Jacob Blake: What we know about Wisconsin police shooting

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Source: MadameNoire

Milwaukee Urban League's Call to Action- Remarks of Dr. Eve M. Hall

My name is Dr. Eve M. Hall and I am proud to be the president and CEO of the Milwaukee Urban

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

Opportunity Wisconsin Statement on May Jobs Report

Opportunity Wisconsin also releases new graphic outlining the tough choices Wisconsin workers continue to face as corporations get billions

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

Breaking the Cycle

I believe God has decided that it’s time for me to find new battles for folks that will appreciate my

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Colin Kaepernick’s Girlfriend Nessa Diab Calls Out NFL Commissioner For Not Mentioning Him In His Black Lives Matter Statement

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell released a video statement addressing the ongoing issue of racism and admitted that the league was “wrong for not listening to NFL players

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Source: MadameNoire

Guest Editorial: Trump’s threat to WHO is dangerous and callous

Last month, President Donald Trump followed through on a threat to temporarily cut U.S. funding to the World Health

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Source: New Pittsburgh Courier - Powered by Real Times Media

Congratulations, Patrick Jones!

Hobbies: Working, Music and being a DJ

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

Meet the Black Republican Woman Trying to Unseat Civil Rights Icon John Lewis – Free Press of Jacksonville

Stanton-King could use a dose of that reality herself, according to Dwight Bullard, political director of New Florida Majority, an organization that supports progressive Democrats and people of

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

This Day in History - June 8

1915: Allied forces take Neuville in France from Germans in World War

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

Fighting physical and emotional scars - Man injured in 2010 West Kingston incursion accuses Office of the Public Defender of misleading him

Still suffering from a gunshot wound he said he is sure came from a shot fired by a member of the security forces during the 2010 manhunt for West Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, George Harriott has expressed, 10 years later, that he may have been misled by the Office of the Public

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Marlo Hampton Leads Black Women Of Bravo In Special Black Lives Matter PSA

And while Bravo has stepped up to the plate with special TV programming to discuss the Black Lives Matter Movement, Real Housewives of Atlanta‘s honorary peach Marlo Hampton has gone a step further with a special PSA featuring the Black women of RHOA, Real Housewives of Potomac, and Married To

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Source: MadameNoire

George Floyd GoFundMe raises more than $11M in 5 days | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The mass protests across the country in recent days in response to the death of George Floyd have also inspired people, charitable groups, community bail funds and Democratic

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Chicagoans marching united in protest over murder of George Floyd | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Most of the crowd of estimated hundreds this past weekend that flowed from Federal Plaza to Michigan Avenue and the Magnificent Mile as well as to other Loop streets were young people—white, Black and brown—who echoed a united call for

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Source: The Crusader Newspaper Group

Where do we go from here?: Oprah to host conversation on systemic racism

Discovery, Inc. is the #1 pay TV portfolio in the U.S., reaching 1 in 3 US TV households on an average night, and for the first time in its history, will simulcast a program across all of its 19 U.S. brands, including top networks OWN, Discovery, HGTV, ID, Food Network and

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

GoFundMe Rejects Candace Owens’ Campaign For Racist Bar Owner Who Called George Floyd A ‘Thug’

In a move that she was probably hoping would further endear her to the very people who actually hate her and people who look like her, Owens started the online crowdfunding campaign for a bar owner in Alabama who called George Floyd a “thug” in a social media post that also addressed protesters as

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Source: NewsOne

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., Daniel W. Snare speak out, 'Silence is no longer acceptable'

Floyd’s murder sparked peaceful demonstrations in cities across the country, demonstrations that, in Minneapolis and a few other places, turned toward

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

George Floyd remembered at powerful memorial service in Minneapolis

One of the most powerful moments during the memorial service Thursday for George Floyd occurred near the end of the ceremony as attendees stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on

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

Union Files Complaint Against NBC, ‘America’s Got Talent’ | Afro

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gabrielle Union filed a complaint Thursday with the state of California against NBC and the producers of “America’s Got Talent,” the latest move in a fight over her allegations that she was fired for objecting to an on-set environment that tolerated

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Charter School Kneel for George Floyd, 6/8 @5pm

Charter School Community Gathers for 9 Minute Kneel In Solidarity for George Floyd and Black Lives Matter Event Monday, June 8 @ 5pm

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

Open Letter To My Fellow Members Of Law Enforcement

The disproportionate numbers of black, brown and disenfranchised Americans that are over-policed fundamentally will not change if we only focus on tactics and training without acknowledging the structural and systemic racism that policing in America is responsible

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

Houston to hold 6-hour public viewing of Floyd’s casket

Mourners will be able to view George Floyd’s casket Monday in his hometown of Houston, the final stop of a series of memorials in his

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

John Lewis visits 'Black Lives Matter Plaza,' calls protests 'very moving'

met with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and paid a visit to the site where the mayor had “Black Lives Matter” painted on a road that leads to the White

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

Ella Jones is elected first Black mayor of Ferguson, MO

Jones is also the first woman to lead the Missouri city, which erupted in protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black

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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

University Of Louisville Creates Nursing Scholarship In Memoriam Of Breonna Taylor

Breonna Taylor aspired to become a nurse before her life was senselessly taken away at the hands of law enforcement officials on March

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Source: NewsOne

Trina Issues Second Apology: ‘I Sincerely Apologize For Any Grief I Have Caused’

After Trina called Black Lives Matters protesters “animals,” she faced major backlash from fans and others on social

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Source: MadameNoire

J'can calls on UK to drop diplomacy in dealing with racism, inequality

ONE of Britain's recognised influential blacks — Jamaican Paulette Simpson — has called for a movement away from heavy reliance on diplomacy to treat with racism and inequality in

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

Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’

As a product of segregation, I so vividly recall mama, grandma, granddaddy, community activists, and educators sounding the alarm: “Education is the way up and

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Source: http://theweeklychallenger.com

‘This Must Stop!’, By Dr. E. Faye Williams – Free Press of Jacksonville

Although not lost to COVID-19, one other name must be added to those we have lost – George

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

Mitt Romney joins Black Lives Matter protest

Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter protesters in

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

Downtown Detroit To Be Lit In Purple To Honor George Floyd

The effort is spearheaded by Councilmember Castañeda López, Mayor Mike Duggan and Cynthia Pasky, Strategic Staffing Solutions CEO and Chair of the Downtown Detroit Partnership, with strong support from Detroit City

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

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