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Opinion: No One is Immune to Online Manipulation. It’s Time we Take it Seriously | Post News Group
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Mahomes is top money man in American sports – and deserves every penny | New Pittsburgh Courier
by Alvin Reid, St. Louis American The once-in-a-lifetime quarterback just signed a once-in-a-lifetime contract. Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs signal caller who won an MVP Award, a Super Bowl and Super Bowl MVP honors before the age of 25, is now the highest paid athlete in American
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Nigeria: Dj Cuppy to Host Apple Music's First African Radio Show
Apple Music, the world second largest audio streaming provider has named the musician daughter of billionaire, Femi Otedola, Florence Otedola, who is popularly known by her stage name, DJ Cuppy, as the host of its first radio show in
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Up To 3,000 Churches Plan to Reopen on Pentecost In Defiance of Governor’s Shutdown Orders
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Nelson, Charles Joseph (1921-2011)
Ambassador Charles Joseph Nelson was born in 1921 and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan.  He was a 1942 graduate of Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania where his field of study was Public Administration and Political Science. Upon graduation, Nelson was drafted into the
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African American Attitudes About The Police Over Time
Roughly 50 years ago, in a 1969 question asked by Louis Harris, 76% of blacks said blacks face discrimination in the way they are treated by the police, while 19% of whites gave that
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Human Rights Watch Calls For Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations A Century After Violence | The Oklahoma Eagle
Human Rights Watch argued that beyond the physical destruction, the state and city government created polices of structural racism that kept black people in Tulsa from
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‘Morale Is Low’: Cops Wallow In Self-Pity As The Country Demands Better Policing That’s Not Racist
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Pastor Darrell Scott: Trump is the 'most pro-Black president in my lifetime'
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Trump To Sign Sweeping Order To Expedite Energy, Infrastructure Projects
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Let’s Not Forget to “Reopen” Our Children - Houston Forward Times
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Beverly Johnson's Publicist Describes How Anna Wintour Mistreated The Legendary Model
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Face recognition system: Black American claims wrongful arrest - African American News Today - EIN News
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Parren James Mitchell was a civil rights activist, the first African American elected to Congress from the South since 1898, and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.  Born in 1922, Mitchell grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended public schools there.  His father was a waiter
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Grammy Award-Winning Singer / Songwriter NE-YO Releases New Single "She Knows" Featuring Juicy J
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Miami Officer Charged For Tasing, Kneeling On Black Womans Neck Outside Miami Club
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Cops Are ‘Shaking Their Heads’ At Biden As Military Leaders Distance Themselves From Trump
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City of Cleveland to Pay $18 Million to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and Kwame Ajamu for Decades of Wrongful Imprisonment
Earlier this month, the city of Cleveland agreed to pay a combined $18 million to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and his brother Kwame Ajamu, three men who spent decades in prison for a 1975 killing they did not commit, according to
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