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CHUBBTOWN: An American family story in Georgia | The Atlanta Voice
One Sunday afternoon in January the sunlight shone brightly off of the headstones in Chubb Cemetery. The most recent burial had been a month earlier and the headstone of Maccie Chubb Gibson was pristine in its simplicity.  The clean grey upright model notified visitors that she had passed away
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City Power's new load shedding schedule for Johannesburg explained
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“I Was So Scared Of Seeing Him In My Nightmares”: Chrissy Teigen Expresses Remorse Over Not Looking At Son’s Face As She Grieves Approaching Due Date
Chrissy Teigen openly mourned the loss of her son, Jack, on Instagram as her intended due date draws near. The supermodel, who lost Jack halfway through her pregnancy last year, shared a picture captured during husband John Legend's 'Wild' …
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Parents allowed to remove students from Black History Month lessons - TheGrio
A charter school in northern Utah is allowing parents to opt students out of its Black History Month curriculum and... View Article The post Parents allowed to remove students from Black History Month lessons appeared first on TheGrio.
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Parliament wants military top brass to explain Covid drug debacle
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Black Lives Matter Movement, Stacey Abrams Nominated for Nobel Prize - Black Voice News
Jan M. Olsen | Associated Press Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the global Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and an American voting rights champion are among this year's nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. There is
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San Antonio area gets entire NCAA women’s basketball tourney
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CalTrans Enforces Clearance in Oakland, Protestors Help Some Residents Stay | Post News Group
While facing intense rain and protests on January 27 and 28, California Highway Patrol officers and California Dept. of Transportation (CalTrans) workers cleared tents, trash, broken branches, and homeless people from a tract of CalTrans-owned land that sits between Mosswood Park and the 580
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Commuters petition teargas-throwing cops
BY PRAISEMORE SITHOLE THE Passenger Association of Zimbabwe (PAZ) has petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over police officers fond of throwing tearsmoke on commuter omnibuses. The petition came soon after an incident last Friday, where police officers threw teargas canisters into a kombi
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Mining For Dollars: Foreign Companies Extract Latin American Minerals, But Not Without Controversy – The Wilmington Journal
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‘People In The Black Community Don’t Trust You’: Sunny Hostin Gathers Van Jones Over His Flip-Flopping
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Military coup yet another blow for Myanmar's sagging economy - Black News Channel
By ELAINE KURTENBACH and VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The military coup in Myanmar is unlikely to do the country's struggling economy, once considered a promising 'last frontier,' any good at all. Myanmar's economy has languished as the pandemic added to its challenges and the
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Man gets 5 years in prison for using online sex ‘bait ads’ to extort men in Southern California | L.A. Focus News
LOS ANGELES — A 29-year-old man was sentenced Monday to five years behind bars for using the internet to extort at least $150,000 from men in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and elsewhere who responded to online “bait ads” offering gay sex services. Over a period of six years, Tyler Buchanan purchased
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Stocks rise on Wall Street, despite dismal jobs report - Black News Channel
DAMIAN J. TROISE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were moving higher in afternoon trading on Friday, despite the fact that Wall Street got a dismal jobs report for January that showed the U.S. economy remaining in dire straits due to the pandemic. Investors continue to hope that more help
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Black History Month billboards salute African Americans and their seminal achievements | L.A. Focus News
She stares down from a digital billboard looming over the freeway, a youthful woman wearing a white nurse’s cap from the 1880s. Who is she? Huge white letters on the black background answer that, telling curious zooming motorists or slower moving pedestrians on a nearby overpass that her name was
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Union petitions Chinese-owned mine over poor working conditions
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Diasporans demand Ekusileni Hospital opening
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Without Black Voters, the Campaign to Recall California Governor Newsom is Going to Fail - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Tyrone Cooper Arrested After Breaking Ex-Girlfriend's Jaw, He's Also One of The Harlem Liquor Store Attackers
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Facebook urges unblocking of Myanmar social media
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73-year-old critically burned Van Nuys garage explosion | L.A. Focus News
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