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Helios Towers targets Africa for R7.7-billion expansion

Helios Towers plans to use about US$450-million (R7.7-billion) in newly raised funds to expand into African countries including Ethiopia, reviving an expansion plan that was put on hold by the Covid-19

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Source: TechCentral

The True Plight of African-Americans.

Some of the most dangerous big cities are: St. Louis, Detroit, Baltimore, Oakland, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Newark, Buffalo and

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Latino Caucus Chair: Real Justice Calls For Supporting African American Policy Issues

(Photo by Antonio

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

California Mayor Resigns Over Email About Police Killings – Voice and Viewpoint

TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) _ The mayor of a Southern California city resigned following an email in which he stated he didn’t “believe there’s ever been a good person of color killed by a police

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

MLB opens draft with Black Lives Matter message, donations | The Atlanta Voice

Before the first pick was made, Major League Baseball delivered a message: The sport stands fully behind the Black Lives Matter

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Holder hails ‘smooth’ safety protocols

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder has praised the England and Wales Cricket Board for the safety protocols implemented for the upcoming Test series, saying yesterday the Caribbean side felt “safe” after arriving here for the historic

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Obituary: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza

Burundi's government has announced the sudden death of President Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader who took office following a bloody civil war in

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Bonner, Holder new faces in England tour | New York Carib News

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies will be without key batsmen Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer when they leave in a few days for their historic “bio-secure” tour of England, but two newcomers have been included in a squad that chief selector Roger Harper believes is up to the challenge of

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Source: The New York Carib News

Windies ambitious but ‘staying in the present’, says Holder

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said yesterday West Indies would not be relying on their recent success against England for motivation, stressing the importance of the need to “stay in the present” for the three-Test series here next

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

What is Juneteenth?

The homegrown holiday’s Southern beginnings have evolved into a day of recognition for freedom and legacy in African American

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Source: theGrio

The Grammys Drop The Term “Urban” From Their Language

Source: The 59th Annual Grammy Awards hosted by James Corden as seen on

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Source: The Urban Daily

Byck Foundation Honors Mayor With Donation To The United Way COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

United Way of the Coastal Empire received a $10,000 contribution from The Byck Foundation to honor the outstanding job Mayor Van Johnson and his team did to protect Savannah during Sunday’s peaceful

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

Celebration of Life for George Floyd Held on Steps of S.F. City Hall

About 1,000 people who came to the plaza in front of San Francisco’s City Hall on Tuesday got more than a typical rally for George Floyd, a Black man killed by Minneapolis, Minn., police two weeks

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Coronavirus pandemic risks aggravating Africa's 'neglected' crises, NGO warns

Oslo – The new coronavirus pandemic risks aggravating the woes of people already suffering from the world's most neglected crises, especially in Africa, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) aid group said on

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Source: https://www.news24.com

SLAJ president speaks about the diffculties facing SLAJ amid COVID-19

In his address to members of SLAJ, the erudite President of the Association, Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, congratulated members, more especially the surviving founding members, namely – Hon. Ibrahim Ben Kargbo (MP), Mrs. Bernadette Cole, Mr. Christo Johnson and

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

HBCU Students Organize Thousands for Protest in Jackson – The Mississippi Link

The march was organized by HBCU students Calvert White, of Alcorn State University, Taylor Turnage, of Tougaloo College, Maisie Brown, of North Carolina A&T, and Timothy Young, a recent graduate of Jackson State

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Source: The Mississippi Link

Recount has finished one stage and moved into another

All Guyana deserve a credible outcome not by Mr. Jagdeo’s sudden love and respect for GECOM Chair Justice Claudette Singh but consistent with the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Our HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again.

I have every confidence that, like Harvard, flagship HBCUs such as Hampton and Howard Universities will adapt and continue to provide excellence in education and opportunities for the next generation to learn and develop the skills needed to compete in the domestic and global

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Source: ThyBlackMan

Florida Police Union Offers to Hire Cops Who Were Fired or Resigned Over Police Misconduct – Your Black World

As protests over police brutality increase across the nation, some police departments have stepped out to show that the citizens can still depend on

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Source: Your Black World

Privileged White Moms Are Exposed In Facebook Group After ‘Racist’ George Floyd Comments

On May 30, after the repeated backlash against UES Mommas, Addy Spriggle, a 38-year-old resident on the Upper East Side, asked the group’s administrator Lindsey Plotnick Berger to consider adding a Black

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Source: NewsOne

Can Photography Be Decolonial?

Art historian Shawn Michelle Smith—in her new book Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography—examines the famous photograph of Emmett

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Source: Public Books

Biden’s Inaction Hurts American Workers.

Well, President Trump, in announcing the unemployment rates for May, did something that wasn’t beneficial to American workers and indeed, the

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Source: ThyBlackMan

CAT Set To Increase Operating Hours on June 15

Chatham Area Transit is planning to increase the operating hours for most fixed-route buses and CAT Mobility paratransit services on June 15, while retaining safety measures put in place to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

Trump rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa called 'slap in the face'

OKLAHOMA CITY — Black community and political leaders are calling on President Donald Trump to at least change the date of an Oklahoma rally kick-starting his return to public campaigning, saying that holding the event on Juneteenth, the day that marks the end of slavery in America, is a “slap in

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

Downplaying virus risk, Trump gets back to business as usual

Three months after President Donald Trump bowed to the realities of a pandemic that put big chunks of life on pause and killed more Americans than several major wars, Trump is back to business as usual — even as coronavirus cases are on the upswing in many parts of the

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Source: theGrio

Has Turner lost his damn mind? Racist statues to be placed in African American museum?

A press release sent out by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s office on Thursday had me stop the printing of our newspaper after learning what the Black man leading this city has decided to do — and on Juneteenth, to add insult to

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

Trump to accept GOP nomination in Jacksonville, Florida

President Donald Trump will accept the Republican Party nomination for a second term in Jacksonville, Florida during the last week of

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Source: theGrio

Blue Story – The Mississippi Link

With a great feel for modern times and hip-hop music, Rapman (aka Andrew Onwubolu) mixes a bit of Boyz N the Hood, with Menace II

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Source: The Mississippi Link

California Assembly voted to pass ACA 5

(CBM) – The California State Assembly HAS voted to pass ACA

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Gay Tupac aka Juicy Smolliét aka Jussie Smollett Asks Chicago Police For Transparency In His Case In The Wake Of George Floyd

As spotted on Page Six, the California native is still in a tug of war with the Chicago Police Department over his 2019 hate crime

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Source: The Urban Daily

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