2020 Election Live Updates: Obama Joins Biden as Campaigns Trade Attacks in Final Push

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READ: Former President Barack Obama's 'Graduate Together' speech | The Atlanta Voice

Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness, or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you

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Former National Security Adviser Susan rice Wants To be Joe Biden’s Vice President – Free Press of Jacksonville

By Christina Zhao – Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice has made her case for why she should be picked by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to serve as his running

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Ghana coronavirus: 6,808 cases, phase out lifting of restrictions - church group

Total confirmed cases = 6,683 (new cases

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Kennedy Defeated Nixon

John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in the presidential election.

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Nov

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1960

House Heroes Act provides $390 million to Georgia families for groceries

Even before the crisis, nearly 15 percent of children in Georgia lived in food insecure households

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Cut payroll tax for a year, reward work and incentivize job creation: Newt Gingrich

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Zimbabwe

The presidential election did take place in late June, but it was neither free nor fair. Nevertheless, Mugabe was elected to a sixth term, taking 85% of the vote. President Bush joined the chorus of world leaders who condemned the election and the government-sponsored crackdown on the

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Rwanda

Rwanda continued fighting against the Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout its four-year civil war. Finally, in July 2002, the two countries signed a peace accord: Rwanda promised to withdraw its 35,000 troops from the Congolese border; Congo in turn agreed to disarm the thousands of Hutu

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Kenya

Opposition leader Mwai Kibaki won the Dec. 2002 presidential election, defeating Mois protégé, Uhuru Kenyatta (term limits prevented Moi, in power for 24 years, from running again). Kibaki promised to put an end to the countrys rampant corruption. In his first few months, Kibaki did initiate

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Malawi: Opposition Question Ansah Resignation Timing Ahead of Malawi Fresh Election

Major opposition parties have lukewarmly welcomed the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah, saying it is ill timed as Malawians are expected to go into polls on June 23 to select a new State president in the fresh

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Somalia: Former President Accuses Government of Squandering COVID-19 Fund

Former president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has congratulated Muslims in Somalia on the occasion of

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Obama: Lack of Leadership Exposed by Coronavirus Pandemic

Former President Barack Obama gave a virtual commencement speech on Saturday to all historically black colleges and universities

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Guinea

An outbreak of Ebola hit Guinea in March 2014 and spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. By September, is estimated to have killed about 430 people in Guinea, and there were nearly 650 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In late August, the

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Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering after Twitter added fact checks to two of his

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Guyana’s Infant Oil & Gas Sector: Doomsday options - tariffs on oil, NOPEC Bill and invoking the nuclear option after a US/Saudi oil war!

The incisive, intense, and increasingly incendiary geo-political, economic, and strategic debate concerning the Saudi Arabia/ US struggle for crude oil market share is basically unacknowledged in the local print and social

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The choice in America—death, coronavirus or the economy

(NNPA)—Under the direction and management of President Donald Trump and his coronavirus pandemic task force, there has been mass

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We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

Seven prominent Black women activists have made a strong case, and a bit of stir, in a Washington Post Op-Ed, “Biden Still Needs Black

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Ghana

A West African country bordering on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana is bounded by Côte dIvoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It compares in size to Oregon, and its largest river is the

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Egypt

Despite the political turmoil and uncertainty, millions of Egyptians voted in the first round of parliamentary elections on Nov. 28, 2011. The Muslim Brotherhood fared better than expected, winning about 40% of the vote. Even more of a shock was the second place finish of the ultraconservative

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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Could Be Released Really Soon – Nearly 20 Years Early – Free Press of Jacksonville

Kwame Kilpatrick, former Detroit Mayor, has been granted early release after spending 7 years of a 28-year

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Egypt

On June 2, 2012, a three-judge panel sentenced Mubarak to life in prison for being an accessory to murder in the killing of hundreds of unarmed protesters in early 2011. The former president and his sons were acquitted of corruption. However, the panel cleared several of Mubaraks security officials

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Jun

2

2012

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Reportedly to Be Released Early From Prison

Detroit, MI — According to Fox 2 Detroit and the Ebony Foundation, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been granted an early release from

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Ibrahim Babangida

Born in northern Niger state, Babangida received military training in Nigeria, India, Great Britain, and the United States. He rose through the ranks and was known for his courage—he played a major role in suppressing an attempted coup in 1976 when he walked into a rebel-held radio station

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Brazil

In the 2014 presidential election, President Rousseff led the Oct. 5 first round of voting by 42%. However, she faced Aecio Neves in an Oct. 26 runoff. Neves, popular with investors, was a surprise second-place finisher in the first round, coming in with 34% of the vote. In the Oct. 5 parliamentary

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For The First Time, Clarence Thomas Tells His Story on Television – Free Press of Jacksonville

Clarence Thomas, the famously silent jurist, tells his own life story in a new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” which makes its national television debut May 18 on

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OP-ED: A Warning to Joe Biden and the Democratic Party About Black Voters | Afro

There is one profound truth this coming November – the Democratic Party knows it needs the support of black voters to win the 2020 presidential

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Cameroon: No Renege On the Law!

Last weekend's demonstrations are, to say the least, baffling on two counts - the manner of approach and what passes for the reasons behind the public disorder that characterised

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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: One Tennessee Community's Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom

When I was in the seventh grade, I spotted a photograph of four former slaves in my social studies textbook. Although the photograph was entitled Black Tennesseans, I noticed a strong family resemblance between them and my family members. When my grandmother told me that two of them were actually

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Kamala Harris warns President Trump against attempt to suppress vote

Sen. Kamala Harris scolded President Donald Trump for threatening to withhold federal funds from states over absentee ballots, warning such an act would be

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