him. According to other riders, Hussein Walugembe refused to pay a bribe of $40 to get his bike released and out of frustration locked himself in one of
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4th of July - Black America Tribute Video - The Atlanta Inquirer
Fourth of July tribute video Block Starz Music Television put together to celebrate the Black experience in America. The video contains clips and music from our upcoming documentary Black Seeds: The History of Africans in America. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/j5IYH2S88nc
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It’s #BlackoutDay2020, Here Is What You Need Know About The Economic Call To Action
Tuesday (Jul.7) marks the arrival of Blackout Day 2020. The economic protest started by Calvin Martyr and is a call to action urging Black people across the country to not spend their money except with Black-owned businesses only.
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Halle Berry Apologizes For Considering Role As A Transgender Man In A Upcoming Film
The Acadamy Award-winning actress revealed during an Instagram Live interview with hairstylist Christin Brown that she was potentially going to take on the role of a transgender man in an upcoming movie role. She was immediately met with criticism and swift backlash from the transgender community
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ICE: International students must leave U. S. if classes are online only : TheGrio
On Monday, the Student Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced modifications that will remove international students from the country, if their... View Article The post ICE: International students must leave U.S. if classes are online only appeared first on TheGrio.
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Africa Starts Opening Airspace Even As COVID-19 Cases Climb | Afro
By CARA ANNA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived. Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200
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$1.2 million bail for driver that hit 2 Seattle protesters - Black News Channel
By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A judge on Monday set a $1.2 million bail for the man accused of driving a Jaguar on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting two protesters, killing one and seriously injuring the other. Dawit Kelete, who is Black, drove the car around vehicles
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Americans can’t travel to Europe because of Covid-19. I’m glad | Tamara Winter - The New York Beacon
Last week, the European Union released a highly anticipated list: countries whose Covid-19 levels are low enough for their travelers to enter Europe now that borders have reopened to non-essential travel. The US is not on it. Given therising numbers of casesbeing reported around
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Migrant women deliberately left out of UK abuse bill, say campaigners - The New York Beacon
Domestic abuse campaigners and victims have accused the government of not valuing the lives of migrant women in forthcoming legislation on the issue. They are urging the government to make “life-saving” changes to thedomestic abuse bill, which will be debated for its final stage
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D. C. Grandfather Criticizes Black Lives Matter Movement After Shooting
The grandfather of an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed on the Fourth of July in Washington, D.C., criticized the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Mahomes Big Bet on Football Pays Off with $503 million deal - Black News Channel
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer/BNC Contributor Patrick Mahomes risked everything when he opted for football over baseball.Turns out, he got baseball money anyway. One day after the former two-sport star got a 10-year deal worth up to $503 million, the richest contract in American sports
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Fresh Zanu PF purge targets ED loyalists
FRESH fissures are emerging in the ruling Zanu PF party with cadres seen as loyal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa under the Team Lacoste banner facing purges amid reports of a plot to reform the party’s base structures by remnants of the rival G40 camp. BY BRENNA MATENDERE/GARIKAI MAFIRAKUREVA On
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Black Man Says He Was Standing His Ground When He Killed Alleged Racist White Teen - Black Enterprise
Defense attorneys say William Marcus Wilson was standing his ground when he fatally shot a white teenage girl who allegedly tried to run him off the road.
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GOP worries Trumps divisive June imperils Senate control - Black News Channel
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trumps June began with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators. It never got less jarring or divisive. By months end, he was downplaying a coronavirus
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‘Plight of Zim workers set to worsen’
THE United States Agency for International Development food security arm, FEWS NET has warned that the plight of workers in Zimbabwe will worsen as a result of poor incomes. BY TATIRA ZWINOIRA The report came at a time the economic crisis, characterised by a debilitating liquidity crunch, acute
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National Guard Deployed To Atlanta After 31 People Shot Over Weekend
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency on Monday, authorizing the deployment of 1,000 National Guard troops to Atlanta.
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Breonna Taylors family claims no aid was offered after she was fatally shot - TheGrio
Breonna Taylor’s family is not only holding the Louisville police responsible for her death but they are now alleging that... View Article The post Breonna Taylors family claims no aid was offered after she was fatally shot appeared first on TheGrio.
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Armed Black Militia Group Marches Through Georgia Confederate Park on July 4 - Black Enterprise
An armed Black militia group marched through Stone Mountain Park in Georgia insisting on the removal of a Confederate monument.
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Protective gear for medical workers begins to run low again - Black News Channel
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients
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David N. Maine, MD Becomes President & CEO Of Mercy Health Services | Afro
(Baltimore, MD – July 6th, 2020) – David N. Maine, M.D. is the new President CEO of Mercy Health Services (MHS), effective July 1st, 2020. In January 2020, the Mercy Health Services Board of Trustees named Dr. Maine as Mercy’s future President CEO following Thomas R. Mullen’s decision to retire
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Governmental Task Team briefs SAPS on truck driver protest response
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HHW Gaming: EVO Online Canceled Following Sexual Assualt Allegations Against Former President Joey Cuellar
Back in May, EVO made the decision to take its international fighting game tournaments online due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a stunning move, the highly-anticipated event has been canceled following sexual abuse allegations levied against now-former EVO president Joey Cuellar.
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13 protesting nurses arrested
BY MOSES MATENGA/DARLINGTON MWASHITA/PHYLLIS MBANJE ARMED police yesterday stormed Sally Mugabe Hospital in Harare and arrested 13 nurses for allegedly planning to protest over poor remuneration. NewsDay arrived at the hospital and witnessed the nurses being bundled into a police truck before they
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Big time recruit Makur Maker makes statement with Howard University Basketball.
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Trump: schools MUST reopen in the fall | The Atlanta Voice
President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for political reasons against the will of families. “We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want
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By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press/BNC Contributor LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police called off a warrant search of Breonna Taylors apartment after a drug suspect was located elsewhere, but then went ahead with the deadly raid to look for other suspects with no connection to Taylor, her family
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, according to an announcement she posted on Twitter late Monday. “COVID-19 has literally hit home,” the mayor wrote at 5:45 p.m. “I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.” The day before Bottoms made the
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AP/ BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Monday that she had tested positive for COVID-19. COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive, Bottoms, a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate, tweeted. COVID-19 has
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