N.Y. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Staff Member Was Rich Off Cocaine, Allegedly

Breonna Taylor’s Family to Receive $12 Million from City of Louisville to Settle Wrongful-Death Lawsuit: ‘I Am Deeply, Deeply Sorry for Breonna’s Death’

The family of Breonna Taylor reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the city of Louisville several months after she was killed by the police. Taylor’s family […]

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These Political Candidates Are Embracing Their Criminal Records

It’s a story Simmons, a candidate for state representative in Kitsap County, Washington, has shared at countless campaign events, which these days are entirely online: How she lost her car, her house, her nursing license, her voting

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

Judge Rules Prison Inmates are Eligible to receive $1,200 Stimulus Checks – Free Press of Jacksonville

By A.R. Shaw - Individuals who are serving time in prison are eligible to receive $1,200 stimulus checks. Judge O Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled [...]

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

FILM REVIEW: The 2020 American Black Film Festival – Goes Virtual – Arizona Informant Newspaper

FILM REVIEW: The 2020 American Black Film Festival – Goes Virtual By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic In the age of COVID, film festival directors are finding creative ways to screen movies for audiences without gathering large groups at indoor venues. Hence the 2020 ABFF Online Edition. For

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Jordan, Barbara (1936-1996)

Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston Texas’s Fifth Ward on February 21, 1936. She received her education in public schools in Texas and graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956 with a B.A. in political science and history. Jordan then received her LL.B. from Boston University School

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EXECUTIVE ORDER AUGMENTS OCCUPANCY | East Texas Review

Texas Governor Abbott Expands Capacity for Certain Services in Texas, Announces Guidance for Nursing Home, Long-Term Care Visitations Says: 'Texans should remember that a steady and significant decline in COVID-19 cases is not a sign to let up in our vigilance against the virus. Instead, Texans

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Source: East Texas Review | The Community Paper Everyone Should Read

T.I. Says Terry Crews and Candace Owens Should be Canceled Forever Because of Their Views on Black People

T.I. believes there are some in the Black community who’ve spoken out against racial justice so many times that Black folks shouldn’t deal with them

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Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California sue over federal law enforcement presence for protests – National News – The Black Chronicle

DNY59/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News (WASHINGTON) - Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California, sued the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security over the use of federal agents and officers…

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Source: The Black Chronicle

What is Zec’s role in filling party-list seats?

guest column:Election Resource Centre THE Election Resource Centre (ERC) puts forward this legal opinion on the role of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in filling vacancies that have arisen in party-list seats in the National Assembly. The opinion is an analysis of the current provisions of

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

T.I. Tells Black Folks to Buy Land and Not Material Items with Their Government Stimulus Checks

T.I. told Black people to think practically when it comes to receiving stimulus checks from the government during the coronavirus pandemic, and avoid using that […]

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Breonna Taylor’s Family Reaches $12 Million Settlement with Louisville, Ky.

During a press conference held on Tuesday in Louisville, Ky., Mayor Greg Fischer announced that the city had agreed to settle the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Breonna Taylor for $12 million. It is the largest sum paid by Louisville in a police misconduct case and the largest for

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'I Made a Mistake': Roy Jones Expresses Concern About Fighting Mike Tyson In November

Roy Jones Jr. had some time to think about his boxing match against Mike Tyson since it was announced in July and admitted that he might've made the wrong

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'I'm Not Ready for This': Angela Simmons' Son Cracks Fans Up When He Asks Mom If Some Girls from Instagram Can Come Over

Angela Simmons is in for some trouble when it comes to her son and the ladies, and it looks like it's already starting! The 32-year-old Simmons Beauty

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Woman Has Racist Meltdown at New York Verizon Store Over Mask Policy, Throws Item at Workers

Verizon is seeking the identity of a woman who, upset over the company's mask policy, yelled a racial slur as well as assaulted and cursed at employees in

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#StayWoke The Eagle Newswire: Trumped In Tulsa, Statues And Images Of Oppression And Qualified Immunity | The Oklahoma Eagle

In the week before President Donald J. Trump’s kick-off rally in Tulsa, there was valid concern what the trip might mean for our

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Source: The Oklahoma Eagle

Report: Death Penalty Cases Show History Of Racial Disparity

WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people, a new report found. The report from the Death Penalty Information Center is a history lesson in

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Hard to believe that Mr Pompeo is in the region solely for a non-military agenda - Stabroek News

Dear Editor, I am writing this letter a few hours before the arrival in Guyana, from Suriname of US Secretary of State Mr Mike Pompeo. The article Hard to believe that Mr Pompeo is in the region solely for a non-military agenda appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936

In the article below, Kimberley Mangun, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Utah, describes how she “discovered” Beatrice Morrow Cannady, an editor who spent nearly 25 years advocating civil rights in Oregon. Cannady used her Portland-based

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Speaking out - Stabroek News

Politicians the world over mistakenly think that they, and they alone, have the sole rights and reserved privileges to expound on matters of national interest. The article Speaking out appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

What's on Miles' Mind?: "DON"

That support includes the love and loyalty of local civilians who see the Don as a Robin Hood

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Source: The Florida Star

(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and

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Source: Black Past

Support Continues To Grow For David Hackney In 11th District Legislative Race

Support continues to grow for David Hackney in the race for 11th Legislative District Representative, Position

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

SONA disruption comes back to haunt the EFF as Parliament takes action | News24

Parliament’s powers and privileges committee has met to deliberate on the legal opinion on the SONA-disruption in February.

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Reality Star Spent $2 Million Coronavirus Loan On Jewelry and Rolls Royce

A reality TV star in Atlanta has spent $85,000 of the $2 million emergency Coronavirus loan issued by the federal government on jewelry, authorities said on

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Source: Your Black World

‘Los Pinchos’ Gets Pinched: Spanish Gang Nabbed in Major Bust – The Wilmington Journal

Authorities have put the clamps on drug-smuggling gang known as 'Los Pinchos,' detaining 64 suspected traffickers and seizing eight tons of hash, six boats and 16 vehicles valued at a total of about 3 million [...]

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Source: The Wilmington Journal

‘Los Pinchos’ Gets Pinched: Spanish Gang Nabbed in Major Bust

Authorities have put the clamps on drug-smuggling gang known as 'Los Pinchos,' detaining 64 suspected traffickers and seizing eight tons of hash, six boats and ...

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Source: South Florida Times

Louisville agrees to pay family of Breonna Taylor several million dollars in settlement - Face2Face Africa

The city of Louisville will pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed six months after the 26-year-old EMT was killed by police. Taylor was with her boyfriend Kenneth Walker when she was shot by three Louisville police officers who broke into her

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Violence has reached unacceptable levels – women lawyers - Stabroek News

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) on Sunday said that violence in the society has reached unacceptable levels. The article Violence has reached unacceptable levels – women lawyers appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Hero Boxer on Weigh-In Day Leaps to Perform CPR on Collapsed Fight Promoter | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star

Weigh-in day is a boxer's second most demanding public ritual. Fighters slim down for a photographed stare-down, and then only have 24 hours to rehydrate and mentally prepare. Standing nose-to-nose with the undefeated fighter Steven Nelson, the last thing DeAndre Ward expected to do was save

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Source: The Florida Star

Multi-million settlement reached in Breonna Taylor lawsuit

By Dylan Lovan Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning

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