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President Dr. Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University, speaks of a “call” resounding in the wake of 46-year-old George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota while in police

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Is Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister the problem?

Recently, I was researching and desperately finding credible information about the Office of the Chief Minister when I stumbled on information about how the Chief Minister, Professor David Francis, in 2015 endorsed a new book published by one of the leading and internationally recognised mediators

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Mother of African American man killed by police in Charlotte, North Carolina, files wrongful death lawsuit

Deborah Franklin is suing the city government and officer Wende Kerl, who shot Danquirs Franklin on March

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Joe Biden Takes Firm Stand Against Police Murder of George Floyd

After going out to personally meet with demonstrators in Delaware, presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden has taken a firm stand against the police killing of George Floyd and the overall plight of African Americans who’ve been targeted, brutalized and killed by law enforcement

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Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

UPDATED: 3:25 p.m. ET, June 12, 2020

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President Bio reinstates minister who threatens to kill opposition supporters

And after a week of intense public pressure and outcry, president Bio simply suspended the minister, rather than have him arrested and charged with incitement of public hatred and

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

L’Oreal Re-Hires Model After Being Fired For Speaking Up Against Racism

In 2017, a Black model for L’Oreal named Munroe Bergdorf was fired for speaking up about systemic racism while under

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Source: The Black Chronicle

150 faculty members sign open letter to Georgia State University president for more diversity | The Atlanta Voice

The letter reads as

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Al-Shabab sets up COVID-19 facility in southern Somalia

“I am urging people with the disease symptoms to come to the medical facility and avoid infecting other Muslims,” Sheikh Mohamed Bali, a senior al-Shabab official and a member of the group’s ad hoc COVID-19 response committee, said in a speech broadcast by the group’s radio arm

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EU gives DRC €19.5m to support coronavirus combat

The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, is set to benefit from European Union funding in its efforts to combat COVID-19

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Kenya: Health Budgets - Will the Pandemic Change Kenya's Priorities?

Many in Kenya's health circles however argue that the COVID-19 crisis has simply highlighted the underfunding of the sector in past

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Source: allAfrica.com

U.S. Soccer Repeals Policy Requiring Players to Stand During National Anthem

Following the recent uprising of protests against police brutality against Blacks and racial injustice, U.S. Soccer has has repealed a policy that required its players to stand during the national

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks

(Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty

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Eritrea coronavirus: case load hits 65, returnees import 24 new cases

June 13: 24 new cases from quarantined returnees

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China to complete Beidou network rivalling America's GPS

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Christiani urges GCB to consider Savory, Adams for upcoming regional first-class season

President of the Central Essequibo Cricket putting the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on notice with regards to the selection of Anthony Adams and Kemol Savory for the upcoming regional first-class cricket

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Tackling racial, economic inequalities [Interview]

The death of a black man in the United States late May has ignited fury the world

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Mississippians can't breathe while confederate symbols of hate are validated by Governor Tate Reeves leadership

Nor can Mississippians breathe while confederate symbols of hate are validated through state holidays and the leadership of the State of

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Jay Pharoah 'could've been George Floyd' after encounter with LAPD

I’m not thinking anything of it, because I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Pharoah explains in the clip, which includes security footage of the confrontation, PEOPLE

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African Americans 'probably ought to be' shot more by police, a top Tulsa officer said

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum on Wednesday blasted one of his police department's top commanders after the officer denied there's systemic racism in law enforcement, then said African Americans "probably ought to be" shot

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Community Demands Answers After Black Man Is Found Hanging Near City Hall

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Judiciary: 'Executive disrespecting court orders'

Kenya’s Chief Justice David Maraga publicly accused President Uhuru Kenyatta of trying to control the Judiciary and disrespecting court

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Latino and black Americans are allies in the fight for racial justice

And I have joined in previous demonstrations over the last several weeks because George Floyd’s murder serves as yet another painful reminder of the deeply entrenched racism in our nation’s institutions, from the highest levels of government to local law

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Burundi apex court says president-elect should be sworn in

The vacuum at the presidency was occasioned by the death on Monday of Pierre Nkurunziza, who had been president since 2005 and was due to hand over to Ndayishimiye in

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US charges ex-Jammeh bodyguard over torture of 2006 coup plotters

A Gambian man has been indicted in Colorado on federal charges that he tortured planners of a failed 2006 presidential coup when he was a member of a special armed unit that reported directly to the dictator of the African nation, prosecutors said

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Numerous Questionable Allegiances of Hampton University’s President Prompt Calls For Resignation – Your Black World

A group of Hampton University’s alumni and its current students is calling for President Dr. William Harvey to resign for his position, which he has served in for over 40

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Source: Your Black World

UN voices 'horror' after reports of Libya mass graves

The United Nations voiced "horror" after reports that eight mass graves had been discovered in an area recently seized by the unity government after forces loyal to eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar

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The Black Lives Matter Movement and a Breakthrough Deal Boost a Black Winemaker’s Business

Two tough years in the making, there were days when Longevity founder Phil Long, 60, wasn’t sure the marriage of his small business, one of the nation’s few certified black-owned wineries, with Bronco Wine Co., one of the largest wine producers in the U.S., would

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Black Enterprise CEO: “I Am Tired…The Pandemic Of Racism Must End”

Tired of the media-driven, negative stereotypes that shape the dangerous narrative surrounding young black

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

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Emily Yancey: “I hope that it opens the eyes of a lot of white Americans to what people of color face every day and begin to see what reality is like for individuals who have to deal with a society that was built on white supremacy . . . and that we can stop police violence and start investing more

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