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By Victor Omondi The wife to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked Mayor William Holloway of Clifton, Virginia in an email to remove a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner which reads “Welcome to Clifton, where Black Lives Matter,” is displayed over the Main Street, a white-dominated
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Source: Your Black World
COMME des GARÇONS Drops Capsule Collection With Proceeds Going To Minneapolis Charity
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Big Mac racism at McDonald’s - North Dallas Gazette
By Whitney Gresham and Trevor W. Coleman II The Michigan Chronicle (NNPA) For more than 50 years, the McDonald’s Corporation took pride in branding itself as a socially conscious corporation particularly interested in doing business in abandoned and long-ignored Black communities while embracing
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‘This is love’: Russian influencer celebrates with an AK-47 - The Mississippi Link
Celebrating with an AK-47 produced more than just the noise of a jet engine for Russian model and Instagram personality Anastasia Ivleeva. Ivleeva celebrated her one-year anniversary with rapper husband Allj by firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle into the air, sparking outrage among her nearly 20
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Cover Star Keke Palmer On Black Lives Matter, Standing Together, And Our Better Future | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.cosmopolitan.com BY HUNTER HARRIS and PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANA SCRUGGS We’re calling it now: Our Jaugust cover star—just like this moment—will go down in the pages of your future history books. Because Keke Palmer isn’t just waiting for change to happen from *waves hands* all this. She’s standing
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Test your news knowledge with Zenger: Another statue taken down | Afro
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AFRO Exclusive: Greenbelt Mayor Pushing For Police Reforms | Afro
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Greenbelt Mayor Colin Byrd has never backed away from a challenge and looks to bring changes to the city’s police force the way he helped lead to major shifts on the campus of University of Maryland College Park. Byrd, the millennial mayor who led
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
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WATCH: Lee blasts ‘anti-American’ groups: ‘The mob hates America on America’s dime’ | Afro
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah threatened Thursday to pull federal funding away from Americas cities and institutions of higher learning who he claimed have formed an anti-American, anti-science, anti-establishment, anti-Constitution mob. In a Senate floor speech before Congresss Independence Day
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Illinois’ cap on gathering size is akin to building occupancy rules, Raoul says | The Crusader Newspaper Group
By REBECCA ANZEL Capitol News Illinois ranzel@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD — State regulation of the number of people allowed at gatherings does not violate Illinoisans’ First Amendment rights, the attorney general’s office argued in a court document. A lawsuit filed last month by the
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states eight of 10 deaths in the U.S. due to COVID-19 are adults 65 older. The pandemic has highlighted the cracks in the health care system, from systemic racism to the lack of quality care for our aging population. Alignment Healthcare’s Chief
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Space rocks found after Japan fireball | Afro
Two large radiation-emitting space rocks, believed to be part of a meteor captured on video flashing across the Tokyo night sky earlier this month, have been found in a garden in Japan. The phenomenon over Tokyo happened around 2:30 a.m. local time on July 2, and the footage was shared on YouTube
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Op-Ed: Kente Cloth On Capitol Hill — I literally Cannot | The Michigan Chronicle
In the words of Drake, “What a time to be alive?”. On Monday, led by House of Representative speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Congressional Democrats kneeled for a moment of silence but… wearing Kente Cloth. In what some are referring to as “political pandering” and an “election year photo-op” the
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16-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man | Afro
Fourteen-year-old Maria Malaso was supposed to be married to a 64-year-old mana few weeks after the Kenyan government ordered the suspension of schools in mid-March due to the coronavirus. I woke up one morning and my father told me that we are poor and schools will never reopen, she said. Her
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Baby sharks: 8 pups born at Spanish oceanarium | Afro
A Spanish oceanarium has a few new residents, after a shark gave birth to eight pups. The five female and three male sandbar shark pups were eating and responding well in their first days at the oceanarium, according to a statement Friday from Valencia's L'Oceanografic. Eight sharks being fed
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SPORTS DIGEST: Dodgers are a week away from a game that matters -
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D.C. Mayor Has Black Lives Matter Painted On Street Leading To White House Your Black World
By Victor Omondi Muriel Bowser, the Washington Mayor on Friday took action towards rebuking President Donald Trump, by renaming the 16th street in front of the White House. The mayor painted the street in front of the White House Black Lives Matter plaza in huge yellow letters on the
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MARTA lawsuit filed to re-instate 70 eliminated bus routes | Atlanta Daily World
by Ed Williams                                                                                                          Continued The post MARTA lawsuit filed to re-instate 70 eliminated bus routes appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
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Fight breaks out over food shortage as refugees go hungry - The Mississippi Link
Kampala, UgandaWith food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into a food shortage troubling all of Central Uganda. She braved the early morning chill and walked 16 kilometers, nearly 10 miles, from her home in
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Open letter on George Floyd tragedy from DeKalb Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson | Atlanta Daily World
Video Player Dear District 7 Constituents, Family, and Friends, After watching the events during the last week, it is will great hope, but pronounced sadness I address my constituents as a result of the social unrest plaguing communities across the globe following the murder of George
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Additional Inmates and Employees Test Positive for COVID-19 - Black Voice News
San Bernardino County officials have reported the deaths of two additional inmates at county facilities. Both men had recently tested positive for COVID-19, one at the West Valley Detention Center, and the other is housed at the Central Detention Center. To date, a total of 161 County jail inmates
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MAFS: 'I'm More Than My Social Media Pages' Miles Talks About Karen Knowing His Identity Before Saying I Do
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John Lewis: Civil Rights Lion Gets into Good Trouble in Dawn Porter Documentary - Black Voice News
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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay | Afro
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By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com In what is, generally, Muriel Bowser’s daily COVID-19 press briefing, the D.C.  Mayor took the time to address the violence in the District over the weekend that took the lives of three DMV residents, including that of 11-year-old Davon McNeal on the
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25 cars join ‘Slow Ride for Justice’ through Eutaw to protest police brutality and call for criminal justice reform
On Sunday afternoon, June 14, 2020, twenty-five cars joined the ‘Slow Ride for Justice’ through the City of Eutaw, to protest the police killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others. The ride called for criminal justice reform and passage of the Justice in Policing
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