Abrams, Martin, Smith re-elected

Texas is locked in a battle over voting by mail. Here's how to do it.

In the federal courts, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery granted a preliminary injunction that said anyone in Texas who wants to vote by mail to avoid transmission of the virus could qualify for a mail-in

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Mini May Concert Series | Afro

Mini May Concert Series – May 23, 2020; May 30, 2020

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Somalia: Alshabab Attacks Military Camp in Lower Shabelle, Casualties Unknown

Armed Al-Shabab militias have attacked a camp in the outskirts Bal'ad district of middle Shabelle on

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Source: allAfrica.com

Huizar agrees to limit council participation during probe

LOS ANGELES — City Councilman Jose Huizar was not present via teleconference at the May 19 Los Angeles City Council meeting, the first since he was asked to reduce his activity amid an FBI

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Goodwin And Matthews Unopposed In Re-Election Bids | The Oklahoma Eagle

State Rep. Regina Goodwin and State Senator Kevin Matthews will return to work having no one opposing

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Uganda: COVID-19 Disrupts 2021 Elections Plan

All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further

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Source: allAfrica.com

HISD Board approves 'Innovation' designation in 7-2 vote

The Houston Independent School District Board of Education at its virtual meeting on Thursday voted 7-2 in favor of a resolution to initiate the process of designating HISD as a District of

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Secretary of State: Return Georgia mail-in ballots now | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s chief election official is urging residents to complete and send in their absentee ballots now instead of

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

World's Record Holder

Edward 'Ned' Gourdin (1897-1966), as a Harvard athlete, set a new world's record in the running broad jump - 25 feet, 3 inches - the first human to leap beyond 25 feet. A graduate of Cambridge Latin High and Harvard Law School (1924) he was crowned National Amateur Athletic Union Junior 100-yard

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Imperative that District Four be completed soonest

The smart thing to do right now is for GECOM to focus their attention on ensuring all the ballots in the Electoral District number four, which had not one, but two fraudulent declarations, are

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Former School Board Member and Educator Sylvester Hodges, 78 | Post News Group

Sylvester Hodges, who died last week, was a parent activist and lifelong civil rights leader who became President of the Oakland School board and led the fight to stop the state from taking over the school district and its financial

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Uganda: Curfew Enforcement - Ldu Recruit to Face Court-Martial Over Kween Shooting

The Elgon Region UPDF Spokesperson, Mr Jude Wandera said they have transferred the suspect from Kween Central Police Station to Moroto to face murder charges as investigations

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Source: allAfrica.com

MARTA’s reduced routes may impact voter turnout

It has been a month since MARTA eliminated and reduced transit service throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area, including Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton and the City of

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King, Horace (1807-1885) - Birthday

Horace King, born a slave on September 8, 1807 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in West Georgia, Northern Alabama and northeast Georgia in the period between the 1830s and 1870s.

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Early voting underway | The True Citizen

Early voting has gotten off to a slow start in Burke County for the state primary, but election officials say that could be because citizens are opting to use absentee ballots rather than showing up at the

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Absentee ballots taking 30 plus days to process, Secretary of State blamed

Absentee Ballots Taking 30 Plus Days to Process in Part Because Secretary of State Chose Arizona Vendor

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Racial Imbalance Act

The Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act, spearheaded by Boston's African-American community, was passed in 1965, making Massachusetts the first state in the nation to outlawde facto segregation in a school district.

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Source: African Americans in Boston: More Than 350 Years

Concern as Covid-19 cases escalate in Limpopo's mining towns

Limpopo has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases within 24 hours, with the majority of it recorded in the mining areas of the province's Sekhukhune

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Source: https://www.news24.com

African American educators are impacted dramatically by COVID-19 and districts need to address it

Compounded with this, many African American educators like me are in constant fear of the risk factors of COVID-19 in our

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves

The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special

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Source: The Urban Daily

Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Guyanese boy missing in Barbados

He is Joshua Dexter Nurse, a native of Guyana, who lives at #6 Buttals Tenantry, St George and is a Fifth Form student of the St George Secondary

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Igbo nationalism

Igbo nationalism - Wikipedia

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Rental Assistance for Mom-and-Pop Property Owners and Tenant Households

Help is on the way for households struggling to pay rent and mom-and-pop property owners struggling to pay mortgage amid the economic devastation wrought by the COVID-19

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The fight for the 2020 vote and the march to the ballot box | The Mississippi Link

On May 4, The Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) and the Voting Rights Alliance held a tele-townhall titled, “The Fight for the Vote 2020: Our March to the Ballot

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Source: The Mississippi Link

No visitors, 3 screenings a day - all you need to know about Gauteng's plan for school reopening

The Gauteng Department of Education says it expects 300 000 Grade 7 and 12 pupils back when schools reopen on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Black moms like me will not be patient with Pittsburgh Public Schools. We need to demand more.

As a Black mom raising a daughter with a disability, I’ve seen first hand how the inequities in our public school system are a matter of life or

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California’s Vote-by-Mail Election Push is Both Praised and Put Down | Post News Group

If you’re a registered voter in California, expect to receive a ballot from your county elections officials in the mail for the

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Category:Racism

Category:Racism - Wikipedia

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List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000

List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000 - Wikipedia

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