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Mrs. Evers Prays Husband’s Death ‘Was Not In Vain | Afro

By Ray Abrams AFRO Staff Correspondent June 22, 1963 Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi is a bitter state meeting pleas for equality with bigotry and bullets. In its capital today, three youngsters are fatherless. With unbelieving eyes they saw him gunned to death in the driveway of their home. “Get up, daddy,” they pleaded as they []

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Attorney Zulu Ali Inducted into Prestigious Who's Who Registry | Afro

Nationwide - Attorney Zulu Ali has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who for Excellence in Law and Activism. Since 1898, Marquis Who's Who has recognized accomplished and prominent professionals in its biographical publications. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled

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Lizzo Shows Love To Black-Owned Brand Thick By. Robyn In Matching Bikini And Mask Set

Plus other times Lizzo proved she’s 100% into fashion!

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Baton Rouge Resident Blasts School Board Member For Shopping Online During His Speech About Confederate Monument

Gary Chambers Jr., an East Baton Rouge community advocate, was in the midst of making a passionate speech urging the parish's school board to rename a public school named after a Confederate general when he noticed something strange: board member and District 8 representative Connie Bernard

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Being Black In America Today: Share Your Experience : NPR

By choosing “I agree” below, you agree that NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide

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Sun Goddess!: Mary J. Blige Enjoys Her Own Wine In Denim Booty Shorts And A Crop Top

Phew, it's a hot girl summer indeed!

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Evers Fight Against Injustice Lives Through Current Athletes | Afro

By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com In many respects Medgar Evers’ life has been defined more by his death than his impact on the fight against systemic racism in the United States. If Evers hadn’t been assassinated in 1963 the same year Camelot ended with the assassination of

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We Hurt, We Cry, and We Continue to Ask Why The Killing of George Floyd

It was the same hatred in the man who killed Medgar and many others because of their skin color that we saw kill George Floyd on May

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TUNE-IN- TODAY: 6PM EST/3PM PST for a Virtual Town Hall: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible | Afro

The post TUNE-IN- TODAY: 6PM EST/3PM PST for a Virtual Town Hall: One Nation, Under God, Indivisible appeared first on Afro.

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Ciara Models Her Baby Bump In A Fringe Bikini

Scroll through more pictures of confident mamas-to-be!

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Civil Rights Advocate Myrlie Evers-Williams On The Change Of Mississippi Flag

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers who was assassinated in their home state of Mississippi, about the state removing the Confederate insignia from its

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Colgate Donates Millions Worth of Hygiene Essentials to In-Need Communities to Combat COVID-19 | Afro

Colgate Mobilizes its Dental Vans and Partners with Feeding America® to Distribute Health-and-Hygiene Essentials to Support COVID-19 Relief Schools, Food Banks to Receive Donations to Support People In Need Colgate-Palmolive is repurposing its fleet of mobile dental vans and tapping into a network

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Mrs. Evers Prays Husband’s Death ‘Was Not In Vain

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi is a bitter state meeting pleas for equality with bigotry and

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Issa Rae Reacts To Donald Trump Liking A Tweet About ‘Insecure’

On Sunday (June 7), a fan of Insecure tweeted about the dwindling relationship between characters Issa and Molly on the show and it got a very surprising “like” from none other than, Donald

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Seniors Can Protect Health, Finances During Pandemic | Afro

By Chris Orestis Special to the AFRO Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, health officials have been clear and consistent in their message to seniors: while anyone can fall victim to COVID-19, those who are 65 and older are in an especially high-risk group. That’s why older Americans need to be

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America's Dad!: Barack Obama Proves He's The Ultimate Girl Dad With These Heartwarming Moments

Our forever POTUS loves his two daughters, Sasha and Malia.

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From smoker to marathon woman: Brazil woman completes six of the world’s biggest races | Afro

The Abbott World Marathon Majors comprises six of the worlds largest marathons, stretching from Berlin to Tokyo. Its a feat for any runner, let alone one who once deemed herself a sedentary smoker. Brazil native Sara Velloso, an avid smoker for 17 years, is now, at 52, an accomplished competitor in

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Cases Spike In Sunbelt, Other States Back Off On Reopening | Afro

By JAKE COYLE and JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — California closed bars, theaters and indoor restaurant dining all over again across most of the state Wednesday, and Arizonas outbreak grew more severe by nearly every measure as the surging coronavirus crisis across the South

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Quadruplets die in government-run hospital | Atlanta Daily World

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — When 21-year-old Anne Christelle Ntsama gave birth to quadruplets, she was over the moon. She believed her children, who had been born prematurely at Yaounde Central Hospital, one of the largest public hospitals in Cameroon, would grow into adulthood. But soon after their

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Luxury Size Inclusive Fashion Brand 11 Honoré Launches In-House Collection Headed By Black Designer

Size inclusive, luxury e-tailer 11 Honoré has launched its first in-house collection comprised of chic, understated pieces that can be seamlessly incorporated into

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Sunbelt States Rush To Line Up Hospital Beds, Not Barstools | Afro

By TAMARA LUSH and JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the barstools and rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in

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Fight breaks out over food shortage as refugees go hungry | Afro

Kampala, UgandaWith food gone and six children to feed, 40-year-old Zawadi Kizungu had no choice but to walk miles to find food, and stepped into a food shortage troubling all of Central Uganda. She braved the early morning chill and walked 16 kilometers, nearly 10 miles, from her home in

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Maryland Food Truck Week Kicks Off! | Afro

By AFRO Staff Get ready to celebrate food trucks from July 10 to July 26 throughout Central Maryland. While Maryland continues to flatten the curve, food trucks are serving up our communities by setting up in neighborhoods in order to offer more food options to all residents. “Food Truck Night” at

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AFRO Exclusive: Black Face Photo Sparks Concern | Afro

By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO A picture snapped nearly eight years ago in Rotterdam, Netherlands led to a resignation letter from the lead contractor in South Baltimore’s Middle Branch waterfront redevelopment. The Baltimore City Board of Estimates announced May 11 that West 8 Urban Design

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Data Breaches and Attacks on the Internet of Things Are the Cybersecurity trends of 2020 - PensacolaVoice.com

The IT ecosystem has become vulnerable more than ever, with hackers expanding the front of their attacks from passive phishing to identity theft, cloud configuration errors, and remote access capture. So, it is no wonder why people are searching for some antivirus tools, look through the lists of

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Motorbike mission: Activist delivers sunscreen to Ugandans with albinism | Afro

For street vendor Barbra Anyinge, who normally sells shoes in Lira, a town in northern Uganda, the pandemic has made one essential especially scarce: sunscreen. While usually Anyinges difficulty in obtaining the recommended high-protection sunscreen is its up to $20 cost, the pandemic has made it

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Gileads $2,340 Price For Coronavirus Drug Draws Criticism | Afro

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer The maker of a drug shown to shorten recovery time for severely ill COVID-19 patients says it will charge $2,340 for a typical treatment course for people covered by government health programs in the United States and other developed countries. Gilead

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Five Minutes Before the Klan Shows Up | Afro

By Dr. Kaye Whitehead As someone who grew up in Jim Crow South Carolina, my father likes to call himself a survivor. He looked White supremacy and racial hatred in the eye, and though he has not won, he wants to note that he has not lost, not yet. When I was in

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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay | Afro

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White power!” The tweet displayed a video of a parade of supporters of the President riding golf carts through

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