Gov. Northam Announces $70 Million In Grants For “Rebuild Virginia” Program - The New Journal and Guide

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Gov. Northam Announces $70 Million In Grants For “Rebuild Virginia” Program - The New Journal and Guide

By Randy Singleton

NJG Community Correspondent

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Gov. Ralph Northam launched the “Rebuild Virginia” grant program and signed legislation banning offshore drilling and establish landmark protections for Virginia’s coastal and bay waters during two stops in downtown Phoebus on Monday (July 27).

The “Rebuild Virginia” grant program provides $70 million dollars from the CARES Act for small businesses and nonprofit organizations whose normal operations were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Joburg hospital taking precautions after several nurses test positive for Covid-19

Speaking to News24 on Friday, one of the nurses, *Bonani Mthembu, said he works at the ICU unit at the hospital, along with over 20 other

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Source: https://www.news24.com

NASA Names Headquarters After 'Hidden Figure' Mary W. Jackson

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black American female engineer at

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Source: The Florida Star

Bakersfield Native and Stanford Graduate Erica McCall Discusses Making a Difference in Her Community

This article highlights the impact basketball has had on Erica McCall

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Dunk specialist Carter announces retirement after 22 seasons

(Reuters) – Atlanta Hawks guard Vince Carter officially announced his retirement from professional basketball yesterday after an NBA record 22-season career during which his high-flying dunks made him one of the game’s top players in his

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

COVID-19 tax relief measures extended

The government is extending the timeline on its tax relief measures for persons and businesses affected by the COVID-19

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Georgia Lt. Gov. On COVID-19, The State's Hate Crimes Bill And Voting Access

Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan speaks on the floor of the Georgia State Senate on

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Source: Stories About Black History

Lowcountry Local First partners on Charleston Together Initiative Fund

Lowcountry Local First (LLF) has joined the Charleston Together Initiative started by State Senator Marlon Kimpson and State Representative Marvin Pendarvis on May 31, 2020 alongside the Coastal Community

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

The American Economic System Works Just Fine—for White People

For the past four hundred years, and most recently after the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and other Black citizens by police forces in America, Black people and progressive Whites in America have protested that “the system” is racist, broken, and needs to be

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Source: Houston Forward Times - Reporting The Truth | Affecting Change | Moving Forward

UK 'reluctant' to close beaches over crowds

Beaches will only be closed by the government “reluctantly”, Environment Secretary George Eustice has said – after a major incident was declared as thousands crowded into

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

Dr. Yumkella speaks about Sierra Leone’s judiciary as parliament approves Appeals Court Judges

Democracy was at work in Sierra Leone’s parliament yesterday, when the main opposition APC party, led by Honourable Chernoh Ramadan Maju Bah voted against two of the eight presidential nominees put forward by president Julius Maada Bio for MPs

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Zupco crews on go-slow

DRIVERS of Mutare-based conventional buses operating under the Zupco franchise have gone on a go-slow to force government to review their daily commission, leaving thousands of commuters

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

NGC concludes COVID-19 sensitization in the South East region of Sierra Leone

Following a five-day visit to the southeast of Sierra Leone, Hon. Kandeh Yumkella – leader of the national Granf Coalition (NGC) in parliament, has completed his coronavirus disease sensitization

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

As face mask requirements pop back up across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott faces criticism from local leaders and fellow Republicans

The order came two days after Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff ordered businesses in his county to require employees and customers wear face masks when social distancing is not

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

`The truth hurts’ – Mottley says in reply to Guyanese critics

“…we must ask – on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Elections Officer determine that he should invalidate 1 vote, far less over 115 000 votes when the votes were already certified as valid by officers of the Guyana Elections Commission in the presence of the political

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Pelosi pushes Senate with House passage of George Floyd bill | The Atlanta Voice

Passage of the House Democrats’ far-reaching police overhaul bill returned attention to the Senate on Friday, as the divided Congress struggles to address the global outcry over the killings of George Floyd and other Black

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

In China's 'Little Africa', a struggle to get back to business after lockdown

Mohammed has spent several weeks sleeping in his cramped trading booth in one of Guangzhou's export centres after being kicked out of his apartment and forced into quarantine in April, but the Tanzanian trader says he is content to be in

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Virtual event on ACA in Milwaukee

U.S. California Senator Kamala Harris will join Jill Biden, wife of presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Joe Biden; and state Rep. Robyn Vining for a virtual Affordable Care Act (ACA) event in Milwaukee Friday, June

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles

A little over 100 miles southwest of Sacramento in Santa Clara County, another African the top post of the region’s water utility last Richardson, Secretary, California Government Operations Agency

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Is a Summer Vacation Safe for your Family?

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Source: The Birmingham Times

Florida governor accused of undercounting COVID-19 cases

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is seen during a press conference in

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Source: theGrio

Africa's unsung army of women wage war on virus

Poorly paid or not at all, these unsung armies of mostly female community health workers have for years doled out advice and health services to families living in remote villages and urban slums who lack formal

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Source: The East African

Human rights strategies of governance

Without a doubt, that policy framework must be ‘human rights strategies of

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Gold is set for record highs: Here's the easy way to invest

As the Covid-19 pandemic enters a “new and dangerous phase”, the price of safe haven gold is approaching its highest since 2012 — but one big investment bank thinks the economic response will soon see the yellow metal swell to its highest price

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Source: TechCentral

Congress Votes on D.C. Statehood | Afro

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), or as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser calls her, “our warrior on the Hill,” took to Twitter to share her excitement about the historic vote for the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Trump entrenched in failed strategy as virus surges and polling drops | The Atlanta Voice

Consumed with what he views as unfair coverage of his administration, Trump hasn’t articulated a new plan to contain the spreading virus and last spoke to his top public health advisers weeks ago, those advisers said this

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Tencent bails out streaming TV provider iFlix

Naspers affiliate Tencent is buying certain assets of iFlix, a struggling streaming platform with about 25 million users focused in South and Southeast

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Source: TechCentral

Amazon-like future awaits the banking industry

Bank websites will become more like online marketplaces selling financial products — both their own and those of others

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Source: TechCentral

Black Women Founders Bring COVID-19 Screening Stations to Schools, Offices, Prisons and More

Two entrepreneurs — Lynda M. Dorman, CEO and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises — have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of

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Source: The Florida Star

House Leaders Demand Details on PPP Small-Business Loan Program | The Crusader Newspaper Group

As the remaining days dwindle for small businesses to apply for loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), both banks and federal officials are being challenged by several House leaders to explain how the $670 billion program intended to aid the nation’s small businesses has

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

‘Looters and lowlifes,’ I stand with all of them –

There are documented cases of economically envious looting Black communities (Wilmington, Tulsa, Rosewood) because of economic envy, plundering our homes, and then using the power of the majority media to turn a Massacre into

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Source: Daytona Times

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