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Google Atlanta Commits $100,000 to Local GiveDirectly COVID-19 Relief Fund, $50,000 to United Way of Greater Atlanta for Atlanta’s Strength in Beauty Fund
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Obama Emerges as Central Figure in 2020 Presidential Race
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VIDEO: Tear gas flies as Minneapolis rioters protest death of George Floyd in police custody | Afro
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A Brief History of the African Country of Kenya
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Biden: If you can't choose me over Trump, 'you ain't black'
ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden suggested on Friday that African Americans who back President Donald Trump “ain’t black,” comments that stirred controversy over whether he was being condescending to voters who could decide whether he wins the White
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Lawyer Helped Man Charged In Ahmaud Arbery Leak Video Because He ‘Didn’t Want the Neighborhood to Become a Ferguson’
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Uganda: We Didn't Take Shs40m, NRM Lawmakers Claim
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Zimbabwe: Mwonzora Vows to Grab Harvest House Keys From Chamisa, Accuses Alliance of Stripping Furniture
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Three weeks after opening, Georgia business owners chart their own course forward | The Atlanta Voice
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What next in Odinga’s rise in government?
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Government rethinking field hospital at National Arena – Tufton
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MASK ON during COVID-19
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Ahmaud Arbery's death was 'lynching' and White House rhetoric emboldening racism, mayor says
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2016 repeat? Trump revives Clinton playbook to battle Biden
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Biden aims to move left without abandoning centrist roots | The Atlanta Voice
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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads
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Black Voters Who Support Trump 'Ain't Black,' Joe Biden Tells Charlamagne Tha God (UPDATE: Biden Apologizes)
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Trump deems churches 'essential', calls for them to reopen
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Uganda: Bobi Wine Tasks Govt to Account for COVID-19 Money, Relief Food
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Shooting of John Crawford III
The shooting of John Crawford III occurred on August 5, 2014. Crawford was a 22-year-old African-American man shot to death by Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams, in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton, while holding a toy BB
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***EVENT CANCELED*** Rev. Jackson, son, Yusef, to take COVID-19 test today at Kennedy King College | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Leading by example, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. and his son, Attorney Yusef Jackson, who is Secretary of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Board, will lead by example 12 noon, Tuesday, May 26th, by taking a COVID-19 test at Kennedy King College, 6301 S. Halsted
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John Roy Lynch, congressman, soldier, and author was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana on September 10, 1847 to Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant and Catherine White, a slave.  Lynch’s father died soon after his birth.   Lynch and his mother were then traded to a plantation in
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