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Andrew Yang takes lead in California data privacy measure - Black News Channel

By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Fitbits on our wrists collect our health and fitness data; Apple promises privacy but lots of iPhone apps can still share our personal information; and who really knows what they're agreeing to when a website asks, 'Do You Accept All Cookies?' Most people just click 'OK' and hope for the best, says former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. 'The amount of data we're giving up is unprecedented in human history,' says Yang, who lives in New York but is helping lead the campaign for a data privacy initiative on California's […]

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Is It Safe to Fly Right Now? Here’s What Experts Have to Say – Free Press of Jacksonville

Some airlines, like JetBlue , even require passengers to wear face coverings over their mouths and noses throughout check-in, boarding, in flight, and while deplaning, while others may only require that masks be worn on

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity

Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by

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Source: Blavity News

Beyond Health Issues, Justice is the Most Serious Item on our National Agenda – Free Press of Jacksonville

Incalculable anger is the state of the nation in the wake of the cold-blooded murder of 25-year-old Georgia jogger Ahmaud

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

98 teachers in Western Cape positive for Covid-19, as 16 schools close

MUST READ | 29 Eastern Cape schools closed because of positive Covid-19 cases

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Source: https://www.news24.com

As Universities Zoom To The Future, They Leave Behind Marginalized Students - Blavity

On Monday, March 16, the Berkeley Haas administration notified us that classes would be going remote, by Wednesday I was taking my first Negotiations class via Zoom and by Friday evening I was already on a plane back to

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Source: Blavity News

Despite Reform Efforts, BPD Corruption Persists | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The following was published in the New Orleans Advocate, October 15, 2014, recounting the murder of a woman ordered by a member of the New Orleans Police Department in 1994: “Two decades ago, amid one of the darkest chapters in the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

JSE-listed TeleMasters on an acquisition spree

TeleMasters CEO Jaco Voigt

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Source: TechCentral

The Lynching of James Byrd Jr. | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The public execution of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February was captured on video; if it hadn’t been, the White men charged with his murder would most likely still be free to this day. On Memorial Day, George Floyd was also publicly executed in

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Celebrity Culture Will Never Be The Same

As more people are finding fame, notoriety and lucrative careers through “content” creation on platforms like Instagram and YouTube, the idea of what fame is — and who gets to be famous — has drastically

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

The future of investigative journalism is collaborative

Investigative journalism plays an important role in uncovering corruption, human rights abuses and other forms of wrong-doing by people in

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

9 Virtual Dating Ideas To Win Your Future Bae's Heart - Blavity

Although we’re social distancing, the first date will always be important in the dating game because the outcome determines whether your Bumble match will be open for another

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Source: Blavity News

MPUTHIA: Privacy rights and harsh court of public opinion

Privacy rights and harsh court of public opinion

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Source: Business Daily

Rangers catch 20-foot python bare-handed | Afro

Kenyan rangers captured a 20-foot python with nothing but their bare hands and an old sack. 'Led by Cpl Gikonyo, this team skillfully captured this python from a community land within Lake Nakuru and released it back into the wild,' the Kenya Wildlife Service posted on its Twitter account. The

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

N.A.A.C.P. v. Alabama Ex Rel Patterson (1958)

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Source: Black Past

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'She Has a Mother': Quad Webb Clarifies Her Relationship to Baby Ariana

Quad Webb shocked fans on May 22 when she announced in an Instagram Live interview with DELUX Magazine that a baby girl named Ariana was joining her

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Source: Visit Atlanta Black Star For African-American | Black News and Information

William W. Ferguson vs. Edward G. Gies

William W. Ferguson vs. Edward G. Gies

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Source: Black Past

Black Delivery Truck Driver Blocked from Leaving Gated Community By Man Who Thought He Was Suspicious

Nationwide — Travis Miller, an African American delivery truck driver from Oklahoma City, was brought to tears as he recorded his encounter with a white man who demanded to know why he was inside his gated

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

An assist of another kind by Shaq | Afro

During his 19 NBA seasons, Shaquille O'Neal scored 28,596 points and 3,026 assists. But he recently provided an assist of another kind, staying with a stranded motorist who had a blown-out tire on a Florida highway. The incident occurred Tuesday on Interstate 75 near Gainesville, after

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Africa: U.S. Demands Accountability From Countries but Rejects ICC Probe of American Troops

President Donald Trump, on Thursday, signed an executive order placing restrictions on officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the court's decision to investigate allegations of human rights violations against America's troops in

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Source: allAfrica.com

JFJ raises geofencing concerns

WITH the Government indicating that it will be using geofencing technology to supervise returning Jamaicans who will self-quarantine at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one human rights advocacy group has said it will be keeping a close watch on the

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Zoom suspends activists' account after Tiananmen event

Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of US-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, the activists said on

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Source: TechCentral

Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Source: Tom Pennington / Getty

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Source: Black America Web

COMMENTARY: 2020 First Presidential Debate an Embarrassment for America | Afro

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Biden reminded the audience of a little more than 100 people – down from an anticipated 900 because of the pandemic – that Trump called fallen military members “losers and suckers.” While Trump dared Biden to say, “Law and order,” Wallace opened discussions on race. “Are you

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Kenyans Rediscover Pleasures of Gardening

In Nairobi’s Parklands estate, Meerabella Shah has turned her rooftop into a miniature

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Source: Business Daily

Chomsky: US virus response fatally 'chaotic'

The United States is on a chaotic path with no federal plan against the coronavirus pandemic as it reduces public health funding and ignores the advances of climate change, according to activist scholar Noam Chomsky, considered the founder of modern

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

AboutThatCar.com: 2020 Lexus GS 350 F Sport | Dallas Weekly

Lexus said the system featured an electronically controlled center differential which provided a normal 30-70 torque split, with the rear-wheel bias favoring handling

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over the Ethics of Bio-Medical Research

In the article below Clarence Spigner, DrPH., Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, briefly describes the saga of Henrietta Lacks whose cells have been used without her family’s permission for over sixty years of bio-medical

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Source: Black Past

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1951

Ancient Aztec palace unearthed in Mexico City | Afro

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Aztec palace that later became the site of the home of famed Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Mexico City. The discovery was made underneath the Nacional Monte de Piedad, an iconic building that is now the site of a historic pawnshop

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

George Floyd: Protests, Police, and Prosecutors

Browne-Marshall: What should Minnesota Gov. Walz have known about any type of uprising or riot or protest, peaceful or otherwise, involving George

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

A world redrawn: Egypt historian Khaled Fahmy sees rising surveillance state

State surveillance is on the rise globally as governments such as Egypt's take advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, warns exiled historian and intellectual Khaled

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Source: https://www.news24.com

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