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One of the oldest tricks in the anti-Black playbook was unsuccessfully pulled last week in Florida when a mother told police that her autistic son had been kidnapped by two Black
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Uganda: How Uganda is Tackling Mental Challenges of COVID-19 Lockdown
Focusing on the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) pillar, there are many highlights and lessons of Uganda's frontline service providers fighting coronavirus
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Kenya coronavirus: 4,738 cases after 100 days since index case
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Cameroon: Child Marriage Worries Rise Amid Coronavirus Lockdown in Cameroon
Aid groups warn that forced child marriages could be on the rise globally due to school closures, food insecurity, and economic uncertainty triggered by the COVID-19
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Sheriff's Deputies Shoot And Kill Half Brother Of Man Found Hanging In California
Sheriff's Deputies Shoot And Kill Half Brother Of Man Found Hanging In California
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Rep. Lawson Participates in #SayHerName Social Media Campaign to Highlight Victims of Police Brutality and Gun Violence – Free Press of Jacksonville
– U.S. Rep. Al Lawson (FL-05), members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other community advocates took to Twitter to highlight violence against Black
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Africa: Day of the African Child - Activities Officially Launched in Yaounde
This was during the second session of the National Platform for Child Protection presided at by the Minister of Social Affairs, Pauline Irene Nguene, yesterday June
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Former MLB star Carl Crawford arrested for domestic violence
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Africa: COVID-19 - Developing Countries Must Not Be Left Behind
All countries will attempt to build up production of "essential goods" including medical supplies and possibly even food items
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Mauritius: COVID-19 - Mauritius Embarks On First Phase of Easing Its Lockdown Protocol
This present day marks two important chapters in Mauritius' history, with the implementation of the first phase in easing the lockdown introduced on 20 March 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19, with some sectors resuming their business activities, and the introduction of the COVID-19 (Miscellaneous
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Healthy reality check: What money cannot do
COVID-19, having killed so many family members, has driven home the reality to never put material structure over
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action.  In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th
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Rayshard Brooks struggled in system but didn’t hide his past
About five months before he was killed by Atlanta police in a Wendy’s parking lot — before his name and case would become the latest rallying point in a massive call for racial justice and equality nationwide — Brooks gave an interview to an advocacy group about his years of struggle in the
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Police Protect Black Americans?
While most of the gang is inside preparing to watch the Wolverines on television in the Cooper's den, they hear a commotion outside, and, of course, it's Nick coming back to the house, escorting by a police
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Fighting Depression (Depression Awareness)
By definition depression (major depressive disorder) is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you
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New Rule Could Deny Black Developers Access to $4 Billion-Plus in State Housing Funds – Voice and Viewpoint
African American developers across California are worried about a rule change the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is
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LETTERS: Coronavirus is not a gender-blind disease
The World Health Organisation recognises the need to include women in outbreaks preparedness and response such as the global Covid-19 policy spaces but other than the disaggregation of the disease burden by gender, response measures have not addressed the gendered
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Singer Roberta Flack born
b. 10 February 1937, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Born into a musical family, Flack graduated from Howard University with a BA in music. She was discovered singing and playing jazz in a Washington nightclub by pianist Les McCann, who recommended her talents to Atlantic Records. Two classy
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Christophe, Henri äNrē´ krēstôf´ [key], 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary leader. A freed black slave, he aided Toussaint LOuverture in the liberation of Haiti and was army chief under Dessalines . When the latter declared himself emperor, Christophe took part (1806) in a successful plot against
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African-American Playwrights
Playwright August Wilson once said, For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something
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NFL Continues Strong Social Justice Initiative with $250 Million Commitment
The National Football League’s social justice initiative has continued to inspire change in underserved communities, including a $250 million commitment to bring awareness, dialogue, and a renewed direction to the conversation of racial and social
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Uganda: Counting the Costs of Lockdown Rights Abuses
Since the government announced first a partial and subsequently a total lockdown to enforce the sets of measures under the Public Health Act of 1935, security personnel have used excessive force to commit gross human rights
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Finding Hope in the First Ladies of Gospel
I was expecting the impossible and truly hoping to feel the intangible in the Lifetime movie, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of
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Mayor: Officer Who Put Knee on Man’s Neck Should Be Charged
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The mayor of Minneapolis called Wednesday for criminal charges against the white police officer seen on video kneeling against the neck of a handcuffed black man who complained that he could not breathe and died in police
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Kappa Alpha Psi Brother Opens Wellness Studio in Brooklyn That Helps Black Men Deal With Anxiety and Depression
Darian Hall, a Fall 2001 initiate of the Gamma Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, teamed up with Elisa Shankle to create HealHaus, a space for people of color to practice self-care while living in New
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Ntozke Shange is born
Born Paulette Williams, she graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozke” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning
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