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So if you take the countries, United States, Spain, the UK, France, China — these are the countries that are the largest tourism destinations in the world, and these are also the countries that have had the highest rates of
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Georgia wants federal investigation into killing of runner Ahmaud Arbery
Georgia’s attorney general has asked the US Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say died at the hands of two white men as he ran through
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Obama Emerges As Central Figure In 2020 Presidential Race
In recent days, Trump and his allies have aggressively pushed conspiracy theories about Obama designed to fire up the president’s conservative base, taint Biden by association and distract from the glut of grim health and economic news from the coronavirus
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Libya: Conflict and the COVID-19 Pandemic Present a Significant Threat to Life in Libya
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Jubilee wants Murkomen case out
The Jubilee party has told the High Court that it has no jurisdiction to hear and determine a case filed by ousted Senate Majority Leader Kipchumba Murkomen and Majority Whip Susan Kihika opposing their removal from the Jubilee Party Senate leadership last
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Newswire: Obama jabs U.S. response to coronavirus in commencement address
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic during a commencement address to college graduates, saying some leaders “aren’t even pretending to be in
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Burundi: Grenade Attack Sparks Fears Over Polls
The explosion came in the same week that 90 people were arrested in connection with skirmishes during campaigns, with the government insisting that any East African Community (EAC) election observers would have to undergo a 14-day mandatory quarantine on setting foot in the
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Ruto's headache in race for presidency
The fangs recently bared by President Uhuru Kenyatta that stung the DP’s allies in the Senate and the new-found camaraderie with ODM leader Raila Odinga now present the DP with a headache as he crafts his plan B to ascend to the house on the
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The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln went into effect.  The Proclamation, written the previous September, declared free all enslaved people in the Confederate States (or portions of those states) who resided in territory still in rebellion
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Luxury Protection: Louis Vuitton Has Donated 2,500 Masks To NYC MTA Employees
Back in March the French fashion house announced that they would be donating 40 million surgical masks throughout several cities throughout the world who were severely impacted by
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Michael B. Jordan Is Rumored To Play Tony Montana In New ‘Scarface’ Movie
According to Newsweek Michael B. Jordan is now being considered to play Tony
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Woman Charged With Assault After Confrontation With 11-Year-Old Black Girl
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(1994) General Colin Powell Urges African American Students to Reject Racial Hatred
By 1994 Colin Powell, the son of a Jamaica-born Harlem merchant,  had already served as National Security Adviser to President George Herbert Walker Bush and chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War.  He would become the first African American Secretary of State in 2001 under
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PROTEST VIDEO: Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19
Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA
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Namibia: LPM Wants Ministers' Fishing Rights Revoked
The Landless People's Movement (LPM) said it will table a motion in the National Assembly in which it will seek to have fishing rights of ministers and members of parliament
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Is There More COVID Cash Coming to Help Californians?
It has $14 billion in spending cuts, including a 10% salary reduction for state workers, that would be triggered only if the federal government does not provide funding to California to cover some of its coronavirus losses before the fiscal year begins July
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Man Who Recorded Video of Ahmaud Arbery's Shooting Death Charged with Felony Murder: ‘His Involvement In the Murder of Mr. Arbery Was Obvious’
William Roddie Bryan, the man who recorded the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s life, has been arrested for
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TIAA Virtual Commencement Celebrates Difference Makers
As a part of the efforrt to uplift the community, TIAA celebrated individuals who are committed to making a positive impact on society and on the lives of others who they consider to be next generation of difference-makers last week during their virtual commencement in partnership with Facebook and
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Rwanda: Lawyers Protest Refusal By Ugandan Court to Recognise Rwanda Law Practice Diploma
The Ugandan high court recently ruled that a person who obtains a post graduate diploma in legal practice from Rwanda is not eligible to enroll as an advocate in Uganda, sparking criticism from the Rwanda Law
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(1897) Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength,”
Born in Memphis in 1863 and an activist until her death in 1954, Mary Eliza Church Terrell has been called a living link between the era of the Emancipation Proclamation and the modern civil rights movement.  Terrell was particularly active in the Washington, D.C. area.  From 1895 to 1911, for
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Bronzeville may get massive $3.5B project | The Crusader Newspaper Group
The site of the former Michael Reese Hospital in Bronzeville may be turned into a massive, mixed-use, 3.5 billion development that could dramatically change the area’s landscape near the
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Oprah Winfrey gives grants to 'home' cities during pandemic
She announced Wednesday that her Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation will donate money to organizations dedicated to helping underserved communities in Chicago; Baltimore; Nashville, Tennessee; Milwaukee; and Kosciusko, Mississippi, where she was
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Sunday Brew — May 17, 2020
My attention was drawn to a news release supposedly issued by Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson last Tuesday regarding the robbery of care packages in Enfield, St Mary, last
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Eritrea officially virus-free with 100% recoveries, zero deaths
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AG appoints black woman as lead prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case
The Georgia attorney general on Monday appointed a black female prosecutor to oversee the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging on February
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Sudan: Newly Displaced in Nuba Mountains Living Rough
Kadugli — The more than 2,000 people who fled their homes in El Berdab village near Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan last week, are living in dire
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AMHVoices: Mozambique needs military assistance
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Burkina Faso: Questions Remain Over Extrajudicial Killings Against Fulani
The latest case of 12 extrajudicial killings of Fulani men in Tanwalbougou, northeastern Burkina Faso, has gripped the public after gruesome details emerged following their detention by gendarmes in the area, adding to the overall crisis in the
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LL Cool J and Daughter Both Receive Degrees from Northeastern University
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PICS | Desperate South Africans sleep outside Sassa offices in the cold in bid to get help
It was a cold and overcast day in Cape Town's city centre on Thursday, where more than 100 people joined the queue snaking around the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) offices in Long mid-morning, some people were sitting on the ground or in camping chairs, while others with children
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