New homelessness data: How does California compare to the rest of the country?

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Biden Tells ‘The Daily Show’s’ Trevor Noah He Doesn’t Agree With Defund The Police Approach

“I don’t believe police should be defunded but I think that conditions should be placed upon them where departments are having to take significant reform,” said

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Report: Structural racism — from segregated housing to limited job opportunities — responsible for high rate of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans

Long-established elements of structural racism, from substandard housing to mass incarceration to limited job opportunities, are responsible for the disproportionate toll COVID-19 is taking on African Americans in Chicago and elsewhere, a new paper from the Chicago Urban League argues.The

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Source: Chicago Tribune

Oakland School Board Votes Unanimously to Disband the OUSD Police Dept. Oakland School Board Votes Unanimously to Disband the OUSD Police Dept.

In a win for anti-police violence activists in Oakland, the Oakland School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to disband the OUSD Police Dept., committing to eliminate the department that has 20 sworn officers and 120 school resource

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The Impact of the HEROES Act on Black Communities | Afro

Black Businesses & Access to Capital: Data also suggest Black businesses were less likely to receive forgivable loans in the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), and the HEROES Act attempts to address some of these issues by directing additional resources to community

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

(1886) Lucy Parsons, “I am An Anarchist”

Lucy E. Parsons was a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement. Born a slave near Waco, Texas, she married Albert R. Parsons who had become a white radical Republican after serving first as a Confederate soldier. In 1873 Albert and Lucy to move to Chicago in 1873 where

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How LEAP Innovations is Making Remote Learning Easier for Educators, Parents, and Students

Recognizing the need for assistance, and to ensure that students continue to receive the best education possible, Chicago-based nonprofit, LEAP Innovations, launched a free six-week Remote Learning Seminar Series, taking place each Wednesday, aimed at equipping educators with tools to help

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Source: Chicago Defender

Feeding families during COVID-19, AVA holds ‘Memorial Grab and Go Barbecue’ Friday, May 22

ST. PETERSBURG — Since 2008, Advantage Village Academy, Inc. (AVA) has been working to “educate, empower, and enhance the quality of life” for those in the south St. Pete community, providing educational support, entrepreneurial training, mentoring, and community feedings and

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Father’s Day 2020: Legacies passed down during.

One of the most touching stories from last year’s NFL Draft was the story of former Alabama running back Josh Jacobs, who emerged as a first round pick of the Raiders in the 2019 NFL

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Source: ThyBlackMan

$3 Trillion HEROES Act promises more COVID-19 relief for consumers and businesses

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Kevin and Bill Deserved Better | Afro

This week Brown and his partner Bill Maughlin, who are co-owners of Nancy by SNAC, a restaurant on North Ave. in the Station North Arts Community, were physically attacked and subsequently terrorized by individuals experiencing

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Kenya: Between the Lines

The story was about Kelvin' Ochieng', a young man who had ended up homeless on the rough streets of Nairobi after graduating with a first-class honours in actuarial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Collins, Barbara-Rose (1939- )

U.S. Congresswoman Barbara-Rose Collins was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 13, 1939 to Lunar N. and Vera (Jones) Richardson. Collins attended Wayne State University in Detroit. Her career began at Wayne State University where she served as business manager, worked in the Physics department, and

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Source: Black Past

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Streetwear Giant Supreme Pledges $500,000 to Social Justice Groups

Popular streetwear brand Supreme has announced they are going to donate half a million dollars to multiple organizations that are at the forefront of fighting and combating social

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Cops-Cops, Do Your Duty-Intervene.

The problem is most big city police departments do not have any written, or enforced, policy requiring officers to intervene and report other officers who commit

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Union Mission Receives $7,500 Donation From Gulfstream Due to COVID-19

In addition, this funding supports access to mental health counseling (to the underinsured and uninsured) not only to Union Mission clients but also to the community at

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”

On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Comedian, actor, and philanthropist Bill Cosby was asked to deliver the main address. Cosby

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Source: Black Past

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Kids in shelters find joy amid coronavirus thanks to Chelsea Phaire and her art kits

The 10-year-old from Danbury, Connecticut, has sent more than 1,500 art kits to kids in foster care and homeless

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Kenya slum demolition sparks protests amid virus restrictions

Hundreds of protesters in Kenya blocked one of Nairobi’s major highways with burning tires to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people and the closure of an adjacent food

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Dixon, Aaron (1949– )

Aaron Dixon was born in Chicago on January 2, 1949. He moved with his family to Seattle at a young age and grew up in the city’s historically black Central District. Influenced by his parents’ commitment to social justice, Dixon became one of the leading activists in the Seattle area and

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Source: Black Past

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New Rule Could Deny Black Developers Access to $4 Billion-Plus in State Housing Funds

African American developers across California are worried about a rule change the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Poll: Many Americans won't return to gyms, dining out

Just 42 per cent of those who went to concerts, movies, theatres or sporting events, at least monthly before the outbreak, say they'd do so in the next few weeks if they

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Trump, Hailing Law Enforcement, Signs Executive Order Calling For Police Reform

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police departments to improve training — a step critics say falls short of what is needed to curb police officers' use of force against

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Source: Stories About Black History

Chelsea Phaire, 10, Donates Over 1,500 Art Kits to Kids in Foster Care and Homeless Shelters During COVID-19 Crisis

Chelsea Phaire, a 10-year-old from Danbury, Connecticut, has sent more than 1,500 children in homeless shelters and foster care homes art kits to give them something to play and create with during these extra-stressful times brought on by the coronavirus

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Source: GOOD BLACK NEWS

A Conversation with Consumption: Why I, A Black Man, Gave Up On Air Jordans

Multiply the many delicious things denied to you by the very nature of one’s Blackness, and it becomes impossible to not understand why Black men have a desire for

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Source: Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture

Mayor Duggan Announces Community Health Corps To Aid Detroiters

Duggan is alluding to his plan to direct $31 million in federal funding from the CARES Act to helping Detroiters impacted by

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Source: Michigan Chronicle - Powered by Real Times Media

This Day in History - May 25

1961: US President John F Kennedy asks the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the

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

Frances Ellen Harper Branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1891-1895)

The Frances Ellen Harper branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Seattle by Mrs. Emma Ray in 1891. It was a local branch of the WCTU, an organization dedicated to total abstinence from alcohol based on the belief that alcohol was responsible for many of the economic

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Source: Black Past

(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first major public address on the War in Vietnam at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. In that address he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the

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OPD Detains Homeless Aid Volunteers, Violates Mask Policy | Post News Group

Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers detained and handcuffed two volunteers last Saturday who were maintaining a freshwater supply for a large community of unhoused residents that live near Wood Street in West Oakland for possession of a stolen vehicle, but let them go after approximately five

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