Tabitha Brown Pursued Acting For 23 Years Before Landing On 'The Chi'

"Girlfriends Check In” — a new series on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network — pandemic self-care in a virtual space.

It’s with this in mind that OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network created “Girlfriends Check-In” , the new all-female Saturday night virtual reality show that’s packed with celebrity friends who have come together —virtually for an uplifting and light-hearted conversation focusing on love, friendship and

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Band-Aid to launch Black and brown flesh-toned bandages after 99 years

(Credit: band-aid) After almost 100 years on the market, it appears Band-Aid has suddenly realized that “flesh tone” isn’t a universal color and is coming out with a new line of differently hued products that “embrace the beauty of diverse skin.” We’re listening to you,” the brand wr

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Source: theGrio

Westerners flock beaches

It would appear that the Government’s decision to reopen beaches on Sunday could not have come sooner for hundreds of residents across western Jamaica as they turned out in droves for fun and frolic in Trelawny, St James, Hanover, and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Two Sides of the Law: Derwin Brown and Sidney Dorsey

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Source: Black Then

Black Student Accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Launches Company to End Gun Violence

Nationwide — RuQuan “Ru” Brown, a 17-year old high school senior from Seattle who has excelled in his classes and sports, has been recently accepted into 24 colleges including Harvard, Yale, and

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Source: http://www.blacknews.com

Mayor-Elect Of Ferguson, Mo., On Where Her City Stands, After Michael Brown

Mayor-elect Ella Jones, currently a city council member who was elected mayor on Tuesday, will become the first black and first female mayor of

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Source: Stories About Black History

'Remember Who We're Fighting For': The Uneasy Existence Of Seattle's Protest Camp

Jim Urquhart for NPR

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Source: Stories About Black History

Assistance to students of Brown’s Town High pour in from alumni

The past students have provided items for care packages and $100,000 worth of data to assist

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Tourists Threaten to Sue Antigua and Barbuda Over Mandatory COVID-19 Testing – The Black Chronicle

With the spread of COVID-19 causing new restrictions on air travel, many saw a small ray of hope of enjoying some summer vacations as numerous islands, including Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and others resume leisure

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Source: The Black Chronicle

De Blasio On Shifting $1 Billion From NYPD: 'We Think It's The Right Thing To Do'

De Blasio On Shifting $1 Billion From NYPD: 'We Think It's The Right Thing To

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Source: Stories About Black History

Ferguson Police Take A Knee In Honor Of George Floyd

Protesters demanding justice and change in the wake of the latest police killing of a Black man were joined in solidarity on Saturday by officers in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, a Black teen, was killed by police in

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

Clergy and Residents to City: Address Police Brutality and Socioeconomic Inequities

Rev. Nelson Johnson of Beloved Community Center spoke on the group’s recommendations to address policing, including an apology from the City of Greensboro on the police department’s role in the 1979 Greensboro

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Source: http://www.peacemakeronline.com

CMU VP says he took instructions for payments from Pinnock

PROFESSOR Fritz Pinnock's stewardship of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) yesterday again came under sharp scrutiny at a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at Gordon House, as officers of the institution say they were following direct instructions from the president's office for

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

Black with a Capital “B”: Mainstream Media Join Black Press in Uppercasing Race

(CBM) – Last week, Norman Pearlstine, the editor of the LA Times, sent a memo to staffers announcing that the publication will begin capitalizing “B” in the word Black in its articles when referring to a race of

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

PNP pays tribute to late councillor Milton Brown

The People's National Party is expressing regret at the passing of sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Mineral Heights Division in Clarendon, Milton

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Buffalo Mayor Says Police Union Is 'On The Wrong Side Of History'

Buffalo, New York, Mayor Byron Brown said Friday that the local police union was on the “wrong side of history” in a controversy surrounding two officers who were suspended without pay after a 75-year-old man was shoved to the ground at a protest, causing him to be seriously

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

Woody Strode and Other African-American Athletes Went from Sports to The Silver Screen – Free Press of Jacksonville

While he helped break the NFL’s color line in 1946 with the Los Angeles Rams, Strode is better remembered for his role as Draba, the Ethiopian gladiator, in the 1960 action-packed historical drama

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

Surveillance programs could jeopardize protestors’ pursuit of justice

It’s called Mobility Data Specification (MDS), and it’s a new program developed by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

1,200 Extra Chicago Cops To Be Deployed Over July 4 Weekend

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s police superintendent said Monday that he plans to flood the city’s streets with additional officers during the long July 4 weekend in an effort to avoid a repeat of particularly bloody recent weekends and despite pressure to keep officer overtime to

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Source: Black America Web

TSD FLASH! - News, views & music

“We must call on taking the knee off of the neck of the Black and Brown communities in Memphis who have been suffocated by systemic racism,” said MICAH President Stacy

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Los Angeles City Mayor Pleads for George Floyd Protests to 'Take a Step Back' due to Violent Acts in L.A. over 300 arrested

The injustice for black and brown people isn’t something foreign to this

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Source: Black News, Politics, Commentary & Culture | BlackPressUSA

Civil rights groups file lawsuit to stop spread of COVID-19 in Dallas jails

As Dallas jails continue to be an epicenter for the spread of novel coronavirus causing COVID-19, a class-action lawsuit was filed today against Sheriff Marian Brown as the supervisor of the Dallas County

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Surviving COVID-19’s Cultural Clash | Afro

Marie Brown is a member of one of those families whose members spend more time at mom’s than they do at

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

New York churches serve Black, Latinx communities with COVID-19 testing

Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of 11 churches across the city as well as Nassau County and Westchester that has begun testing for the virus on May 13, 2020 in New York

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Source: theGrio

Remembering the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education –

May 17 marked the 66th anniversary of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of

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Source: Florida Courier

My Father’s Day Story: Choosing Love Above All Else

Merriam Webster defines a “father” as a male parent or a man who begets

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

SHOCK & GRIEF

Yesterday, Superintendent Steve Brown, a close colleague of Clunis, said he had been in touch with Clunis throughout the day and was on his way to see him when he received the devastating news of his

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

Spirt.Ed: The American Trilogy Is Essentially A Boozy Old Fashioned Remix

One such modern drink that derived from a whiskey-based cocktail is the American Trilogy, a boozy and inventive take on the Old

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

Black Student Accepted into Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Launches Company to End Gun Violence – Free Press of Jacksonville

Nationwide — RuQuan “Ru” Brown, a 17-year old high school senior from Seattle who has excelled in his classes and sports, has been recently accepted into 24 colleges including Harvard, Yale, and

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

Hellshire vendors plead for beaches to stay open

Restaurant operator and member of the Half Moon Bay Association, Donna Nation, said that beachgoers have generally adhered to state-ordered six-foot distancing rules, with the exception of Father’s Day, which saw hordes of leisure seekers swarming the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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