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Resistance to Racial Equity - California's Proposition 16 - The Seattle Medium
Many whites support racial equity, but not at their expense. Too many don’t even realize there is systemic racism in our society. Nor do they believe that past discrimination should be rectified. Biden’s plan for racial equity would close the unemployment rate gap between whites and Blacks
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Barr, Joyce A. (1951- )
Ambassador Joyce Anne Barr was born in 1951 in Tacoma, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University in 1976, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Ambassador Barr earned her Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard
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Lessons learnt during the quarantine - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, I’m a first year student, who has completed  ENG 1203 at the University of Guyana. The article Lessons learnt during the quarantine appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Diamond League back with a bang in Monaco - Stabroek News
LONDON, (Reuters) - After a frustrating summer of cancellations, exhibitions and virtual competitions, athletics is finally able to reveal its shop window as the Diamond League swings into belated action with a star-studded field in Monaco
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Restaurant Owners Use Social Media to Survive Covid-19 | Dallas Weekly
Back in March restaurants, dining rooms across the state were required to close to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.  Many restaurants closing their doors if they couldn’t offer takeout or delivery services and hoping it was only temporary. Then in May, restaurants were allowed to open but at
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Gender equality – Not a woman issue but a human issue
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2020: Priscilla Schwartz, a Sierra Leonean lawyer is the first woman to serve as Attorney General and Minister of Justice in Sierra Leone. Her appointment was greeted as a statement of intent by many - that Bio’s “New Direction” was serious about
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Netanyahu: 'New era' in Israel's relations with Arab world - Black News Channel
By JON GAMBRELL, MATTHEW LEE and JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the announcement that full diplomatic ties will be established with the United Arab Emirates has ushered in a 'new era' in Israel's relations with the
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House Leaders Demand Details on PPP Small-Business Loan Program
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Restaurants, bars and breweries scramble to reinvent themselves to get around Gov. Greg Abbott's bar shutdown | Dallas Weekly
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Hundreds of Texas bars and restaurants are scrambling to change how they operate, maneuvering through loopholes that will allow them to reopen after being closed by Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest
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Private prison industry backs Trump, prepares if Biden wins - Black News Channel
By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Executives at the nation's two largest private prison companies have been donating large sums to President Donald Trump and Republican candidates with an eye toward the November elections that one of the corporations believes will lead to a rebound
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Reed-Rowe, Helen (1949- )
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Talk of Harris successor sets off California guessing game - Black News Channel
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Former Rapper Loon Freed From Prison After Friends Lobbied Trump
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The Measure Of A President - The Seattle Medium
ailing the creation of a comprehensive or cogent national strategy to combat COVID-19, #45 has begun to ‘reinvent’ his belief that COVID-19 will miraculously “disappear.” Failing to set an example of behavior endorsed by medical science, he presents to the public without masking and ridicules those
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COVID-19 Defeats Donald J. Trump - The Seattle Medium
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Uber, Lyft threaten to stop operations in California over court ruling : TheGrio
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