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#Woke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Rethinking Police Departments Sweeps Nation | The Oklahoma Eagle

City government and congress did little to combat violent police actions because they would appear to be weak on crime and would certainly lose their next

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Trinidad: Cops tear gas protestors in PoS

Earlier yesterday, the move by Sea Lots residents to march into Port-of-Spain around noon was thwarted by vigilant police officers who warned them that anyone found to be in groups of more than 25 would be breaching the Public Health Ordinance and would be charged as

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Anger, heart disease and stress: What’s the connection?

Many scientists now believe that anger, depression, and other forms of mental distress can help ignite heart

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Greenleaf: OWN Network Hit is the Number One Cable Telecast for Women 25-54 - Black News Channel

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor The fifth and final season premiere of OWN’s hit megachurch drama “Greenleaf” (6/23/20) delivered 1.9 million viewers and ranked as Tuesday night’s #1 cable telecast in OWN’s key demographic of women 25-54, which is up

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Opting To Spend Time With His Son, Trevor Ariza Becomes First Major Player To Not Join NBA Restart

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Thousands mourn George Floyd in Texas amid calls for reform

HOUSTON, United States (AP) The last chance for the public to say goodbye to George Floyd drew thousands of mourners yesterday to a church in his native Houston, as his death two weeks ago continues to stoke protests in America and beyond over racial injustice, and spurred France to abruptly halt

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Kenya: A Vote for Kenya Is a Vote for Global Peace, President Kenyatta Says in Final Pitch for UNSC Seat

Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has said Kenya will advance the pan-Africanist agenda of global peace, solidarity and multilateralism if elected to join the United Nations Security Council

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Greenleaf: OWN Network Hit is the Number One Cable Telecast for Women 25-54

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor

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PPP 'pleased' with GECOM decision | New York Carib News

GEORGETOWN – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Tuesday night said that it wants a “speedy transition to a democratically elected government” as it awaits the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and general

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When Non-Black Minorities Adopt Black Style, Is It Still Appropriation? | The Oklahoma Eagle

www.huffpost.com By Bianca Lambert The answer is simple: Absolutely. We’ve seen a wealth of celebrities including Miley Cyrus and the Kardashians appropriating Black culture, plus countless fashion designers sending white models down their runways wearing locs, braids and baby hairs. But what

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PM Gonsalves gives Windies tour of England his blessing

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chairman of the CARICOM sub-committee on cricket, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has thrown his support behind the West Indies’ proposed tour of England once all the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic are

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Jazz C Gobert still not fully recovered from COVID-19

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to reportedly test positive for COVID-19 and who drew the ire of numerous people when the league initially suspended the season, says he is still not fully recovered more than three months after his original

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Black Officers Are Torn Between Two Worlds Amid Protests

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Black police officers find themselves torn between two worlds: They feel the pain of seeing yet another black man killed at the hands of fellow officers, yet they must also try to keep the peace during angry protests fueled by that

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Can’t we all just get along? –

The only thing that can stop black on black carnage is spiritual teaching and training grounded in family, Christian understanding and church teaching in the way of the

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Preliminary probe points to arson in fires at three state buildings - Stabroek News

Preliminary investigations have found that the fires which gutted three public buildings including the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) office in Linden were acts of arson and de facto Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan has since asked for an increase in patrols in every policing

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Abolishing the police is about customer service, not to protect and serve

READ MORE: Abolishing the police: It’s time to throw the whole system away and start over

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From Marva with Love: Dr. NaRita Anderson, Ph.D.

She has a Ph.D. in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University and her research focuses on risk management decision-making strategies of baby boomers in the United

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Mathews, Meredith (1919-1992)

Prominent social and civic leader in African American Seattle, Washington, Meredith Mathews was born in Thomaston, Georgia on September 14, 1919. He attended public schools in Georgia and then moved to Ohio for college. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University in

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How Black history is taught in schools faces new scrutiny

The state’s new standards are going out to schools as a national conversation on racial injustice brings new scrutiny to how African American history is taught

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Black Lives Matter goes mainstream after Floyd's death

For much of its seven-year existence, the Black Lives Matter movement has been seen by many Americans as a divisive, even radical

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Essence CEO Richelieu Dennis resigns following scathing op-ed | New York Carib News

On June 28, an unknown group who dubbed themselves Black Female Anonymous published a scathing exposé on Medium about the alleged conditions of working at Essence magazine and demanded the immediate resignation of four top execs in what they call a bid to #TakeBackEssence. Named in the piece are

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Trump Says He's Signed a 'Strong' Order to Protect Monuments

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Report: 3 more officers to be charged in Floyd’s death

By Tim Sullivan and Matt Sedensky Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder, and the case against the main officer is being upgraded to

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Kenya: Activist Who Corrupted the Title of Book on Kenyatta's Speeches Freed on Bond

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Missing Black Girls Found After Cops Don’t Issue Amber Alert Amid Sex Trafficking Suspicions: Report

A pair of Black girls missing for days from Milwaukee was found by a search party of residents who banded together after police decided against issuing child abduction emergency alerts for them, according to reports across social media reports and from local

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Correctional services official dies of Covid-19

A Department of Correctional Services (DCS) official in the Western Cape has died of Covid-19, the DCS announced on Tuesday

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Human Rights Watch Calls For Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations A Century After Violence | The Oklahoma Eagle

Human Rights Watch argued that beyond the physical destruction, the state and city government created polices of structural racism that kept black people in Tulsa from

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Greenleaf: OWN Network hit is the number one cable telecast for women | The Atlanta Voice

The fifth and final season premiere of OWN’s hit megachurch drama “Greenleaf” (6/23/20) delivered 1.9 million viewers and ranked as Tuesday night’s #1 cable telecast in OWN’s key demographic of women 25-54, which is up +2% from last season’s premiere. The acclaimed drama from

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Greenleaf: OWN Network Hit is the Number One Cable Telecast for Women 25-54

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor The fifth and final season premiere of OWN’s hit megachurch drama “Greenleaf” (6/23/20) delivered 1.9 million viewers and ranked as Tuesday night’s #1 cable telecast in OWN’s key demographic of women 25-54, which is up

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Trinidad man convicted of killing woman 16 years ago tells police he did it again

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