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NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The NNPA congratulates and salutes Carol H. Williams not only for her outstanding leadership but also for her longstanding commitment to freedom, justice, and equality. Our society and the world continue to be made better because of leaders like Carol H. Williams,” said National
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The debate on confederate statues: offensive or historic? - African American News Today - EIN News
By Erica Fish Staff Writer The vote on the Robert E. Lee bust in downtown Fort Myers was just that… A bust. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass once said, “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” The limits endured by those […]
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COMMENTARY: Is the Economy Rebounding? | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, including 40 percent of Black-owned companies, have closed, resulting in permanent job loss. Some of the hardest-hit industries include the leisure industries — travel, dining, and more.
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Threats to credible elections in Cote D’ivoire
Mubin Adewumi Bakare: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2020: Cote d’Ivoire is one of six ECOWAS member states scheduled to hold elections in 2020. The 31 October vote will be the fifth presidential election since the death of the ‘pere foundateur de la nation’ (father of the nation) Felix
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Report: COVID-19 Now is The Third Leading Cause of Death Among Black People
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “In 2020, more Black Americans will die of COVID-19 than will succumb to diabetes, strokes, accidents, or pneumonia. In fact, COVID-19 is currently the third leading cause of death for African Americans,” concluded Trevon Logan, professor of economics at the Ohio State University
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United States suspends issuing visa to Sierra Leoneans
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2020: The United States of America has stopped issuing visas to Sierra Leonean nationals, after the government of Sierra Leone reneged on an agreement to allow Sierra Leoneans deported by the USA to return to Sierra Leone. The governments of the USA and Sierra
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Two former APC government officials accused of corruption say the COI allegations are false
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2020: As Sierra Leoneans try to make sense of the hundreds of pages of indictment and accusations of corruption listed in the Commissions of Inquiry reports published last week by the government, some former senior officials in the erstwhile Koroma government
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California State Bar Shaken by Personnel Issues Involving Two Black Women
In less than one month, the State Bar of California has been roiled in high-level personnel snafus involving two prominent Black California women.    In July, the California State Bar offered Fredericka McGee, a respected California legislative attorney, the position of executive director. Then, in
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Eerie Apocalyptic Sky in Bay Area Raises Concerns for Residents
In addition to smoke from the August fires, the Bay Area branch of the National Weather Service noted on Twitter that lower temperatures and weaker winds compared to the last several days are allowing wildfire smoke suspended in the air to fall closer to the ground, contributing to the sky color
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Man arrested in Sierra Leone with thousands of rounds of ammunition
Sierra Leone Police:  Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2020: Management of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) would like to inform the general public that on Thursday 10th September, 2020,  at approximately 1400 hours, personnel of the SLP and the National Revenue Authority attached to Rogberay
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IN MEMORIAM: In a Shock to Many, Actor Chadwick Boseman Dies at 43 | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Boseman passed away on the anniversary of so many historic moments in African American history. August 28 is the anniversary Jackie Robinson discussed his future in the big leagues with Branch Rickey in 1945. August 28th is also the anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963.
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Biden Campaign Launching National “Shop Talk” Series to Engage Black Men
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On Thursday, Aug. 27, Biden’s campaigned announced it would launch a national “Shop Talk” series – a weekly roundtable to engage Black men. The inaugural segment takes place at 7 p.m. EST tonight. It features Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), actor Terrence
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Death of Chadwick Boseman Puts Focus on Colon Cancer and African Americans | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women in America. It is the second most common cause of death related to the disease. African Americans are disproportionately impacted with a 20 percent greater rate than whites and an even greater degree of
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OP-ED: Black Americans and COVID-19 Clinical Trials | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black Americans have to be involved at all levels of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot afford to be silent, detached, denied, or prevented from being at the decision-making tables in terms of COVID-19 public health policies, research, clinical trials, remedies, and
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Mike Pence defends administration policies, offers optimistic view of a second Trump term - African American News Today - EIN News
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Sierra Leone is committed to global peace and security – president Bio tells UN Assembly
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2020: Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio sent a statement to the United Nations which was delivered  by the country’s former minister of foreign affairs and now Sierra Leone’s Representative to the UN – Mr Alie Kabba (Photo above), on the commemoration of
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Sierra Leone parliament’s corruption indictment conundrum
Oswald Hanciles, The Guru: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2020: The Parliament of the Republic of Sierra Leone has not only just got  "its knickers in a twist" - an English idiom I learned from the writings of  one of the top one percent of columnists in the country, Engineer Andrew Keili
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Detailed Reports of the Commissions of Inquiry now available
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Sierra Leone’s journalists condemn spread of hate messages on social media
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), in a press statement issued last Friday 28 August, 2020, signed by its Secretary General -  Mohamed Asmieu Bah, says that it is concerned about the proliferation of videos, audios, and
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Focus on Africa at 60 – Hassan Arouni talks to the Sierra Leone Telegraph
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President Bio suspends public officials accused of corruption by commission of inquiry
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Dallas County reports 458 more coronavirus cases, 1 death; Tarrant County reports 4 deaths - African American News Today - EIN News
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CHRDI And WANEP on peace mission in Makeni
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Rubber bullets? Tear gas? In Texas, most Republicans OK putting down protests by force; most Dems don’t support the tactics - African American News Today - EIN News
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