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WaterTower Theatre Announces Updates to Summer 2020 Programming | Dallas Weekly

WaterTower Theatre announced that it will round out its 2019-20 season with video on demand filmed presentations of I Am My Own Wife this July and a star-studded concert event in

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Beyonce drops surprise single ‘Black Parade’ on Juneteenth – Voice and Viewpoint

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Beyonce did not let Juneteenth pass without dropping one of her signature surprises _ a new single called “Black

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Texas woman calls her Black boss the N-word after getting fired

(Credit: screenshot/TMZ) A Texas woman launched into a racist tirade after her Black boss fired her and called him the N-word. The unidentified woman repeatedly called her boss a “motherf*****”, the N-word and at one point started a freestyle rap by using the slur,” TMZ reported.

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Source: theGrio

Ezekiel Elliott and Other Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans Players Test Positive for the Coronavirus

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is one of several NFL players in Texas who’ve tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to NFL

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

The Artist and Activist Behind Birmingham’s Black Lives Matter Street Mural

Work began Wednesday on a “Black Lives Matter’’ street art installation in downtown Birmingham near Railroad

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Source: The Birmingham Times

J. Prince to NBA YoungBoy: ‘Texas IS my Business…Dumb Boy’

According to Source Magazine (the so-called Bible of hip-hop), the feud between star new-school rapper NBA YoungBoy (pictured right) and Rap-A-Lot Records CEO J. Prince (pictured left) lives

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Source: Your Black World

As COVID-19 cases surge in US, rural areas seeing jump too

While much of the focus of concerns that the United States is experiencing a dangerous second wave has been on big Sunbelt states that are reporting thousands of new cases a day — like Texas and Florida — the worrying trend is also happening in places like Kansas, where livestock outnumber

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VIDEO: Endangered Maine senator calls for focusing coronavirus relief on small businesses

Employers with more than 300 employees might get kicked out of the Paycheck Protection Program, if one senator

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Compton Cowboys shed light on the forgotten history of the African-American rancher

The Compton Cowboys shed light on the power of horses and the forgotten history of the African-American

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Source: Fox News - Breaking News Updates | Latest News Headlines | Photos & News Videos

Dr. Anthony Fauci Warns U.S. Could Soon Record 100,000 Coronavirus Cases a Day

That was the stark warning of top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci in testimony to a Senate committee on

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Comcast celebrates scholarship leaders and achievers in virtual celebration

In celebration of the 2020-21 Comcast NBCUniversal Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Recipients, Comcast, along with CW39 Morning Dose Anchor Shannon LaNier, hosted a special celebration to award 30 Texas Seniors with $75,000 in scholarship funds on Thursday, June 18

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

Film About Texas Mexican Food Slated For Labor Day Completion

New documentary film will tell the story about the indigenous food of

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

Florida site of GOP convention orders wearing of masks

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty

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Source: theGrio

JHTA calls for clarification on COVID pretesting regime

Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson says there needs to be further clarification on the pretesting regime for visitors from certain American states as part of Jamaica’s COVID-19-prevention

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

June 19 is Juneteenth – and Cities Around the Country Have Now Declared It An Official Holiday

As protests continue around the country – and the nation is pushed to reckon with its racist history – cities and states around the country are declaring Juneteenth an official holiday, will momentum building for Congress to declare it a federal holiday as

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Newsom orders seven counties to close bars as coronavirus surges

Bars are required to close in Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, San Joaquin and Tulare counties — which have been on the state’s watch list for more than two weeks — and recommended to close in Contra Costa, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Stanislaus and

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Why Donald Trump Won’t Run For a Second Term

This is an opinion column

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Source: The Birmingham Times

A Black Cowboy Confronts the Whitewashed History Of The West | The Oklahoma Eagle

But as with many elements of Americana, the idea of who cowboys are is actually whitewashed — scholars estimate that in the pioneer era, one in four cowboys were

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

How John Roberts left the door open to more state limits on abortion | The Atlanta Voice

Chief Justice John Roberts provided on Monday the decisive vote to preserve access to abortion in Louisiana, a ringing victory for the clinics and doctors who spent years fighting a law they claimed would effectively ban the procedure in the

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Waters: 'Trump more focused on saving statues of slaveholders and Confederate generals than protecting Americans from coronavirus' | The Atlanta Voice

Instead, we are left with Donald Trump, an incompetent and heartless man who is more focused on saving statues of slaveholders, Confederate generals, and racists, than protecting the health of living and breathing

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Pandemic boosts profits for Big Tech

Internet domain registrar GoDaddy recently launched an initiative to support small businesses forced to close their physical spaces because of

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Source: South Florida Times

Juneteenth Brings Anti-Racism Protesters Out From Coast To Coast

The real looting happens when innocent Black men are gunned down by police officers with no cause or

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

Gov. Greg Abbott bans elective surgeries in four South Texas counties to preserve hospital capacity | Dallas Weekly

Elective procedures are now banned in eight counties around the state — Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Travis, Cameron, Hidalgo, Nueces, and Webb

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott Tests Positive For Coronavirus

Source: Tom Pennington / Getty

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Source: Black America Web

Mourning and Mayhem: California Legislators React to the Brutal Killing of George Floyd

Protestors and pastors across California as well as angered citizens and politicians — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — have all responded to the violent death of an unarmed Black man in

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

'White Lives Matter' painted on African American monument

The statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Richmond, Virginia's, Monument Avenue has been vandalised with the words "White Lives Matter", a phrase used as a banner by far-right

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Source: Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera

News You Ought to Know

DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines has banned a man who was kicked off a plane for refusing to wear a face covering, among the first such incidents since airlines promised to step up enforcement of their mask

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Florida, Texas and Arizona see record highs for new COVID-19 cases

Three Republican-led states are seeing a record number of new COVID-19 cases since their

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Source: theGrio

21 Ways Texans Can Reduce Those Monthly Bills

The good news is that when it comes to monthly bill, there are ways in which you can cut

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Source: North Dallas Gazette

John C. Norman Jr: Cardiovascular Surgeon and Artificial Heart Pioneer

In 1962, Dr. Norman was a National Institutes of Health fellow at England’s University of Birmingham and, in 1964, he joined the surgical staff at Boston City Hospital while serving as an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical

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Source: Black Then

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