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The Well: The Parenting Shift: No Mother Judgers Allowed | Afro

By Andi Pyatt “The Well” is a recurring column to remind us of the power we possess in mind, body and spirit. Since March 2020 there are a few staple food items that I keep in the house. These items are frozen cheese pizza, organic salad greens (in the large container), and fruit. Why these […]

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Wynn Las Vegas announced the newest concept in nightlife,Intrigue, last night during a reveal at Tryst Nightclub’s “Final Affair” industry party. Intrigue will open in the space currently occupied by Tryst on Apr. 28, 2016, which marks Wynn Las Vegas’ 11th anniversary. Tryst closes on

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Zoom adds over 100 features as part of 90-day security plan

Zoom Video Communications said on Wednesday it has added over 100 features to its video conferencing as part of its 90-day plan to address security and privacy

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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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20 advocacy groups warn against Google's purchase of Fitbit

Twenty advocacy groups from the US, Europe, Latin America and elsewhere signed a statement Wednesday urging regulators to be wary of Google’s US$2.1-billion bid for fitness tracker company Fitbit because of privacy and competition

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Nearly 500 Small Businesses File Bankruptcy Using Increased Eligibility Limit Since February | Afro

By BlackPressUSA New statistical table and analysis available on the American Banking Institute’s (ABI) SBRA Resources website show that 471 small businesses have elected to file for bankruptcy relief under new subchapter V to chapter 11 of the Code since it was enacted. The Small Business

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Black-Owned Music Streaming Startup Launches | Afro

By Kai McDaniel Special to the AFRO These co-founders are shaking up the music tech industry. CEO Austin Webster and former Motown Records Executive Darrell Thompson have launched Deepr®, an Atlanta-based startup and music discovery app, that makes searching through endless catalogs of music

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Stimulus payment for 4 million Americans to arrive by prepaid debit card

DALLAS – Instead of direct deposit or even a paper check, four million people will find their stimulus payment arrive in the form of a prepaid debit

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PARENTS of grade six students are fuming as a result of incorrect information disseminated by the Ministry of Education regarding the portal on which they should have registered on Wednesday in order to access the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) placement results at 4:00 pm

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Virginia Governor Releases List of Long-Term Care Facilities with COVID-19 Outbreaks

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that he has directed the state health department to release the names of individual long-term care facilities that have experienced a COVID-19

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Popi Act in force from 1 July

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Monday that more provisions of the Protection of Personal Information (Popi) Act will come into force on 1 July 2020, giving the legislation more bite to protect

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'She Has a Mother': Quad Webb Clarifies Her Relationship to Baby Ariana

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African Americans die more frequently from Covid-19, but MIT researchers say poverty isn’t why | Afro

Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 more frequently than white people. But two researchers found its not because of obesity or poverty. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management professor Christopher Knittel and graduate research assistant Bora Ozaltun analyzed daily

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Ellison, Keith M. (1963- )

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison was born on August 4, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised Catholic in a middle class family which included five sons to a father who was a psychiatrist and a mother who was a social worker. Since childhood Ellison was involved with the civil rights

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LETTERS: Enhance protection in digital financial space

Despite the ongoing discussion and debate about which aspects of consumer protection can be best addressed by industry-led actions, versus requiring regulations, the upsurge in the number of cases of fraud, loss of customer funds, lack of transparency regarding applicable fees and costs as well as

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Black Women Founders Bring COVID-19 Screening Stations to Schools, Offices, Prisons and More

Two entrepreneurs — Lynda M. Dorman, CEO and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises — have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of

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George Floyd: Protests, Police, and Prosecutors

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Beyond Health Issues, Justice is the Most Serious Item on our National Agenda – Free Press of Jacksonville

Incalculable anger is the state of the nation in the wake of the cold-blooded murder of 25-year-old Georgia jogger Ahmaud

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#HBCUMonth: Students Urge Their Peers to Get Involved, Vote | Afro

By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While college campuses might look a bit different this year, September marks the celebration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) month and Sept. 20- Sept. 24 is National HBCU Week. This conference was planned under the White House

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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act | Afro

By NNPA Newswire Staff June 25 marks the 7th anniversary of the Shelby County v. Holder case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and upended decades of progress. Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that

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Black Nurse Launches Line of Natural Tea Blends, Handcrafted With Wellness in Mind | Afro

By Blacknews.com Miracle J. Reese is the founder of one of very few Black-owned tea companies based in Birmingham, Ala. Her company, TasTea Wellness Blends (pronounced “taste tea”), is a premium loose-leaf tea company. Made of natural herbs and fruits, her blends are handcrafted with wellness in

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Trump signs police reform executive order that focuses on training, falls short of protesters’ demands

President Trump on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 addressed the issue of police brutality by taking executive action that would provide incentives for police departments to increase training about the use of force and to strengthen a national database to track

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Relatives: Latoya was murdered by police

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Patriots owner Robert Kraft's prostitution case heads to appellate court

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors charging New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with twice buying sex from massage parlor prostitutes will attempt to save their case this week by arguing to an appeals court that his rights weren’t violated when police secretly video-recorded him in the

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Krystian Legierski (1978– )

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UC Berkeley’s Public Health Offers Volunteer Opportunity for Covid-19 Research Study | Post News Group

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Kenya: Duo Creates Digital Solution for Kenya's Insurance Ecosystem

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