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Seeking inclusion, Grammys change name of a music category - Black News Channel

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Grammy Awards have changed the name of their best world music album category to the best global music album, an attempt to find 'a more relevant, modern and inclusive term.' The Recording Academy said in a statement that the new name 'symbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk and 'non-American' that the former term embodied.' 'As we continue to embrace a truly global mindset, we update our language to reflect a more appropriate categorization that seeks to engage and celebrate the current scope of music from around […]

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Black-Owned Laboratory Uses Artificial Intelligence-Based Drug Discovery Platform to Develop Treatment for COVID-19 | Afro
The development of ENU200, as a therapeutic, is targeted to treat the up to 80% of asymptomatic, mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 viral
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
Lockdown: Senegal arrests 74 people over violent protests against coronavirus curfew
Dakar – Senegalese police arrested more than 70 people on Wednesday after protests tinged by violence broke out in several cities across the West African country demanding a night-time coronavirus curfew be
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Source: https://www.news24.com
National Action Network holds vigil in Eutaw for George Floyd
The National Action Network (NAN) of West Alabama held a vigil and memorial program to honor George Floyd on Saturday, May 30, 2020, in front of the old Courthouse in
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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
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Zim poet appointed Unesco affiliate
INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED poet and writer, Mbizo Chirasha has received a major boost in his artistic career after he was accepted as a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)-Rila affiliate artist, joining an esteemed team of other international creatives on
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
American Policing Has Always Been About Enforcing White Supremacy
The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and
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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0
‘Live Aid’ for gaming: How gamers came together to fight coronavirus
Gamers are contributing with charity streams, organized virtual events and competitions to rake in money for COVID-19 relief and support for those who are feeling isolated by global quarantine
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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper
Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Dak Prescott Donates $1 Million to Address Police Training and Racism
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott’s $1 million donation – announced on June 3rd in an impassioned Instagram post – will go toward improving police training and addressing “systematic racism through education and advocacy in our
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26 years of democracy have not yet ensured black lives matter as much as white ones - NMF
In South Africa, 26 years of democracy have not yet ensured that black lives matter as much as white ones, the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) said on
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NDEMO: What is Africa’s future after pandemic?
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Report: 25% of African Americans Plan On Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
Despite this fact, a new poll shows many won’t be getting a vaccine once it becomes
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Newswire : Trump says he’ll deploy military to states if they don’t stop violent protests
Escalating his rhetoric during a period of roiling national crises, President Trump on Monday threatened to deploy the U.S. military to cities or states that don’t take “necessary” actions to halt violent protests, saying the armed forces will “quickly solve the problem for
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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
4 die in new Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
DR Congo on Monday reported a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country's northwest, just weeks before it hoped to declare the end of another epidemic in the
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Source: https://www.news24.com
Musician condemns fake COVID-19 news
UP-AND-COMING musician Obvious Dziwanyika has joined the fight against COVID-19 through music by releasing his debut offering Adjustments in which he condemns the spread of fake news about the
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
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Return of youth sports welcomed and feared
Black parents fear their children will get sick if they return to sports more than do White and Latino parents, says a new Aspen Institute Power Play youth sports
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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder
News Analysis: Racism, Unrest, Police Brutality. Is America Living 1968 All Over Again? Yes, and No – Free Press of Jacksonville
In November 1968, Republican Richard Nixon won the White House after promising to quell the country’s unrest and restore “law and order” to its sundered
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
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A second-degree knee!
Last Monday, on Memorial Day, at 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, four White police officers murdered George Floyd, a Black
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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder
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Court orders improvements at isolation centres
The High Court has ordered government to improve conditions at quarantine and isolation centres in the country as COVID-19 cases continue to rise, with 222 cases recorded as of Wednesday, most of them at the holding
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
George Floyd Protestor Is Fatally Shot By ‘Homophobic Racist Bigot,’ Complaints Say
According to Daily Beast, 22-year-old James Scurlock was shot and killed outside a bar in Omaha, Nebraska as unrest spread across the city over George Floyd‘s death and other victims of police
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Americans Express Outrage Over Police Murder
From the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Louisville, Atlanta, Washington, DC, and New York City, and the bright lights of the Big Apple, African Americans are expressing outrage over the police killing of George Floyd, the
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Source: The New Journal and Guide
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US wrestles with economic response to coronavirus pandemic
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a $3 trillion stimulus bill, known as the Heroes Act, last month that would provide an additional $1,200 direct payment per family member and $600 per household, close to $1 trillion to state, local, territorial and tribal
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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper
Green Spaces Are Supposed to Be an Escape. Not for Black Men.
We don’t know whether Amy Cooper, a white woman, considered any of those outcomes when she called the police on Christian after he admonished her for refusing to leash her dog in a bird garden, per park
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Source: CityLab
Minnesota’s Black Newspapers Speak Out Amidst Uprising in Wake of Police Murder of George Floyd
People are upset and outraged, and folks are still protesting, and some folks take advantage of the protest,” stated Mel Reeves, editor of the Minnesota
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Source: New Orleans Data News Weekly – The People’s Paper
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Tracee Ellis Ross is ready for center stage with ‘The High Note’
Now Ross has a starring role in what should have been a theatrically released
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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder
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UN agency says COVID-19 an opportunity to fix remittance system
ROME, Italy (CMC) — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says that the COVID-19 pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity to fix the remittance system in the Caribbean and other
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LETTERS: Chicken meat imports hurting local sector
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EC hospital beset by issues as Mkhize raises concerns about spike in Covid-19 cases
While Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has raised concerns about the rapid increase of Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape, its largest casualty unit with a dedicated isolation site, Livingstone Hospital, is
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LIVESTREAM — REPLAY — FIYAH!: Russell Simmons — Fireside Chats with the Black Press
During a recent meeting organized by Anchor of Hope Ministries, a local, faith-based nonprofit assisting the formerly incarcerated, Holmes stated that the Black church has historically been centered to meet the community’s needs in a variety of
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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA
Pressing questions about Africa and African countries
AFRICAN governments have been cheated for decades by Western countries through the assistance given to them under the auspices of aid and
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People
Black Youth Are Central Force in California George Floyd Protests
Sale and other members of the youth-led movement met officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) at the steps on the east side of the state building adjacent to California State Capitol
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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California
Mnangagwa running scared: Chamisa
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa has said the government is running scared of the people and it is  time to boot President Emmerson Mnangagwa out of
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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

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