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Antoinette (Toni) Bush
Antoinette (Toni) Bush is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Government Affairs for News Corp. Bush is responsible for leading the company’s government relations efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. She serves on the company’s executive leadership
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Minnesota Pardons Black Man in Century-Old Lynching Case
Minnesota’s pardons board on Friday granted a posthumous pardon to a black man imprisoned a century ago in the alleged rape of a white woman, part of a case that included the infamous lynchings of three other black men in
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8 Minority Corrections Officers File Complaint After Being Barred from Guarding Derek Chauvin
Eight minority Ramsey County corrections officers have filed racial discrimination charges with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights late last
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Eliud Kipchoge now runs to save wildlife
On Saturday, the world marathon record holder was at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in central Kenya for a “recce” ahead of his next big thing: The Virtual Lewa Safari Marathon Challenge on June
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Biden Hires Chávez Granddaughter To Help On Latino Outreach
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign is bringing on the granddaughter of civil rights leader César Chávez as a senior adviser to help with Latino outreach and building out its operation in the
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'Fair & Lovely' Skin Lightening Brand, Popular In South Asia, To Change Name
'Fair & Lovely' Skin Lightening Brand, Popular In South Asia, To Change Name
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Illegal cigarette sales booming in South Africa | Afro
A ban on the sale of cigarettes in South Africa since the country’s COVID-19-induced lockdown began in March has cost the economy millions of rands daily in the form of tax revenue lost to illicit sales of smokes, a variety of industry officials
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1.5 Million More Laid-Off Workers Seek Unemployment Benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some people back to
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Fight over mid-term access to NSSF savings heads to court
A Bill to have Ugandan savers access 20 per cent of their contributions to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to see them through the economic hardships of the Covid-19 pandemic, has ignited heated parliamentary and public debate, and ended in court after opposition from the
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Biden Meets With Black Leaders at Local Church Amid Unrest
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden met with community leaders at a predominantly African American church in Delaware Monday morning, leaving home for a second consecutive day to address exploding racial tensions that have begun to reshape the upcoming presidential
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Lone protester demands Bed-Stuy café remove 'Black Lives Matter' sign
Abraham "Avrumy" Knofler records a barista at Burley Coffee in Bedford-Stuyvesant as he demanded her to take down a "Black Lives
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President Donald Trump Fixes Lips To Say He Made Juneteenth Relevant
Trump had the audacity to say that he made Juneteenth “very famous” which anyone with good sense knows
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Africa’s Essential Truckers say They Face Virus Stigma | Afro
While hundreds of truckers have tested positive for the virus in recent weeks, the drivers say they are being stigmatized and treated like criminals, being detained by governments and slowing cargo traffic to
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Study Shows COVID-19's Devastating Impact On Black Immigrant Domestic Workers | HuffPost
Black immigrant domestic workers are triply impacted by the coronavirus crisis: the illness itself, the related economic fallout and systemic racism, a new survey
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Stokes, Louis (1925-2015)
Ohio’s first African American Congressman, Louis Stokes was born to Charles and Louis Stokes on February 23, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended its public schools before joining the United States Army in 1943. Stokes served in the army for three years and then attended Western Reserve
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South Africa has the continent's highest Covid-19 cases. And it has another pandemic
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Tanzania: Relief for Traders As Rwanda, Tanzania Solve Freight Trucks Stalemate
The stalemate had affected the flow of goods into the country as trucks destined for Rwanda had been stuck in the Tanzanian border-town of Benako for days after some Tanzanian truck drivers protested the requirements by Rwanda to adopt a relay system handing over their trucks to Rwandan
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Congo-Kinshasa: COVID-19 Response Under Fire As Nobel Laureate Dr Mukwege Quits
Nobel Peace laureate Dr Denis Mukwege has resigned as head of a local task force fighting Covid-19 in eastern DRC in frustration at the government's response to the
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Biden sorry for telling African Americans they 'ain't black' if they consider voting for Trump
"I shouldn't have been such a wise guy," Mr Biden said on a subsequent call with the US Black Chambers, an African-American business
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Woman shot to death in Trelawny
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FBI Shrugs At Noose In Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR Garage, Says It Wasn’t New
The FBI released preliminary findings from its investigation into a noose found in the garage of NASCAR‘s highest-ranked Black driver, and it came across as the equivalent of a shrug of
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Why There's A Push To Get Police Out Of Schools
At least two-thirds of American high school students attend a school with a police officer, according to the Urban Institute, and that proportion is higher for students of
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Trump: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts"
Historically, the phrase was used by Miami’s police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, when he addressed his department’s “crackdown on … slum hoodlums,” according to a United Press International article from the
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America Urgently Needs Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to Bring Unity, Equity and Racial Healing to Our Nation
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Stacey J. Mobley is Senior Advisor at Dickstein Shapiro LLP. Previously, Mobley served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of DuPont. Mobley was a member of DuPont’s Office of the Chief Executive. Mobley was with DuPont for 35 years and had senior
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'White Lives Matter' painted on statue of African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe
A statue of African-American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue has been vandalised with the words "White Lives
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Bearing Witness to Injustice: From Ron Settles to George Floyd, Nothing’s Changed
At the risk of appearing redundant, I want to mirror what others have said in response to the recent series of deaths involving one Black woman and two Black men in three separate incidents at the hands of police or vigilantes, as well as the hundreds of other Black men and women murdered under the
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Joe Biden endorsed by Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
CBTU is the independent voice of 1.2 million Black workers represented by 57 international unions in the U.S. and Canada and has been involved in presidential politics since 1972 — defying the AFL-CIO by backing George McGovern against President Richard
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Zimbabwe: First Lady Takes Campaign to Binga
Binga — RURAL communities remain at the core of First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's empowerment programmes and yesterday she took her nationwide coronavirus awareness campaign to Binga as she leads the fight against the pandemic which has killed thousands
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